Kaye Winwood Artist / Producer

About me

Hello, I am Kaye Winwood, an Arts Professional with 25 years experience specialising in visual art, food, moving image and performance. I have an innovative creative practice, inviting audiences to engage with unique sensory environments and objects and in Autumn 2021 I launched GULP – the first UK space dedicated to exploring food art histories and showcasing innovation within food and sensory design through a programme of sensory dining experiences and activities. My work fuses sensory design with visual arts and gastronomy to create new and meaningful eating experiences to enthral diners. In 2016 I applied the term ‘Expanded Dining’ to reflect a ‘beyond the plate’ approach which reconsiders the dining experience as a sensory playground using food as an art material. I am an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Birmingham and a member of STEAMhouse. In 2018 I was awarded a Feeney Fellowship and since 2016 I have peer-reviewed the online journal FEAST. As well as many self-initiated projects, I have produced work for Barbican, New Art Gallery Walsall, Flatpack Film Festival and Supersonic Festival. In 2019, I collaborated with Little Earthquake to deliver ‘Rocket Fuel’, the showcase event for Moonfest supported by ACE, MAC, University of Birmingham. I was the Producer for Ikon’s Slow Boat programme 2018-2020. I have lectured at universities and colleges, predominantly in relation to experience and sensory design and led a module at BCU called ‘School Dinners’ in 2017.

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Projects

GULPIn Autumn 2021 I launched GULP – the first UK space dedicated to exploring food art and showcasing innovation within food and sensory design through a programme of sensory dining experiences and activities. I created Gulp to offer a one-of-a-kind meeting, dining and creative space for curious appetites with a taste for the extraordinary. Located in the heart of Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, Gulp is a unique intimate venue for hire. Nestled in a stunning Grade II listed building in Birmingh
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Backwards Running DinnerCommissioned by Birmingham Literature Festival as part of their 20th anniversary festival, Backward Running Dinner took participants on an edible journey through the tales written by Jim Crace in his extraordinary work The Devil’s Larder. https://kayewinwood.com/project/backward-running-dinner/
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Co.LABSince 2019 I have worked with Birmingham City University as part of their live Co.LAB Project which provides an exciting opportunity for undergraduate and postgraduate student from across different disciplines, to work on a project with external collaborators. @birmingham_co.lab @bcu_bsoad
Rocket FuelA collaboration with immersive theatre company Little Earthquake to commemorate the 50 year anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon-landing. Rocket Fuel presented this groundbreaking mission as one single spectacular event combining performance, sound, projection, live cameras and food. A veritable feast for all the senses.
Expanded IntimacyExpanded Intimacy is a series of glassware created to explore touch, taste and smell, and the relationship between hand, mouth, tongue and nose. Developed in collaboration with artist Nuala Clooney, Expanded Intimacy explores the interplay between object and body particularly in relation to the sensualisation of food and drink experiences. These unique glasses can be used in dining experiences and performance which transgress conventional modes of eating; using food, performance, texture, weigh
Hands On SensualityHands On Sensuality is a tasting menu using the hand as a device to give and receive. It will be a memorable evening of sensual dining exploring surface and gesture, touch and pleasure; reconsidering food as both an artistic medium and an emotive device.

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Work history

Artist / ProducerKaye Winwood Projects

Apr 2015Birmingham, United KingdomFreelance

Artist / Producer exploring new forms of #ExpandedDining / Grand Union Studio holder / Producer Ikon Gallery / Feeney Fellow / UoB Research Assoc / Peer Reviewer at FEAST Journal In 2016 I applied the term ‘Expanded Dining’ to reflect my ‘beyond the plate’ approach to dining experiences and invited Dr Elisa Oliver to explore this terminology with me, which resulted in a new piece of writing Expanded Dining-PDF (Elisa Oliver, 2015) and a subsequent text Expanded Dining: Beyond the Plate published in ‘Spaces for Eating’, FEAST in 2018. This research is ongoing.

Creative Producer, Curator and Project ManagerFreelance

Jan 1998United KingdomFreelance

I am a Creative Producer of unforgettable experiences to delight and bring people together through food, art and laughter. I work in collaboration with chefs, performers, set designers and artists to create a range of unique and immersive experiences.

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Skills

Events
Visual Arts
Creative Producer
Project Budget Management
Project Event Management
Dining Table
Immersive Experience
Writing Arts
Copy Editng
Research and Concept Development
Practice-led Research
Researching new Ideas
Reviewing art
Food Design
Lecturing

Awards

Feeney FellowshipJohn Feeney Charitable Trust

I was awarded a Feeney Fellowship in 2018. It has enabled me to harness new working methods and processes to reimagine the creative potential of food and eating - including casting, moulding, 3D printing and molecular gastronomy. This research is ongoing.

AIDF (Artists' International Development Fund)Arts Council England

International development of work 'Diabolical Roses' in Lubustron, Poland. https://kayewinwood.com/project/diabolical-roses-a-foreign-affair/

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