Spring Art at Affordable Art Fair Hampstead Heath 8 - 12 May 2024 stand J6 VIP tickets

BRENDA PUNYTJINA ARMSTRONG, KALINY-KALINYPA / ULTUKUNPA JUKURRPA - HONEY GREVILLEA DREAMING (3859/19NY) 122CM X 76CM £1,800

Bay Gallery Home is looking forward to welcoming you to our Aboriginal art stand at the Affordable Art Fair on Hampstead Heath 8-12 May 2024.

We have a selection of bright and beautiful artworks across our botanical and Dreamtime collection. We’re also equipped with many stunning traditional coloured paintings to bring an earthy, dramatic mood to your home or work place.

Use the VIP link below to secure your ticket and we’ll see you there. Not long now!

MICHAEL JANGALA GALLAGHER, YANKIRRI JUKURRPA (EMU DREAMING) - NGARLIKIRLANGUNG (1076/23NY) 183CMX91CM £3200

Thank you for Coming to Affordable Art Fair Battersea

Bay Gallery Home thanks you for visiting us at our Spring stand in Battersea. We are returning for the Hampstead edition 8-12 May 2024. More details including the code for your VIP entry to follow.

Hope to see you there!

Battersea Art Fair Art Preview 2022 - Stand D8

Bay Gallery Home is bringing Central Desert Aboriginal art to Battersea Art Fair next week 19-23 October. It is our first foray at Battersea following a successful Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead Heath in May.

It’s 50 years since the genesis of the Aboriginal contemporary art movement with the establishment of Papunya Tula Artists being one of the first Aboriginal-owned art centres. Following the men of Papunya’s initiative Aboriginal art centres have sprung up across the desert. Each one is essential for the recording and sharing of Aboriginal culture, allowing it to flourish through an array of creative mediums.

Since then reputation of Aboriginal art has steadily grown, despite many significant challenges, as a legitimate contemporary art form with industry behemoths Sotheby’s including it in ‘Marquee Month’ auctions in New York..

Bay Gallery Home believes Australian Aboriginal artists are the most talented artists in the world with a never ending, dazzling array of artwork never ceasing to take your breath away. We are so excited to share the work of the desert communities we have represented for over 14 years with you at the Battersea Affordable Art Fair.

The Australian National Gallery recently acquired works by two of the artists we represent: Rosie Ngwarraye Ross and Maisie Petyarre Bundey. Both are established artist from famous painting families. Maisie is one of seven famous painting sisters from Utopia batik art movement including Kathleen Petyarre and Ada Bird Petyarre. Rosie’s mother was also among the artists in this early women’s art movement lasting 11 years before they were given canvases and brushes becoming major desert artists. Some of the canvases we are bringing hark back to the Utopian batik movement and are always popular for their delicate, precise brush work.

Bay Gallery Home will also be showcasing paintings by many younger artists who are producing really exciting work including Walter Jangala Brown (son of Ronnie Tjampitjinpa who work is in Steve Martins collection and recently featured on the Financial Times front page), his wife Valerie Napanangka Marshall also painting the Tingari Cycle and the ever popular Shanna Napapankga Williams painting her Seven Sisters Dreaming.

If you would like to make early bird purchases please go to www.baygalleryhome.com

Bay Gallery Home won the Fabric award!

Thank you to everyone who voted for us! A whopping 84,000 votes were cast across the categories and on Friday night the ‘My Country’ Aboriginal fabric collection was awarded the Fabric Award.

The Central Desert Aboriginal artists whose paintings we draw on for the designs are the winners of this award too, we can’t thank them enough for the privilege to work with them.

The skill of British designers and manufacturers also made this collection possible. Cheers to their perseverance in turning paintings into repeat patterns!

Design et al organised a wonderful award evening and we had a ball with those who joined us on table 21!

Alexandra from Bay Gallery Home wearing a custom made jumpsuit using ‘Ruth Blue’ velvet from a painting by Central Desert Aboriginal artist Ruth Nungarrayi Spencer.

Battersea Art Fair 19-23 October 2022 - Invitation to Bay Gallery Home Stand D8

Bay Gallery Home would love you to join us at our first Battersea Art Fair in Battersea Park October 2022.

In May we exhibited at Hampstead Heath Affordable Art Fair where we met many people fascinated by the painting designs, the stories behind them and the Central Desert Aboriginal artists we represent. Some of our new buyers included people from Sotheby’s and the Tate among many others searching for high quality art for their homes, or offices. It’s was a great resource for interior designers too.

Many repeat clients continued to support the gallery with new purchases including the most amazing painting by Michelle Pula Holmes recently shortlisted for the $100,000 Hadley Art Prize in Australia (Australian Landscape).

In the run up to October we are increasingly excited about sharing new works with Aboriginal art novices as well as those who have supported Bay Gallery Home since opening our gallery 14 years ago.

Artists we’ve represented have gone on to become sought after including Athena Nangala Granites, Steven Jupurrurla Nelson, Betty Pula Morton and Rosie Ngwarraye Ross.

As a gallery our ethos is to make art inclusive so we endeavour to to keep the prices affordable. We offer emerging and established artists across many different sized canvases and styles directly from the Central Australian Desert Walpiri Country, Alyawerre Country and Atnwengerrp Country.

Please reserve your VIP ticket to the Battersea Affordable Art Fair from 19-23 October on the link below.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Affordable Art Fair - thank you for coming!

Bay Gallery Home wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who visited our stand during our first Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead Heath. And a special thank you to those who supported the Aboriginal artists we represent by buying from our selection of beautiful Aboriginal artworks.

Tetbury is located in the Cotswolds Area of Natural Beauty and is a wonderful place to visit especially during this time of year when all the roadsides are blooming with wild flowers.

Visit us to see more gorgeous art and our ‘My Country’ Aboriginal interiors collection translated from paintings by the Central Desert Aboriginal artists we represent. Bay Gallery Home offers wallpapers, fabrics, tiles and rugs with money from gallery sales going to the desert communities we represent.

We will also be at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea in October and the Manchester Art Fair in November.

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.

Valentine Day Gift Ideas

Bay Gallery Home has many new gorgeous imported chinaware designs. Particularly lovely are the scented candles in fine bone china bowls featuring artwork by Aboriginal artists Coral Hayes Pananka and Nora Davidson.

The candle scents are devine!

There are many other Valentine gift ideas on our website including teapots, mugs, milk jugs, sugar bowls and platters, vases, cushions from the ‘My Country’ interior and of course our amazing original artworks by our Central Desert artists.

You can visit our Tetbury art gallery seven days a week or click below to visit our online shop.

Outback and Bay Gallery Home News

Image is from ABC News website see link below.

Sitting in my gallery, immersed in the rich beauty that has been generated by a community of Aboriginal artists far away in the Central Australian Desert I’ve received news from the other side of the world that the area where my artists live has been cut off by flooding. The sudden and often brutal monsoons that strike at this time of year are expected - it’s the wet season there - but this one has been more severe than usual.

Although I have made many trips to the Outback, the challenges these incredibly talented people have to overcome to make their work is never far from my mind.

This region has been left completely cut off for a week now. The dirt roads are under too much water for even the most robust vehicles to use, leaving those living there with dwindling supplies including food and, in the midst of their first Covid cases, vital medical supplies. The current situation has been described by local officials as “absolutely dire”.

At the community health clinic, there are just five medical staff to treat 600 patients. In recent days, they have had to handle three emergencies, including a birth, without access to Royal Flying Doctor Service support as the airstrip is completely inundated with water - it looks like a river.

From our gallery 12,000 miles away in Tetbury, we help support the Aboriginal art communities, as do many galleries across Australia and around the world, through the sale of the paintings, our ‘My Country’ interiors collection, homewares and accessories. This week we are excited to share our fabulous new rectangular cushions that have landed oh-so-softly in the gallery.

The limited run of locally-made soft furnishings, featuring the work of major art prize-winning Betty Pula Morton, Rosie Ngwarraye Ross, Melita Pitjara Morton (already sold out), Ruth Nungarrayi Spencer are plumped up and ready to go. You can see the collection on our Cushion page.

Over the weekend drop by our gallery and see what our artists are achieving in often very difficult circumstances. You’ll be as awestruck as I am every day.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-31/utopia-region-battles-covid-19-outbreaks-floods-no-phones/100790440

Christmas Gift Ideas from our Aboriginal Desert Artists: design with origin

Delight your friends and family with Christmas gifts you can’t get anywhere else in the UK. 

Bay Gallery Home is brimming with Aboriginal art and design we can’t wait to share with you. 

Just yesterday we received the heavenly scented candles encased in fine bone china bowls so you can keep them as a decorative object, an hor d’oeuvres bowl or somewhere to toss your Christmas jewellery into at the end of a long night. 

We also have new teapot & mug designs including more whimsical designs from West Australian artists.

In bath and body we’ve added body bars in gorgeously illustrated boxes and a new Murdie Nampijinpa Morris lip balm.

More beautiful paintings are on the way including some from budding young artists who are displaying the trappings of great talent. 

Please visit the website to see the new additions. There’s plenty of time for us to post out presents on your behalf if your unable to visit us in Tetbury.

Tomorrow evening Friday 10th December we hope that those of you who can make it to our thank you drinks. Please do a lateral flow test beforehand if you haven’t received both Covid jabs and your booster if required.

Stay well. We will get through this. x

Light Up! Christmas Party Friday 10 December 2021

Every year Bay Gallery Home hosts a Christmas party to coincide with the Tetbury Christmas light switch on. Tetbury comes together to celebrate Christmas with a street party and many independent shops remaining open for late night gift shopping, drinks and nibbles.

This year we would love all our amazing, supportive clients, friends and Tetbury community to join us for drinks and canapes as a thank you for helping us navigate and grow during the challenges of the last year.

Thank you one and all for embracing our crazy enterprise of bringing Aboriginal art to the Cotswolds!

Party starts at Bay Gallery Home from 1800. Please ensure you have done a lateral flow test beforehand and bring your mask. The road outside is closed so you can enjoy your drink out there if you’d prefer not to be indoors.

Please RSVP where possible. Many thanks. x

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 is now in Knightsbridge!

Bay Gallery Home is very excited to have our ‘My Country: design with origin’ Aboriginal interiors collection represented by Percy Bass on Walton Street Knightsbridge, London.

Walton Street is one of London’s most exclusive streets bustling with interior design showrooms, art galleries, antiques, fashion, cafes, restaurants and jewelers.

To have Aboriginal art and design available from such an exclusive address is no small feat, it is a testament to the skill of the Central Desert Aboriginal artists we represent and an acknowledgement of their skilled use of colour and pattern.

If you live in Chelsea or Knightsbridge head to Percy Bass to view the collection.

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

Bay Gallery Home's new Instagram shop

Since getting approval for our Instagram shop we’ve been busy uploading our Aboriginal paintings with the ‘My Country’ collection to follow.

All roads lead you back to our website but our Instagram shop offers a succinct way of viewing our wares while on the road or among company.

Our Instagram handle is @baygalleryhome where you can see our posts old and new. Please show us what you like by hitting the love heart or leave a comment if you need more information.

Our Australian distributors are Elliott Clarke as we are part of the the EC Collective an curated boutique part of the textiles business where you can find artisan brands. You can order our wallpapers or fabrics through them.

Happy shopping!

Susan Osbourne interiors - Notting Hill

We are thrilled to share that Susan Osbourne, purveyor of fine French antique furniture now has our cotton velvet and avanti linen samples in her Goldborne Road showroom, Notting Hill.

“Susan Osbourne is one of the leading 19th Century French Chair specialists in the UK, offering chairs, sofas and chaise from our showroom in Golborne Road, with an unsupassed collction in terms of quality, quantity and unique styles. Clients choose their chair or sofa, their fabrics from a range of over 80 fabric houses.”

Among the world’s leading fabric houses you will be able to choose fabric from the ‘My Country' Aboriginal interiors collection. All our fabrics are made in the UK as we aim to support British design, manufacturing and our Central Desert artists, who receive a royalty from all of our sales.

Susan Osbourne’s showeroom is at:

83 Golborne Road, Notting Hill,  W10 5NL

020 8969 6255

http://www.susanosbourne.co.uk/contact/4579782641

EC Collective Australian Distributors of Bay Gallery Home's 'Alana Pink' fabric

EC Collective, part of fabric and wallpaper house Elliott Clarke selected our ‘My Country’ fabric and wallpaper collection to join their artisanal design stable. Australian’s looking to source our products in Australia can use our website as a tool for the various fabric bases available and order them through Elliott Clarke. Wallpaper stock is held in Australia and can be sent out the within a day or two of your order.

Alana Pink is from an original artwork by Alana Ngwarraye Holmes who paints her Country in the Central Australian desert. Bay Gallery Home went out to the Communities we represent in the Central Desert to seek permission to translate artists paintings onto fabrics and wallpaper. They receive a royalty from the sale of each of our products benefiting them, the community and maintaining the art centre.

The fabric colour may differ dependent on the device you are viewing it on.

If you have any questions please get in touch with alexandra@baygalleryhome.com

Bay Gallery Home has reopened!

Bay Gallery Home is very excited to welcome people back into our gallery now the lockdown has finally ended for non-essential retail.

This lockdown was harder than previous ones as we barely recovered from the Summer one before being thrust into the next two so it’s with great relief we can reopen giving you the opportunity to see the beautiful paintings we have imported during lockdown in the flesh.

We’ve also used the time we’ve been shut to make more velvet cushions and pouffes. You are going to love them! They feel and look amazing.

Come and feast your eyes on artwork by the oldest continuous race in the world. Indigenous communities across the world were particularly under threat from Covid but as the communities closed, very early on in the pandemic, across Australia they remained safe and in good health. The art centres are cautiously reopening so we’ll have more work arriving over the next couple of months.

Wishing you all the best and look forward to seeing old and new faces in our Tetbury, Cotswolds gallery.