Australian artist Tanya Schultz works as creates immersive installations and artworks from an eclectic range of materials including sugar, glitter, candy, plastic flowers, everyday craft materials and all sorts of objects she finds on her travels.

Often ephemeral, her meticulously constructed and highly detailed works embrace notions of abundance, utopian dreams and fleeting pleasure. She is fascinated with ideas of paradise and wish-fulfillment described in folk tales, mythologies and cinema. In my project, it embraces a similar idea of plastics as a “material utopia”.

The bright colours and cheery vibes of the installations is something I hope to be able to emulate in my works.