Regenerative Appetite Trophies
BA Product Design and Craft – Ceramics
Manchester Metropolitan University
Martha is an illustrator, ceramicist and food activist.
Martha is interested in how craft functions as a catalyst for change, and she uses her interdisciplinary practice to highlight the issue of food waste. Working closely with organisations dedicated to reducing food waste, Martha recently produced a consciousness-raising body of work celebrating the people working hard to regenerate a culture of care within the food system, and created opportunities for conversations around the way we eat. Her approach is playful and accessible, and explores the role craft can play in creatively engaging people in important issues, encouraging shifts in attitude and changes in behaviour.
Clockwise from top left: Regenerative Appetite Trophy; Regenerative Appetite Trophy; Regenerative Appetite Trophies Mark Two; Four Horsemen
In:Site 2024
Martha was one of 14 artists selected to produce a participatory, drop-in workshop for a public audience at In:Site 2024. Exploring the theme of care, their workshop developed and incorporated the ideas, techniques, approaches and materials used in their own practice.
Photograph by Hayley Salter
Martha’s project, I Will Cry Over Spilt Milk, encouraged people to engage in a conversation around food waste, by helping them to create a ceramic tile featuring their own design or message using the sgraffito technique – a process of scratching into a coloured layer of clay. Martha’s playful drawing and ceramics project created a platform for voices and ideas for change in the food system.
Photographs by Hayley Salter
