American artists in residence at BigCi, Mei-ling Hom and David McClelland, will be facilitating a unique hands on workshop that revolves around the theme of art and farming. The purpose of the workshop is to construct biodegradable sculptures that will grow edible mushrooms as well as having a beneficial impact on the overall health of your garden.

Mei-ling Hom working on a large straw sculpture at the Bernheim artist’s house. Courtesy Mei-ling Hom
Art2Grow represents the collaboration of Mei-ling Hom and David McClelland, who dedicate equal amounts of their time working as artists in their studio in Western New York State and as farmers in Philadelphia, but also undertaking artist residencies across the globe, including Australia. As a result, their sculptural pieces are both visually intriguing and ecologically relevant. Through this workshop you will be able to learn about the role that fungi plays in the environment and take care of your own mushroom creation to create culinary delights and allow the fungi to do its own work in your garden by decomposing surrounding organic matter and eventually transforming into this itself.

Mushroom Bump at the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Courtesy: Mei-ling Hom
‘Mushroom Sculpture – Art and Farming Workshop, The Intersection of the Visual and the Edible’ will be held at BigCi, 1.5 hrs from Sydney on Saturday, 10th February 2018 at 10am-3pm with limited spaces available. This is rare opportunity for anyone interested in ecological art with little art or gardening experience assumed to learn from two pioneers in the field.
BigCi
10 February, 2018
New South Wales