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!
Affordable Art Fair Battersea
Invitation to Affordable Art Fair - Hampstead Heath 8-12 May 2024 stand J6
Bay Gallery Home is delighted to invite you to Hampstead Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead 8-12 May 2024.
We have curated a wide range of Dreaming stories, bush medicine and bush tucker paintings in dazzling acrylic colours, styles and sizes including works by artists we are representing for the first time.
There are lots of lovely smaller paintings heading over for those looking to enter the art market. We also curated some fabulous large paintings for statement pieces. And our ever popular Desert Dogs will be returning.
In other exciting news we are joining Art Money so you can pay for your artworks over time. This means collectors can purchase works essentially using an art credit card. At the shows we noticed people are falling in love with our artworks but cannot pay the full amount on the day, missing out on obtaining the works that beguiled them. Art Money is the perfect way to help you pay in manageable monthly payments.
Fair sales of paintings and ‘My Country’ interiors collection are very important to the Central Australian Aboriginal artists we represent. Funds from the Aboriginal art industry directly impact their social mobility, health and education.
For your VIP tickets or to gain Access All Areas (if you are an avid collector or interior designer) please book your tickets using the links below.
Art Money helps you collect art
Some of the artists we are exhibiting: Penny Napaljarri Kelly, Ada Pula Beasley, Tracy Ngwarreye Peterson,
AI impacts on Aboriginal Art Industry
Athena Nangala Granites at work on original artworks on Country in the Northern Territory. A recent work by renowned artist Felicity Nampinjinpa Robertson, Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming). Both are followed by AI generated “Aboriginal” artworks using the Night Cafe platform.
As AI slips rapidly into our lives unannounced like a thief in the night, the impact across creative industries is already being felt. New technology like Chat GPT are unleashing potentially catastrophic outcomes for many artists, including the already-vulnerable Aboriginal art industry.
A fascinating article on Crikey.com.au by journalist Cameron Wilson delves into the murky world of sacred Aboriginal artworks being bastardised to create AI artworks for sale on digital platforms including Ebay, Adobe and Shutterstock. To the untrained eye, you may not notice that images from different Aboriginal language groups are coagulated into an artwork trading as produced by indigenous artists across Australia.
What perhaps is more shocking is that AI generated images of Aboriginal paintings were used to promote a panel discussion at the University of Western Australia about the Voice to Parliament campaign. In another example covered by the Crikey article an AI image of an “Aboriginal” woman was used to promote the government-funded Mining and Skills Alliance to “raise the profile of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women”.
AI can present exciting opportunities for artists as they embrace new technology helping express their creative vision. However, the Central Desert artists we represent are drawing on their Dreamtime stories and their connection to Country, which is sacred on levels the uninitiated will never understand. But it speaks to us and you cannot replace the emotion you feel when coming across an Aboriginal artwork that crosses the divide and reaches into your soul.
Users generating Aboriginal AI fakes are failing to even acknowledge the real Aboriginal artists whose talent it is targeting. Indeed our Bay Gallery Home website and Blogs are scoured for content and regurgitated elsewhere with no heed for our copyright. What happens when AI starts devouring AI generated content? I’m not across the tech behind AI generated content but it would be interesting to know how AI protects itself from…AI. If you know please leave a comment below.
To read the Crikey.com.au article in full please click on the link below.
If you want to see to real Aboriginal artwork by Aboriginal artists creating artwork on their Country in the Central Australian desert visit the Bay Gallery Home stand D8 at Affordable Art UK Battersea in March. Click on link for your VIP tickets.
Athena Nangala Granites - Seven Sisters Dreaming Series
We met Athena painting alongside her sisters under the tutelage of her grandmother - renowned artist Alma Nungarrayi Granites. She is the great grand-daughter of Paddy Japaljarri Sims (deceased), one of the instrumental senior men in the painting of the now-famous Yuendumu school doors, as well as one of the founders of the art centre in 1985.
Athena says “I learnt to paint by watching my mother, my sisters and my grandmother paint.”
A successful younger generation artist, she uses the skills and techniques of elder artists, as well as embracing new methods she’s developed as her artistic practice evolves. Alma was no doubt hugely influential in her use of a broad range of colours and stylistic techniques including a hair brush to achieve the the sense of distant stars and galaxies.
In the desert, where you are removed from light pollution, you can see the many pops of colours in the sky reiterated in these paintings. Athena’s work is utterly compelling, bewitching people as it takes them to the Pleaides and the story of the Seven Sisters Dreaming.
The story is not unique to the Aboriginal culture but sits across many others from Egyptian and Greek mythology (where the name Pleiades comes from), as well as Indian and African folklore. It may be the oldest story in the world given it exists among cultures spanning the world. There is a theory it came out of Africa 100,000 year ago when humanity started migrating north.
Athena is one of the most important emerging artists from the Central Desert in Australia and this is the perfect time to invest in her work, if you love it and it speaks to you.
Athena painting at the Yuendumu art centre in the Northern Territory.
Invitation to Battersea Affordable Art Fair 18-22 October 2023
In October Bay Gallery Home will have our largest ever stand at the Battersea Affordable Art Fair in London with many large form paintings, curated in response to demand. It is due to your support the gallery has been able to grow to the point where we can exhibit these impactful, important paintings in an established market like London.
Among the new are works are paintings by Helen Nungarrayi Reed, Athena Nangala Granites and Chantelle Nampinjinpa Robertson, some of which you can see below. We also have works by Ada Pula Beasley, who recently had a sell-out show in Australia. Don’t miss the chance to own an artwork by the amazing Ada.
We also have four paintings by Steven Jupurrurla Nelson, whose career is reaching stellar heights with his selection for Salon de Refuses, part of the presitigous 2023 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (Telstra NATSIAA).
This year we also have bigger on-stand storage and a van on site so if you can’t find something you’re after on the stand, just ask us. We are likely to have something perfect stowed away for you. Or get in touch beforehand with paintings you’d like to see and we’ll have them ready.
For your VIP tickets click on the link below or scan the QR code. Bay Gallery Home looks forward to seeing you at the Battersea Affordable Art Fair! Feel free to pass the link on to friends/family/colleagues you also want to come.
Contact alexandra@baygalleryhome.com or call 07776 157 066 with painting requests.
Fresh out of the Central Desert: more botanical beauties!
Over Summer visit Bay Gallery Home in the beautiful town of Tetbury, Cotswolds. While here you can visit the plethora of specialty shops selling art, antiques and lots of great cafes and restaurants.
AGNES PULA RUBUNTJA, AMEROO OUTSTATION (23-CC73) 91CMX91CM
£2,000.00
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
PAMMY KEMARRE FOSTER, OUT BUSH, 92CM X61CM (22-EP329)
£2,000.00
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
SUSIE NGWARREYE PETERSON, DRY COUNTRY (23-EP115) 76CMX61CM
£1,800.00
Acrylic on Linen
DENISE NGWARREYE BONNEY, DRY CREEK BED (23-CC61) 30CMX30CM
£250.00
Acrylic on linen
BENITA KEMARR WOODMAN, DURING RAIN TIME (23-CC59) 30CMX30CM
£250.00
Acrylic on Linen
In Tetbury town centre Bay Gallery Home offers a diverse collection of Aboriginal art for sale, ideal for people seeking a unique cultural aesthetic for their home. Each artwork tells a rich story, deeply rooted in Aboriginal heritage and symbology. From bold, vibrant dot paintings to intricate, botancial pieces, our collection provides a wide range of choices to suit any interior design style. The earthy colour palettes harmoniously blend with contemporary design elements, creating a captivating and balanced ambiance. There’s plenty of bright, colourful works as well if you need a pop of colour therapy in your home.
Many of our artists are accomplished award winning practitioners with long careers exhibiting all over the world. Bay Gallery Home is a great source of younger artists paintings embarking on what will be for many important careers guided by senior community elders.
If you’d like to make an appointment call Alexandra on 07776 157 066 or DM us on Instagram @baygalleryhome email: alexandra@baygalleryhome.com
Invitation to Battersea Art Fair, Spring 8-12 March 2023
Bay Gallery Home is back at Battersea Art Fair for the Spring edition and would love to see you there.
The Private View is 8 March from 1700 - it’s always a fun evening out and the chance to view the many new beautiful works we have before anyone else does. Amongst our latest offering are new works by highly sought after artists including Ada Pula Beasley, Pammy Foster and Steven Jupurrurla Nelson.
If there is anything you would like to see in particular please let us know so we can make sure it’s at the show on the day you are attending. Over the next week or two we will be adding more paintings to the site so keep an eye on Bay Gallery Home’s website and Instagram for images and details.
You can apply the code using the link on the button below for your VIP tickets to the show.
See you there!
2023 begins with New Art from Tennant Creek, Australia
Bay Gallery Home wishes you a Happy New Year! Refreshed after a glorious holiday we have exciting news to share with our friends and clients for 2023. We have embarked on a collaboration with artists from Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia.
Among the artists we have are Ada Pula Beasley and Pammy Foster, both rising stars in the Aboriginal art world. Their impressionist paintings, achieved with careful brush and dot work, are breathtakingly beautiful.
Ada paints her Country, many recent works by Central Desert artists depict the devastating fires, She explains: “After the bushfires, when the rain comes and brings back all the bush flowers and bush medicine back again and make it green, this [is] why I do this painting, reminds me when we go hunting after the bush fire and see just black, then it rains and brings flowers back and the trees and the blue skies, and the snappy gum trees up the hill."
Pammy Foster takes an abstract approach to the depiction of Country. Her work captures the rhythm of the landscape with repeated motifs and engages an exaggerated palette to emphasise seasonal changes in the environment.
These and many other beautiful works from the our desert communities will be available online and at the Spring Battersea Affordable Art Fair 9-12 March. VIP codes for VIP tickets will be shared with you shortly.
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
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!