Naomi Therese Bull
(She/Her)
Dinner is already a performance, even before I lay out my mismatched plates, sherry glasses and reduced bread paired with four pound red wine and call it art.
I look to explore the dinner table with themes of feminism, control, family, reclamation, food, the abject and the experience.
Food is smelly
Dinner is pretty
Food is scarce and wasted
Dinner is a party
Food is a necessity
Dinner is a time of day
My work is a reaction to authority. Driven by a desire to decode the language used to communicate within the high control christian community I grew up in.
Currently my work has a distinct focus on what forms community can take – particularly through a feminist perspective. The concept of a dinner or a meal is at the core of my work. I document this work through film,audio and scent however the real essence of community making happens during the event of a meal and I desire to capture the individuality and uniqueness of a one time event, and explore whether I can immortalise this, or if I should at all.
