2023: I had rushed back from a trip to Spain and France (caravan and adapted transit van as you’ve asked) to take part in this beauty – art meets chocolate meets performance. Not a simple as it sounds. Weirdly thought-provoking. And a reminder that chocolate can be a ‘sin’ in more ways that ‘a moment on the lips, an inch on the hips’.
Do you like chocolate? And smashing things?
Then get ready for FOMO. On Saturday I smashed chocolate, then ate it.
Luke Jerram, Bristol artist and creator of the 2014 giant waterslide down Bristol’s steep Park Street as well as three to-scale recreations of earth, the moon and Mars exhibited internationally, used Bristol’s historic relationship with chocolate as inspiration for his latest artwork and art performance.
Five one metre-tall sculptures, created from chocolate, were based on ‘objects that tell the story of Bristol’. Concorde, Alfred the gorilla, medicine bottles, a button and a ship’s wheel were exhibited at Aerospace Bristol, Bristol Zoo Project, Glenside Hospital Museum, National Trust Tyntesfield and M Shed.
And now they were lined up on stage at St George’s. And I was one of the ‘smashers’, chosen by ballot to demolish the edible sculptures.
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Pictured above: artist Luke Jerram with a giant chocolate incarnation of Alfred the Gorillia at the Chocolate Smash, St George’s Bristol