Usually I write down select excerpts from my readings, and they are all compiled on a Drive document to quote/reference/use for my essay, but there was too much in these pages for me to isolate anything. So for future reference, here's the lot:
To accompany the Food? exhibition, we were granted funding for a publication (which admittedly only covered about a quarter of the cost, and I put in the rest.)
The catch was that we only found this out and decided to go ahead with it just a few days before the opening night! I quickly put out a plea to all the writers/artists/technicians I know, and spent all of my waking hours on Indesign until it was done. It went to print just a few hours before the opening event.
This was the result...
Cover image by Emma Glucina - a reference to Warhol's banana print
First page dedication: 'For Poor Students and Starving Artists'
The back page. All up, there were 29 contributors!
Above: collage 'Hors d'Oevre' by Hannah Andersen
Above: a handwritten recipe by Miss Changy (Ruby White)
Photo by Jacqui Margetts
As well as curating, compiling, and designing the book, I also included a lot of my own work and writing.
Here are the pages containing my contributions:
A foreward, which was also the abstract for the show. (Accompanying illustration by Jacqui)
A personal story/article that I wrote about food waste in the hospitality industry
The publication in its entirety can be viewed in PDF format here.
In high school painting class, I used to make art that was was all about the influence of the west on traditional Japanese art and culture. Having lived in Japan for a couple of years this topic felt very important to me. In Europe in 2013 however I became interested in what happened a few decades before the rapid americanisation of Japanese culture, when Japanese and oriental art, decoration, + printmaking techniques had a huge influence on art and fashion in Europe in the 19-20th centuries. A key part of the Art Nouveau era, this style can also be summed up nicely by the word Japonism, the name used for an exhibition in the Caixa Forum, with the caption ‘The Fascination with Japanese Art.’ The press release and information: PDF file.
Needless to say this exhibition was right up my alley. It was also the first time I saw the originals of the Toulouse-Lautrec posters adorning my walls… I was slightly star struck.
[Note: above images are from my gap year in 2013, which I spent trawling the art galleries of Europe and taking lots of photos of artworks that I liked. Over the past summer I have organised+compiled all of these. By doing so and uploading them here I’m hoping to find connections and identify common elements, creating a record of the things I felt drawn to and inspired by.]
