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[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What Aussie art or Australiana do you have at home? What makes your home Aussie and not just any place?

I have some cute 1960s Brownie Downing Native Australian pictures in the kitchen. Hans Heysen, those pictures of gum trees are just like where I grew up.. Shearing the Rams. Even an Albert Namatjira. Guy Boyd pottery with flowers.

[โ€“] just_kitten@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I have a whole bunch of gum nuts collected from across the country if that counts. And various Maxwell Williams cups and plates with native plants and animals (including a tea towel from the themed set). Also a poster with a stylised depiction of Melbourne intersections... Nothing traditionally Australiana.

[โ€“] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

The gumnuts definitely count. The poster sounds interesting!

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

the tea set sounds lovely ๐Ÿ˜Š

[โ€“] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A Guy Boyd tiled coffee table showing a map of Australia with pictures of various animals painted on the tiles before firing. Circa 1950 or thereabouts. Very MCM. Some gorgeous mid Victorian australian cedar furniture from my great grandmother's house, the cedar came from Richmond/Grafton in NSW back before those trees were almost completely wiped out by commercial logging. A couple of dot paintings that I got in Alice Springs back in the 80s cos I really liked them. Quite a few of my mother's paintings showing birds n animals n plants from along Merri Creek and down on Westernport - mostly done post 1980. Not much else that's specifically 'Australian' as such.
Dad's side of the family was nomadic - where they hung their hat was home and they went all over the world, so quite a lot of keepsakes from all over but very little from Aus. Which includes a rather charming little brass kangaroo, made by a smith somewhere in India who had clearly only ever seen a photo of the beast. Mum's family had pretensions and, apart from Mum, rather despised 'Australiana' and placed a higher value on their imported Anglo culture - really only the furniture was passed down and that only because it was very very functional.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A Guy Boyd tiled coffee table showing a map of Australia with pictures of various animals painted on the tiles before firing. Circa 1950 or thereabouts.

omg, I am so jelly ๐Ÿ˜ญ

( I had an ADRI BELGIQUE MCM table with lava tiles depicting a reef , it's gone now ๐Ÿ˜’ , husband lost all my stuff )

[โ€“] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Ex-husband I hope! Losing that - there is no place for him in the Kingdom of Heaven.

[โ€“] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I have a place mat that has recipes on it such as damper and mutton stew. I have a budgie tin (I think it once had mini marshmallows in it). A Mark Murphy biscuit tin and a May Gibbs one. A Melbourne, Ballarat and Tasmanian tea towels. A small Australian flag in a vase. And numerous stubby holders.

Also numerous other Australian tins such as weetbix, Arnotts and my bush herb tins.

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Nice. ๐Ÿ˜Š