6 Snacky Aussie Artists We Love: Lollies, Bikkies and Fairy Bread Art

Ask any Australian about the lolly bag from a childhood birthday party and watch their face go soft. The snakes, the cola bottles, the one banana lolly nobody wanted. Fairy bread on a paper plate. Snacks are memories, and some clever local artists have turned them into things you can hang on the wall, pin to a jacket or wear on your ears.

Here are six of them. None of these are paid spots; we simply love their work. After the artists you'll find tips for hanging snack art in a kitchen, a nostalgic gift idea and a few bits from our own sweet treat gifts shelf.

Six snacky artists and makers we love

Jacklyn Foster Art: lollies and bikkies, painted with love

Jacklyn Foster is an Australian artist who makes art for your home, and her kitchen still lifes are the sort of thing you stare at while the kettle boils. Our favourite is her Lollies print: a scattering of classic party lollies in bright, cheerful colour. In her words, "hopefully these lil lollies bring back a lot of happy memories". They did for us, instantly.

There are single lolly studies too (snakes, gummy bears, pineapples, mint leaves), and her Biscuits and Cookies collection is, in her words, "a love letter to bikkies": jam-filled centres, teddy biscuits, wafer sticks and "the neon-pink stripe of marshmallow and coconut". Prints come on fine art paper, unframed and rolled, from A5 up to A1.

Elisha McGuckin: glossy pop art lollies from WA

Elisha McGuckin is a pop artist from Binningup in the South West of Western Australia, practically our neighbour. She paints glossy, very bright acrylic still lifes of everyday things, and her "Sweet Candy Retro Love Pop" collection was shown at the ALCOA Mandurah Art Gallery in 2024.

If an original painting isn't on the cards, her artist tea towels are a lovely way in. Designs include Sweet Icons, Kitchen Staples and Bananas, printed on certified organic cotton with water-based inks. Almost too nice to dry the dishes with. Almost.

Saturday Lollipop: tiny food you can wear

Saturday Lollipop is Melbourne maker Ellie McAlpine, who hand sculpts miniature food jewellery from polymer clay "from fairy bread to paddle pops, pizza to pineapples". Her new pieces include crumpet dangles, custard tart earrings, jelly slice dangles, blueberry muffin dangles and a lolly jar necklace. The detail is ridiculous, in the best way.

Hyper Finch: Australian birds having a snack

Hyper Finch is a wife and husband team in the Greater Hume Shire, New South Wales, started by Rhiannon Hall in 2018. Their Birdy Brunch collection shows Australian birds tucking into the snacks they grew up with. Start with the Finch Fairy Bread Fiesta (two Gouldian finches and their fairy bread), then Lorikeet Lamington Lunch and Penguin Pavlova Party. Each pin is hand wrapped in tissue paper, and as the listing helpfully points out: "Brunch not included."

Suki McMaster: an Aussie snack notepad for your desk

Suki McMaster is a Melbourne designer and illustrator with a stall at South Melbourne Market. Snack fans should look at the Land Down Under Aussie Snack Notepad, an A5 pad of 50 pages illustrated with her friend Beck Ng from Fabric Drawer and printed in Australia. Her Aussie Snacks sticker sheet has a hand drawn, waterproof "Australia Foodies" design.

Laura Hamzic: a year of Aussie produce

Laura Hamzic is a Brisbane-based artist who grew up on a farm in country Queensland. Her Postmarked Australia paintings celebrate produce from each state and territory, from Queensland bananas to Tasmanian apples. Twelve feature in her Postmarked Australia 2027 calendar, an A4 calendar with fun Aussie holidays sprinkled through, with artworks designed to be framed once the year is done.

How to hang snack art in a kitchen

• Mind the steam. Keep prints away from the kettle, toaster and stove. A wall near the dining table is safer.
• Frame it behind glass or acrylic. An open poster in a kitchen collects a film of grease. A white mat makes even an A5 print look grown up.
• Stick to A sizes. A4 and A3 prints fit ready-made frames, so you skip the custom framing bill.
• Flatten rolled prints gently. Cover with a sheet of paper and weigh the corners down with books for a day or two.
• Plan a gallery wall with paper. Tape paper templates to the wall first, with even gaps of about 5 to 8 cm and the middle of the group at eye level.
• Mix big and small. One A3 lolly print between two A5 biscuit prints looks like a tiny sweet shop.

A nostalgic snack gift, three ways

Pair one piece of art with one real treat and one thing that lasts.

1. For the lolly lover: a lolly print, a paper bag of their favourite lollies and a glowing candy lamp.
2. For the bikkie dunker: a biscuit print or tea towel, a packet of their favourites and a biscuit-scented memo pad for writing "BUY MORE BIKKIES".
3. For the party kid at heart: fairy bread pins, a loaf of white bread and a jar of hundreds and thousands (assembly required).

Free ways to support a small artist

Follow them and actually comment. Share or save posts you love. Tag them when you hang or wear their work, and say hello at their market stall.

From our own snack tin

A few of our own sweet things to sit beside the art. Prices are in AUD.

Rainbow Candy Lamp: Rechargeable Candy Skewer Table Light ($39.95 AUD)

Four candy balls on a skewer, about 28 cm tall, glowing in sweet-shop colours. Rechargeable with a touch switch, so no cord. The only lolly nobody can pinch.

Chocolate Biscuit Scented Memo Pads, 80 Sheets ($24.95 AUD)

80 chocolate scented sheets in a round Biscuit design or a bitten Chocolate bar. Perfect for the shopping list (bikkies, more bikkies).

Chocolate Chip Cookie Plush Cushion ($26.95 AUD)

A round choc chip cookie for the sofa. Zero crumbs.

Silicone Cartoon Ice Lolly Moulds with Lid ($24.95 AUD)

Homemade icy poles for summer: pour in juice or yoghurt, add the wooden sticks and freeze. Five designs, lid included.

Butter Cookie Keychain ($21.95 AUD)

A resin butter cookie about 4 cm across on a swivel clasp, in five designs including a jammy ring.

There is more on the donut, cookie and ice cream shelf, plus our food lamps, food cushions, pencil cases and sticky notes. If you liked meeting these makers, read our cosy, crafty Christmas round-up of small makers, and if your snack of choice is a crumpet or a croissant, our gifts for bread lovers guide is next.

Shipping

Our shipping is free on orders over $50 AUD. We pack within 1 to 3 business days and most items arrive in 10 to 18 business days after that. For Christmas, order by Friday 20 November. Each artist ships from their own shop.

Questions we get asked

Where can I buy Aussie snack art prints?

Straight from the artists' own websites. Jacklyn Foster sells lolly, biscuit and icy pole prints from A5 to A1, and Laura Hamzic sells Australian produce prints and a calendar.

What is a good gift for someone who misses Australian snacks?

A snack print or tea towel from a local artist, paired with a packet of the real thing and something that outlives the biscuits, like a cookie keychain.

Go and say hello to all six, and if you hang a lolly print in your kitchen this summer, we'd love to see it. Our sweet treat gifts will keep it company.

Poppy x
Store Manager, Scribble Snacks