An artist in residence at London’s Pied à Terre restaurant, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva uses kitchen cast-offs to create stunning sculptures
THE workspace of Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva smells like a cross between a fishmonger’s and a chemistry lab.
That’s not surprising considering the materials she uses in her artworks: discarded scallop skirts, salmon skins, quail bones and other waste she gathers up from the kitchens at Pied à Terre, the well-known restaurant in London where she is artist in residence. After sloshing her way back to her studio in West Sussex with bags full of fishy refuse – drawing variously curious and horrified stares on the train – Hadzi-Vasileva experiments…
