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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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.

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 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.

Keep your eyes peeled for fabulous New Art as we are listing paintings

Shorty Jangala Robertson, Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) this magnificent Shorty has hit the market and we are in the enviable position of having secured it to sell through our gallery.

In preparation for our reopening we have many new paintings winging their way from the Central Australia Desert to our Tetbury Aboriginal art gallery. If you like what you see online don’t miss out as on our last reopening the paintings were snapped up! We send our works ready to hang all over the world via Parcelforce and DHL .

There’s more going up each day on the website. Some will also feature on our Twitter and Instagram feed.

We can’t tell you how excited about having lovely clients back in Bay Gallery Home on 12 April.

Bay Gallery Home introduces our 'My Country: design with origin' Pouffes

Lilly Green cotton velvet pouf in The Ormond Hotel, Tetbury

Bay Gallery Home introduces our luxurious velvet poufs.

Our pouffes are a simple way to complete the appeal of your living space by creating alternative seating immediately enveloping you in comfort. Simple and elegant design with origin.

The pouffe can be paired with our Lilly Green wallpaper to complete your room scheme or you could choose another wallpaper from our collection to create statement design.

The Aboriginal botanical design is taken from an original painting by Lilly Kemarre Morton. It depicts the sacred plants and trees of the Australian outback used by the Aboriginals for the last 60,000 years. Lilly receives a royalty from all the products we make using her design.

If you are in Australia you can purchase our fabrics from our distributor Elliott Clarke under their boutique artisanal EC Collective.

Made to order in the UK from any of our fabrics found on this link:

https://www.baygalleryhome.com/fabric

The Surrey Splendour featured our business in its latest Home Edit

Melita Dusty Pink wallpaper in background is from an original artwork is by Melita Pitjara Morton

Ruth Pink cotton velvet cushions are from an original artwork by Ruth Nungarraryi Spencer

The Surrey Splendour invited us to be part of its Home Edit after “scouring the county [and a bit beyond] to find some exciting home inspired businesses to ensure that any renovation project exudes quality and design.” We are thrilled our ‘My Country' Aboriginal interiors collection was selected - it is so lovely to have the work of the Artists we represent embraced by so many in the UK, which in turn helps support the Communities and the Central Desert art centres.

Click on the link to to read more and explore the other businesses selected for the Edit.

https://www.thesurreysplendour.co.uk/home/2020/10/8/at-home-edit-stylishly-surrey

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.

Room Style Directions: ABORIGINAL BOTANICAL with Telescope Style

Sugarbag Dreaming by Rosemary Ngwarraye Ross as featured in this months Telescope Style Newsletter

A lush and verdant Australian Aboriginal art canvas provided the inspiration for this room scheme style direction. Blues and greens should ALWAYS be seen, especially against a restful, neutral backdrop with lively pink accents!

Take your cue from any global style – and avoid the dreaded ‘themed room’ – by juxtaposing authentic elements of pattern, colour and form with sleek, modern shapes and materials. Whether your budget stretches to designer pieces or thrift shopping rules – follow the pointers below for a look that is directional and full of personality, yet won’t date.’

Create a calm, pared back space with culturally-infused colour that zings!

1. Start with the art… 

We fell in love with this large scale, original, Australian, Aboriginal art canvas sold amongst many other canvases, by one of our suppliers, Bay Gallery Home. We decided to use it as the starting point for a room scheme. What appealed most was the combination of lush botanical detailing (up close the brushwork on these artworks is just breathtaking) with a lively, verdant colour palette. Vibrant limes, jungle greens, sky blue and pretty shades of pink all accented by electric blue convey the colours of the native Australian flora as seen through Aboriginal eyes.

To read more about how to achieve the perfect themed room follow the link to:

https://www.telescopestyle.com/australian-aboriginal-art/

Thank you to our visitors since we reopened

It’s great to be open again! Yesterday was especially fun and our ‘My Country’ facemasks were flying out the door. Thank you to all those who have visited us over the last two weeks.

Bay Gallery Home has been busy making more small lavender pillows after sending some out to the Neuro Critical Care Unit in Addenbrooks Hospital, Cambridge. We have begun work on a larger lavender pillows so let us know which fabric you’d like it made with via email: alexandra@baygalleryhome.com and we’ll send one out to you. The small lavender pillows are £10 and larger ones £25.

Our protective system for customers is working well so please drop in assured you’ll be safe if you follow the guidelines on the door.

Bay Gallery Home reopening Monday 15 June 2020

Joycie Pitjara Morton cotton blind. Design taken from painting by Joycie.

Bay Gallery Home is reopening Monday 15 June and we can’t wait to welcome old and new faces to our unique Aboriginal art gallery in Tetbury, the Cotswolds.

The Gallery is designed in such a way that it is easy to keep 2m social distance. If you would like to buy from us but you’re uncomfortable coming inside we’re happy to bring paintings, products from our ‘My Country’ interiors collections and our range of home wares outside.

We also have a remote payment system which works outside.

Inside the gallery we have a sink where you can wash your hands or use the gel hand sanitizer provided. Sanitizing wet wipes will also be provided. We ask that if you would like to look at something more closely you let us handle it for you. All products are sold in boxes only handled when unpacked - we do not sell the display items (unless it is the last one).

If you have recently travelled from overseas please make sure you’ve quarantined for two weeks as per our Governments guidance. Tetbury has largely been spared the ravages of Covid-19 by carefully adhering to the Public Health Guidelines. Please help us maintain the health of everyone here and our NHS staff.

Tetbury has a plethora of incredibly interesting independent shops and we are all looking forward to welcoming you to our beautiful Cotswold town.

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

Rubbish Art - beware buying fake, appropriated or sweatshop Aboriginal art

Athena Nangala Granites, Yanjirlpirri or Napaljarri-Warnu Jukurrpa, (Star or Seven Sisters Dreaming)

Bay Gallery Home often gets approached with people wanting to us to sell Aboriginal paintings they’ve bought. Sadly time and time again we have to inform them that the paintings, despite having [questionable] certificates of authenticity, are from disreputable sources. Most likely they are fake or they have been acquired under sweatshop conditions. Aboriginal artists are particularly vulnerable if they are not working within the protection of an Aboriginal owned art centre.

Bay Gallery Home won’t deal on the secondary market as we only work with art centres ensuring the artists are renumerated for the paintings we sell. We’ve been wanting to write this blog for sometime as it’s evident questionable works are making it into the UK market. There are several reputable dealers in the UK so if you want an authentic work please approach any of us so we can ensure you have a work you can be confident is genuine, you can resell and that you are assured the artist will be compensated for their work.

To help you work out how to buy good Aboriginal art not “rubbish art”:

1. Look up address of gallery and thoroughly go through their website. Many of the questionable paintings or “rubbish art” we are offered are for sale with only a PO Box as the address. Sometimes the sellers name alerts me that something is up. In the 15 years I’ve been dealing Aboriginal art I’ve never come across a gallery operating under the name or the dealers name appearing on the certificates I’ve been shown. Look carefully at the photo of the artist on the certificate. Does the artist look happy? I’ve been shown certificates where the artist clearly looks distressed, others where the artists head doesn’t even appear in the picture. Sometimes the background itself is distressing - a dirty bit of carpet they’ve been sitting on for hours painting an artwork surrounded by shopping trolleys out the back of a building. These should all ring alarm bells.

2. You may be offered paintings by carpetbaggers. Carpetbaggers are people who approach artists and offer them very little money for the paintings then go on to sell them for a large profit. Often these people were professionals who came into contact with Aboriginal communities through their work. The prevalence of carpetbagging is one of the reasons art centres were established.

3. The works should be on good quality linen. If the work is painted black to the edge and the “canvas” feels plastic then it’s best avoided. Art centres do not offer paintings like that. In the past we have been offered paintings like this and could not authentic where or by who they were painted.

4. Beware of sheer bulk of work offered. If you are offered a choice of hundreds of paintings (remember the ones on a plastic feeling canvas) approach with care. Many of the Aboriginal communities are small with 30-150 artists painting at any one time. These works are then chosen by established galleries around the world.

5. If you want an Aboriginal painting try to buy one from a gallery with bricks and mortar not just an online presence. You should be able to see and feel the painting. Ask lots of questions about the stories behind the painting, the artist and the community. A legitimate Aboriginal art dealer will be able to answer all your questions as well as offer you anecdotal stories because they have been to the art centres and met the bulk of artists they represent.

6. Ochre paintings have employed “chemical fingerprints” so as to identify works produced by Aboriginal artists (ochres are mainly used by artists in the Kimberly region). The chemical is mixed with the paint so as to distinguish authentic art from imported art done by non-Aborignal artists.

7. Sometimes people comment that our paintings aren’t perfect. Funnily enough imperfections are what you are looking for in Aboriginal art. Many of our paintings will have bits of the desert in them, human or dog hair and we’ve even had one with tomato seeds! Dogs are central to Aboriginal communities and form an important part of art centre life so are often sitting close to the artists so it’s no surprise their hair makes it into some of the work. While the artists are incredibly gifted with geometric patterns if you have a work that’s gone slightly awry then it’s more likely authentic.

8. Steer clear of sites like eBay where a lot of fakes or paintings done under duress are offered.

9. Cultural appropriation is a major threat to the authentic Aboriginal art industry. Moves have been taken to curtail this, like the Australian Government initiative  ‘Fake Art Harms Culture’, but we ask you to be mindful when buying didgeridoos, boomerangs, digging sticks etc. A lot of these are imported from Indonesia and China. A shocking example of this in the UK was a fake work used in Ricky Gervais’s tv show After Life. The painting used was a copy of a painting by Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Tingarri Dreaming (1987). Derek Productions, Gervais’s production company has since paid compensation to the artist and obtained a retrospective license to use the painting. Timna Woollard, the artist commissioned to copy the original art work has said to was among those commissioned for a UK television and prop company in 1989.

Bay Gallery Home wishes our Customers, Artists & Collaborators a Very Happy Christmas

Painting by Steven Jupurrurla Nelson, Janganpa Jukurrpa (common brush-tail possum Dreaming

Happy Christmas!

And we hope you have a wonderful New Year/New Decade in 2020.

Thank you to all those who have bought from us over the last year and given us the encouragement to continue to grow our ‘My Country’ collection. We also thank you for supporting the Artists we represent by buying through Bay Gallery Home. And to all those who have Collaborated with us: photographers, makers, graphic designers, our suppliers a huge thank you for your hard work over 2019.

The work of our hugely talented, dedicated artists in the Central Desert means we can bring something beautiful, unique and steeped in ancient iconography to the the UK.

We look forward to seeing you again in 2020.

We are closed 25th-28th December.

Bay Gallery Home x

It's Christmas time to shop in one of Tetbury's many independent shops

A view from Bay Gallery Home, Tetbury, The Cotswolds

The gallery has many beautiful gift ideas for Christmas available from our Aboriginal art & interiors showroom in Tetbury, the heart of the Cotswolds.

You can choose unique, quality gifts from our Homeware & Accessories range or the ‘My Country’ Aboriginal interiors collection.

Bay Gallery Home safely send our mugs, teapots, soaps, moisturisers, throws, cushions, wallpapers, salad servers & bowls amongst many other products from our Aboriginal range all over the world.

Everything in the gallery is taken from original Aboriginal artworks with the artist and their community receiving royalties from each sale, thereby helping raise funds for community projects including transport from their remote Central Desert art centres to medical facilities in Alice Springs, Australia.

If you want to know more or place an order please email alexandra@baygalleryhome.com or visit www.baygalleryhome.com

We are open 7 day a week bar 14-15 December.

Happy Christmas!

Telescope Style features Bay Gallery Home

Telescope Style seeks, curates and sells elegant, destination-inspired products for home & lifestyle. Items with a direct, unmistakable connection to a country, region, landscape or city. They source from well-travelled, design-led creatives, with a focus on quality, originality and timelessness. Bay Gallery Home is thrilled to be featured by Telescope Style on their latest blog.

Please follow the link below to the complete article.

For the full article go to https://www.telescopestyle.com/bay-gallery-home/

New Art has arrived!

Athena Nangala Granites, Seven Sisters Dreaming or Star Dreaming - this painting has been sold.

Exciting new art is available through our Art pages where you can click on the images for more information including the paintings origin, artist details, size and price. We ship any size anywhere in the world so if you love it buy it and we’ll get it to you safely and quickly.

Since our last photo shoot another shipment of beautiful paintings have been delivered to Bay Gallery Home so visit us to see them before they are uploaded onto our website. Please check our contact details and blog updates for opening hours.

Please email alexandra@baygalleryhome.com with any queries.

The World of Interiors - Material World

Bay Gallery Homes’s Michelle Blue wallpaper is featured in the October edition of the World of Interiors amidst a sea of beautiful fabrics. We launched three new ‘My Country’ botanical wallpapers last week at Decorex: Betty Pink, Joycie Yellow and Daisy Brown.

Our beautiful My Country GREEN wallpaper & Lilly Kemarre Morton's Art : depictions of the Australian bush & botanical landscape after the rains.

Bay Gallery Home's My Country Interior wallpapers, ceramic wall tiles & rugs are a very first in the history of interior design, bringing this beautifully versatile, intricate & joyful aesthetic into interior spaces and decors. 

The venerable Artist behind our wallpaper: Lilly Kemarre Morton, proudly holding one of our My Country interiors brochure.

As we continue on our Art - sourcing trip in Australia we have had the opportunity to meet up with the artists involved in our inaugural Interiors collection and share with them the fruits of this collaboration, and its fantastic reception – namely our WIN Award.

It is one of the most rewarding aspects of this enterprise.

My Country GREEN wallpaper in its full-scale splendour, bringing Art & a touch of colour into interior space.