A Journey into Olfactory Art and the World of Smell

Join a guided journey into the world of smell – thinking through scent as an artistic medium. Tied intimately with memory, place, and imagination, scent is a tool with potent power but one that is often underused in the artist’s palette.

This event will feature Castlefield Gallery’s currently exhibiting artist Jeffrey Knopf and olfactory artist Steven Calver. They will guide attendees through their collaboration, translating an image of Sigmund Freud’s office into the smellscape for Jeffrey’s work, The Closest I Got to Freud’s Desk (2022). Focusing on multi-sensory approaches to exhibition-making and scent as a sculptural tool, this discussion will include a ‘show and smell’ session. This session will explore how a variety of references and raw materials were composed into the complex scent used in the exhibition.