Greens as artwork in new pictures exhibition

A PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition that includes greens reimagined as playful characters will probably be on show in Queenscliff this month.

Sydney-based artist Marie-Hélène Clauzon’s pictures current on a regular basis greens organized as human-like figures, together with leeks posed as dancers, capsicum as knights and broad beans as lovers.

The photographs draw on her background in meals styling and pictures, providing another method to conventional meals imagery.

Clauzon is a French-Australian artist who studied artwork in London and pictures in Sydney. She has spent 25 years working as a meals stylist for main publications, together with her work additionally featured in main design magazines.

The physique of labor advanced whereas Clauzon was dwelling in France through the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I was cooking, and I was just using a garlic head, and I had just taken the cloves out, and I was holding this garlic head and I thought ‘My God, that looks so beautiful – it looks like a flower’,” she mentioned.

She took {a photograph} and the challenge rapidly developed from there.

“It was just trying to picture vegetables, but in a different way to give them a different soul…to make them alive and show them in a totally unexpected way,” Clauzon mentioned.

Clauzon typically sources produce from native markets, notably natural greens with uncommon shapes, or what she describes as “personality”.

“It’s like having a piece of a puzzle. You start with one piece and then you add another one. You don’t exactly know what the next piece is going to be, but you build something little by little,” she mentioned.

Her work lately gained nationwide consideration when her “dancing leeks” {photograph} appeared on the duvet of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Weekend journal.

Clauzon mentioned her coming Queenscliff exhibition, which is able to open on the Old School Hall in Learmonth Street on January 7, was appropriate for each adults and kids and inspired guests to spend time partaking with the pictures.

“Adults say [the vegetable series] awakens the child within,” she mentioned. “I think this is what I want to give to people – just see things differently.”

The free exhibition, titled A Visual Feast, will run from Wednesday, January 7 till January 14. It will probably be open every day between 11am and 5pm, with an exhibition launch occasion to be held on January 7 from 5pm.