{"product_id":"melanie-jackson-speaking-rybawdy-2020","title":"Melanie Jackson, Speaking Rybawdy, 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn artist’s publication of drawings by Melanie Jackson inspired by a particular set of medieval ‘obscenities’ known as the ‘bawdy badges’. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThousands have survived from the high and late middle ages. They were mass produced and easily affordable, part of a vast and profitable pan European trade. They are often discovered in the banks and the beds of its rivers. They are exquisite, rough hewn and lively sculpted reliefs. A group of these – of which little was written or acknowledged but many made and found – are known as the bawdy badges, or the secular badges, sexual badges, or the erotic pins.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe badges have been reimagined and redrawn as a procession in ink and pigment with a short introductory essay by the artist Melanie Jackson. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matt’s Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42875160821984,"sku":"10","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/6334\/0000\/products\/speaking-rb-shopify-1.jpg?v=1652976350","url":"https:\/\/checkout.mattsgallery.org\/products\/melanie-jackson-speaking-rybawdy-2020","provider":"Matt’s Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}