Sunshine of your love (Rise & Pine) by Samuel Tupou

Samuel Tupou’s two-part banner artwork features playful and energetic ‘Queensland’ motif-characters. The imagery in these banners is inspired by the 1967 Cream song ‘Sunshine of your love’. The work presents a dream sequence featuring a flock of hovering olive-backed sunbirds pollinating a field of juicy pineapples. The strong Queensland sun and subtropical air cultivates fleshy humanoid figures, which rise out of the rich productive soil, growing upwards on a journey towards the sun. Full of flavour and pulsating energy, the figures sprout pineapple heads and prepare for a night out on the town.

_{Photo: AJ Moller. Courtesy of the artist, Aria Property Group and Onespace.}