Cultured Culture

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Work: The Cultured Culture Series was created in 2011 and was exhibited at Paradise Hills gallery for an exhibition that Foote curated called ‘The Seductive and Subversive’. The exhibition engaged with themes around fashion, beauty and the body. The intended dialogue was not to highlight one particular view but reflect upon a range of different views within these themes, some artists delved into the negative portrayal of body image within the fashion industry, others commented on the positive affect of fashion within forming one’s sense of identity and representation, while others engaged with material forms of the body that challenge our senses of what is deemed beautiful.

Foote created a body of work that was intentionally ambiguous, making large petri dish like shapes lined with coloured mirror on the edges that when lit properly would reflect stunning fractal reflections all over the surface of the dish and the inside of the dishes were an array of growing bacteria like forms, each of these forms were compilation of people over lapping and expanding.

Each of these dishes contained part human development – part cultural growth – part over population – part beauty – part disgust and a dash of creativity all mixed together.
Photographer: Ryan Foote
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Ryan Foote born in Melbourne, Australia, where he is currently based.

Foote’s current focus sees him bring together his diverse and ranging career from across Art, Design, Food & Drink Design, Theatre, Fashion, Events and Sustainability. By creating unique event based projects that involve Food, Fashion, Art, Design, that envelop and entice all the guests senses. These projects take place around Australia and overseas.

How did he get here? Foote studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, completing his Bachelor of Fine Art, Majoring in Sculpture and Spatial Practices in 2005 and then Honours in 2006, and has gone on to have many exhibitions around Australia and overseas, creating large installations in places like Federation Square Melbourne, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne’s GPO Building, Flinders Lane Gallery, Platform Artist Space and 271 Collins Street just to name a few.

Foote’s Artwork reflects upon contemporary popular culture and the emergence of trend culture, taking the form of large installations and event based artworks that create social spaces that delve into the opulent culture of food, fashion, art, design, and the layering of visual literacy that surround us. Foote’s relational happenings creating unique temporal worlds that engage all the viewers’ senses, from taste, touch, scent, audio and of course the visual. Intentionally saturating his artwork with numerous layers, references, sensorial delights, he allows each viewer to delve as far into or experience something completely different to the next person, this process of building up layer upon layer of imagery and concepts has become a key element to his artwork.

Simultaneous to his Art and Food design career Foote has designed and created, projects for multiple fashion festivals with his first project in 2005 for Mercedes Australian Fashion Week, and has gone on to work for L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival, Rosemount Australian Fashion Week Sydney, Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, Shanghai Fashion Week as well as many more, and while most of Foote’s set design work was for fashion festivals, he has also designed multiple theatre sets.
In mid 2006 Foote work at the Victorian College of the Arts – The University of Melbourne in the Sculpture and Spatial Practices department as the Sculpture Technical Officer and then went on to lecture Sculpture there until mid 2010. He has also undertaken guest lecturing roles in the other universities, as well as being a creative consultant for artist, designers, galleries, organisations and companies.

In 2012 Foote returned to Australia after living abroad and set up a social enterprise aimed at helping the creative industry implement more sustainable practices whilst also advocating wider change amongst society.

He is currently working with multiple event and catering firms in a freelance capacity, envisage and create not only new food and drink concepts but the entire food experience, from designing flatware, the space, all the way down to how it is served and what the staff are wearing. 
  
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Ryan Foote studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, completing his Bachelor of Fine Art, Majoring in Sculpture and Spatial Practices in 2005, then Honours in 2006.
He has gone on to have many exhibitions around Australia and in more recent years overseas, he has created large installations in places like Federation Square Melbourne, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne’s GPO Building, Flinders Lane Gallery, Platform Artist Space and 271 Collins Street.
Ryan has also created numerous installations and sets for Mercedes Fashion Week, Melbourne Fashion Festival, Rosemount Australian Fashion Week, Melbourne Spring Fashion Week and individual designers and retail spaces.
In 2012 Foote has returned to Australia and is launching a new organisation called Creatives Change set up to help the creative industries become more sustainable.