Kitchen-Studio (2017)
Kitchen-Studio | 10 October to 4 November 2017 | MAY SPACE, Sydney The artists in this exhibition take the space of the kitchen as the site of their performative artwork. The films echo the artwork of Feminist artists of the 1970s who utilised women’s work to challenge traditional ideas of domesticity. Utilising household gestures of...
Alison Knowles – Salad
Alison Knowles, By Alison Knowles. A Great Bear Pamphlet (New York: Something Else Press, 1965): 2-3. Image via University of California, Berkeley Art Museum In 1962 Alison Knowles conceptualised a set of written instructions, also called event scores, titled Propositions. Number two of the set simply states “Make a salad”; a command that she has...
Rirkrit Tiravanija – Curry Paste
Rirkrit Tiravanija was born in Buenos Aires to Thai parents and now lives between Berlin and New York City. He uses food as a tool to facilitate social exchange in his “situations”. Beginning in 1989, he began using cooking as a means to create an art experiences where he cooks and serves meals to visitors....
Mouthfeel at Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Larrakia/Darwin
9 April to 7 May 2016 | Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Larrakia/Darwin Mouthfeel is currently screening at Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Larrakia/Darwin. Of the show NCCA writes: Mouthfeel is a collection of five films curated by Megan Fizell exploring the mouth through its navigation, ingestion and expulsion of edible and non-edible substances....
Mouthfeel at Parer Place Urban Screens, QUT, Meanjin/Brisbane
30 Nov to 10 Dec 2015 | Parer Place Urban Screens, QUT, Meanjin/Brisbane Mouthfeel is screening at the Creative Industries Precinct at Queensland University of Technology in Meanjin/Brisbane from Monday 30 November until Thursday 10 December 2015. This exhibition first screened at Brenda May Gallery in June 2015 and features the work of Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Hannah...
Gösta Diehl – Pan-fried Salmon
Gösta Diehl, Still Life with Fishes (1953), Collection of Finnish National Gallery The Finnish artist Gösta Diehl was active in the first half of the 20th century and was known for his use of vivid colour in his paintings often composed in a cubist style. In July 2015, I travelled to Helsinki, Finland to spend...
Mouthfeel at Brenda May Gallery, Gadigal/Sydney
Mouthfeel is defined as the physical sensations in the mouth created by food or drink. The objective of this exhibition is to stimulate a synaesthetic response in the viewer through the observation of these films. The mouth is used by these artists to trigger the sense of taste and touch by the ingestion of edible...
Further Reading – 16 March 2015
+ READ: I have an article in the current issue of IMPRINT magazine. The essay is titled “Squashings, pressings, and stains: food as a medium in printmaking and works on paper” and discusses the work of Ed Ruscha, Dieter Roth, Martynka Wawrzyniak, and Elizabeth Willing. The research pertaining to the practises of Ruscha and Roth...
Further Reading – 27 January 2015
+ VIEW: Claire Anna Waton’s film The Falling, created specifically for Sugar, Sugar (2013), was exhibited in the Video Platform at Art Stage Singapore 2015, on view at Marina Bay Sands from the 22 to 25 January. In her artist statement she wrote, “The Falling continues Claire Anna Watson’s ongoing investigation with food as symbolic...
Mouthfeel (2015)
Mouthfeel | 9 June to 4 July 2015 | Brenda May Gallery, Gadigal/Sydney Mouthfeel is defined as the physical sensations in the mouth created by food or drink. The objective of this exhibition is to stimulate a synaesthetic response in the viewer through the observation of these films. The mouth is used by these artists to...
MA Research degree in Art Theory at UNSW
I will be taking an extended break from the blog as I complete a research degree in art theory at the University of New South Wales. I am researching the use of edible materials within arts practice from the avant-garde to the present. This space will be sporadically updated with information about forthcoming curatorial projects....
Otto van Schrieck – Chicken, Mushroom & Feta Risotto
Otto van Schrieck, A Forest Floor Still Life with Mushrooms and a Snake (c. 1657)oil on canvas, Private Collection Otto van Schrick was a Dutch painter of Golden Age who according to the Musee de Beaux Arts, “invented a particular genre half-way between still life and landscape painting.” His dark and sombre compositions of flora and...