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The Australian collection.

Almost every art print sold into Australian homes was designed somewhere else, for somewhere else. Galahs, banksias, salt lakes and the Southern Cross are not niche here — they are the view out the window, and they are oddly hard to buy as decent wall art.

Not on sale yet. These are the pieces being finalised. The artwork isn't at print resolution yet, so nothing here has a price on it — we'd rather show you what's coming than pretend it's ready. Match your room in the meantime and we'll have something in your colours when it opens.

Galah pair

Galah pair

Two galahs on a gum branch, in rose and slate against an empty sky. The most recognisable bird in the country and almost nobody sells it as considered wall art.

Quokka

Quokka

Close portrait, that famous expression, painted rather than photographed. Warm without tipping into cartoon.

Banksia study

Banksia study

One flower, two serrated leaves, nothing else in the frame — the discipline of an eighteenth-century botanical plate, loosened.

Native nursery set

Native nursery set

Wombat, echidna, kookaburra. Identical treatment across all three so they hang as a set rather than three separate things.

Why this and not more abstracts

There is no shortage of muted abstract shapes in the world, and we make plenty of them. What there is a shortage of is a well-drawn galah. Search for Australian native wall art and you find either tourist-shop souvenirs or a handful of small local makers — very little that sits comfortably in a contemporary room.

That gap is the whole argument for this collection. It is also the one thing an overseas print-on-demand giant will never bother to fill, because the audience is twenty-six million people rather than three hundred and thirty.

Printed here, which matters more than it sounds

Printing in Australia takes delivery from three weeks to a few days, removes the customs question entirely, and means a problem is solved by someone in the same time zone. It costs a little more per print. We think it is worth it, and we would rather charge for that than pretend a parcel from overseas is the same thing.

What's coming after these

A pink salt lake seen from above, abstracted to pure pattern. The Southern Cross as a minimal celestial chart. A mid-century travel poster of the coastline. All in the same palette family, so they hang together.

Tell us your colours

The matcher reads the palette out of a photo of your room. When the collection opens, we'll know which of these belongs on your wall.

Match my room