The uses of cheese

Art has been made to embellish and promote cheese, and art (of a sort) has been made as a tribute to cheese. (For more on the story behind the mammoth cheese of Perth, Ontario, click here).

But has art ever been made out of cheese?

In a word: yes.

Argentinian Pop Art sculptor Marta Minujin has covered a Venus figure with little processed cheese cubes.



Montreal-born artist Cosimo Cavallaro has applied melted cheese to some unlikely objects, including boots, a suit jacket, Twiggy, and an entire house and its contents in Powell, Wyoming.



He has since moved on to ham, but that's not really germaine to our current discussion.

For her 1992 installation "The Cocktail Party", multimedia artist Sandy Skoglund covered a room, furniture and people with cheezies.



Not strictly cheese, perhaps. Not really food either.