The very nice Ken Done: ‘I’ll never be as good as a five-year-old’

The Australian artist’s relationship with Sydney only deepened during lockdown. He hopes his Vivid festival debut will remind the city how to playGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastKen Done has been alive to sensory details for as long as he can recall. As a boy, the artist spent a large part in Maclean, a small fishing town in New South Wales’s Clarence Valley. There, he pored over encyclopaedias, hypnotised by pictures of butterflies. He listened t