Manchester Art Fair - Bay Gallery Home is exhibiting!

Bay Gallery Home will exhibiting in Manchester on 4-6 November. New artworks are winging their way to the UK from the Central Australian desert and we can’t wait to share them you. We’ve been busy uploading new paintings as they arrive so keep an eye on our website for new works.

If you would like to attend the VIP evening on 4 November please use the following code:

VIP Preview Night Promo Code: 22VIPMAF0111

We have unlimited free weekend tickets available for you to share as well using this promo code:

Weekend Promo Code: 22MAFWKD

Book your tickets to the UK’s most ambitious art fair! https://www.manchesterartfair.co.uk/ #MAF22

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!

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.

That's a Christmas wrap! Closed for Christmas 23-29 December

Alana Pink wallpaper from a painting by Alana Ngwarraye Holmes.

Merry Christmas everyone!

After spending a few hours battling to upload a more Chistmassy shot we’ve admitted defeat and thought I’d share this with you instead.

Our gallery started in Tetbury six years ago with business slowly but steadily developing. This photo is from the early days, the image I was trying to share is much busier with the space filled with lengths of fabrics, cushions, pouffes, lamp shades, wallpapers and rugs from our ‘My Country’ Aboriginal interiors collection. Please go to our Instagram feed @baygalleryhome to see it.

Bay Gallery Home wishes you a happy and safe holiday period. It’s a tough time for many of us but together we will get through it and hopefully 2022 will see Covid erradicated. We open by appointment 23, 24, 27, 28 December. Between 29th December to 3rd January we will in but working limited hours. All online orders will be fullfilled postal hours allowing

Thank you all for supporting Bay Gallery Home, the artists we represent and all the other businesses our gallery works with, it really means the world to us.

Hope to see you in the New Year.

x

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

Aboriginal man in western NSW is first Australian indigenous death from Covid

Everything those working with Australian Aboriginals have dreaded has become a reality.

The deadly Delta variant has reached outback towns of NSW killing a 50 year-old Dubbo man with underlying conditions. He was unvaccinnated like many other’s in the western NSW towns suffering rising Covid infections. Of the current 561 cases in the region 65 per cent of them are Aboriginal.

The vaccination roll out has been slow with only 6.3 per cent of Aboriginals in the region being vaccinated versus 26 per cent of the general population.

“It’s ripping through the community like wildfire at the moment, which is really, really scary,” Quayle said.

“As a Barkinji woman, this was my worst nightmare for it to ever hit my community, especially when we know the statistics and the early death rates of our mob due to colonial disease.

“It’s heartbreaking. I just hope my mob can get through this. It’s so scary it feels like a nightmare.”

(from Chloe Quayle, also known as Barkaa, described the devastating impacts of the virus on the regional town of Wilcannia, in western NSW, to ABC‘s The World Today program.)

On top of battling rising Covid cases there is a growing food shortage in places like Wilcannia which is 200km from the closest big community. One family was told to “Go call Uber eats”. @NITV @twitter

For donations and more information go to:

@NITV

Hawkesbury’s Helping Hands - www.hawkesburyhelpinghands.org.au

@skrakulr (The Real Herbert Scrakule)

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.

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.

Postage during Lockdown

Some of our orders are being delayed as our wonderful post office is operating limited hours so please bare with us while we get your orders out. DHL is operating as usual so any larger orders (including international) will be sent out within 24 hours of the order.

Post Office times in Tetbury are: 0900-1200 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday only.

Painting orders dependent on size they will be sent via Royal Mail or DHL - we aim to have them sent within 24 hours.

All smaller orders from our Homeware & Accessories range will go out the day of order or nearest following postal day.

Additionally, postage prices went up as of 1 March but we will not be passing those on until circumstances improve across the board.

We have enormous gratitude for the staff at the Tetbury Post Office and DHL for continuing to operate during this difficult time.

All the best to everyone.

Bay Gallery Home

Vinterior Magazine - Art Edit

Vinterior the worldwide online vintage, antique and unique ethnic resale behemoth has published their first magazine. One of Bay Gallery Homes paintings by Flora Nakamarra Brown, Mina Mina Dreaming was curated by Louise McKinney for the magazines first Art Edit.

Louise McKinney of A-I-R, a collective of leading cultural advisers from around the world, previously lead development programmes for world class galleries: the Lisson, Serpentine and Whitechapel. To read more about Louise and see the other curated works for the Interior Art Edit please go to vinterior.co.

The List - House & Garden

Bay Gallery Home is hugely honoured to be included in the interior design industry bible, House & Garden The List. This is the first time an Aboriginal art gallery or interiors collection, has ever featured on The List so we feel like we’ve really achieved something special on behalf of Aboriginal artists. Hopefully this will pave the way for more Aboriginal designs to be explored and used within interior design. Our ‘My Country’ interiors collection is manufactured in the UK as we also wanted to support the British manufacturing industry.

Bay Gallery Home has achieved it’s goal of getting Aboriginal interiors on the world stage but we always need the support of our clients to help it grow so please keep supporting Bay Gallery Home and the Artists we represent by visiting us online or at our Gloucestershire gallery.

You can go click on the link to see our listing.

https://thelist.houseandgarden.com/united-kingdom/gloucestershire/service/bay-gallery-home

Telescope Style - Destination Inspired Interiors on Marlow FM

Annabel Smith of Telescope Style - one of Bay Gallery Home’s champions recently spoke with  June Bailey on the Radio  on Marlow FM 97.5  about her burgeoning online travel inspired interiors shop. Annabel has scoured the world and many trade fairs within the UK and Europe searching for designer makers using pattern and colour with a directional bent celebrating cultural heritage. We were lucky to be chosen as one of her boutique brands and have her explain more about our business on Mid Morning Matters.

You can listen to the interview here:

https://www.marlowfm.co.uk/listenagain
Choose Mid Morning Matters from the box, then choose Thu October 10 (scroll to 94:50 for Annabel’s slot!)
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The Home Page - Brand We Love

Bay Gallery Home was delighted to be featured as a brand The Home Page love. You can view the article on their website https://thehomepage.co.uk

The colours of Australia

Detail of local flora from a vibrant painting by Colleen Ngwarraye Morton, 'Women's Ceremony and Bush Medicine' – sold through our ART page & in our Tetbury gallery.

“I feel with my body. Feeling all these trees, all this country. When this blow you can feel it. Same for country... you feel it, you can look, but feeling... that make you.”

– Big Bill Neidjie, Gagudju Elder, Kakadu.

The origins of our art gallery, and now our art-driven interiors collection, is a long-standing personal and professional connection with Central Desert artists. Theirs is an arid land with extensive dry seasons, which is the birthplace of what is sometimes called 'Aboriginal desert painting,' at the forefront of the contemporary Aboriginal art movement.

"The chief function of colour should be to serve expression as well as possible."

Henri Matisse, from "Notes of a Painter"

Within the indigenous Australian cultures and traditions, the artist holds a sacred individual freedom to engage with their own Dreamtime and connection with country, to express a facet of life through a personal choice of brushstroke and form and colour – all the while anchored within the inherited horizon of a collective dream. The use of colours in the contemporary aboriginal art paintings reflect not only the Australian landscape but the world of their imagination, which encompasses past, present and future.

Another detail of local flora from a vibrant painting by Colleen Ngwarraye Morton, 'Women's Ceremony and Bush Medicine' – sold through our ART page & in our Tetbury gallery.

Alice Springs lies at the heart of this region, between the dramatic MacDonnell Ranges and the Todd River. It has historically been a place "crucial to the development of art and as a meeting place, place of exchange and part-time residence for people from the hundreds of Aboriginal communities throughout the central, northern, southern and western regions."* The resilient spirit of its communities, the role they play in political & cultural movements remains very much alive, notably with the iconic annual Desert Mob Art fair.

Throughout, the work of the indigenous artists we represent is a reflection of their personal engagement with a historical and deep spiritual affinity to the land, which they tell and re-tell through art to old and new audiences, layering creation myth upon botanical record, wisdom upon experience, colour upon colour.

Intrepid Alexandra on her current sourcing trip, criss-crossing the Australian Central Desert...

*quote from McCulloch's very excellent Contemporary Aboriginal Art: The Complete Guide.

Australian Aboriginal Women Artists

The voices of the amazing Australian Aboriginal women artists we represent, the sale of their artwork & the My Country Interiors collection means their communities earn crucial revenue streams.

This allows them to gain independence, access to health care, maintain their origins, cultural heritage and connection with the land.

Through their roles as artists they are expanding the global awareness of an ancient culture in contemporary times. The artist communities we represent are made up of men and women, who have distinct but equally valuable stories to tell and paint of their people and country & it is our privilege to share them and give them a platform. 

• #designwithorigin  #internationalwomensday  #australian#aboriginal •

JP Morgan Exhibition 28 April 2016 in Canary Wharf

Bay Gallery Home is thrilled to be holding an exhibition and talk with the staff of JP Morgan at Canary Wharf. 

We will be exhibiting new works from the Central Desert by some of the country's foremost Aboriginal artists.  The event will be held in honour of our fallen ANZACs at Gallipoli, Turkey during World War I, may they rest in peace.

If you would like to hold a similar corporate event please get in touch at alexandra@baygalleryhome.com.