Leo Costelloe, KITCHEN, 2025
Edition
“Hot dust fills your nostrils along with the smell of smoke, as you realise whatever was on the stove has caught fire.
The kitchen is ablaze.
Gently, and for the first time, she rises.
Without speaking, she fills a large pot with cold water and pours it directly onto the flames.
Steam erupts around her, and for a moment, it’s as if she’s vanished along with the fire.”
Leo Costelloe, Kitchen
Available in an edition of 20
Produced in collaboration with Dean’s Bottom and Book Works, London, 2025
Edition
“Hot dust fills your nostrils along with the smell of smoke, as you realise whatever was on the stove has caught fire.
The kitchen is ablaze.
Gently, and for the first time, she rises.
Without speaking, she fills a large pot with cold water and pours it directly onto the flames.
Steam erupts around her, and for a moment, it’s as if she’s vanished along with the fire.”
Leo Costelloe, Kitchen
The edition brings together the perfume, Kitchen, in a hand-adorned vessel, a Polaroid and signed copy of the artist’s book, all contained in a numbered, hand-stamped aluminium box.
- 50ml perfume in glass vessel with hand-crocheted fine silver sheath, hand-stamped sterling silver plaque, and aluminium cap with hand-crocheted fine silver frill
- Hand-stamped aluminium presentation box with screw closure, magnetised Allen key, and boiled wool interior lining
- Signed Polaroid in glassine envelope
- Signed copy of artist’s book
Available in an edition of 20
Produced in collaboration with Dean’s Bottom and Book Works, London, 2025
Leo Costelloe
Leo 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 and 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 objects’ presupposed meanings.
Costelloe has presented solo exhibitions at NEVEN (2024), Ridley Road Project Space (2022) and Kupfer (2023), and been featured in group exhibitions at CAIM, Slane Castle (2025); NADA New York (2025); Matt Carey-Williams (2024); Studio West Gallery (2024); Indigo + Madder, (2023); The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery (2023); and General Assembly (2023) amongst others. In 2020, they were awarded the Swarovski Scholar Award. Kitchen marks their first published writing and first time working with scent.