At Home With Your Collection

Kate Mitchell’s exercise routine video, purchased from her Working It Out exhibition at Chalk Horse in Sydney (she is also represented by Anna Schwartz in Melbourne).

“While homebound, I’m doing ‘broom squats’ to Kate Mitchell’s exercise video. Her practice often explores modern-day labour and opportunities. In our moment of self-isolation, job uncertainty and mental and physical strain, her video makes me think about the ways in which we are ‘working it out’. Also, Kate’s exercise soundtrack is addictively kitschy.”

“The flat I share with my husband is tiny, so aside from a few wall works, I tend to collect shelf-sized sculptures and books by artists I admire or have invested in. Small works can still hypnotise a room.”

Sculptures top to bottom: Lotte Schwerdtfeger’s ceramic and crystal vessel (represented by Darren Knight); Alice Lang’s porcelain body-scan mugs; Lynda Draper’s earthenware set (represented by Gallerysmith); Shilpa Gupta’s concrete fragment, collected from TarraWarra Museum of Art; Emily Hunt’s glazed stoneware ring; Holly Macdonald’s fragment, purchased from Firstdraft Auction 2019; Lauren Simeoni’s Fanta-orange plastic reef necklace, bought from Jam Factory; Laurence Usher’s cabbage mug, bought from Museum of Brisbane. On the wall, a polished graphite panel by Matthew Allen (represented by Fox Jensen Gallery). A work swap.

Special edition art books by Australian and international artists, including: Jonny Niesche (represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery), Francis Upritchard (represented by Ivan Anthony Gallery), Julian Dashper (represented by Fine Arts Sydney), Adriana Varejão (represented by Gagosian), Eva Hesse (represented by Hauser & Wirth), Eugenia Lim (represented by STATION), Laura Jones (represented by Olsen Gallery). Symbol vases by Nicolette Johnson (represented by Sophie Gannon Gallery in Melbourne and Jan Murphy in Brisbane).