Mushroom Ocean
Mushroom Ocean is an exhibition of culinary mushroom photos by Kate Ireland running as part of the Head On Photo Festival Open Program.
Mushroom Ocean showcases homegrown edible mushrooms as a sustainable ingredient through food art photography that focuses on macro and close-up details and still life compositions to draw out an oceanic world of floral and coral like forms, textures and rich and delicate colours.
Mushroom Ocean is edible sustainable food art that aims to inspire us to grow our own food at home, use the freshest ingredients and explore new flavours, forms and textures from the delicate white coral like filaments of umami Lion’s Mane, to zingy lemon of Yellow Oyster Mushrooms, to the wave-like patterns of umami Pink, earthy King Blue and delicate White Oyster Mushrooms.
All mushrooms are homegrown, styled and photographed at their freshest, as emerging into full fruitings, often still attached to their compost block growing medium, moments before being harvested, stored, and later cooked and eaten.
