Australian artist Tanya Schultz works as Pip & Pop to create immersive installations and artworks from an eclectic range of materials including sugar, glitter, candy, plastic flowers, everyday craft materials and all sorts of objects she finds on her travels.
Her practice embodies both independent and collaborative processes across varying disciplines including installation, painting, wall-works and sculpture. Pip & Pop has exhibited her work throughout Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Germany, Netherlands and the UK.
Often ephemeral, her meticulously constructed and highly detailed works embrace notions of abundance, utopian dreams and fleeting pleasure. She is fascinated with ideas of paradise and wish-fulfillment described in folk tales, mythologies and cinema.
Pip & Pop’s works come from stories about paradise and imaginary worlds, and especially stories about lands made entirely of food as Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. She uses sugar as a creative medium for its visceral qualities of sweetness and satisfaction.
Interested in colour relationships – how colours react next to each other, her work seems to have gotten more and more intensely colourful over time – vibrant and fluorescent colours that are quite psychedelic.
Images courtesy of Tanya Schultz
Discover: www.pipandpop.com.au
