Jenkins became widely known in 2013,[2] when her performance work Casting Off My Womb caused interest online for what was referred to as "vaginal knitting".
[3][4] Jenkins described the work as "in which I used skeins of wool lodged in my vaginal tunnel to knit a long passage, marking one full menstrual cycle",[3] where she pared "concepts about body parts and activities related to women back to their most elemental.
In Drawn and Halved, performed at the Lapsody Festival in Helsinki, she created art with clay with one hand while caring for her child with her other.
[9] Initially, the funding was suspended while the Australia Council sought legal advice, but was officially rescinded soon after, with Australia Council CEO Adrian Collette writing to Jenkins that they "cannot be party to any act that could result in bringing a new life into the world...The possible current and longer-term consequences for the child, the child’s parent and the child’s donor are inappropriate for a corporate government entity to accept.
"[9] In a public statement, they denied cancelling the funding due to negative media coverage.