Suburban Musings and Other Curious Finds is a series of drawings exploring an idiosyncratic suburbia and, by extension, the spatio-temporal qualities of cultural artifacts in a modern Australian context. The works are a response to adopting the role of a flâneur in mostly suburban spaces and using the philosophies of psychogeography as a lense through which to celebrate the banal and the ruptures that occur within it.

Each drawing negotiates an element of humour when navigating the everyday by presenting an imagined narrative, derivative of its significance occupying a given mundane setting, and a visual punch line.

The drawings are excerpts from the artists’ visual journal, itself serving as an authentic voyeuristic tool of documentation and reconnaissance, while the use of materials such as texta, pen and white-out further highlight and draw on implications of accessibility and banality reflected in the subject matter.

A number of works are double sided and suspended in the space, revealing slight traces of the opposite drawing through the paper. Patchy bleeding and faint suggestions of line nod to connotations of memory and permeation within the ephemeral and perennial suburban landscape.

Pip Lewi is an emerging artist from Perth, Western Australia currently working on Whadjuk Noongar land. She is interested in capturing the essence of ‘the everyday’ within the mediums of painting and drawing. Her work aims to explore how culture and identity relate to place through reconnaissance of suburbia and using motifs and symbols to channel a realised middle-class Australian aesthetic.