Gay Baked Beans (2026)
Limited edition (32) can of baked beans
Exhibited in Midsumma Daze show, Off The Kerb gallery.
Gay Baked Beans is a tongue-in-cheek sculptural edition that asks a simple question: what makes something gay?
Packaged like a supermarket product, the work borrows the visual language of canned baked beans but replaces the expected imagery with two cartoon beans having sex. The gesture is deliberately playful and absurd, using cartoon humour to point toward the ways sexuality is policed, categorised and hidden.
Part joke, part provocation, the work imagines someone placing the can on their kitchen shelf (or gifting it to a lover) quietly “outing” a truth about a sexual act that is usually kept private. The piece is unapologetically sex-positive, suggesting honesty about desire is healthier than secrecy and shame.
Beans carry their own comic logic: associated with farts and butts, yet also a source of protein, energy and life force.
Produced as a limited edition of 32 cans, each work is signed and includes a unique handwritten message from the artist.