Elizabeth Willing

Elizabeth Willing has transformed the way we think about food and contemporary art, where food is both the medium and the subject. Through sculpture, participatory events, performance, collages and installation, Willing has used materials from marzipan to sherbet to liquorice. The Brisbane-based artist has posed thoughtful, often humourous, questions on eating, taste, sense, consumption, sustainability and foraging, alongside thinking about the cultural rituals and understandings of food.  
 
Tiarney Miekus, 2022
 

In creating her work Willing is not only an artist, but a cook, designer, engineer and scientist, testing and manipulating the material qualities and limitations of food and applying her highly refined aesthetic sensibility.  
 
Rachael Parsons, Director, New England Regional Art Museum, 2018
 

Listen to Elizabeth Willing interviewed by food writer Dani Valent on ABC RN The Drawing Room with Andy Park (both June 2022)   20 Questions with Elizabeth Willing in Art Guide AustraliaMay/June 2022