Meat & Potatoes: Food and art stirred up together at Crawford exhibition
A detail from one of Maria McKinney's pieces at Meat & Potatoes at the Crawford in Cork.
Meat & Potatoes at the Crawford Gallery of Art in Cork brings together work from the past four centuries to reflect on our relationship with food and its production. The exhibition is complemented by a full programme of participatory events, including one that will take its audience out around the streets of Cork to investigate how crucial a role the beef and dairy industries have played in the city’s evolution.
“The exhibition starts with a simple premise,” says curator Anne Boddaert. “It looks at the relationship that artists have had with food for hundreds of years, from artists such as Berand van der Meer, who used it as the basis for still lifes, to contemporary artists such as Monika Crowley or Ella Hawkins who have used it more as a vector for their ideas. Food has always been part of art history, and then, from a visitor’s point of view, it is a subject everyone can relate to. We all need to eat, whether it is for joy or for more practical reasons.”
