Patrick Francis - At the Table
16 March - 16 April 2013
AT THE TABLE
Venue: Arts Project Australia
Opening: 16 March 2013, from 3-5pm
http://www.artsproject.org.au/event/table
At the Table is a group exhibition that explores the theme of food in its many facets in the work of Arts Project Australia’s artists.
Food is not just something that feeds us and keeps us alive – perhaps because of its everyday nature, it is often overlooked as a vital part of our identity, our culture or our history. Even 75 years ago, George Orwell pointed out: “I think it could plausibly be argued that changes of diet are more important than changes of dynasty or even of religion... Yet it is curious how seldom the all-importance of food is recognized. You see statues everywhere to politicians, poets, bishops, but none to cooks or bacon-curers or market-gardeners.”
In art, food is a versatile subject, where it can be used to tell a story, represent religious symbols or simply convey the beauty of nature's shapes and colours or the vessels that we use for eating and drinking. From a chicken’s egg to a coffee cup to a piece of fruit, food is symbolic and can be intimate, beautiful, quirky, abstract, practical and many things in between.
Through painting, drawing, ceramics, mixed media, printmaking and digital art,At the Table explores the continuing, evolving relationship between food and artist. From the early work of Fulli Andrinopoulos featuring abstracted fruit and vegetables to the stylised tea cups of Julian Martin, Anne Lynch's farm yard scenes and the miniature ceramic works of Terry Williams, this exhibition brings together a wide range of works spanning a 20 year period that reflect upon this all-important cultural subject: food.
Curator(s): Emiko Davies
Artist(s): Steven Ajzenberg, Fulli Andrinopoulos, George Aristovoulou, Dorothy Berry, Peter Cave, Valerio Ciccone, Boris Cipusev, Alan Constable, Emily Dober, Dawn Edward, Patrick Francis, Matthew Gove, Paul Hodges, and others.
Venue: Arts Project Australia
Opening: 16 March 2013, from 3-5pm
http://www.artsproject.org.au/event/table
At the Table is a group exhibition that explores the theme of food in its many facets in the work of Arts Project Australia’s artists.
Food is not just something that feeds us and keeps us alive – perhaps because of its everyday nature, it is often overlooked as a vital part of our identity, our culture or our history. Even 75 years ago, George Orwell pointed out: “I think it could plausibly be argued that changes of diet are more important than changes of dynasty or even of religion... Yet it is curious how seldom the all-importance of food is recognized. You see statues everywhere to politicians, poets, bishops, but none to cooks or bacon-curers or market-gardeners.”
In art, food is a versatile subject, where it can be used to tell a story, represent religious symbols or simply convey the beauty of nature's shapes and colours or the vessels that we use for eating and drinking. From a chicken’s egg to a coffee cup to a piece of fruit, food is symbolic and can be intimate, beautiful, quirky, abstract, practical and many things in between.
Through painting, drawing, ceramics, mixed media, printmaking and digital art,At the Table explores the continuing, evolving relationship between food and artist. From the early work of Fulli Andrinopoulos featuring abstracted fruit and vegetables to the stylised tea cups of Julian Martin, Anne Lynch's farm yard scenes and the miniature ceramic works of Terry Williams, this exhibition brings together a wide range of works spanning a 20 year period that reflect upon this all-important cultural subject: food.
Curator(s): Emiko Davies
Artist(s): Steven Ajzenberg, Fulli Andrinopoulos, George Aristovoulou, Dorothy Berry, Peter Cave, Valerio Ciccone, Boris Cipusev, Alan Constable, Emily Dober, Dawn Edward, Patrick Francis, Matthew Gove, Paul Hodges, and others.