MEET
THE ARTIST
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. Often ephemeral, her meticulously constructed and highly detailed works embrace notions of abundance, utopian dreams and fleeting pleasure.
A trained painter, color palette and color relationships are essential to Schultz’s work and are what first inspired her. Then, surfaces: glossy, shiny, sweet. Artificial surfaces that evoke that need “to eat or to buy”, as she describes it, started to interest her.
Pip & Pop began as a collaboration with fellow artist Nicole Andrijevic in 2007. After four years, Andrijevic left the partnership to pursue a different career. Since 2011, Tanya has worked solo with other friends and artists creating projects in many parts of the world. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from Edith Cowan University in 2003 and has since exhibited extensively throughout Australia and internationally with exhibitions in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, Germany, Netherlands, Mexico, the UAE, and the UK.
A trained painter, color palette and color relationships are essential to Schultz’s work and are what first inspired her. Then, surfaces: glossy, shiny, sweet. Artificial surfaces that evoke that need “to eat or to buy”, as she describes it, started to interest her.
Pip & Pop began as a collaboration with fellow artist Nicole Andrijevic in 2007. After four years, Andrijevic left the partnership to pursue a different career. Since 2011, Tanya has worked solo with other friends and artists creating projects in many parts of the world. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from Edith Cowan University in 2003 and has since exhibited extensively throughout Australia and internationally with exhibitions in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, Germany, Netherlands, Mexico, the UAE, and the UK.