Object(h)ing

Object(h)ing is a sculptural object collection created by artist Alice Steele.

The project is an autoethnographic account of women's health narratives and the gender data gap that exists in medicine.

The collection contains twelve representational objects of the female body parts named after men in history. These are used as metaphors to encapsulate the concepts of absurdity and primitive understanding contrasted against the purported advancements of the modern healthcare system. An advocation for change within modern medicine.

The Original Collection

‘Fallopian Tubes’
Gabriele Falloppio, 1522 - 1562.

Cast dried flowers, wax, bronze


‘Graffian Follicles’
Regnier De Graaf, 1641 - 1673.

Bovine bone carving

‘Gartner's Ducts’
Herman Treschon Gartner, 1785 - 1827.

Copper tubing, gold leaf, Obsidian

‘Halban's Fascia’
Joseph Von Halban, 1870 - 1937.

Bovine bone carving

‘Braxton-Hicks contractions’
John Braxton-Hicks, 1823 - 1897.

Porcelain, Dandelion seeds

‘Pouch of Douglas’
James Douglas, 1675 - 1742.

Kombucha scoby, steel wire

‘Venous Plexis of Kobelt’
George Kobelt, 1804 - 1857.

Kombucha scoby

‘Hydatid of Morgagni’
Giovanni Battista Morgagni, 1682 - 1771

Bovine bone carving, copper tubing

‘Hymen’
Hymenaeus, Prehistory

Electroforming, Clear quartz

‘The Grafenberg Spot or The ‘G’ Spot’
Ernst Gräfenberg, 1881 - 1957

Porcelain, dried flowers, pewter, gold leaf


Caspar Bartholin the Younger, 1655 - 1739. (Bartholin's Gland)

Pewter, glass frit, obsidian, brass