Geoff Cunningham Art

Gossip Queen

Name: Gossip Queen
Brand: Geoff Cunningham Art
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$800.00 AUD

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Before streaming, before smartphones, before everyone had a screen in their pocket, there was the ultimate neighbourhood flex: having a colour TV.

'Gossip Queen' is inspired by a very specific 1977 memory - ABBA had landed in Australia, ABBA-mania was everywhere, and I remember piling into a neighbour’s lounge room with the other kids in the street to watch the ABBA concert movie because they had what we didn’t: a colour television.

This piece plays with that moment when pop music, rotary phones and teenage melodrama all felt wildly important. The girl is partly inspired by my sisters, who all loved ABBA and even made me play Benny on the piano in our lounge room pretend concerts because there were only three of them.

Painted in my hand-cut stencil and aerosol style, Gossip Queen is a playful nod to 1970s Australia - when phones had cords, TV had only two channels (in country NSW), and watching something in colour felt like the future had arrived.

40 x 40cm (43 x 43cm framed)
Acrylic & aerosol on canvas.
This piece is framed in a natural oak floating frame.

* This is a quieter variation on the Stencilchrome series, this work keeps the spirit of the oversized slide concept while presenting the image in a more pared-back framed format.

Is this an Original Artwork?

Yes. This is an original one-off artwork by Geoff Cunningham. I may create related pieces from the same stencil set, but each work is made unique through changes in colour, cropping, composition and narrative.

Is this artwork signed, framed and ready to hang?

Every piece is hand-signed on the front and features my distinctive stencil logo on the back, authenticating each work as an original. Most of my pieces are already framed. For most unframed works, you can add framing at checkout if desired.