Bread and paper... Pan, pain, pao!
Engage with Lauren Brincat's exhibition In sequence and the work made during her residencies in Lismore, Bread and paper. On Thursday afternoons between 4 - 6pm, audiences can participate in an act of coming together to share and 'break bread'. The activation will additionally take place on Saturday, 26 September, from 1.30 - 3.30pm, during our day of special public programs.
For the artwork Bread and paper 2026, Lauren and Farid (Simply Sourdough) developed the 'Lismore Loaf': a small bread wheel shaped like a flower. Its circular form suggests movement and sharing. Over two hundred 'Lismore Loaves' will circulate through the exhibition, wrapped in paper designed with Studio Libro from fragments of old choir scores and maps.
In Lauren's words:
During the residencies, I began thinking about bread less as a material than as a collaborator. Bread has no intention. Yet for thousands of years, it has organised human activity: cultivating, grinding, fermenting, kneading, waiting, gathering, sharing and remembering. We have shaped bread, but bread has also shaped us. This led to the collaboration with Farid, the owner of Simply Sourdough. Relatively new to Lismore, Farid is contributing to the everyday life of the place through an elemental practice: making bread. There is something quietly significant in this. Bread enters people's homes, routines and relationships. It is carried, broken, offered and shared. It creates encounters without announcing itself as an event. Farid's approach brings a sense of generosity and pleasure to these everyday exchanges, and this became an important part of the work.
