2023

“Dining etiquette stretches back centuries and table manners define the meaning of a meal. Eating is a physical need, but meals are a social ritual...The presence of food and the dining table has been an ever present subject of the visual arts. Over the last century, art and design movements have looked to challenge social expectations and in turn question our relationship to food... This anthology draws together a selection of texts, definitions, essays and artwork to chronologically identify the social and cultural change in attitudes towards food and dining etiquette standards.”

Typeface: Arnhem Fine Regular and Italic

Printed on 100gsm Newsprint
Hardback cover (700gsm paper)
Screen printed

110mm x 170mm
216 pages
Chain-link Stitch

“By disrupting the dining process on
both the individual and communal level,
[it] can encourage diners to be more
conscious in every sense.”

Experimental gastronomy:
Breaking all the dinner party rules
Angelica Pursley

I created a video piece to convey the idea
of having bad table manners and playing
with food. This also allowed me to demonstrate
how the audience would interact with
the book (and installation).