A slice of the world’s first edible art exhibition

Last week I wrote about an emerging group of artists who use cake, sugar and other foods to create art instead of conventional paint and canvas.

The piece (which you can read here) mentioned the world’s first entirely edible art exhibition, Cake Britain, which opened at the Future Gallery in London today.

Because at the time of press last week none of the artworks had been made yet (the perishable nature of said fare, health and safety and all that) so there were no photos of it to accompany the piece.

I thought I’d rectify this by bringing you the above gallery of the weird and wonderful creations produced by collaborations between talented confectioners and aesthetes.

They include Stuart Semple and Paul Baker’s Cloud Cuckoo Land (cake) depicting: “Two lovers entwined in cloud cuckoo land, a rock candy mountain, a wedding cake for Brangelina and a sky of edible happy clouds.”

And Lily Vanilli’s edible garden, replete with a nasty scorpion and what looks like a human finger being devoured by a Venus fly trap.

The big stag’s head is David A Smith’s Carousel Deer concept, brought to life by Chef Simon Smith.

Other “cake-ists” and artists showing at the exhibition include Jon Burgerman, Jellymongers Bompas & Parr, Crumbs & Dollies and the exhibition creator and founder of Mad Artists Tea Party, Miss Cakehead (pictured with hat and cupcakes).

The initiative is sponsored by Tate & Lyle Sugars, in support of its switch to Fairtrade.

The exhibition runs from today to Sunday 29 August 2010, 10am-6pm at The Future Gallery, 5 Great Newport Street, London WC2 – click here for more information.

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