Kaye Winwood & Nuala Clooney
Kaye Winwood and Nuala Clooney are both artists living and working in the UK. Kaye uses food as an artistic material exploring the way in which texture and flavour can evoke sensory experience. Nuala creates casts of her own body which are used to present and serve food. Together they created a collection of glassware called Expanded Intimacy, which intends to bring a new perspective to the sensualisation of tableware.
What was the inspiration for your Steinbeisser pieces?
Bringing our individual research practices together to work collaboratively on themes of orality, food, pleasure and the self. Variations in texture, taste and temperature evoke strong emotional responses from the diners and this is something we like to play with, with the intention of heightening their sensory perception.
Describe your work in 3 words!
Sensual. Sexual. Tactile.
What kind of materials do you use and where do you get them from?
At the moment we have been using scientific glass but we are exploring the integration of other materials such as latex and leather.
Which conscious lifestyle choices are you making and are you considering any new ones?
Definitely less screen time and more time! Respecting every part of the ‘other’ and so to then not let only its death be for physical nourishment but for every part of the other to be utilised. For this reason, we have been experimenting with the by-products of our domestic consumption, to create new materials, from waste materials such as shells, coffee and orange.
What have you rebelled against in the past and what are you rebelling against now?
We consider ourselves to be mischievous and playful. We enjoy taking risks in our work and breaking boundaries.