Cornucopia

Overview

The ethics of food will be in frame as part of a brand new exhibition at the Shepparton Art Museum. Running from February until late May, Cornucopia brings together the work of more than a dozen established and emerging artists from around Australia and the world. Spanning a variety of different mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, print, video and installation, it will force visitors to ponder the myriad questions relating to the production, distribution and consumption of food.

The exhibition will examine these issues on both a local and global scale. Drawing their inspirations from the culinary traditions of rural Victoria, local artist collective the Hotham Street Ladies will create a large-scale replica of an old lady's living room made predominately from buttercream and royal icing. Other pieces will include Gabrielle de Vietri's Dumpster Dived Diner — a photographic work depicting a banquet made entirely of food fished out of rubbish bins — and Sam Taylor-Johnson's time lapse video A Little Death, which depicts the rapid decay of a dead rabbit.

Image: Kawita Vatanajyankur, The Squeezers [still].