About the Exhibition

This is an etching of a half of a red cabbage that I prepared and ate in my kitchen. To monumentalize an object is to give it weight and imbue it with importance. Because of the necessity of nourishment in our everyday lives, as well as our often negative interactions with food as affected by body image and time constraints, we frequently forget that eating can be a simple and joyful act. The use of colour, pattern, and size in this work is meant to be inviting, friendly and accessible in order to convey a simple message of delight.

Artist Bio: Madeleine Greenway is a Printmaker currently residing in Calgary. She studied at the Alberta College of Art + Design, receiving a BFA. Her work focuses on the physical connection that human beings have to nature through the food they eat. She creates large and colourful works to exemplify investment and delight.