Artwork by collage artist Pia Blair
Artwork by Pia Blair. Photo by Armelle Habib, Styling Julia Green and Lucy Fenton, shot on location at the very beautiful Fenton & Fenton!
Various artworks by Pia Blair
Melbourne stylist / creative agent Julia Green is always feeding me excellent new finds, and these fabulous artworks by Pia Blair are another of her discoveries! (Thanks for the tip off Julia!).
Pia Blair is a Melbourne girl, but has been living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for three years. She creates these original screenprinted and collaged works on paper with unexpected imagery and kooky little sayings to make you chuckle! She loves nothing more than riding around her colourful city on her motorbike, fossicking for vintage papery goodness from days gone by. If Pia comes across anything kitsch, especially images of miniature dogs, men wrestling in 1970′s footy shorts, ladies strutting in 1950′s get up, catalogues of modernist domestic furniture and appliances, or an image of Queen Lizzie, she simply must have it!
Originally from country Victoria, Pia spent a great deal of time trawling through her Grandmothers pile of sewing patterns, admiring 50’s style wall paper, and eating ‘snags’ in bread at the local footy club. These childhood experiences, combined with her recent years in Vietnam, have defined the quirky, nostalgic aesthetic of her work. By combining treasured vintage ephemera with hand screen printing, spray painted stencils, stickers and Japanese washi tape, Pia gives each work it’s own unique narrative.
Pia creates these works under the name Little Land of Pia. She’s currently working on creating a range of soft furnishings under the same label – watch this space! And do check out Pia’s blog and facebook page for more images of her work and updates on her homewares range!
Pia’s artworks are currently stocked at Fenton & Fenton, Husk and Hut 13 in Melbourne, Mood and Green Tangerine in Queensland, and a number of other boutiques listed here (nothing in Sydney yet it seems?).
Potential stockists and buyers can also get in touch with Julia Green of Greenhouse Interiors, who is handling Pia’s Australian sales and distribution.
TODAY you guys have the rather amazing opportunity to win an original Pia Blair work on paper! The lucky winner will have the opportunity to collaborate with Pia via email, and select their own theme / colour palette for a unique new collage, created especially for them. AMAZING!
*UPDATE: Congratulations to our lucky winner Rosa (comment #16), you will be collaborating with Pia on your very own custom made collage! We look forward to seeing the final piece! Thank you to everyone who left a comment and also to Pia for this very generous giveaway!
To be in the running, simply leave your comment on today’s post, before 10.00pm today, Monday May 14th Melbourne time. One winner will be selected at random and contacted by email tomorrow.
Massive thanks to both Pia and Julia for this lovely giveaway!
Artwork above bed by Pia Blair. Photo by Armelle Habib, Styling Julia Green and Lucy Fenton, shot on location at Fenton & Fenton
These are amazing! I would love one!
what a fantastic giveaway. how amazing this would look in our home.
What unique , wonderful art by Pia. It would be a dream come true to win this amazing prize. Cant wait to see her range of soft furnishings in the future. Keeping everything crossed ,that it just might be my lucky day ,and this collage would be the feature of a beautiful room in our family home.
So gorgeous! Love the pink ones.
Quirky, colourful and interesting! Just like my beautiful friend Pia. Congratulations on your recent works Pip. The photography and imagery look incredible. Yay!
So quirky and pretty. Would definitely love one.
These are exactly what I was admiring on the block last night. The perfect piece for my office
Wonderful works of art that would make any dull wall pop.
A personalised piece by a great artist? Count me in! What a great giveaway! My fingers are firmly crossed!
I have to say collage is one of my most favored techniques! These works are amazing – I love them!
Oh my gosh, they are so cute and unique… I would love this to be the first piece of art I hang from my walls.
That’s an amazing opportunity! The work is so engaging, you could stare at each one for hours and hours. And bespoke? Swoon.
I’ve not heard of Pia before…her work is amazing, just love all the eclectic pieces Pia finds.
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Great works! I paint and love to work with mixed media as well. Would love to have one of Pia’s works for my own art collection. thanks for sharing this post.
Love. Love, Love Pia’s work! Would be so thrilled to work with her! Thanks for sharing her work.
Wowee! Is this love at first sight? I think so! Particularly attracted to those pink toned works – *stunning*
There is a space above my bed and the wall looks rather bare,
I’ve left it blank for years, nothing has been good enough to share.
Pia’s work looks amazing, fun, quirky and divine,
I would love to be chosen, so I can make it mine!
I’d rather fancy a smattering of pia’s loveliness on my naked walls… The perfect winter warmer. Pretty please!
Unusual, colourful, interesting, would love one for my wall, just beside my bed. good job Pia.
Ooh! How exciting! I would love to talk palettes and themes with Pia!
Wow! What interesting work! Love
Thoroughly fabulous! Any wall would be glad for a splash of Pia colour.
Great fun design and style. I will keep an eye on this ‘lass and look forward to seeing her work on my walls in the near future. TDF only you can make it happen ! Good work , and cant wait to see more….
Pia’s work is amazing. I would love some of that colour and quirkiness in my home!
Such original work! I love the piece styled with the Penguin books and Juju hat!! Awesomeness!
So refreshing royal and quirky.
Seriously gorgeous and unique pieces of art. Love! xx
Amazing artworks.. The vintage vietnam cross the quirky australian….Beautiful stuff.
Pia’s artworks are amazing! I’d be thrilled to win! Thank you xo
This sounds excellent!
i love collage art. these are great.
Love the vibrancy, colour, uniqueness – we are building an new house so art work would be wonderful!!! Fingers crossed..
What a wonderful prize this would be…
These are Devine!
crossing fingers & toes.
thanks for the chance to win.
Pias work is so in tune with my decor that I must
have one of her pieces
Love it!
Amazing work! Love the colors and fabulously kitsch images
so fun and quirky – love it!
Yes please
Fantastic work, would love the chance to have one of her pieces!
These one of pieces by Pia would make a lovely wedding gift.
These one off pieces by Pia would make a lovely wedding gift.
Beautiful work, gorgeous colours and each unique – fingers crossed, I would love one!
Absolutely Divine – oh how I would love to win.
Kinda amazing! Fabulous colours and imagry
She has a wonderful way with colour, fingers crossed!
Far better than my collages, absolutely amazing!
Oh my what beautiful works of art and a lovely gesture to customise the giveaway:)))
lovely work! i am obsessed with collage and mixed media!!!!
Awesome! I’ve been wanting something cool and retro and bathroom themed to hang above our bath… this might be just the ticket!
Fabulous work…keep going Pia!
Wonderfully executed work – would look great on my wall !
Love them! Would love to dress up my bare walls with one of these beauties!
Would love one above my bed. Would make me smile x
These are so fun, love them!
So striking, beautiful and delicate art with great pops of colour, LOVE.
Love my dose of TDF with my morning cup of tea. Such gorgeous pieces of work. Pick me!
How divine!
I hope one day to make one mine :)
Would love Pia’s masterpiece, and working with her to develop one of my own would be a dream.
Swoon! Such beautiful pieces…
This post made my morning – Printed out and front and centre on my inspiration board… I would love to swap my dodgy print outs for the real deal…Please pick me!
Pia is one talented lady! One of her pieces would look amazing on my wall, where I could just keep gazing at it all day and discovering more and more hidden detail every time I look at it… Sigh.
Pia’s work is gorgeous! I would love one…
Gorgeous work, loving collage at the moment!
Love Pia’s keen eye for colour! And it’s lovely to see how her roots have influenced and inspired her work :)
how unique. love it! fabulous to see something so original. j.
Fabulous stuff! Would look perfect on my living room wall!
LOVE
Piano and adore her work! ;-)
How special, I would love to have one!
Just gorgeous!! Would compliment my bedroom perfectly, I have been looking for artwork for a while and this is just stunning!
Wow , Lucy , you have outdone yourself this time with this giveaway. Lets hope the gods are looking favourably down on mw for this one!
Fun,colourful,playful & creative! What wonderful pieces.so inspiring!
Refreshing and quirky. I love the eclectic use of symbols and colours in Pia’s work. Stunning Australian artwork.
Love the colours and they are just so unique and quirky!
Hard edged whimsical. I really love them.
Thanks so much for this opportunity! Collage is only very new to me. I’m not an artist but I have become a huge collage fan. I even started doing my own collage cards. The works you’ve shown are just divine and very inspirational!
Wow! So many comments already! (Not surprised in the slightest)
It is so lovely to see the old art & craft of collage re-emerge and especially notice someone else love for old simplicity and vogue patterns – these illustrations have amazed me since I was a kid. Beautiful work Pia – will certainly make a purchase in the future – although it’d be a treasure to collaborate with you. Great post guys. x
What gorgeous pieces!
Wow, they would make a beautiful gift for a special occasion .
Love the artworks by Pia – fabulous combinations of colours and images! Would love to have one in my home!
So pretty. Have been admiring this artist in F&F…so clever. Loving the chance to win such a beautiful piece of art.
thank you for introducing me to Pia Blair, how beautiful
Colours are just beautiful and would liven up any room, yes please!
very, very nice!!
Unique and Stunning pieces – what a joy to view.
What treasure pieces! One of these would definitely brighten up my stark white apartment walls! love.
How gorgeous are they? Wish I was as clever as that! Love the story behind them and always a fan of a bit of royal action so love how that has been incorporated into Pia’s works. Fingers and toes crossed.
Anything a little bit quirky, different and original i love! I would love a Pia Blair piece, if only to discover ‘my style’ – im so many different things!
Absolutely brilliant – so creative and inspiring. LOVE to have one for my own space.
Beautiful pieces with a definite ‘wow’ factor.
My house is so neutral … a pop of COLOUR would be great!
Very cool, love anything bright!
Beautiful work!
your collages are so sweet, love your work.
Love a good collage!
Such amazing colours!! I love these designs, they’re so interestingly quirky!
Pia’s works are amazing- so beautiful! I would absolutely love a piece for my room – in the process of redecorating now and this is just what i’m looking for. I love the collage style and bright colours. just lovely!
Love the vintage illustration pieces!
Pia’s work is both beautiful and fun. I would love one of her collages above my fireplace in my bedroom!
Just gorgeous and so original. Love it!
Lovely, fantastic style, would love to have one hanging in my house!…
What gorgeous work! Love the colours.
stunning!… what a fab find! am loving this style. Design Files the one stop shop for all things fabulous!!!
Beautiful collages … and what a great giveaway!
OMG, how divine! I’m about to move house and my new walls would certainly appreciate one of these beauties! What a treat that would be!
What beautiful, original and eclectic pieces – they would brighten up any dull wall!
I can’t believe no-one in Sydney is stocking Pia’s work… Not for long I’m sure!
Oooh – this sounds like such an exciting opportunity! We may be moving house very soon and it’d be awesome to be able to have something new and custom-designed for our walls!
amazing pieces! love! x
colourpop! i love colourpop! seems we are birds of a feather! artpop joy!
Oh I would love to win. Such cute work.
It’s my birthday, and I’d love such a unique piece of art. Very special indeed!
Pia Blair rocks!!
I love the combination of found objects unified by colour and typeface. Little Land of Pia seemingly works in a kitsch genre but her skill manages to lift the work out of high-street mainstream. The collage form gets such a lift from her cross cultural – and cross vintage – source material.
Such creativity – her passion leaps from the canvas. Would love to harness it!
I simply adore Pia’s work. I’d be honoured to showcase one in my home. x
OMG – I’d be crazy for a creative collage collaboration !
This would be VERY special
Quite lovely!
Pia’s work is beautiful. My 18 year old daughter also loves it. This is a very generous giveaway…Love you blog, I look forward to reading it every day….x
OBSSSEEESSED with Pia’s art! x
Pia’s work is just lovely – she has managed to combine my obsession with illustrations, nostalgic icons and colour. A true testament to a bygone area yet keeping it modern. Perfect for my new lonesome walls.
Wow! What a great giveaway! I love mixed media art and have spent so much time in Ho Chi Minh City myself! What an inspiring place for Pia to grow in her artform!
Ooooo ahhhhh! Yes please!
Love your pieces, I want one BAD!!!
Really quirky… would love one!
Wow! How colourful and quirky. Would love one!
Pia is so very creative. I love her use of old time memorabilia to create a fresh looking piece of art.
bright and colourful…gorgeous!!
Lovely!
These are really cool…The chance to collaborate with Pia would be awesome!
Love her beautiful work!
Perfectly put together! Nice work Pia. Would LOVE one in my bedroom x
Imagine a personalized piece made be Pia just for ME – my wall and ME would both be ecstatic. Pia’s work is superb!!!
so very cool! i wish i had such collage skills :)
I would feel incredibly lucky if one of Pia’s gorgeous artworks came to live with us!!
Pia’s works are absolutely gorgeous! So vibrant and inspiring.
So so pretty!!
These are very cool artworks, not quite like anything I’ve seen. Love a bit of nostalgia and Royal kitsch!
Oh goodness I hope I am lucky enough to win – Pia’s work is amazing!
So fresh and unique! Absolutely love Pia Blair’s work. I would love something of hers in my home!
just so, so pretty, i’d love to win.
Thanks Design Files for your great blog
& congratulations Pia on being spotted by The Design Files!
Love your work, would absolutely love to own one of these unique pieces.
Totally delicious! Thanks Lucy for another inspiring and uplifting piece. Would totally love a bit of Pia magic on my walls. Smashing – thanks also to Pia’s total generosity. What a champ. x
too cool for school!!
Hello!
These are absolutely BEAUTIFUL! I’d love to adorn my walls with her beautiful work.
Cheers xx
Haiku for Pia
Pia, paper girl
Want on on my wall. Ripper.
You collage, i don’t.
Amazing works! Love finding new and exciting people & pieces :)
So inspirational!
Love a collage – possibly my favourite media! thanks TDF!
absolutely gorgeous!!
Love Pia’s work. Would love to own one even more!! x
Totally uplifting, just divine!
Pia’s amazing collages would look fantastic in my home!
Beautiful!
Being a Melbourne born, Hong Kong resident for 6 yrs and now living back in Melbourne I can totally apprecite Pia’s perspective – East meets west in a quirky cool narrative. Vibrant and fun, colourful undertones. Pia your work makes me smile!
Collaborating with Pia to create art to showcase my different loves and passions gets me excited!
A mood board, collagey piece of art would breathe life, add glamour, humour and unreal colour to my living space.
I look forward to making my own littlelandofNikita piece
Who wouldn’t want to win this!!!!!!! Pia’s work is amazing!
What an amazing prize! So many gorgeous collages on her website, would love to have one of my own.
Quite simply, yes please.
Collage is not only beautiful art but also such a wonderful way to tell a story!
A visual feast for the mind.
Love Pias work.
Beautiful, beautiful – what a lovely prize!
Have seen her work at Crate Expectations, Malvern. It’s gorgeous.
lovely..but its the snags at the local footy that I relate too…
Amazing. Love the colours and the quirky humour. Great stuff.
Gosh, I would love to win one! xx
I could look at Pia’s collages all day – there’s so much to see!
Oo I love. One of these would finish off my new loungeroom! Fingers crossed. Thanks for the opportunity.
I so want one. This is amazing
Pia your work is fantastic, another great find by TDF
Oh WOW!!! What an ecletic mix of images!! Very Cool and YES I would LOVE one!!
Fresh, pretty and intriguing, I love this artist’s work and would love to have this piece adorning my wall.
I just love love love…what an amazing giveaway – I would be honoured to hang one of thes amazing works of art on my wall
Yes please. Fingers crossed. x
Love Pia’s style – really great mix of medias. Great feature Lucy!
Cool!!
I’m so happy that you featured Pia’s work, as I hadn’t seen it before and I just love it! It’s so refreshing to see someone with a point of difference in the extensive world of mixed media art. I love how fresh her work looks as well as the beautifully composed colour schemes & fun imagery. Thank-you so much for sharing these would certainly brighten a home. xxx
I love Pia’s exploration of prints, themes and colours. Vibrant and inspiring. Makes me hungry to get home and get out my paints! A very refreshing and fun style. Love it. PS Very jealous of Pia’s home in Ho Chi Minh, plan on living in Vietnam one day too!
So pretty! Love the kooky nostalgia of these collages… such an awesome giveaway!
Ahh oh my golly goodness these are the most beautiful little creations I have ever seen. I can just imagine having a gorgeous one hanging over my bed. All of my friends would be uber jealous!
LOVE the modern look Pia has created with vintage images. Stunning! <3
Love, Love, Love
Have just bookmarked Pia’s blog.
Love her work! She has amazing style and fantastic taste. Divine!
Love this work so much! Inspiring and would be so perfect for my bedroom which i’m renovating at the moment. Was looking to buy something similar to this.
Love your blog too! :)
Love it!!! love it!!! love it!!! I want to win I want to win I want to win I want to win I want to win I want to win I want to win I want to win I want to win I want to win I want to win I want to win I want to win …. I want one I want one I want one I want one I want one I want one hahahaha Amazing style Pia…inspiring
Divine! Yes please.
My bare walls are crying out LOUD for one of these!
Ohh lady luck come decorate my bare walls
These are incredible, what a talent! Love
Sending you all ooooodles of thank you’s and love from Nam. I am one happy lass in one happy littleland right now! Seriously, you guys are making me blush! Loving Lucy and the Design files team, Julia Green, Armelle, Fenton and Fenton and Emma Cleine too much right now it physically hurts ;-) Suck in some Aussie goodness for me lovely one’s, I look forward to making one of you adorable peeps a piece of littlelandofpia cut and paste goodness xx
Beautiful!
What beautiful and clever work. Looking forward to the homewares range.
PIA PIA please pick ME -Ahhh
Yes please!
I just love the melding and meshing of cultures,colours,vintage and unique perspectives – its a sensory explosion for the mind and the soul – a narrative I could read again and again each time I looked at one of your works – I think if I were to be lucky enough to win -I would love to collaborate working on a soothing green themed collage. Thanks for a brilliant giveaway.
yay. colour. more yay.
To win an original Pia Blair collage art piece would be the perfect way to cure my Mondayitis! How could anyone be gloomy with such a unique & colourful piece of art!
If you pick me, the requested theme will be: Homage to Ron Barron. “I may look like Jesus, but I can’t perform his bloody miracles.” Layne Pearce will be in the corner questioning the meaning of life with paper mâché, and Mel Rumble will be contaminating the cyan paint pot with fat dabs of magenta. Meanwhile, we will all be getting silently poisoned from Bree Simmons’ fixative spray.
Woot! Love these…clever girl.
What a clever young lady is Pia – love the colours, detail and quirkiness. Great post Lucy and yes, of course I would love one of Pia’s pieces, you’d be mad not too. Fingers crossed.
Hmmm, is there a 12 step program for people addicted to TDF?? Loving these collages- what a great antidote to Monday-itis!
These are absolutely gorgeous and would look great on my wall!:)
Amazed!
oooh! love… who knew collage could be so cool?
Gorgeous works! Would love one!
Had to drop into Fenton & Fenton today to have a look-beautiful art!
The collages look great! I love a good splash of colour!
Littlelandofpia is beautiful. Her work exudes an excitement for life and the joys in everyday banter. I would be honored to be one of the first people to hang this on my wall!
oh wow! it would be amazing to hang one of pia’s works on my wall!
How exciting! Please count me in the running.
Absolutely one of the greatest pieces! I want to get them so badly!
What a great idea! Personalised collage, like having my very own scrap booker.
Love it!!
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What great stuff… thanks for sharing.
I love the mix of typography, pop of colour and vintage images. These would certainly make a room and a custom piece of art would be greatly treasured !
Such interesting works! I love the vietnamese influence.
Wow the colours and images Pia uses would make any wall look good! The chance to win a custom one, very exciting!!!!
oh yes please!
These are incredible and beautiful! I love it!! What an amazing, talented woman. I would love love love this in my house xxx
I am Art MAD at the moment – I love an oriental inpsired anything – I hope I get to work with her – love it xxoo kylie
Mmmm, yep!
Amazing talent, I would dearly love one of my very own. It makes happy happen!
Love love love. So talented and unique.
Through your collage, you show delicate images of old and new, quirky, fun and resilient too . . . love the words and they speak to me, to have an original would be an honour and a gift to show to the world. Well done Pia for your creativity.
love the modernist domestic appliances and furniture! thanks for the amazing collages :)
so colourful and quirky, gorgeous
Love!
Looking forward to seeing what Pia will create next.
What a kooky and sweet world! I love Pia’s creations and these rooms are styled beautifully.
I have the perfect spot picked for Pia’s artwork. Fingers crossed :)
What a super talented lady. Would love the opportunity to have her custom make me a unique piece. Thankyou.
I’ve always been a collage girl from childhood – love them
Pia’s collages are so interesting. Once your eye catches the artwork, you spend the next few moments working your way around the piece. What a journey! Beautiful work.
very nice, would look great on my wall : )
Wow!!! I have the perfect spot in my house to put this up!!! hint, hint!!
Beautiful work! Good find Lucy!
Gorgeous! How talented!
Pia for Mia please
What a lovely balance between delicate shapes and bold colours. These collages would suit any home but would look absolutely lovely in mine!
Very Interesting.
Cathy
Love them! Blue themed for me…would look fantastic as a headboard for my funky bed.
So many ideas for themes!
oooo… fingers crossed! Pick me!!! My brain is running wild with ideas already!
Love it lots…..very creative and artistic.
These are great! I love that Husk sells these.
The concept appears so simple and the result is an absolute masterpiece! So inspiring :D
Love the Lizzies !
Yes please~!!!
WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO BOOM SHACK A BOOM!!!!!!!!!!
Love the styling!
I love the choice of colours and images.
Lovely aesthetic!
I haver three girls and there is something quite whimsical about Pia’s work that it would be perfect now but also perfect in 10 years time – very timeless
Love the works….would look great in my room!
love, love, love, love – LOVE!
you must get a distributoe in Sydney – love the work! xx
They are so beautiful, a riot of happiness! The choice would not be easy!
Such gorgeous collages!
This is seriously the best giveaway! Wow.
TDF and friends pushing the design boundaries again, lovely work! kx
Amazing artwork, so bright and cheerful. Love TDF for uncovering unique and original artists.
Absolutely stunning works! I can’t believe I have never stumbled upon Pia’s work despite visiting Hut 13 & Husk often. Love it!
they are all so amazing!!!
Love the unexpected element in these works – and the humour! … Not to mention being so divine to look at…..
Would love one of Pia’s collage artworks to give my sister in law as a wedding gift…or maybe I wouldn’t be able to part with it!
I admired one of her works in Husk on my last visit to Melbourne… And have been thinking of it ever since! What perfect timing! Would love the chance to have one of these amazing creations in my life! Thank you Design Files
Its a beautiful little land you live in Pia xxxxx
Amazing giveaway – love that you get to collaborate with Pia!
I love her quirky combination of images. Gorgeous!
Love these collages. Nostalgic images that sing.
Cool, colourful and quirky. Would love to brighten up ‘my space’ at home with collages!
Yes please!!
Did I make it in time?
9:59, yessss! :D
Great giveaway. The art looks awesome. Count me in.
Pia’s collages are awe-inspiring!!!!!
hi,
That is great! please continue share the such kinds of information!
Thanks
so very cool and colorful!
so quirky… would love the chance to win one!
OMG, Ms Blair!!! We’re so proud to call you our teacher!! They’re absolutely amazing!!!
ooh theyre really lovely, would love one!
The coolest and quirkiest artwork I’ve seen since
Sliced bread!! :) amazing
A Pia piece of art would look wonderful on a wall of my daughter’s newly renovated home.