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For Del Kathryn Barton, the highly bankable Australian artist and two-time Archibald Prize winner, her best work comes from a state of flow that she compresses into the first three days of the week, starting at 6am on a Sunday.

“I’m a morning person from being a working mum, and if I can get to the studio by six, I don’t eat anything until 11, so I’m just absolutely buzzing on caffeine … and I’m just f—ing going for it,” she says of manic mornings in her Paddington studio in Sydney’s inner east.

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