The little things are the big things (discarded shopping list)
120cm x 120.1cm
Enamel and acrylic on aluminium
2024

This work was selected as a finalist in the 2024 Sir John Sulman Prize, presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from June 8 to September 8, 2024.

I first began collecting discarded shopping lists when I was 15 and got a part-time job at a supermarket. Anonymous shopping lists read almost like poetry and can act as a portrait of the people we pass in the supermarket aisles.

Most shopping lists are written quickly and without aesthetic consideration, and it’s through the act of slowly re-creating them that I allow myself the time and space to appreciate these seemingly mundane everyday objects, creating a permanent record of a fleeting moment.