Cold Meat, Lettuce, Bread
(discarded shopping list)
120cm x 120cm
Enamel and acrylic on aluminium
2024

This work was selected as a finalist in the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, and was the winner of the exhibitions People’s Choice Award, presented at Geelong Gallery from August 10 to November 3, 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.