The Grandma Reporter is a collaborative art project about the inner worlds of senior women around the world. Founded in 2016, the project amplifies the voices and spirits of elder women in a world where they are often invisibilised. We come together to intimately dialogue with care, wonder, and courage, often about rarely spoken subjects, and channel expression through writing, collaborative image-making and more.

Intimate creative processes unfold, eventually alchemised into a publication which is many things: documentation of an artistic process, a presentation of research, an educational document, a learning tool, a glimpse into private worlds, a dose of fantasy, and a piece of activism. 

[The Grandma Reporter – Issue 2: Intimacy launch event]

Presenting perspectives that are tender, poignant, moving and humorous, we are energetically connecting our contributors, collaborators, and readers in a senior women’s culture movement.

A dream list of subject matters to explore: style, isolation, and adventure; aging bodies, wrinkles, bunions, caregiving, and death; considering the struggles of growing old in a young, technology-focused world; swimming as a magical way to keep fit in spite of on-land mobility challenges; food, genes, and other things passed through generations; lost loves, longings, and sex that evolves with age.

[Senior Women’s Erotica Club – The Grandma Reporter – Issue 2: Intimacy]

Issue 1 – style

Issue 2 – intimacy

Issue 3 – intimacy

Issue 4 – sex

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The Grandma Reporter is an ongoing project by Singaporean artist Salty Xi Jie Ng. She has worked extensively with senior women, notably on the taboo subjects of intimacy, sex, and death. She was the lead artist of Both Sides, Now: tides, a year-long arts-based community development project in Singapore on the end-of-life, as well as the 2024 recipient of the Chamberlain Award for social practice artists from the Headlands Center for the Arts.