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1. MIRANDA SKOCZEK I have an Insta love affair with Miranda and
   the way her opulent, vibrant colour and gestural sensuality invoke home
   and joyful, spirited living [Skoczek ’s artwork Gathering and Assembling
   is pictured]. 2. KEN DONE POSTER This was created on-site at the
   inaugural 2016 Soul Safari event in Sydney. A total original from a total
   icon. 3. SKARFE Located in Sydney’s Potts Point, this is part-art gallery,
   part-dream destination. I love their work with artists on limited editions,
   such as this Wallpaper scarf artwork by New York-based Jess Johnson.


2. ARTISTS’ STUDIOS I visit artists’ studios and spaces more than
   galleries. Next on my list is a trip to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
   [in Santa Fe, New Mexico]. 5. CAFÉ SABARSKY This classicist
   dream, tucked into the Neue Galerie in New York, is exquisitely
   outfitted with period pieces. A slice of sachertorte is inspiration
   enough to visit. 6. MEXICO CITY Its bracing modernity and bold,
   beautifully brutal traditional arts and culture make it, for me, the
   world’s most exciting art destination. I go to Frida Kahlo’s studio
   every time I visit, to see her watercolour palette set just as she left it.


3. POP ART It was one of my first loves. I’m a fan of the graphic,
   colour-infused work of artist, nun and civil rights, anti-war activist
   Sister Corita Kent [her 1963 artwork Manifest as Language is pictured].


4. KENYA PETERSEN This 16-year-old Sydney sculptor’s simple,
   sophisticated forms [such as Wire Sculpture: Navy, pictured] belie
   her age. 9. OUTSIDER ART I am a big fan of outsider art; work by
   self-taught artists. Leonard Knight’s epic Salvation Mountain, an
   exuberant adobe-covered monument to love and spirituality in the heat
   of the Colorado Desert, is incredibly moving. 10. ART BOOKS My
   current obsession is The Decisive Moment by humanist photographer
   Henri Cartier-Bresson [published by Steidl]. Groundbreaking on its
   release in 1952, it still inspires photographers. VL Visit soulsafari.com.

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PHOTOGRAPHER: JASON BUSCH (PORTRAIT). COURTESY EDWINA CORLETTE GALLERY (MIRANDA SKOCZEK), COURTESY GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM (ARTISTS’ STUDIOS), COURTESY THE CORITA ART CENTER, IMMACULATE HEART COMMUNITY, LOS ANGELES (SISTER CORITA KENT)

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