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Pith, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Queensland, 2019

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Pith

Solo exhibition at Caloundra Regional Gallery, Queensland

15 Nov – 12 Jan 2019

Curated by Hamish Sawyer

Through her research driven, multi-sensory practice encompassing installation, sculpture, collage, video, drawing and performance, Elizabeth Willing explores the history, production and consumption of food. For this exhibition, Willing considers her own memories and experiences of food and agricultural production as a child growing up in the Sunshine Coast hinterland:

“I am trying to think about my relationship (a female body and as a child growing up on this site) to the land and the food that grows on it. This opens up a space to consider my memories and experiences exploring the land and the agriculture that covers it.”

Focusing on the interconnected relationship between the body, land and food, Willing seeks to develop objects and images that relate to the natural fertility and productivity of the human body and the landscape. Pith features newly commissioned works by Willing in a range of media that prompt viewers to contemplate their own relationship with the food they eat, where it comes from and how their own eating habits impact on the land which produces it.

-       Gallery wall text, Hamish Sawyer

Endless host (no.1, 2, 3). 2019. Hand carved mango, pecan, lilly pilly timbers, with glass top. 120 x 120 x 70 cm ea. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Endless host (no.1). 2019. Hand carved mango, pecan, lilly pilly timbers, with glass top. 120 x 120 x 70 cm. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Endless host (no.1). 2019. Hand carved mango, pecan, lilly pilly timbers, with glass top. 120 x 120 x 70 cm. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Light and pointless toolmaking. 2019. Resin casts of stick with various processed food items. Size variable. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Golden Lilly (after William Morris). 2019. Digital wallpaper print featuring the flowers of locally significant agricultural crops. Size variable. Light and pointless toolmaking. 2019. Resin casts of stick with various processed food items. Size variable. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Golden Lilly (after William Morris). 2019. Digital wallpaper print featuring the flowers of locally significant agricultural crops. Size variable. Light and pointless toolmaking. 2019. Resin casts of stick with various processed food items. Size variable. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Limn. 2018. High definition video. 16.05 minutes. Light and pointless toolmaking. 2019. Resin casts of stick with various processed food items. Size variable. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Collections cast.  2019. Chocolate relief cast of found natural objects; shells, rocks, sticks, fossils, glass and crystal, framed. Chocolate manufactured by Kokopod, Sunshine Coast. 60 x 60 x 3cm. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Collections cast.  2019. Chocolate relief cast of found natural objects; shells, rocks, sticks, fossils, glass and crystal, Framed. Chocolate manufactured by Kokopod, Sunshine Coast. 60 x 60 x 3cm. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Collections cast.  2019. Chocolate relief cast of found natural objects; shells, rocks, sticks, fossils, glass and crystal, framed. Chocolate manufactured by Kokopod, Sunshine Coast. 60 x 60 x 3cm. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Collections cast.  2019. Chocolate relief cast of found natural objects; shells, rocks, sticks, fossils, glass and crystal, framed. Chocolate manufactured by Kokopod, Sunshine Coast. 60 x 60 x 3cm. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Collections cast.  2019. Chocolate relief cast of found natural objects; shells, rocks, sticks, fossils, glass and crystal, Framed. Chocolate manufactured by Kokopod, Sunshine Coast. 60 x 60 x 3cm. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Pith, 2019, installation documentation. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Surfaced (no.1). 2019. Giclée print on cotton paper, scanned image of cookbook collage. 100 x 100cm. Surfaced (no.2). 2019. Giclée print on cotton paper, scanned image of cookbook collage. 120 x 100cm. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Surfaced (no.1). 2019. Giclée print on cotton paper, scanned image of cookbook collage. 100 x 100cm. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Surfaced (no.2).  2019. Giclée print on cotton paper, scanned image of cookbook collage. 120 x 100cm. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.
Surfaced (no.1) detail.  2019. Giclée print on cotton paper, scanned image of cookbook collage. 120 x 100cm. Image courtesy of Caloundra Regional Gallery, Photography by Carl Warner.