The queue snaked down Brick Lane: we the random-lovers, lured here by the promise of seeing water turned to wine, giant chocolate paintings of the Queen, landscapes made of cheese and perhaps, if we were very lucky, a cast of our hands sculpted in bread. Just four of the food-art installations at the first
Experimental Food Spectacular, held yesterday at The Brickhouse.
The brainchild of PR Alexa Perrin, the
Experimental Food Society is a collective of artists, bakers and other creatives. Perhaps its best-known members are
jellymongers Bompas & Parr, chocolatier
Paul A Young and author and presenter
Stefan Gates.
Going on the popularity of the exhibition (a banquet was held in the evening where 100 lucky guests feasted on the exhibits), London can hopefully expect many more delightfully random events from Perrin and her band of merry pig-cake bakers/marg-sculptors/trend-predicters and foodscape artists. Here's just a few of my favourite exhibits...
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carvings by Melon Man
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| TV's Paul O'Grady - in jelly beans |
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margarine sculptures by Simon Smith
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| life-sized suckling pig cake by Michelle Wibowo |
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6 comments:
looks ace. But the bread sculptures, I want to see the bread sculptures!!
I SO wanted to go to this. That gorilla cake is just amazing. I can't stop looking at it. I just laughed out loud at the thought of what would happen if I tried to make a gorilla out of cake.
Awesome cake! I've never got beyond making hedgehog or mouse shaped rolls!
Were they tasty?!
Rej - alas didn't get my paw rendered in bread - there was a massive queue and a £10 surcharge.
Helen - maybe start small - a capucin or spider monkey cake, then work your way up the primates? There was a picture of a beagle cake. It was glorious.
Tom - I have no idea alas! Just went to the exhibit as the evening banquet was a bit out of my budget. Would've been a quite cake-heavy dinner I imagine.
gutted to have missed this, thanks for reviewing it for us x
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