Based in the UK, FoodSketz (est. 2015) is a collaboration between Cat Smith & Alison Clare with a focus on food and drink as a tool for conversation, collaboration & community. Food has potential to be object, subject, facilitator or bystander, as a tool. Food has a culture, a geography and a history.
Please email us if you have an idea you would like to work together on. Or to send us good memes.
FoodSketz
Cat Smith & Alison Clare
b.1990/1992
catering
2019 What’s Eating Our Reality, with Maya Chowdhry at B-Arts, Stoke-on-Trent (upcoming)
2019 The Cucumber Fell in the Sand, Humber Street Gallery
2019 What’s Eating Our Reality, with Maya Chowdhry at Bristol Arnolfini, FLY! Festival of Black Women's Theatre
2019 Intercepted food Supper Club with The Brixton Pound, Brixton, London
2018 What’s Eating Our Reality, with Maya Chowdhry at Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster with Lancaster Arts
2018 Hello Spring, Foraged Breakfast at Food For Real film festival by Squash Nutrition, St James Gardens, Liverpool
2018 Wet Nelly, for Fairland Collective's FEAST, AtTheLibrary, Bootle, Liverpool
2017 Permaculture Dinner for friends of Metal Garden, Metal, Liverpool
2017 NAWM Away Day, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2017 Sweet Treats for Seen By Everyone, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
drinks
2018 The White Review (Northern Launch), The Bluecoat, Liverpool
2018 Hello Summer, Food For Real film festival by Squash Nutrition, Prince's Park, Liverpool
2018 RRR, AtTheLibrary, Netherton Activity Centre, Liverpool
2018 In conversation with Grace Ndiritu, The Bluecoat, Liverpool
2017 Notes on Queerness, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2017 Seen By Everyone, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2017 The 'thinking-business', The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2016 Winter Art Fair, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
workshops
2019 Blue Monday, with The Human Library, Crosby Library, Liverpool
2018 Pool Our Resources, Meal for £1 workshop with Sean Roy Parker & Human Library, Crosby Library
2018 FETE, Sauerkraut Workshop with GRAFT Lancaster & Lancaster Harvest Festival, Lancaster Market, Lancaster
2018 Food Rites & Rituals, TATE Liverpool with Squash Nutrition
2018 Fermentation workshop for Squash Nutrition Volunteers, Grapes Community Garden, Toxteth, Liverpool
2018 Fermentation Station (Sauerkraut workshop), Food For Real film festival by Squash Nutrition, Grapes Community Garden, Toxteth, Liverpool
2017 Family Print Workshop, AtTheLibrary, Maghull, Liverpool
2017 Crit Dinner, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2016 Eggstravaganza, Ladette Space, London
2016 Eggstravaganza @ NAWKI, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
group exhibitions
2019 The Cucumber Fell in the Sand, Humber Street Gallery
2018 The Offy, Output Gallery, Liverpool
2017 NAWKI CBS Gallery, Liverpool
2017 relay, Surtsey Projects, Liverpool
2016 Fresh 'N' Frozen, 12o Collective, London
2016 Reel Women, Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge
2016 3030, 12o Collective, London
2016 The Artist Ambassador Convention, with TRAFFIC, Online
2016 Thirty.works, 12o Collective, Online
residencies
2018 Low Res Camera Roll, Instagram Residency curated by Georgina Tyson
2016 TASC Studio Kitchen, Bergen
2013 Occupy 01, Lokaal 01, Antwerp
other relevant experience
2016 - present Kitchen work & cheffing, various places (Alison)
2015 - present FOH management, various hospitality establishments (Cat)
2015 Mobile Autonomy, Antwerp, working on artist summer school organising accommodation, working in the kitchen run by artist Valerie de Ghellinck, assisting workshops
2012-2013 Various online cooking tutorials
publications/reviews
2019 FoodSketz: A Manual, The Cucumber Fell in the Sand, Humber Street Gallery
2019 Comic for OUT OF SERVICE, mental health in hospitality zine accompanying event
produced by Chelsie Dawn, Bold Street Coffee, Liverpool
2018 Zine for What’s Eating Our Reality, Bristol with Maya Chowdhry
2019 Fairmentation Magazine
2018 Zine for What’s Eating Our Reality, Lancaster with Maya Chowdhry
2018 FETE, Graft, article on Feeding Lancaster (online)
2017 relay, art in liverpool review (online)
2016 CONNECT, Lokaal 01, Antwerp
2016 Zine for FoodSketz residency at TASC Studio Kitchen
2016 The Artist Ambassador Convention zine, self-published and co-designed with TRAFFIC/
Lokaal 01, Antwerp
2016 NAWKI, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, review by The White Pube
2016 Eggstravaganza, Ladette Space