Diary of a Carrot w/ Yvonne Todd: 27th February, 2026

Yvonne Todd is a Tāmaki-based multidisciplinary artist, whose practice tends to obscure the familiar through a range of media to explore her subject matter – imperfection, absurdity, and the uncanny, all guiding her material language. 

Her current solo exhibition at the Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead, Diary of a Carrot, sees Todd further explore this long-standing interest in food as a subject – using a melange of sculpture, found and personal objects, AI-generated imagery, and staged photography to make this absurdist narration on the act of eating. 

Best known for her work in staged photography, the show presents a shift in Todd’s process – using AI to produce a new series, Sullen 1880s Nibblers, which sees an assemblage of unenthusiastic Victorian women vacuously prodding at the plates of food they hold. 

Paired alongside personal archives, earlier work, and held within the historic home at Pah Homestead, here, food is not conceptually examined so much through the present, as it is through the past – allowing these notions of domesticity and nostalgia to thread and bind the works in the space, as viewers chew on the peculiar ways we engage with what, and how we consume. 

Sof caught up with Yvonne about Diary of a Carrot, and her wider practice.