Developed specially for SHOWCASE, ‘Flesh and Blood’ is a topical installation by nationally renowned artist Jac Scott that highlights issues surrounding food production and eating habits. Featuring work from her EAT series, strange cutlery glints under a pink, flashing neon light filling the space, questioning our eating habits through a sequence of cryptic messages.
“Today more people than ever before are considering where their food comes from and how it is produced. Will this consciousness lead to animpact on the obesity crisis facing the west?” Jac Scott
Jac, whose work is often multi sensory, triggering contradictory feelings of attraction and repulsion, uses humour and wit to connect subject matter and the audience. Jac Scott is a nationally renowned artist and designer with a focus on researching and delivering issue based work that addresses environmental, social and political issues. This perspective is manifested in multi-disciplinary projects and mixed media sculpture.
SHOWCASE is an exciting programme of exhibitions from established and emerging artists from Cumbria and the rest of the UK, situated in a contemporary art space in the Devonshire Arcade, Penrith.The project has been organised in collaboration with Eden Arts and Devonshire Arcade owners Penrith Retail Ltd. Eden Arts Project Coordinator Donna Marris was invited to programme a series of exhibitions in the space as part of an ongoing regeneration of shop units in the heart of Penrith.
Adjacent to the exhibition space is the soup shop – a modern ‘canteen style’ café with FREE WIFI ACCESS offering a daily changing menu of fresh homemade soups, juices, coffee, tea and cakes.For the duration of the exhibition the café will be running an ‘exhibition themed’ daily special on their soup menu.
‘Flesh and Blood’ runs from 10 December 2011 to 31 January 2012 and is free of charge, open daily Monday – Saturday 10am – 4pm.
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