The little things are the big things
(Discarded shopping list. Lotto)
120cm x 77cm
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
2025

This work was selected as a finalist in the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, on display at Geelong Gallery from November 7, 2026 until March 8, 2027.

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.