Let them eat Cake

Food has inspired artists for centuries — from lavish still life paintings of the Dutch Golden Age to the playful, sugary excess of Wayne Thiebaud’s paintings. Artists continue to explore food not only as something we consume, but as a powerful symbol of pleasure, memory, status, desire, and decay. Contemporary painters such as Gary Komarin extend this conversation with their exuberant, oversized cakes, where humour and excess meet abstraction.

Alongside wall-based works (painting, drawing, photography, digital art, and video) and sculptural pieces, the exhibition will include a central collaborative dinner table installation. This shared focal point explores ideas of excess, ritual, the grotesque, desire, and decay.

Kate’s installation, ‘The Stages of Grief’ comprises a series of watercolours and objects about tomatoes & decay