we miss you magic land!

Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)

Saturday 26 November 2011 to Sunday 04 March 2012
Children’s Art Centre, Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) Perth-based artist duo Pip & Pop (Nicole Andrijevic and Tanya Schultz) will create an immersive and vibrant environment for children and families to explore in this major Children’s Art Centre installation as part of GoMA’s fifth anniversary celebrations.

Drawing on children’s stories, creation myths, Buddhist cosmologies, video games and folktales, Pip & Pop create large-scale fantasy worlds coloured with a bright, often fluorescent palette, using cake-decorating tools, intricate layers of sugar, glitter, modelling clay and mirrors.

Pathways and peepholes will lead visitors to different worlds: a magical forest filled with strange flowers, vines, mushrooms and animals; a cosmic universe condensed into a darkened room with twinkly stars; and a volcanic lake with crystals, mist and liquid pools are just some of the creations waiting to be discovered.

Sweet sweet galaxy (detail)
© All rights reserved Nicole Andrijevic and Tanya Schultz 2011 Australia
Installation view Smiths Row, Bury St. Edmunds, UK / Photograph: Douglas Attfield
Sweet sweet galaxy (detail)
© All rights reserved Nicole Andrijevic and Tanya Schultz 2011 Australia
Installation view Smiths Row, Bury St. Edmunds, UK / Photograph: Douglas Attfield