Here's something made of a great deal of sugar, by artists Pip & Pop. It's part of their much larger installation, Sweet, Sweet Galaxy, covering the floorspace at Smiths Row, a contemporary arts space in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. I really liked this piece — looking at it I felt like Gulliver with the Lilliputians, a giant looking onto an unknown tiny world. And I could feast my eyes on its sugary delicacy, but with an uneasy awareness of my giant stature. At the same time I was one of the Lilliputians, imagining myself down there, hiding under a rainbow bulge, a little inhabitant of this saccharine landscape. So not an entirely comfortable experience. This tension created by the artists — My Little Pony territory tripped up by its own oddness each time you started to look more closely — really worked. Interestingly the two artists, Tanya Schultz and Nicole Andrijevic who work collaboratively as Pip & Pop, are Australians. As I was in Bury St Edmunds with my sister Berenice, who went from there to live in Australia as a fifteen-year-old, this felt like the joining of a circle.
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