Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Pip & Pop's Sweet Installations

Tanya Schultz and Nicole Andrijevic, known in the art world as Pip & Pop, craft brightly colored, magical little utopias. They have exhibited all over the world, from Europe to Japan, and places in between, mesmerizing viewers as they go along.

Using just about anything they can get their hands on---from neon sugar, to fluorescent beads, glitter, and dollar-store toys---the Australian artistic duo create complex, eye-catching landscapes that contrast magnificently against drab gallery walls and floors. Looking at their installations, it feels as if you've entered a mythical candyland with marshmallow clouds and gumdrop roads.

They are realizations of every 4 year-old's dreams. I imagine this is what it'd probably would look like if Lisa Frank threw up.

Schultz and Andrijevic's installations invoke your inner child, inviting you to get down on your hands and knees and really explore them from every angle. There are all sorts of hidden surprises to be found in the installations, which sprawl across gallery floors or in are heaped in corners, like little islands.

Plastic forest creatures, fuzzy mushrooms, and tiny origami sculptures lurk behind sparkling mountains of sugar and clusters of silk flowers. The works almost make you wish you could scale yourself down so you could experience them more fully.

You can see more of Pip & Pop's magical worlds here: http://www.pipandpop.com.au/#