Hosting: Home Truths
D’Arcy Newberry-Dupé and Kate Foster
Melbourne Design Week 2024
Satellite exhibition and event
Saturday May 25th, 2024
D’Arcy Newberry-Dupé and Kate Foster
Melbourne Design Week 2024
Satellite exhibition and event
Saturday May 25th, 2024
Hosting: Home Truths is an interactive exhibition and event that draws together contemporary spatial practice with archival materials, interrogating the legacies of labour, care, and control which inform our domestic ecologies.
A series of edible installations, video works and cartographies play out these ideas within the Blender Studios Gallery Space, drawing on research that analyses archival materials relating to The Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy. These not-so-distant legacies of women’s work, and ‘housewifery’ are interrogated as a primary device of constructing home environments in Australia’s domestic interiors. This work will trace and digest the boundaries and intermingling’s that are built up through our everyday habits, routines, and rituals that define our sense of home, of self, of world: both interior and beyond.
The launch event uses the table as the centre of this activity, the landing ground that draws together bodies, bread, and bowl. The designers invite you in to engage with the transformation, containment, and consumption of these bodies, leavened and otherwise, as they are held at the level of the table.
This exhibition and launch event draws together the design research of D’Arcy Newberry-Dupé with the food styling and culinary research of Kate Foster, exploring and engaging the crossovers in their expertise and respective practices.
This exhibition and it’s theoretical underpinnings were presented at Performing Space ‘24 Conference, hosted by University of the Peloponnese in Nafplio, Greece, 2024.
Kate Foster
Kate Foster’s practice has evolved from an expansive career working in and around food in restaurants between Australia and London. Approaching food through an architectural, cultural, and environmental lens, Kate seeks to challenge the way in which we view these systems within our landscapes and on our tables. Kate’s ethos around food looks to bring awareness to the depth of cultural significance embedded in our landscapes through our connection to food, whilst considering the challenges we face as our climate changes through human impact. Her research and development demonstrates how interrogating these concepts can be transformative, and that through collective eating spaces, galleries and writings, we can unearth more profound relationships with our landscapes, our produce, our food, and with each other.
A series of edible installations, video works and cartographies play out these ideas within the Blender Studios Gallery Space, drawing on research that analyses archival materials relating to The Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy. These not-so-distant legacies of women’s work, and ‘housewifery’ are interrogated as a primary device of constructing home environments in Australia’s domestic interiors. This work will trace and digest the boundaries and intermingling’s that are built up through our everyday habits, routines, and rituals that define our sense of home, of self, of world: both interior and beyond.
The launch event uses the table as the centre of this activity, the landing ground that draws together bodies, bread, and bowl. The designers invite you in to engage with the transformation, containment, and consumption of these bodies, leavened and otherwise, as they are held at the level of the table.
This exhibition and launch event draws together the design research of D’Arcy Newberry-Dupé with the food styling and culinary research of Kate Foster, exploring and engaging the crossovers in their expertise and respective practices.
This exhibition and it’s theoretical underpinnings were presented at Performing Space ‘24 Conference, hosted by University of the Peloponnese in Nafplio, Greece, 2024.
Kate Foster
Kate Foster’s practice has evolved from an expansive career working in and around food in restaurants between Australia and London. Approaching food through an architectural, cultural, and environmental lens, Kate seeks to challenge the way in which we view these systems within our landscapes and on our tables. Kate’s ethos around food looks to bring awareness to the depth of cultural significance embedded in our landscapes through our connection to food, whilst considering the challenges we face as our climate changes through human impact. Her research and development demonstrates how interrogating these concepts can be transformative, and that through collective eating spaces, galleries and writings, we can unearth more profound relationships with our landscapes, our produce, our food, and with each other.