Sugar, Sugar (2013)
Using the beguiling substance of sugar as their medium, the ten artists of Sugar, Sugar at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney, engage notions of permanence given the transient nature of the material. With Shelley Miller’s Velocity exposed to all the elements, and slowly disintegrating, on the 2 Danks Street façade and Elizabeth Willing’s Goosebump being...
Elizabeth Willing – Dessert II
Elizabeth Willing, Dessert II, performed on 3 October 2013, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney, as part of the curated exhibition Sugar, Sugar, 1 to 19 October 2013. As part of Sugar, Sugar, Elizabeth Willing held an experimental meal that explored issues of excess through an extravagant consumption of sugar. On Thursday 3 October, Willing presented the...
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...
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...
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...