Artist Frida Las Vegas Documents Australian Kitsch Culture in Photo Series

Big things and pink poodles: Frida Las Vegas’s tour of Australian kitsch – in pictures

Stavroula Adameitis, AKA Frida Las Vegas, is an Adelaide-based artist and designer known for her camp, pop art aesthetic. A typical work might feature palm trees, poodles, Greek pillars or bin chickens (Australian white ibises), sometimes all at once. Does it veer into kitsch? ‘I hope so,’ she says. ‘Nostalgia, colour and fun can be very energising, and the feeling we get from these objects in popular culture binds us together.’ The term kitsch comes from the German verkitschen, meaning ‘to c...

By Clare Press