Oat Milk Coffee
KAUKAU
October 2024
Oat Milk Coffee is inspired by a visit to friend and painter Will Hadwen’s studio, observing the textures and shapes of the paint in his work; spending the afternoon talking about paintings; and sharing soup, cake and coffee in their upstairs studio kitchen.
Oat Milk, 2024
Oil on canvas, framed in Tasmanian oak
350 x 300mm
Oil on canvas, framed in Tasmanian oak
350 x 300mm
Bundt Cake, 2024
Oil on canvas, framed in Tasmanian oak
350 x 450mm
Oil on canvas, framed in Tasmanian oak
350 x 450mm
Sofa, 2024
Oil on canvas, framed in Tasmanian oak
400 x 500mm
Oil on canvas, framed in Tasmanian oak
400 x 500mm
Cherry Chocolate Sponge, 2024
Oil on canvas, framed in Tasmanian oak
350 x 450mm
Oil on canvas, framed in Tasmanian oak
350 x 450mm
Iced Coffee, 2024
Oil on canvas, framed in Tasmanian oak
250 x 200mm
Oil on canvas, framed in Tasmanian oak
250 x 200mm
Pigeon, 2024
Oil on canvas, framed in Tasmanian oak
300 x 400mm
Oil on canvas, framed in Tasmanian oak
300 x 400mm
Oat Milk Coffee install at KAUKAU
Thursday. It was hot and windy outside. Inside the warehouse, sun came through the windows into the kitchen and onto the desk. Paintings leaned up against the concrete wall on the cooler side of the building. Impressions of paint and movement over large, hand-stretched canvas. Upstairs, the kitchen was warm and we ate soup and garlic focaccia with white butter. Downstairs, we moved paintings around; carried them with our arms wide. Upstairs again later for a large jug of creamy oat milk coffee and slices of layered banana cake. In the evening we walked up onto the green hill in the wind. I followed a dry dirt track home, weaving through blackberries and long dry grass up to my waist.