Janet Tavener – Asparagus Pie
The Sugar, Sugar exhibition will be installed at Brenda May Gallery in about three weeks and in the lead-up to the show, I will be sharing a selection of the work that will be on view. You can see Mylyn Nguyen’s carved sugar cube in the current issue of Vogue Living. This is the second...
Sugar, Sugar catalogue
The Sugar, Sugar exhibition catalogue is now available for download here. In addition to full-colour reproductions of the artworks featured in the exhibition, the catalogue features three essays about sugar in art. I wrote an essay titled Performative and Interactive Aspects of Sugar in Art, presenting the historical context of sugar in art with artworks by...
Sugar, Sugar exhibition
The artists for the upcoming exhibition Sugar, Sugar have now been finalised and the show will feature ten female artists working with sugar as their medium. The artists include Matina Bourmas, Irianna Kanellopoulou, Judith Klausner, Stephanie Jones, Claire McArdle, Shelley Miller, Mylyn Nguyen, Janet Tavener, Claire Anna Watson and Elizabeth Willing. Works range from carefully...
Now Accepting Proposals for ‘Sugar, Sugar’
I am pleased to announce that I will be curating a second art + food exhibition in October at Brenda May Gallery. We are now accepting proposals from professional practicing artists so please read the exhibition brief below and contact the Gallery with any questions or visit the submissions page for further details. In conjunction with...
Al Munro – Flavoured Salts
The new series of drawings by Al Munro examining the arrangement of atoms within common foodstuffs including salt, sugar and vinegar, are featured in the current exhibition Art + Food: Beyond the Still Life at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney. In her artist statement, Munro writes “I am interesting in using drawing-based media to examine...
Art + Food: Beyond the Still Life at Brenda May Gallery
The curated group exhibition Art + Food: Beyond the Still Life at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney, considers the representation of food within the visual arts and beyond the standard still life tableaux. The consumption of food is a universally shared experience, enabling people viewing the exhibition to connect with the issues surrounding consumerism, food production...
Christine Turner – Anzac Biscuits
The 2.5 x 2.5 metre biscuit tin installation by Christine Turner is featured in the current curated exhibition Art + Food: Beyond the Still Life at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney. According to Turner, “I have found that biscuit tins require a simple configuration when presented in artworks. Each tin provides a great deal of...
Elizabeth Willing – Chow Mein
The collage titled Stew (2012) by Elizabeth Willing constructed with imagery from vintage cookbooks, will be featured in the upcoming curated exhibition Art + Food: Beyond the Still Life at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney. She clips imagery from stew and casserole recipes which she then “seamlessly knits together.” Willing describes the artwork thusly, “The...
Maz Dixon – Retro Prawn Cocktail
The collages and paintings by Maz Dixon featuring “The Big Things of Australia”, will be featured in the upcoming curated exhibition Art + Food: Beyond the Still Life at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney. Beginning in the early 60s, monumental objects ranging from giant fruit to prawns and pelicans began to litter the landscape of...
Will Coles – Halloumi Burgers
The socio-political sculpture of guerrilla street-artist, Will Coles, will be featured in the upcoming curated exhibition Art + Food: Beyond the Still Life at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney. Coles employs traditional sculptural techniques to manipulate found objects and explore contemporary issues, specifically over consumerism. The sculpture pictured below titled First World Food (burgers) was produced...
2 weeks left to submit a proposal to Art + Food: Beyond the Still Life
The deadline for artist proposals is fast approaching with a little more than 2 weeks left. Submit your info to Brenda May Gallery before Friday 27 July 2012 to be considered for inclusion in Art + Food: Beyond the Still Life. We have a great list of artists already confirmed for the show including Will Coles,...