Art serves up a delicious treat

By Shaun Inguanzo
DANDENONG Plaza is home to a new and mouth-watering public art exhibition.
The Glorious Food exhibition uses the McCrae Street windows of Dandenong Plaza to display four very different works celebrating food.
But the exhibition is more than just an appetiser for the public – it is also a competition among artists to see whose work attracts the most attention.
Shoppers at the Plaza can vote for their favourite work and in doing so will go into the draw to win a $1000 Dandenong Plaza voucher.
The artist with the most votes will also win a $1000 Dandenong Plaza voucher.
City of Greater Dandenong mayor Youhorn Chea praised the exhibition and said it was part of the council’s Art in the City program, designed to inject colourful public art around the CBD.
“It’s great to have the full support of the Dandenong Plaza which has offered its space and supported the project with incentives for shoppers,” Cr Chea said.
“This is a clear demonstration of local businesses getting behind the revitalisation of central Dandenong and supporting the arts in the process.”
The project was launched on 6 June with special entertainment by artist Ceri Hann who performed with his “sonic stir fry” – a wheelie bin converted into a mobile sound-making machine, complete with wok.
The exhibition’s window position allows it to be viewed 24 hours a day until 17 July.