THE KITCHEN

In 2022, we launched Liza’s Kitchen: Eastern European Recipes by a Melbourne Artist.

Part cookbook, part artbook, part migrant memoir, Liza’s Kitchen is an intimate collection of recipes and artwork from Russian-born, Melbourne-based artist Elizaveta Maltseva.

To continue our foody trend, we invited four artists to create yummy pieces based around food. Welcome to THE KITCHEN.

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Eating Memories

An abstract cartoon shape eats a long green twisted noodle on a fork, they hold out hands. The background is blue. — Nonfiction by Moira Tirtha

something more than nutrients

A close up of three cartoon mouths on a yellow background. A spoon feeds them multi-coloured dots food. They are chewing the dots with their mouths open. — Digital poetry by Anita Solak

on meeting places

Three cartoon green hands on a red background. Some of their fingertips dripped in yellow slime, the slime is stringy like cheese. — Interactive essay by Rory Green

Interviewing Anna Kharzeeva

A yellow hand with a blue napkin wipes a green face from red mess covering its face. — Interview by Lee Tran Lam

Illustrations by Leon Truong. Leon is an illustrator and animator based in Naarm. All other information is sacred. You can find them @asian_slaw on instagram.

If this series sates you, devour Liza’s Kitchen: Eastern European Recipes by a Melbourne Artist for more food, family and culture intertwining. This series of recipes collected and recreated for the Australian kitchen, is punctuated with anecdotes of Maltseva’s journey to make these dishes her own. It includes artwork throughout curated from her practice.

This book offers you bread, salt and vodka, and a personal seat at a multicultural table.