Having Your Cake And Eating It Sculpture

Kerry Samantha lives in the Scottish Artists' Town of Kirkcudbright where she works producing museum facsimiles, fake food and exhibits within contemporary art. Primarily a sculptor; practised in traditional sculptural techniques including taxidermy, casting, carving and modelling as well as woodwork, stone carving, embroidery, drawing, collage, photography, film and installation. She articulates her concerns with food consumption by subverting food presentation - highlighting the uneasy feelings at deriving aesthetic pleasure from others' extinction, the plunder of other cultures/species, where unbelievable reality abruptly forces one to reassess what is true. When food is generally considered a comfort, these pieces seek to draw the viewer in and elicit discomfort. Questioning extinction, gluttony, animal agriculture, obesity, starvation, mass production, fast food, GM food, processed food and fashions in molecular gastronomy.