TOTEM ROAD x Art2Muse Gallery
A room can be carefully considered in every detail - the furniture, the materials, the light - and still feel like something is missing. Often, it’s art.
Totem Road has partnered with Art2Muse Gallery to bring original artworks to their Paddington showroom. It’s a partnership founded on a shared belief: that art belongs in lived-in spaces, not just galleries.
Jude Hotchkiss
Jude paints the streets of Sydney, not as documentation, but as an act of love. She walks the same streets every afternoon, in the same light, noticing the familiar with a kind of sustained attention that most of us only manage briefly. Her streetscapes are calm, warmly observed, and unmistakably of this place.
I walk these streets every afternoon, the sun is usually shining, and it looks so familiar to me. It comforts me, it’s where I belong and am part of.
Jude pictures her paintings in well-loved homes. Not perfect homes, loved ones. Spaces where handmade things are valued, where a painting on the wall is chosen thoughtfully and lived beside for years. She talks about her work finding its place within an overall feeling of nurture and belonging, which is, we think, exactly what a home should feel like.
I envisage my work hanging in a well loved home, a place where there is care and appreciation for unique hand made things. If my painting can enhance a carefully arranged overall feeling of nurture and belonging, my work is complete
When she sees her work in a home that is cared for, she describes a sense of achievement and connection, pride that her painting has become part of a family’s private world. There’s something in that exchange, between maker and home, that we find quietly moving.
TOTEM ROAD
Shop 3 / 188 Oxford Street, Paddington,Sydney
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