Fancy a Bite? A group exhibition at Studio West Gallery

In FANCY A BITE? themes emerge surrounding our complex relationships to food, domesticity, nostalgia, and cultural heritage. Through installation, ceramic sculpture and painting, the exhibition encourages the viewer to delve into each artists' unique relationship with food, and consider the silent politics at play in the everyday act of eating. Throughout time and in every culture, human beings have eaten together. Commensality - eating and drinking at the same table - is a fundamental social activity, which creates and cements relationships. Meals are everyday rituals of profound importance in social life. They reinforce cultural values specific to communities, and evoke feelings of nostalgia, belonging and pleasure. The politics of gastronomy are key to understanding many social negotiations and societies. Issues of gender, race, class and culture all emerge in the wider conversation of what decisions surrounding food and eating can represent.

2022