Curator, former Canberra gallery owner and new Eurobodalla resident Helen Maxwell is celebrating her first Christmas in Durras by inviting Polish-born artist Gosia Wlodarczak to exhibit her art at the South Durras Progress Hall.

There the similarity to any other art show ends.

Guests are invited to first watch Gosia create her work – then help her eat it – anytime between 10am and 6pm.

Using everything from celery sticks to chocolate and licorice allsorts, Gosia will create an edible mosaic throughout the day.

Dogs get special treatment, too, as Helen’s canine companion Quito has become happily accustomed.

An art work made entirely of dog biscuits will greet any four-legged friends who accompany their owners to the show.

“Gosia has been performing in Moscow, the USA and Melbourne and wanted to be in the Australian bush,” Helen explained.

“However, she finds it difficult not to do something, so she offered to do an edible Christmas drawing.

“People come and watch and participate by eating.”

Helen said she wanted to make “a Christmas gift for people”, complete with a glass of bubbles.

However, she hopes guests will leave a gold coin donation to help cover the cost of hiring the hall and ingredients.

Gosia is a prominent performance artist, whose work is now on display in the Dobell Drawing Biennale at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Using specialised pens, she spent a week drawing on a huge plate-glass window in the gallery, fielding questions from observers as she went.

The drawing will be removed after January 26.

She has completed a 21-day drawing at the Moscow Biennale in Russia.

The artist said she created her first edible art work for dogs in honour of Helen’s Cuzco, now deceased.

“The first thing I really loved was her and her dog’s presence in the gallery,” Gosia said.

Animated and lively can be guaranteed tomorrow – but dog owners are asked to keep those leashes clipped on.

Gosia described the project as “a bit of an art joke”.

“I want people to digest my art properly,” she said.

“Sometimes people come into a gallery, but do not really look.

“It is about interacting, being together and sharing the moment.”

Gosia says she is “bowled over” by the birds of Durras and the greenery after so much rain.

“I am from Poland, so green is the thing I am used to,” she said.

“It is so nice and calming on the eyes and mind.”