Kenny Pittock
Discarded Shopping List. (Cold meat, lettuce, bread.) 2024
enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
Courtesy of the artist, MARS Gallery, Melbourne and Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Kenny Pittock
Discarded Shopping List. (Cold meat, lettuce, bread.) 2024
enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
Courtesy of the artist, MARS Gallery, Melbourne and Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Kenny Pittock
Discarded shopping list. (Cold meat, lettuce, bread) 2024
enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
Courtesy of the artist, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, and Olsen Gallery, Sydney
Artist statement:
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. Here the humble post-it note sized shopping list has been elevated in scale to emphasise how often in life the little things are the big things.
