More than mere sustenance, food connects us to family, friends, community and culture, shaping identity and preserving traditions.
Mechelle Bounpraseuth, ChiliPhilly, Zena Cumpston, Laetitia Olivier-Gargano, Callum Preston, and Elizabeth Willing explore the intersection between food and art and celebrate our layered and complex relationships with food through craft, sculpture, printmaking and stories: from ChiliPhilly’s crochet wearable art in the form of edible items such as tacos and teabags to Preston’s hand-painted replicas of everyday food products found on the shelves of our local corner store.
ChiliPhilly, Watermelon Hat, 2015, acrylic yarn, polyfill, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne
Town Hall Gallery
7 February to 27 April 2024
Melbourne
