A CHESTER art gallery's latest exhibition is set to get visitor's mouths watering this December with exhibits made from Golden Syrup and jelly.

MainARTERY in Brook Street, Chester, have announced their latest combined exhibition showcasing works by artists Gemma Hutton and Ben Winstanley.

The exhibition will be the first of its kind to take place in Chester and will guarantee to surprise and intrigue due to the nature of the works on show.

Gemma Hutton's work involves creating everyday objects using gelatine and golden syrup as a casting material. Gemma said: 'I can't remember how I came up with this process of mixing gelatine and golden syrup, I'm sure it involved many hours of messy experimentation. Part of it is to take something intangible or illusive and find a way to use it.'

Gemma graduated from Liverpool John Moores University and since then, her work has been on show at the Emerging Young Artists exhibition in Birmingham 2003.

Gemma's work has always been about the inevitability of time passing, about imperfections and a sensuous playful approach to materials, surface and texture.

For her exhibition at mainARTERY, Gemma has produced a collection of jars and bottles for display, using this unusual mix of gelatine and syrup and she encourages the audience to touch and interact with these objects.

She added: 'These jars wobble and flop and shrink and break, and that's good. I enjoy their forms and relationships between forms.'

Ben Winstanley also graduated from Liverpool John Moores University in 2002 with a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art. His work depicts the human form, but his drawings not only record the physicality of the body, they also show the emotional attachments we have with not just our own, but with others.

As Ben says: 'It's the old cliché, but for as long as I can remember, I have been drawing people. Faces, arms, legs, how we walk, how we talk, it has always fascinated me enough to record them.'

For his exhibition at mainARTERY, Ben has produced a timeline of events from the past 100 years, portrayed in a series of 100 drawings. The exhibition, entitled Chrysalides, runs until December 15. For further details, please contact mainARTERY on 01244 313545. Opening times are 10am - 5pm Mon - Fri. 11am - 5pm Sat - Sun. Admission is free.