APART- Applied arts, then and now & ZERO FUCKS GIVEN
Both shows now open!
Lost Profile Gallery
42 Hope Street
Brunswick
Come see my Bruny North, Bruny South and Eden Harlequin screens as part of this fantastic show, curated by my wildly talented husband @ollie_wilcox@lost_profile_studio at @lost_profile_gallery
AND
ZERO FUCKS GIVEN, my exhibition of wall hangings and scarves in the side gallery!
Open every day of Melbourne Design Week 10-5pm, (Sunday 10-4) until May 24th. ZFG runs until July 12th.
Photo by @tomas.friml
APART- Applied arts, then and now
Now open!
Lost Profile Gallery
42 Hope Street
Brunswick
Come see my Bruny North, Bruny South and Eden Harlequin screens as part of this fantastic show, curated by my wildly talented husband @ollie_wilcox@lost_profile_studio at @lost_profile_gallery
Open every day of Melbourne Design Week 10-5pm, (Sunday 10-4) until May 24th.
Photo by @tomas.friml
APART- Applied arts, then and now
Now open!
Lost Profile Gallery
42 Hope Street
Brunswick
Come see my Bruny North, Bruny South and Eden Harlequin screens as part of this fantastic show, curated by my wildly talented husband @ollie_wilcox@lost_profile_studio at @lost_profile_gallery
Open every day of Melbourne Design Week 10-5pm, (Sunday 10-4) until May 24th.
Photo by @tomas.friml
ZERO FUCKS GIVEN - OPENING TODAY!
First drop - Wall hangings & scarves
Lost Profile Gallery
42 Hope Street
Brunswick
May 14 - July 12th
Pictured-
Boy
2026
Cotton, pigment, wax, steel
Open today until 5pm
ZERO FUCKS GIVEN - OPENING TODAY!
First drop - Wall hangings & scarves
Lost Profile Gallery
42 Hope Street
Brunswick
May 14 - July 12th
Pictured-
Broken
2026
Cotton, pigment, wax, steel
Open today until 5pm
ZERO FUCKS GIVEN - OPENING TODAY!
First drop - Wall hangings & scarves
Lost Profile Gallery
42 Hope Street
Brunswick
May 14 - July 12th
Pictured-
Charlotte as Candy
2026/1993
Cotton, pigment, wax, steel
Open today until 5pm
ZERO FUCKS GIVEN
Lost Profile Gallery
May 13th - July 12
New wall hangings, scarves and kaftans
1/3
‘I have nothing to say about this work’ - Sallie Leah, 1991
My mother supplied this artist statement for an exhibition I once curated. Despite a couple of degrees and a total fluency in the jargon of academia, she chose to offer nothing. The work stood for itself; you got it or you didn’t. It was deliberate, quiet defiance. She was the original practitioner of Zero Fucks Given.
A few years prior, I’d photographed her with a mouthful of cigarettes for a portrait intended to shame her into quitting. It was an epic fail; she loved smoking until the day it killed her. That portrait was part of an exhibition titled “I copy therefore I am.” (Long Gallery, Hobart, 1988) The work was an urgent, lo-fi collection of portraits blown up and distorted using a photocopier, laminated, and hung with blobs of Blutac. I was 18, broke and desperate to get out from under the shadow of the mountain and find the brighter lights and darker corners of the world. It worked…
ZERO FUCKS GIVEN
Lost Profile Gallery
May 13th - July 12
New wall hangings, scarves and kaftans.
2/3
Upon arriving in the UK, a chance encounter with an anarchist woodblock printmaker Chris Pig forever altered my trajectory. He dismissed my “instant” medium as worthless— a comment that crushed me and drove me towards decades of labor-intensive, meticulously decorative work. ZERO FUCKS GIVEN is the moment the pendulum swings back. It is an anniversarizing of the archive; a celebration of the past the reconciles the spontaneity of the photocopy with the technical precision I’ve since acquired.
The imagery functions as a stratified archive, merging the personal with the displaced. I’ve drawn from melancholic records of life in the Soviet republic sourced from Ukrainian markets— histories lost to time and conflict— and juxtaposed them with 1970s glamour photography from the lens of Albert Quinn, who’s estate was dumped in an antique centre mere months after his passing. These found histories sit along side my own 1988 Hobart portraits, revisited and celebrated through almost four decades of distance…
ZERO FUCKS GIVEN
Lost Profile Gallery
May 13th - July 12
New wall hangings, scarves and kaftans
3/3
What unifies these images is an attitude of fearlessness that often dulls with age, as we rope in ambition and settle for the life we never dreamt of. It is an exploration of the thrill and terror of being new in a world where the lucky ones survive, but the luckiest live their whole lives unencumbered by better judgment.
As for me? Right now? I’m a middle aged decorative artist making wearable art. I’m definitely unencumbered by better judgment and, on that note… I have nothing further to say about this work.
