{"id":10540,"date":"2026-09-06T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=10540"},"modified":"2026-09-06T16:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:18:03","slug":"confectionery-in-contemporary-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/confectionery-in-contemporary-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Confectionery in contemporary art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0287.jpeg\" alt=\"Contemporary art using confectionery \" class=\"wp-image-10545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0287.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0287-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Confectionery in contemporary art <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Polo mints, plaster, acrylic paint.  5x17x3cm  2026<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is one of several sculptural works that I\u2019ve produced using confectionery in the form of Polo mints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chief inspiration for the work was simply the fact that Polo mints have a very sculptural form, due largely to their shape but reinforced very much by the fact that when placed in a sculptural context they can be mistaken for being made of white marble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fact that the sculpture is composed of something as mundane as confectionery gives the work an intriguing quality due to the ambiguous nature of the mints. The mints look exactly like Polo mints, because that is precisely what they are, yet they also look like sculptural forms, especially due to the interlocking composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the things that I like about this work is the way that it uses mundane confectionery to generate something which to me is more profound. I\u2019ll leave it to others to decide whether it is actually more profound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s also an element of humour in the work, resulting from the dissonance generated by the fact that the sculpture is composed of mundane confectionary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This work was displayed in Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, July &#8211; August 2026..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1008\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Confectionery-contemporary-art-1008x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Confectionery in contemporary art \" class=\"wp-image-10552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Confectionery-contemporary-art-1008x1024.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Confectionery-contemporary-art-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Confectionery-contemporary-art-768x780.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Confectionery-contemporary-art-1512x1536.jpg 1512w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Confectionery-contemporary-art-1320x1341.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Confectionery-contemporary-art.jpg 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confectionery in contemporary art Polo mints, plaster, acrylic paint. 5x17x3cm 2026 This is one of several sculptural works that I\u2019ve produced using confectionery in the form of Polo mints. The chief inspiration for the work was simply the fact that Polo mints have a very sculptural form, due largely to their shape but reinforced very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[125,138,62],"class_list":["post-10540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-art","category-sculpture","tag-assemblage","tag-confectionery","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10540"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10553,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions\/10553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}