What Artists Eat

You’d be forgiven for thinking that someone with a social media handle @snackswithyeo was some kind of famous chef. Whilst Yeo is pretty brilliant in the kitchen, as you’ll find as we go along, it’s music that captured him early on and remains his true love. Internationally recognised Yeo has been releasing music for over a decade, with his craft taking him across Australia and as far from home as...

Nowadays, Leili Tehrani Walker believes that their Persian background has only done good things for their relationship to art and food, though they didn’t always believe this was the case. Growing up, it was complicated. From the start, it seemed for Leili that art, culture, identity and politics were related. Early memories of seeing a distinctive mural in Kings Cross about the AIDS crisis made a...

It’s no big surprise that a kitchen utensil that looks pretty similar to a drum stick would be Nick Reid’s favourite. It is, however, pretty interesting that he derives just as much pleasure from ‘reading the history’ of the humble wooden spoon, as he does plunging it into an intuitively created curry that happens to be spicier than the deepest depths of hell. Musician Nick Reid hasn’t been callin...

Zoe Blow is an utter ray of sunshine. She’s your true multi-hyphenate, with her brilliance shining from the role of artist to studio director to life drawing host to gallery director to… you get the picture. Zoe’s the kind of person who, when she can’t find what she wants, will create it. Naturally, she decided to start hosting life drawing classes when she was lonely in her studio with a stack of...

Long ago, artist Claire Lefebvre went on a date. After splitting the bill, her date tossed 70c across the table at her with a sly grin, “Here you go, for the ‘Starving Artist’”. Surprisingly, it didn’t work out. That wasn’t the first time she’d heard it, and it wouldn’t be the last, but something really stuck that night when she heard “STARVING ARTIST” yet again (it stuck the way a poppyseed stick...