Christmas Celebration in Tetbury 2 December 2022

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Bay Gallery Home will be hosting a Christmas party in the gallery to coincide with Tetbury town’s Christmas celebrations, including the famous Christmas light switch-on by Oliver star Mark Lester (yes, really).

All this can be enjoyed from the warmth of Bay Gallery Home as we are situated opposite the historic market hall, where the action takes place.

A steady flow of lovely Australian wine is being provided (usually the town crier samples the most because, he claims, he has to keep his throat lubricated for all that shouting he does) We’ll also have mulled wine and a delicious sharing platter beautifully assembled by local caterer Tailor-made.

I hope you also enjoy feasting on our range of unique gifts, which have arrived from Australia in time for Christmas. We have the obligatory socks for men (or women as they’re unisex), fragrant soaps, scented candles, new make up and toiletry bags. For the household with everything you can’t go past a gorgeous Coral Hayes tea towel or one of our amazing upside down umbrellas. These are in addition to the core collection of chinaware, salad servers, journals and our ‘My Country’ interiors collection with the ever popular cushions selling out fast.

And, of course, our paintings.

Party starts at 1730 until later. Please RSVP.

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Invitation to Affordable Art Fair Hampstead Heath 4-8 May 2022

Bay Gallery Home is exhibiting at the Affordable Art Fair for the first time and extend a free invitation to the Fair to all our lovely customers who have supported us over the years. Please come and say hello to us on Stand D10. We have amazing new artworks from a range of artists painting their Dreamtime stories, bush medicine, bush tucker and their Country. For a preview please visit our website - more are on the way.

Christmas Gift ideas - 'My Country' Aboriginal art cushions!

At Bay Gallery Home our gorgeous ‘My Country’ cushions are flying out the door with Christmas orders for them flying in.

Infused with 70,000 years of ancient culture our cushions bring you back to a place where our connection to earths natural beauty is freshly appreciated. Our cushions designs are translations of Aboriginal creation myths, law, topographical mapping, bush medicine and bush tucker. As each one is translated from Aboriginal paintings you are, in essence, buying an artwork while supporting the Central Desert artists and communities we represent.

The fabric collection comes in 12 different designs seven of which match our wallpapers. You can choose between cotton velvet, poly velvet, avanti linen and cotton fabrics in any of the designs. They are available ready made in 50x50cm, 40x40cm and various sized bolsters all with hidden zippers and feather or poly infills. Or you can order bespoke cushions.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be sharing more Christmas ideas with you including our wonderful upside down umbrellas which are perfect gifts for the people with everything!

Please get in touch with alexandra@baygalleryhome.com or call 077776 157 066 for more information regarding our cushions or making service.

Congratulations Betty!

My Country and Bush Medicine, Betty Pula Morton, 2016

Huge congratulations to Betty Pula Morton winner of First Nations category in the inaugural annual National Capital Art Prize.

Betty is immensely talented and this prize is well deserved. As this prize attests, Betty’s body of work and reputation as an artist is going from strength to strength.

We are lucky enough to represent Betty’s work in the UK. In addition to selling her original paintings we created fabrics and wallpapers from one of her canvases selected on a trip to the Central Desert art centre in 2017. You can see these and the original artwork in our Tetbury, Cotswolds art gallery.

When buying anything from Bay Gallery Home you are supporting artists like Betty, their family and wider community, including the art centre who make it possible for the Aboriginal artists to bloom.

Betty Pula Morton’s My Country and Bush Medicine painting has been translated onto fabrics and wallpapers as part of Bay Gallery Home ‘My Country’ Aboriginal interiors collection.

Bay Gallery Home collaborates with Sample Library at Decorex International 2021

Bay Gallery Home is excited to announce we will be presenting our ‘My Country’ Aboriginal interiors collection in collaboration with Sample Library at Decorex International 10-13 October 2021.

Over the course of the show our samples will be available to view on the Sample Library stand G140.

On Monday from 11am we will be doing a two hour presentation where you will learn more about the origins of ‘My Country’, the Aboriginal artists we represent, the process of bringing the collection from painting to translation’s onto fabric, wallpaper, tiles and rugs. You’ll also see some of the original artworks!

Sample Library are holding a prize draw for people who sign up for an account with them during Decorex. Our Lilly Green cushion (from an artwork by Lilly Kemarre Morton) is among the prizes and usually retails for £60. Prizes will be drawn on Friday October 15th.

New Central Desert Aboriginal Art has arrived in Tetbury!

Bay Gallery Home has a new selection of work from the two Central Desert Aboriginal communities we represent. The depth and breadth of style, colour application and pure artistic skill is always breathtaking. This time we obtained paintings by artists we haven’t represented before but whose early stage career entry show real promise. The one we are most excited about is Jacinta Pula Morrison whose work with dots expresses the shades of the sun as it moves across the Country during the day. It is truly exciting and modern.

The gallery is open daily for you to come and see the artwork. Check our opening times on the Contact page or call us to make an appointment.

Hope you love them as much as we do! Looking forward to seeing you soon.

Chairman Interiors - antique and Howard Chair specialists

London clients who want to use ‘My Country’ Aboriginal fabrics for upholstery or soft furnishings can visit Chairman Interiors in their fabulously fun, eclectic Hammersmith showroom as they’ve selected several designs in our ‘My Country’ avanti linens and cotton velvets.

Visitors to the shop can find Rosie Blue, Rosie Pink, Melita Dusty Pink, Betty Pink and Lilly Green samples to choose from. The texture and quality is absolutely beautiful as we utilise the best of British design and manufacturing talent to make them. In fact we’ve just won a British Made Award 2021!

Please order and pick up through the Chairman Interiors showroom.

157-159 Goldhawk Road, London W12 8EN

https://www.chairmaninteriors.net/

email: info@chairmanandson.co.uk
020 8749 9008

Georgian antique sofa at Chairman Interiors with our Betty Pink and Melita Dusty Pink avanti linen cushions.

Artwork is by Central Desert Aboriginal artists Betty Pula Morton and Melita Pitjara Morton

Cotswold Life magazine featured Bay Gallery Home in 'Bringing the Buzz back to Tetbury'

Thank you to Tracy Spiers and Cotswold Life magazine for selecting Bay Gallery Home to appear in your Cotswold Life feature ‘Bringing the Buzz back to Tetbury. We have had quite a few visitors who read the article seeking us out afterwards.

Read the full article here:
https://www.cotswoldlife.co.uk/out-about/places/visit-tetbury-best-places-in-town-1-6786749

Here is an excerpt from the article about Bay Gallery Home:

Alexandra opened what is the UK’s only dedicated Aboriginal gallery five years ago and in collaboration with British manufacturers, has created a vibrant international award-winning interior design range called ‘My Country’, using original Aboriginal painting designs.

“It is the only Australian Aboriginal interior collection in the world and it has now made The List - House and Garden bringing Aboriginal interiors to world class interior designers. People are drawn to the colours and patterns and when I explain each piece’s creation myth, it takes them to another place.”

Each painting is multi-layered in terms of its meaning, structure, symbolic and spiritual significance. Within the canvas lies secret business that only the artist and their families are privy to. But what the eye sees is a feast of colour, celebrating and representing a culture and way of life in a land few of us get to see. The relationship and trust Alexandra has built with the people she represents, has enabled her to showcase something rare and special.

“This building is medieval, but what is fascinating is that where we are dates back to Neolithic where people 10,000 years ago would have been painting at Market Place, Tetbury with ochres at the same time as the Aboriginals.

“I think that the town was already impacted by Brexit and I think people need to understand that. As people return, I hope they realise just how many independent businesses we have, each selling so many beautiful things. I do hope the sense of fear lifts and people will come into our shops again,” she says.

Black Lives Matter

Geraldine Napangardi Granites, Snake Vine Dreaming

It hardly bares thinking Black Lives Matter even has to be stated.

In Australia our indigenous population have endured, and continue to endure widespread racism, discrimination, segregation and brutality. In November last year a young Walpiri man, Kumanjayi Walker, was shot in Yuendumu for breaches of his suspended sentence. He subsequently died while in police custody with a Northern Territory police officer later being charged with his murder. Kumanjayi is from a community represented through our art gallery.

Shocking, avoidable and in no way justifiable.

Reconciliation Week in Australian ends tomorrow so let’s hope people reflect on the events in America and at home by moving forward in a positive manner whereby it’s accepted all have equal human rights.

In the UK we see young black men ripping into each other with knives and increasingly using guns to inflict revenge in their postcode wars. So much was taken away from our young, particularly our black youths, during austerity. If Black Lives Matter(ed) to those in power community centres would reopen and youth programmes reinstated. Police funding could go towards supporting the young rather than installing multiple cameras on every street corner.

Black Lives Matter. Stop the Killing.

Brands To Love: A Stunning Home Collection by Aboriginal Artists by Patricia Martin

Patricia Martin is an American author, speaker, and analyst who tracks changes in the culture who recently featured Bay Gallery Home in her blog: Brands To Love.

Posted by  Patricia Martin 

http://patricia-martin.com

Good art is redemptive; just looking at it lights the lamp from within. When a brand meets that standard, it deserves a good long look.

Founded in 2008, Bay Gallery Home was started by former journalist, Alexandra O’Brien. She emigrated from the UK to Australia when she was four, before returning to England 20 years later. The gallery is nestled in the English Cotswolds in Gloucestershire and represents a range of artists from the communities of Australia’s Northern Territory. Featuring a breadth of works by emerging talent, as well as established artists, prices reflect that range from just over $200 to $5,000 US.

The award-winning My Country home collection, provides revenue streams for indigenous artists while expanding global awareness for their art. And oh, the art translated onto these wallpapers and fabrics is alive with flora and wild animals. Bold, beautiful abstracts drawn from Aboriginal mythology and culture explode with colors and patterns from the Australian outback, a place that stubbornly sits on my bucket list. Ms. O’Brien’s passionate approach is living proof that a visionary brand can deliver meaningful value to artists and their communities and everyone prospers. Sublime!

Take a look at Bay Gallery Home’s Australian Aboriginal art, ceramics, wallpaper here: baygalleryhome.com

Artist’s work featured in photo: Daisy Kemarre Turner

Photo Credit: Adam Carter Photography

EC Collective - Australian Distributors

EC Collective, part of Elliott Clarke, have added Bay Gallery Home to its stable of beautiful artisanal fabric & wallpaper houses from around the world.

Australian’s can now source our ‘My Country’: design with origin Aboriginal Interiors collection through the Elliot Clarke showrooms in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and their agents in Perth and Adelaide.

Thank you for all those who have patiently waited for Bay Gallery Home to get ‘My Country’ to Australia. We have made it. Our Central Desert artists benefit from the sale of our collection via royalties thereby supporting their career and their communities. We thank them for the amazing opportunity to translate their work from paintings onto the fabrics and wallpapers you can now purchase through the EC Collective.

For more information you can reach Elliott Clarke on:

www.elliottclarke.com.au email: info@elliottclarke.com.au or call: +61 (3) 9510 0722

Vinterior Magazine - Art Edit

Vinterior the worldwide online vintage, antique and unique ethnic resale behemoth has published their first magazine. One of Bay Gallery Homes paintings by Flora Nakamarra Brown, Mina Mina Dreaming was curated by Louise McKinney for the magazines first Art Edit.

Louise McKinney of A-I-R, a collective of leading cultural advisers from around the world, previously lead development programmes for world class galleries: the Lisson, Serpentine and Whitechapel. To read more about Louise and see the other curated works for the Interior Art Edit please go to vinterior.co.

Australian Catastrophe 2020

View of Country, Margaret Ngwarraye Long

Bay Gallery Home has been meaning to write a blog for some time about the slew of environmental catastrophes devastating Australia. The impact of the widespread destruction of our home country, Australia, is extraordinarily difficult to put into words. My daughter, Greta, I think can say it best through the lens and emotions of a child: raw and honest. This is an excerpt of a presentation she did for a Australian fundraising event at her school in the UK.

“As you all might know some parts of Australia are on fire and that’s quite a sensitive subject for me as I’m Australian. The thing thats bothering me the most at the moment is the fires in Australia. It makes me so upset that I can’t do anything about it apart from think about it. I want to get over there and help the animals and the people. I want to help in anyway I possibly can and that’s why I think I am in this world. I want to hug everything. Thinking about going there again and seeing its all burnt down gives me the chills. The thing I most wish for this year is to make the world a better place.

We need to remember not only the iconic animals are in danger, like the koalas and kangaroos but the wombats, platypus, the birds, the Emus, insects, fish and many other animals and plants essential to the Australian eco system.

Please donate, if you can, to the fire brigade and the animal shelters. Thank you.” Greta, 11 years old

Here are some suggestions for those wishing to donate:

redcross.org.uk

findabed.info

NSW Rural Fire Service quickweb.westpac.com.au

Wildlife Emergency fund - wires.org.au

Animal Rescue Collective Craft Guild - making pouches for injured wildlife

Telescope Style - Destination Inspired Interiors on Marlow FM

Annabel Smith of Telescope Style - one of Bay Gallery Home’s champions recently spoke with  June Bailey on the Radio  on Marlow FM 97.5  about her burgeoning online travel inspired interiors shop. Annabel has scoured the world and many trade fairs within the UK and Europe searching for designer makers using pattern and colour with a directional bent celebrating cultural heritage. We were lucky to be chosen as one of her boutique brands and have her explain more about our business on Mid Morning Matters.

You can listen to the interview here:

https://www.marlowfm.co.uk/listenagain
Choose Mid Morning Matters from the box, then choose Thu October 10 (scroll to 94:50 for Annabel’s slot!)
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Alma Nungarrayi Granites

We have sadly learnt that one of our favourite artists who was also an incredibly inspirational women has passed away.  On our recent trip to our Aboriginal communities in  Australia we caught up with Alma.  She had been ill for some time but we believed she had beaten her illness so it was a dreadful shock to find out she has died.  Alma had started painting again following her illness and we were looking forward to having more of her works after her sell out show at Bay Gallery Home in 2015.  Sadly, this will not be the case.  

Alma was instrumental in helping obtain permission to create the 'My Country' interiors collection and for that we are forever grateful.  Our thoughts are with her family, the art centre staff and the Community.

On our visit in Easter we caught up with Alma who shared her recent works with us.

Australian Aboriginal Art as Surfaces for the Architectural & Design industry

Our inaugural Australian Aboriginal Art Wall Tiles, from original artworks.

Design Curial singled us out of  170 national and international exhibitors at Surface Design 2017, introducing some of the most innovative surfaces for the architectural, design and construction industries.

My Country Tiles in Homes & Gardens

Australian Aboriginal Tiles highlighted by

Homes & Gardens

Every home needs a "splash of colour" – indeed!

Our Bush Onion 2 Ceramic Wall Tile, a translation of the Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime Art.