004 - Inedible Harvest
The project, done in collaboration with James Binning (Assemble), explores the relationship between food culture, mass production and the role that objects play in establishing and influencing social customs.
Many markets around the world reject food for aesthetic reasons, and it is said that billions of pounds worth of fruit and vegetables go uneaten as they don’t look good enough to go on supermarket shelves. In this project, we celebrated these perceived oddities and imperfections by creating precious and utile handmade sculptures based on these found natural forms through a process of mould making and slip casting.
For the exhibition at San Mei gallery in London, an inedible installation of exotic and unusual ceramic objects was created that suggested ways of coming together in intercultural exchange and shared rituals.
As part of the exhibition, a programme of workshops and dinners were organised, drawing in a diverse public audience and raising questions about contemporary food culture and its implications in a varied, critical and enjoyable way.








