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The
two-day show features sheep-shearing, livestock competitions,
food, music and a vegetable sculpture contest that has attracted
national renown for its quirky creativity.
This year, several sculptures referenced the recent papal
election or movie on the same subject, including one featuring
cardinals made of maize, titled “Cornclave.”
Other entries included Irish rap trio Kneecap in potato form,
“Cauli Parton” in a movie-inspired tableau titled “9 to Chive,”
a vegetable “Mo Salad” likeness of Liverpool soccer star Mohamed
Salah and animated icons Wallace and Gromit made from butternut
squash.
Trump also got the butternut squash treatment, while some
entries referred to local politics. In Lambeth, as in other
parts of London, local authorities have turned to holding large
concerts and festivals in parks as a way to raise money, to the
chagrin of some neighbors.
“Wolf Hall” actor Mark Rylance, one of a group of local
residents opposed to big events in Brockwell Park, is
represented as “Mark Rylunch,” with an apple-carved head and
satirical signs branding him a NIMBY (not in my backyard)
campaigner.
“Every year, this is what we get so excited about, is the
vegetable sculptures,” Country Fair regular Maddy Luxon said.
“It’s just so unique and just so witty and we love the political
ones.”
“And the puns,” said Marek Szandrowski, who was with her. “The
vegetable puns, definitely.”
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