Palate Cleanser
About the work
Grace Blake is curating an exhibition titled “Palate Cleanser,” opening on the 30th of September at Such and Such. The show features work by local artists Jacqueline Bradley, Shaun Hayes, and Katie-Ann Houghton, alongside regional NSW artist Tully Moore, celebrating produce. Each artist responds uniquely to the contemporary experience of food: Hayes’ kitsch-pomo casting of food packaging, Bradley’s bronze-cast homage to everything but the flesh—pips, skins, and trays—Moore’s “Surf Turf and Veg” series reimagining the modern menu, and Houghton bringing elegance to the functional vessel. The exhibition will open with a kitchen takeover by Manzé Melbourn, a Mauritian-style food establishment run by Canberra’s own Nagesh Seethiah. This extra special dinner will only be available from the 30th of September – the 1st of October.
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Jac Bradley
About the artist
Dr Jacqueline Bradley is an artist and lecturer. Her practice is concerned with bodily relationships to the outdoors, and her recent work focuses on the peach, rich as it is with histories and associations of fertility, decay, and bodily metaphor.
She has exhibited and collaborated with artists and curators in Australia and internationally, including installations for the National Portrait Gallery, the European Touring exhibition, FuturoTextiles, and production of work for the Australian Embassy Gallery in Washington, D.C. Her practice is discussed in Columbia Universities Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, and she has developed major bodies of work for the Canberra Glassworks, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Canberra Contemporary Art Space and Craft Victoria.
Jacqueline lectures at the National Art School and works in both Sydney and Canberra.
Tully Moore
About the artist
Tully Moore is a painter with a sense of humour. His artworks are reminiscent of the dining room table after you unload your Sunday shop tote bag—sometimes gourmet, sometimes guilty, always exactly what you wanted. His artworks celebrate food and consumption, where there is no difference between fine cheeses and oysters or a packet of ciggs and a tray lasagna.
Moore lives and creates on Wiradjuri Country in Borenore, NSW, Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts, majoring in Painting. Over the past 10 years, he has exhibited in regional institutions and galleries along the east coast, including shows at Geelong Gallery, Monash, Verge, and Casula Powerhouse.
Shaun Hayes
About the artist
Shaun Hayes is a ceramic artist who investigates the relationship between throwaway objects and their ability to instil a sense of reflection on memory, creating a deeply nostalgic and sometimes humorous representation of time and place.
Hayes received a Bachelor of Arts (Visual), with Honours majoring in Ceramics from the Australian National University School of Art in 2013. He is currently living and producing work in Ngario Country, (Captains Flat) NSW Australia. His trips to Jingdezhen China in 2011, 2013 and 2023 continue to be an influence.
Shaun’s most recent achievements were to be selected for ‘Temperature’; an international ceramic art exchange exhibition in Jingdezhen China as part of the Taoxichuan Autumn Art Fair 2023. His work was selected as the winner, in the ceramic category, of the 2024 Muswellbrook Art Prize.
Grace Blake
About the artist
The Curator
Grace Blake is an artist/curator. She was a founding member of Tributary Projects and served as Exhibition Programmer and Commercial Partnerships Manager from 2017 to 2019. Grace graduated from the ANU School of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Arts, majoring in Art History and Drawing and Print Media. She creates computer-assisted multimedia works that are inspired by organic life and industrial materials, with influences from science fiction and speculative futures. Grace exhibited in the 2022 iteration of the Canberra Art Biennale, and her artwork is included in the ArtBank collection. She has been exhibiting her work since 2014.
- Palate Cleanser
- 2024
- Curated Exhibition
- Installation