A celebration of every aspect of our creation, consumption and interaction with this most essential of items.

Food: We consume it. We grow and manufacture it. We throw it away. We have standards for it. We protest and lobby about it. We pay people to make it for us. We watch television programmes about it. We consume advertisements for it.
Some of us have too much. And some of us don’t have enough.
It's necessary and essential.
Artists have been portraying food as a subject for millennia, as the paintings in Egyptian tombs confirm ... but in the past century, this subject has inspired an explosion of new forms, mediums and ideas. From Cezanne who wanted to astonish us in paint with an apple; to Andy Warhol celebrating the mundane with screen printed Campbell’s soup cans; to Claes Oldenburg's soft hamburger sculptures; to Edward Weston photographs of the abstract forms inherent in bell peppers; and Judy Chicago's conceptual installation, “The Dinner Party”.
Food has also inspired exquisite craft - not least for the serving and celebration of it - from silver salt cellars to ceramic dishes and embroidered table coverings.
We have asked our members to explore this all-inclusive subject, in work which can be realistic or abstract, narrative or political, fun or serious. We will be showing a wide-ranging collection of work, which creates a varied and appetising feast for the viewer.