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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Brigid Delaney

‘I wouldn’t sell for all the money in the world’: a head-turning work of floral nihilism

Kathleen Olive with the 'flower bombs' sculpture by her brother-in-law artist Keiran Gordon.
‘It’s not like anything else’: Kathleen Olive with the ‘flower bombs’ sculpture by her brother-in-law artist Keiran Gordon. Photograph: Nikki To/The Guardian

Kathleen Olive calls the work “flower bombs”, but her brother-in-law artist Keiran Gordon knows them by another name. “He calls them ‘floral nihilism’.”

Gordon started his art career studying sculpture but now creates 3D paintings using unusual materials such as hand sanitiser gel and highlighter ink.

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