My Country : what the artist sees

My Country, Wallpaper BLUE depicts Kangaroo plant & Pigweed plentiful after the rain, a rich source of food for Kangaroos.

In this depiction, Michelle Pula Morton introduces us to a microscopic view of the land she cherishes, an intimate portrayal that is a distinct departure from her typical work.

In 2013, Michelle was awarded the 30th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) People’s Choice in 2013. The award recognises important contributions made by Indigenous artists from regional and urban areas throughout Australia, working in both traditional and contemporary media

bay gallery home's australian aboriginal wallpaper collection is sold online.

My Country: living stories

My Country, Wallpaper PINK depicts the land in the dry season, when only the hardiest bushes & established trees are still visible.

"This is my country. I paint because I enjoy painting. My Mother, Edie Holmes let us paint with her when we where young and now we paint all the time. We still paint and talk together in a family group with our kids." 

As Alana Ngwarraye paints, children and extended family gather and tell stories. Having learnt the skill from her mother, her painting now supports her four children.

Bay Gallery Home's My Country Wallpaper, PINK : stylish enough to feature in VOGUE!

BAY GALLERY HOME'S AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL WALLPAPER COLLECTION IS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE ONLINE.

Australia Day - the people, the sun & the land

Painting by Louise Napangardi Dickson (Mina Mina Dreaming) - available as a rug.

Today we celebrate Australia's cultural richness by remembering the Australian Aboriginal Flag and its symbolic colours: black for the aboriginal people of Australia; yellow for the sun – the protector & giver of life; red for the earth, the ceremonial red ochres and the Aboriginal peoples' spiritual relationship to the land.

The flag was designed in 1971 by Aboriginal artist Harold Thomas. It is now an 'Official Flag of Australia', but was originally created for the land rights movement, establishing the inherent Aboriginal right to land. 

My Country & the technical challenges of "recapturing a culture"

Sleeper reviews the innovative challenges of My Country tiles...

"Our Artile service was truly challenged by this commission, because we weren't just recapturing an image but a culture, a history, and all of its folklore and traditions."

Harry Foster, Specialist Products Manager at Johnson Tiles

My Country: Lilly's sugarbag trees

My Country, Wallpaper GREEN is a translation of a painting by Lilly Kemarre Morton, depicting the Australian outback: bush tucker & bush medicine plentiful after the rains.

Notice the sugar bag tree, rendered here in yellow by Lilly – a natural bee sweetener found in tree hollows, it is a favoured motif of hers.

Lilly's husband is the legendary Banjo Petyarre Morton, who led the historical Aboriginal stockmen walk-offs of 1949, successfully winning the fundamental right to earn wages instead of rations. 

Bay Gallery Home's My Country Wallpaper, GREEN.

Lilly's landscapes beautifully communicate the rich knowledge she possesses of both medicinal plants and country, the heart of her culture. 

As a young girl, Lilly lived traditionally off of the land with her family and Alyawarr people. In Lilly's lifetime, she has experienced and borne witness to the irreversible changes of country and way of life, previously unchanged for thousands of years.

She is now a kind and gentle elder of the community, and often tells her family and friends stories of how life used to be in Alywarre, her language. These stories are also a great inspiration for many of the artists within the community. 

Lilly is passionate about nature, especially her country and the plants that grow on it, and though she has little English, she is ever keen to explain the various bush medicines which she depicts in her paintings. 

My Country : inspired by the land

"Our art is born from the dreams of each artist and the intense colours we see in our land."

My Country references the Australian Aboriginal philosophy and creative process, whereby all of creation is in relationship, at one with the land.

In our pioneering translations of our artists' artwork into interiors ranges : wallpapers, tiles, rugs, we bring something of the character of Australia's landscapes into your homes.

The artwork we represent stands in the tradition of a sophisticated visual language, composed of layers of regular irregularities of colour, geometry, repetition and scale dynamics.

The particular provenance and symbols of this art – mapping myths, rituals and sacred topography – results in a compelling, versatile aesthetic with a most subtle compositional depth of field. It imbues spaces with wider horizons of the imagination.

We are proud to introduce you to My Country !

New Logo - Art & Design with Origin

A picture is worth a thousand words... we are so proud of our Origins.

Bay Gallery Home invites you to Surface Design 2017!

Surface Design is the only event in the UK that focusses solely on interior and exterior surfaces, bringing innovative materials to light.

We are extremely excited to be one of its exhibitors, and look forwards to welcoming you to our stand from the 7th & 8th of February, 2017. 

Remember to register for you free entry badge!

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OPENING TIMES

Tues 7 Feb
18.00-21.00 (Preview Evening)
Wed 8 Feb
11.00-21.00 (PechaKucha Evening 18.00-21.00)
Thurs 9 Feb
11.00-17.00 (Surface Design Awards Presentation 13.00-14.30)

VENUE

Business Design Centre
52 Upper Street
Islington
London
N1 0QH

T: 020 7288 6475

Click here for the venue accessibility information

Travelling by car
The Business Design Centre has an on-site car park with 285 spaces, charged at £6 for the first 2 hours and £3 per hour thereafter. There is also additional car parking in the nearby N1 shopping centre's multi-story car park which is priced similarly.

For alternative travel options to and from the Business Design Centre from your chosen destination you can go to www.tfl.gov.uk and use the journey planner. 

Please click here to read the Admission Policy

Ceramic Review says we are bold... we agree!

Ceramic Review highlights our Australian Aboriginal Art Tile collection.
 

The international magazine for contemporary and historical art is indeed a fitting platform for our Interiors My Country collection of ceramic wall tiles, as we showcase the contemporary work of an artist community with such historical heritage, in partnership with Stoke-on-Trent's established ceramics industry.

We agree, our Bush Onion 2 sequence of four tiles is indeed bold & beautiful!

My Country, Bush Onion 2 ceramic tile

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.

Christmas

Thank you everyone who has supported Bay Gallery and Bay Gallery Home throughout 2016.

Following a very busy year Bay Gallery is closing from 1400 19 December 2016 until 7 January 2017.  Bay Gallery Home will still be trading online.

We have new paintings in and these will be online over the Christmas period so please visit the Art page.  The framing service will be on offer again from 28 December so please get in touch if you'd like any work bought online stretched.

All the best for a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

World Interiors News Awards - Bay Gallery Home is shortlisted!

Bay Gallery Home is very proud to announce that our My Country Aboriginal Interiors collection has been shortlisted for the World Interiors News Awards, (WINAwards2016) under the Surface and Accessories category.

"The World Interiors News Awards recognise and celebrate the designs that have made the biggest impact on the cultural landscape over the past year."

My Country was one of six entries to make the shortlist from a very strong, innovative category. The Jury commented:

 'A fantastic example of the nice face of globalisation as well as something that the jury would like to have in their own homes.' JT. 

We are so honoured to have made the shortlist and represent the wonderful artists and communities who are at the heart of this enterprise on this world class stage!

Our entry can be viewed on the World Interiors News website in the Surface & Interior Accessories category.  

London Design Fair, Tent London

Thank you to everyone who visited our Stand at London Design Fair, Tent London part of the London Design Festival.

Our My Country Aboriginal Interiors range – a world pioneering Aboriginal interiors collection – was incredibly well received.  

Thank you to all of those buyers, retailers, interior designers, architects, design course leaders, trend spotters, students and public who showed such enthusiasm for the Stand and Bay Gallery Home products.  

Thank you to eporta.com for featuring our tables and paintings on their Super Brand stand.

If you would like more information or to place orders please contact alexandra@baygalleryhome.com or call

+44 7776 157 066.

LONDON DESIGN FAIR - GALLERY CLOSED 19 - 27 SEPTEMBER

Bay Gallery Home is exhibiting the new 'My Country' range at London Design Fair, Tent London.  In order to do so the gallery is closed for a week so we apologise if you were hoping to visit.

We can be contacted via email and phone you will find under Contact.

The London Design Fair, Tent London part of London's Design Festival is at the Old Truman Brewery:  

91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL

Tube & Rail

Shoreditch High Street StationWalking distance: 5 minutes
Overground services to Dalston Junction, New Cross, Crystal Palace & West Croydon

Liverpool Street Station

Walking distance: 10 minutes
Central, Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City Lines and National Rail Services

Aldgate East Station

Walking distance: 10 minutes
District, Hammersmith & City Lines

Old Street Station

Walking distance: 15 minutes
Northern Line and National Rail Services

Buses

West End 8, 55 & 242

East London 8, 26, 48, 55, 57,242, 388

South London 35, 47, 48, 78, 149

The City 26, 55, 242, 243, 388

London Design Fair - Tent London Stand G09 Hall 1

Bay Gallery Home is busy putting together a fabulous stand for our first trade fair - Tent London.  We will be showcasing our new table range on our stand and the eporta.com stand.  They are not online as yet but will be on the site shortly.  We will let you know when they are live.

If you would like more information regarding the Fair and the products we are showcasing there please get in touch at alexandra@baygalleryhome.com.

We have several tickets available to give away for free entry to Tent London.  Please get in touch and they'll be posted to you.

Bay Gallery Home closed Saturday 10 September

We apologise but the gallery will be closed on Saturday reopening Sunday 11 September at 1200.

If you need to get in touch please email alexandra@baygalleryhome.com or call 07776 157 066.

10th Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair

Many generations at the 10th Darwin Aboriginal Fair – photography © Copyright 2017 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair | 11-13 Aug 2017

We are very proud to have our pioneering Aboriginal Interiors collection My Country included in the 10th Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair.
 

Our wallpapers and tiles will be featured during the event, and are otherwise available for sale through our website.  

We look forward to hearing what Australia thinks of our UK produced Aboriginal wallpapers and tiles.  Our artists will also see them for the first time so it's an exciting period for us!

Money from the sale of each product goes directly to the artist and their community.

Highgrove drinks

In this painting, Betty Pulamorton is depicting her bushmedicine – bushtucker – and the country where her #dreamtime stories sit. Knowledge is shared through each generation via ceremonies,  initiations, stories and more recently painting.

It was a much appreciated honour to attend Highgrove, HRH Prince Charles's Cotswolds residence, for drinks and canapés .  

Prince Charles has always supported traditional Art projects through The Princes's School of Traditional Arts,  and he is keenly aware of the challenges facing Aboriginal communities – in which respect the process of making Art and the income it provides plays a significant role. 

Eporta Supplier of the Week

My Country, GREEN wallpaper.

Bay Gallery Home has been selected for Supplier of the Week for www.eporta.com, the exclusive trade platform for interior designers and architects looking for unique high end interior products.

Eporta selected Bay Gallery Home's interiors range at Sleep 2015 for inclusion on their site.  We are thrilled to be part of it.

You can read more about the range on the eporta.com blog.