The art of the edible

By Megan Backhouse
Updated February 18 2014 - 10:28pm, first published November 29 2013 - 11:59pm
Grow your own: Shawn Ashkanasy (left), and Justin Hutchinson in their NGV garden. Photo: James Boddington
Grow your own: Shawn Ashkanasy (left), and Justin Hutchinson in their NGV garden. Photo: James Boddington

Slotted between the de Kooning bronze and the Leger mosaic in the NGV sculpture garden is an art installation of a different kind. It changes daily, needs watering and is fit for eating. Composed of edible plants growing out of vessels concocted from former advertising banners, concrete and plastic, this living exhibit will be tended and harvested over the next four months as part of the wide-ranging exhibition, Melbourne Now.

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