A little weird, well placed
Philippe Le Miere 'study for after jean pablo michel basquiat picasso heads'
Your home isn’t a gallery. And it certainly isn’t a showroom. It’s a place where taste, memory, humour and habit collide - which is precisely why a bit of weird, via art, belongs.
The most distinctive interiors aren’t perfectly resolved. They’re personal. They reveal a mind at work. Art that carries a note of strangeness — a merman and woman drifting through Sidney Nolan’s imagination, Reg Mombassa’s gloriously unhinged Australian robot, or Nicola Hooper’s victorious Merbaby — resists being reduced to decoration. It asks you to look twice. It stays interesting.
Sidney Nolan 'Merman and Woman'
These works don’t smooth a space; they give it texture. George Baldessin’s Night Personages introduces a theatrical dreaminess. Philippe Le Miere’s riff on Basquiat and Picasso brings swagger and collision.
Michael Leunig 'Untitled (Branches)'
Michael Leunig’s quiet branches offer an offbeat calm that’s more felt than explained. Even tenderness can be strange: Paul Compton’s Lovers / Weavers holds intimacy in a way that’s gently unexpected.
Paul Compton 'Lovers / Weavers'
A home with character isn’t about adding novelty for its own sake. It’s about choosing art that reflects curiosity, humour, and a willingness to live with ideas - not just surfaces. These are the works that become anchors over time. Conversation starters. Companions.
George Baldessin 'Night Personages'
A little weird doesn’t make a home chaotic. Chosen well, it makes it unmistakably yours.
Reg Mombassa 'Australian Robot with Projectile Vomit, Cottage and Football'
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