Around 40 artists, along with the University of Tasmania, have come together to create an exhibition looking at food, agriculture and health.
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The display, Imagining food: art, aesthetics and design, showcased at the Academy Gallery in Inveresk as part of UTAS’s Museum of Art and Science pilot program, runs until April 7.
“We wanted to make people think about food and the quality of food,” gallery director Malcom Bywaters said. “Food is an essential part of life, but it also impacts so heavily on our lives and our health, with dietary concerns.”
The exhibition includes research collections from UTAS, such as an old style refrigerator and a chemistry display, showing foods and herbs that used to be used as medicine.
Local artist Michael Kay contributed a series of polyester fabric pieces manipulated through heat and hand stitched to form shapes of genetically-modified vegetables. “It’s about how we don’t really know the long-term impact it will have on food and our health, represented through the colour black.”