Every Picture Tells a Story
Luke Jerram’s Edible Histories
https://www.lukejerram.com/edible-histories/
Edible Histories was an arts project that took place part as part of the Bristol 650 celebrations. Five objects that tell the story of Bristol were selected from Aerospace Bristol, Bristol Zoo Project, Tyntesfield, Glenside Hospital Museum and M-shed.
Image: Luke Jerram presents the button to Liz Greaves artist and museum curator Stella Man.
1-2m sized replicas of the objects were then created in fairly traded chocolate by the award-winning Bristol chocolatier Zara’s Chocolates – wrapped in gold foil and displayed with the original pieces across the city. The chocolate button took over 100 hours for the brilliant Zara’s Chocolates team to make.
The button from the Museum’s collection is 100 times smaller and represents the thousands of patients who received care at Glenside. Brass embossed buttons with Bristol Borough Asylum stamped onto them would have been stitched onto clean robust clothes made for patients to provide them with suitable clothing to work within the hospital. Bristol’s purpose built asylum was completed in 1861.
Image: The button under construction at Zara’s Chocolates
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