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.

Quasicrystals and the Origin of Life - featuring our Emu Dreaming tile

Yankirri Jukurrpa (Emu Dreaming) painting by Geraldine Nangala Gallagher, 2015

Bay Gallery Home was slightly perplexed when academic John Gardiner contacted us for permission to use our Emu Dreaming tile as an example for his work on Quasicrystals in the NeuroQuantology journal.

Initially Gardiner told me the paper concerned aperiodic tiles. What on earth is an aperiodic tile? After a quick online search it turns out it is not a non-periodic tile. That cleared up everything! In any case he went on to consider the tile design in terms of quasicrystals and the origin of life.

When John sent the paper we were quite touched by the inclusion of the importance of Aboriginals connection to Country, “The cultures revere the state of things, as they are found, and how this leads to survival. Geology uses fractals to describe landscapes and Australian Aboriginal culture is at the point where initiates ARE the fractal landscape, weather and other living beings. For something to exist within Aboriginal culture it must be present in the physical or metaphysical world. This encompasses both contemporary and more traditional Dreamings.”

Yankirri Jukurrpa (Emu Dreaming) sits in a place 50km north of Yuendumu called Ngarlikurngu. The Jukurrpa story belongs to Nangala/Nampijinpa women and Jangala/Jampijinpa men within the Walpiri people of the Central Desert of Australia.

The paper is a fascinating study of possible events leading to the origins of life, involving “crystals being the substrate for the formation of the first life”.

To read the full paper please click on the button below.

Small(er) but perfectly formed paintings at Bay Gallery Home

Bay Gallery Home has curated a small(er) but perfectly formed painting gallery for your enjoyment.

Our offering starts small for those entering the market for the first time with larger pieces also available. However, we want to focus this Newsletter on the smaller works for those wanting to find an artwork for the niche spaces in your home or office on a smaller budget.

Bay Gallery Home has always recognised younger, emerging talent before they make it big. In the UK we are the perfect gallery to obtain exciting younger artists work before they are recognised nationally and internationally. By purchasing smaller artworks you can establish your first foothold in the art market at the beginning of an artists career while adorning your walls with something that gives you pleasure every day.

The ethos of our art gallery is to bring you high quality art and affordable prices. Is there space you want to fill that won’t break the bank? We have an array of colours and styles from broad strong brushstrokes to fine dot work. Visit us in our Tetbury art gallery or online www.baygalleryhome.com

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.

Shortlisted for The Fabric Award: International Design and Architecture Awards

‘My Country’ botanical velvets - left to right Rosie Pink, Betty Pink, Daisy Brown, Lilly Green, Melita Dusty Pink

Exciting news! Bay Gallery Home’s innovative fabric collection has been shortlisted for a major award at this year’s International Design and Architecture Awards.

Our ‘My Country’ range has been chosen by the events’s curators, Design et al, to vie with famous brands like Liberty Fabrics for the prestigious Fabric Design Award. The winner will be chosen by a judging panel of 26,000 industry professionals and announced at the awards show in London in September.

The ‘My Country’ interiors collection has taken five years of dedication and investment to build and it is a joy to see it being recognised. It has been created against sometimes difficult challenges, including the pandemic, Australian wildfires, personal tragedies and, in the fabrics case, manufacturers going out of business just as the first prints came off the press, leaving me to start all over again.

So much has been poured into this creation, with us often to’ing an fro’ing across the world to spend days and nights in the car driving around our desert communities in search of beautiful Aboriginal artwork. It has a been a real family effort too - my mother is always at the wheel (driving 3000km from Brisbane) and my children squished into the back for the long journey from Alice Springs to “Outbush”.

Lots of adventures were had including my Mum greeting us at Lasseter’s Hotel in Alice in 2017 with a lump the size of a grapefruit on her lower leg. “Oh, don’t worry,” she shrugged as she helped load our bags into the boot. “It’s just a snake bite I got sleeping in the swag on the way here.”

There have been many hours spent slogging up and down the motorways of the UK searching of the right designers and manufacturers capable of making a product that can compete against the worlds best design houses.

‘My Country’ is a collection of 12 breathtaking designs - all taken from the work of some of the most talented artists among the oldest continuous race on Earth - on a range of five fabric bases. They are suitable for upholstery and soft furnishings including cushions, lamps and curtains.

Thank you to all those who have collaborated with us and bought from us over the years. We hope you agree it’s been worthwhile.

Wish us luck!

‘My Country’ fabrics are from paintings by: Lilly Kemarre Morton (Lilly Green) , Betty Pula Morton (Betty Pink) , Alana Ngwarraye Holmes (Alana Pink), Daisy Kemarre Turner (Daisy Brown), Joycie Pitjara Morton (Joycie Yellow), Michelle Pula Holmes (Michelle Blue), Rosie Ngwarraye Ross (Rosie Pink and Rosie Blue), Ruth Nungarrayi Spencer (Ruth PInk, Ruth Blue, Ruth Red) and Sarah Napurrurla Holmes (Bush Onion).

Images of some of them are below (left to right): Michelle Pula Holmes, Lilly Kemarre Morton, Betty Pula Morton, Rosie Ngwarraye Ross and Ruth Nungarrayi Spencer.

Photograph credits: Alexandra O’Brien, Adam Carter & Lara Damiani Think Films

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.

New Year brings New Aboriginal artwork to Bay Gallery Home

As we enter 2022 we have been busy curating new Aboriginal paintings across a range of emerging and established artists, sizes, and styles from the Central Desert communities we represent.

Among our highlights above are larger works in subdued colour’s for lovers of lighter hues as well as three smaller paintings packing a dynamic punch with their bold colours.

Last week visitors expressed their delight at seeing the paintings “in the flesh” having discovered them online. While photographs of the paintings are beautiful its difficult to capture the texture and depth of the paintings in a photographic format. The many layers of colour applied to each artwork make them very tactile; the irregularities and (sometimes) random flicks of paint assure you that the paintings travelled all the way from the Central Australian desert bearing elements of the artists personality.

Over the course of 2022, Covid permitting, Bay Gallery Home is hoping to exhibit in various art fairs across the country. If you have any near you you’d like us to know about please let us know and we’ll endeavour to explore opportunities to exhibit our gorgeous Aboriginal art works there.

Thank you for continued support of Bay Gallery Home and the artists we represent. Hope to see you in Tetbury soon. All the best for 2022!

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 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.

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

Merry Christmas and New Year 2021

Our new Rosie Blue and Rosie Pink Cushions from artwork by Central Desert artists, Rosie Ngwarraye Ross. These cushion are also on sale at Cotswold Trading, Broadway.

Wishing all our clients, collaborators and especially our wonderful Artists and all the Art Centre staff a happy festive period. The last couple of years have brought Australia many challenges with the fires and now the pandemic. Despite the distances we’re all working hard to bring you beautiful art and new ‘My Country’ interior offerings. We hope you love our work and continue to support the Gallery and everyone we work with.

Bay Gallery Home is open with limited opening hours between 28 December to 31 December 2020. We are open between 1100-1500 (give or take) and open by appointment so please call 07776 157 066 or email alexandra@baygalleryhome.com to arrange a visit.

We have many new exciting developments to share with you so keep an eye on our website.

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

More paintings have arrived!

On our website you can see new paintings by some of our many talented artists. They arrived yesterday and we sold one this morning so if you have your heart set on any of the paintings please don’t delay in ordering it.

The pandemic has forced people to reassess their lives in many ways. In the gallery we are finding people wanting to cover their walls in meaningful, exuberant art after staring at them for so long during lock downs across the world. As such we’ve selected artworks which keep you captivated letting your eyes wander aimlessly across the canvas. The new selection is a mixture of bold blues, oranges, greens and reds for those that need an uplift during Zoom calls or afternoons with the children. We’ve also catered for people who need a calming influence after a stressful day with pastel blue, pinks, browns and yellows.

The Aboriginal people have suffered so much but remain incredibly resilient. It serves as an inspiration to us every day to do the best under the circumstances - we’re hoping that the artwork will serve as uplifting inspiration to you too.

New face masks have arrived!

Teddy Jakamarra Gibson, Emu Dreaming face mask

A range of Australian made 100% cotton face masks featuring beautiful Aboriginal Artwork have just arrived! There’s a filter pocket on the inside of the mask and using the adjustable nose wire, you can adjust the mask for a close fit to your face. Elastic loops fit around your ears to hold the mask in place. 
One size fits most. They are machine washable; washing is recommended after every use.

This mask does not claim to give you respiratory protection from viruses but may help prevent the spread of germs to others.

The Artists whose work is featured on the masks receive a royalty from the sale of each one benefiting them and their Community.

To see more designs and purchase go to:

https://www.baygalleryhome.com/face-masks-1

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/