{"product_id":"leo-costelloe-kitchen","title":"Leo Costelloe, Kitchen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeo Costelloe’s first artist’s book brings together writing and photography that reflect on intimacy, queer kinship, memory, alienation, and the emotional terrains of domestic life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShaped as much by autobiography as by imagination, the text draws on family narratives, a childhood in Canberra, and the formative experience of coming of age in London, to sketch shifting portraits of home as both a place and a feeling. Costelloe explores understandings of femininity, care and self-actualisation through impressionistic vignettes in which intimate recollections sit alongside performance and fantasy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCostelloe’s photographs extend the writing’s themes, capturing domestic atmospheres, details and quiet moments of tenderness, sometimes edged with a surreal unease.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn introduction from Tate curator Fiontán Moran situates the publication within Costelloe’s wider practice, linking their fascination with the construction of glamour and the rituals of homemaking to broader questions of gender and class.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"accordion-product\"\u003eAbout the Publication\u003c\/button\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panel-product\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Dean’s Bottom, London, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e79 pages section-sewn with naked spine, greyboard cover with hand-taped silver sequin and single strand of synthetic hair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e110mm × 166mm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdition of 500\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by Fiontán Moran\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesign: Emmanuel O’Brien\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEditorial Support: Rachel Wang, Helen Neven and Emma Capps\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781068180507\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbutton class=\"accordion-product\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/button\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panel-product\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeo Costelloe (b.1993, Canberra) is an Irish-Australian interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the transient and sentimental nature of objects in contemporary culture. Drawing from lexicons of digital historical femininity, adornment and craft, Costelloe's sculptural practice uses glass silversmithing, hair, flowers and found objects to recast familiar decorative and utilitarian signifiers and reframe presupposed meanings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Shop Contemporary","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57100166529397,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0014\/4457\/7380\/files\/Kitchen.jpg?v=1777317108","url":"https:\/\/nottinghamcontemporary.shop\/products\/leo-costelloe-kitchen","provider":"Shop Contemporary","version":"1.0","type":"link"}