Cup of: red cabbage

The artwork is one a series of paintings, sculptures, and textiles generated through a long term foraging and weathering research project called Small Talks. An important part of my practice involves moments of foraging and preserving; being and working with the weather; getting excited; and melding my kitchen with a laboratory. Essential to this is the use of plant- or mushroom-based inks, pigments, and dyes, which arise through experimental cooking and making processes. Artworks created by using plant-based materials are inherently metamorphic, unpredictable, and prone to changing over time.

My wish is that potential artwork owners appreciate that changes in appearance are inevitable when artistic processes involve such liveliness.

In saying that, I do my best to slow the change: colours are stabilised with mordants and protected by UV protective fixatives; I work with a specialised framer to ensure high-quality UV glass protects the works and minimises fading. It is recommended that artworks are hung away from direct sunshine.

This artwork will be custom framed between two glasses (top one is UV museum glass).
Size of framed artwork is approximately 29 cm (width) x 32 cm (height) x 2 cm (depth).

Material:
handmade ink made out of red cabbage, paper