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POP ART PIONEER

FAR REMOVED FROM the world’s cultural metropolises, the tranquil Noosa Hinterland is not the first place you’d expect to meet one of the forefathers of Pop Art. But for British artist Peter Phillips, who rose to fame in the 1960s alongside Royal College of Art classmates David Hockney, Brett Whiteley and Allen Jones, planting roots and establishing a studio gallery here is just another chapter in a peripatetic life that has taken him to some of the world’s most beautiful places.

Underscored by a vibrant use of colour and iconography borrowed from everyday life, Phillips’s work has evolved continuously

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