Edible Uluru Cake Installation

Alice Williams

The crew at SOMEWHERE store are again arting up their Gallery space, this time with a kitch colonial ode to Scottish explorer John McDouall Stuart – you know, the one what they done named that there Highway for.  From the artful dodgers that brought you ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DIET and STOP ANNE GEDDES CAMPAIGN comes STUART’S EROGENY.

Curator Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, in collaboration with Sam Icklow, Alistair Watts and Jen Vallentine, explains the decidedly circular nature of the images as follows:

“The round images are portraits and landscapes, which make up a large part of the show. There are also two video works and an edible Uluru cake installation. They are viewed as a circular image on the square background. As a collective we were interested in the shape of the circle and the square relating to indigenous and western culture. The square is very much a part of the western culture, in it’s representation of measurement and defined borders. We felt the circle was important in showing these figures within the broad landscape.”

You had me at edible Uluru cake installation. Does all the work in the show revolve around this specific scenario?

The show is about being out of place. It goes from a very high camp scenario with the ‘explorers’ wearing heels and fake beards in the portraits, to a much less stylised video where the same characters are seen, again humorously, but this time in a much more natural setting, the camp site, where their whiteness and ineptitude for living in the desert becomes the main point.

Check out Stuart’s Erogony at SOMEWHERE until August the 28th.