Cakes — Sophia Slaney-Marsch

Junts and Jussies
VCA Gradshow work

Reviews

20 Cakes

Various fabrics, haberdashery, yarn, beads, plastic jewellery, cardboard

2025

Photographed at Fortyfivedownstairs as a part of ‘Social Fabric’ - Naarm Textile Biennalle

Communal in nature, cakes bring us together. Chaotic and garish, this work is quite literally layered, much like human connection.

Made from community-sourced and inherited materials, these sculptures celebrate memory and kitsch while questioning indulgence, excess and the overlooked artistry of domestic arts.

Its all your fault Mum Cake

Fabrics, various haberdashery, yarn, plastic jewellery, cardboard

2024

25x25x20cm

This work serves as a sarcastic celebration of a tense and detrimental relationship. The adorned text acknowledges the immense responsibility and expectation placed on mothers in our conventional patriarchy - while similtaniously expressing unabashed and childish resentment.

Cunt Cake

Fabrics, various haberdashery, yarn, plastic jewellery, cardboard,

2025

33x33x34cm

This work is a maximalist, overcompensatory expression of girlhood. With fleshy pink haberdashery for shining labia, frilly pubic hair and shining hearts and clitorises.

Cunt Cake and Its all your fault Mum Cake at Artemisia Gallery as a part of ‘From the Studio’ group exhibition. 2025