Curating Multisensory and Food-Based Art
On 21 September 2022, I presented the talk “Curating Multisensory and Food-Based Art” at the Museum & Galleries of NSW’s event, SPARK: Museums. Ideas. Connections., at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This talk surveys curatorial projects staging multisensory encounters where audiences see, hear, feel, smell, and sometimes taste the artworks on show. It...
Thinking about Bread and Art
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about bread. With panic buying, stay-at-home orders and general fear and anxiety over the current state of affairs due to the COVID pandemic, I can see I’m not alone in thinking about bread. There are dedicated hashtags on Instagram (see #quarantinebaking, #stressbaking, and #bakecorona) alongside a slew of think...
Affect and food art
Paper presented at Higher Degree Research Conference (Panel 5: Cultures; Performances; Mediations), UNSW Art & Design, 24 October 2019. Elizabeth Willing, Goosebump. 2010 (reinstalled 2013), detail of a participant eating a biscuit. Installation view, Sugar, Sugar, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1 to 19 October 2013. Abstract: This art theory PhD examines instances of food art...
Brenda May Gallery/MAY SPACE
I held the role of Gallery Manager from 2010 – 2019 at MAY SPACE, Sydney (formerly known as Brenda May Gallery 2001-2016) where I worked on 258 exhibitions (146 solo, 55 group, 57 video art) and 6 art fair presentations (Sydney Contemporary 2015/17/18; Art Stage Singapore 2013/14/15). An overview of major curatorial projects, co-curated exhibitions,...
Lecture: Backing Yourself As An Artist
Invited Lecturer, Backing Yourself As An Artist: Professional Development Short Course, convened by Suzanne Davey & Dr. Therese Kenyon, Eramboo Artist Environment; 9 March 2019 Synopsis: As visual artists and craftspeople we occasionally need a boost to deepen our resilience and ability to sustain our art/craft practice. Eramboo is conducting this cultural development course during...
Seer as Seen: Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of reversibility applied to food-art
Paper presented at Higher Degree Research Conference (Panel 4), UNSW Art & Design, 4 September 2018. Allan Kaprow, Eat (1964), installation view towards front entry with bridge centre, two performers serving wine, and apples suspended from the ceiling Abstract: This PhD research addresses modern and contemporary practices of food-art, analysing the rationales and aspirations that motivate artists,...
reminiSCENT Install Photographs
Installation view, reminiSCENT, MAY SPACE, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 25 July to 11 August 2018. Artworks (left to right): Todd Fuller, Ode to Troughman (2018); Bill Noonan, can’t see the forest for the trees (2018); Claire Anna Watson, Sous Bois Generator (2018); Jayne McSwiney, Sweet Dreams (Truth Serum) (2018); Mylyn Nguyen, Monkey Ba (2018); Susanna Strati, Reliquary – Orb of Love and loss (2017);...
Scentual Encounters
Scents are invisible, intangible, volatile, and transient. Our olfactory register is bombarded as we navigate daily life. Nearly all the products we use on our bodies (shampoo, lotion, make-up, toothpaste) and our homes (laundry detergent, dish soap, floor cleaner) are scented. We seek to control the aromas we find undesirable; we use antiperspirant to suppress...
reminiSCENT (2018)
reminiSCENT | 25 July to 11 August 2018 | MAY SPACE, Sydney reminiSCENT surveys contemporary artists initiating multisensory experiences through olfactory encounters. Smelling is classified as a “bodily sense” in that along with touch and taste, in order to be ‘known’ or perceived, they need to be experienced with the body. Scent receptors are located...
Mouthfeel at Upper CVPA Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
15 February to 9 March 2018 | Upper CVPA GalleryUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth [Invited] Mouthfeel is currently screening at Upper CVPA Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the United States. This exhibition features the work of Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Hannah Raisin, Nina Ross, Martynka Wawrzyniak, and Elizabeth Willing. It first screened at Brenda May Gallery in June...
Miku Sato – River Water Miso Soup
Miku Sato, Soup: Japan and Taiwan Version (2014)Single channel HD video – 6:45mins, edition of 8 + AP Currently screening in Kitchen-Studio at MAY SPACE is Miku Sato’s film Soup: Japan and Taiwan Version. This is the second film in her Soup series that first began in 2011 in Seoul, South Korea. In this work,...
Futurists – Cubist Vegetable Patch
In 1932, two full decades after the first Futurist Manifesto, Italian artist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published La Cucina Futurista (The Futurist Cookbook); a collection of culinary related statements, newspaper articles, letters, accounts of banquets, and “formulas,” the Futurist term for recipes. This volume, which functions as an archive, outlines the various ways the Futurists used...