As part of the Awesome Arts Forum’s latest Creative Challenge, Feast, Bridget Waters and Minaxi May have been working with a group of students at North Kalgoorlie Primary School.

Using edible materials and sourcing props from the kitchen, the Fremantle-based practitioners have been encouraging the kids to play with their food.

For the past two weeks, the learners have been experimenting with form and shape, and the hands-on approach has been sticky, smelly and very rewarding.

They have messed around with pastes of spices, crafted characters from plastic icing and made self-portraits out of jelly crystals, vegemite and dyed pasta.

The Creative Challenge is all about independent thinking, being adventurous and discovering individual and collective identities. Friday June 13 will see the end result on display for parents and fellow students to admire.

Both of the visiting artists are the ideal facilitators for this sort of exploration.

Minaxi May is fascinated by the endless possibilities inherent in food. Drawn to pattern, repetition and colour, she likes to transform everyday ingredients into something out of the ordinary.

“I take stuff that’s already there and give it a new meaning,” she explains while talking to Trish Little's art students at Curtin’s Centre for Regional Education.

Bought, reusable and ephemeral materials appeal to her and she is interested in collaborating with those who cross boundaries.

Bridget Waters thrives on pushing the edges of definition and “breaking down barriers”.

The intrepid food installation artist used to be a chef until she became critically ill and had to change her diet completely.

“I had a background in food but I couldn't taste food,” she says, with her trademark red pencils quivering in her pinned-up hair. “I felt really deprived.”

Studying art at Curtin University of Technology was an outlet for her rich imagination and some startling experimentation. A precarious-looking bread sculpture and an item of clothing that pays homage to sushi nori testify to her daring.

Both artists share a delicious sense of humour and an infectious enthusiasm for their projects. They also have all the ingredients for a certain type of success.