From May, Kew Gardens is inviting you to fully indulge your sweet tooth without upsetting your dentist. Australian artist Tanya Schultz, who works as Pip & Pop, will be presenting her debut London exhibition at the on-site Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art. Using candy-coloured materials including sugar, modelling clay and sweets, Schultz creates eye-popping immersive installations that explore themes such as consumption, wish fulfilment and abundance.
‘As the impact of climate change weighs heavily on our future, I hope to create a new artwork that is optimistic and allows us to imagine a better world,’ Schultz says. ‘It will be a visual feast of colour and sweetness, enticing and appealing, yet with serious ideas beneath it.’