Cressida Campbell's 2009 work The kitchen shelf is a 4.2-metre-long watercolour on plywood which is an exact replica of the kitchen shelf in her Sydney home.
It perfectly encapsulates what people love about her work - extraordinary colours and detail, the ability to elevate the ordinary to the beautiful (a leek on display here; nasturtium flowers in a vase there), a sense of celebrating the domestic (the carefully curated display of ceramics and plants is just above the kitchen taps).
