Pop Goes the Weirdo

Overview

It's the creative breakthrough that had to happen — and it did, six decades ago. The more that popular culture started to surround artists via advertising, television and comic books, the more that they worked it into their pieces. Yes, that's how pop art was born.

These days, we live in post-pop art times; however you just can't take the 'pop' out of modern society. You can interrogate, subvert, examine and reconstruct it, though. In fact, that's what group exhibition Pop Goes the Weirdo is all about.

Sydney's Simon Lovelace and SKEL have joined forces with Brisbane's Clay Smith and Tiffany Atkin to bring highbrow thinking to their range of lowbrow works. Whether manipulating previously 'innocent' images and characters, mashing up well-known imagery to get to the heart of the human condition, giving poster art a surrealist edge or challenging the boundaries of femininity, their two-week show is much, much more than a collection of paintings of soup cans.

Images: via Tiffany Atkin.