Pop art is having a moment again — and frankly, it’s about time. After a long stretch where everyone’s lounge room looked like a beige Pinterest board with a single dried pampas grass stem in a clay vase, Aussie walls are getting loud again. Hot pink. Acid yellow. Comic-strip Ben-Day dots. Soup cans. Crowns. Repeated… Continue reading The Pop-Art Revival: Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein and the Return of Bold Iconography to Australian Walls
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From Spray Can to Sofa: How Street Art Took Over Australian Living Rooms
Twenty years ago, if you told a Mosman interior designer you wanted a Banksy print above the Chesterfield, you’d have copped a polite cough and a brochure for a moody landscape. Today that same client is fighting their adult kids for the bigger canvas. Street art — once the scrappy cousin of the art world,… Continue reading From Spray Can to Sofa: How Street Art Took Over Australian Living Rooms