Emma Phillips — What I eat in a day

4 December, 2026 — 22 January, 2027

Emma Phillips, What I eat in a day, 2026

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Taking its title from the online genre of daily self-documentation, What I eat in a day considers the reduction of the everyday to an inventory of consumption. The photographs assume the posture of the snapshot, only to expose its candour as arrangement: faces recede, surfaces fray, landscapes bleach into dream, and the everyday, fetishised by the act of looking, begins to fall apart.

Following the solo exhibitions Too Much to Dream (2019) and This Time Last Year (How to Make a Picture) (2024), both at ReadingRoom, and the photobook Send Me a Lullaby (2021), commissioned by PHOTO Australia, these photographs extend a sustained attention to the domestic and the ordinary.

Thanks to Hillvale, ReadingRoom and Olivia Radonich.

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Emma Phillips (b. 1989, Sorrento, Australia) received a BA from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (2010) and an MFA from Hartford Art School, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (2017). She lives and works in Sorrento.

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Exhibition Opening

Friday 4 December, 2026
6—8pm