Graffiti Bloom (6090)

Graffiti Bloom began with a collision.
I wanted to bring together two visual languages that seem, at first, to have very little in common: the unruly marks of graffiti and street art, and the extraordinary forms of Australian flowers, birds and insects.

The collection grew from that tension. Tags, drips, scribbles, spray marks and fragments of text sit beneath and around banksias, grevilleas, cockatoos, butterflies and great bursting botanical forms. Some designs are dense and almost wall-like, layered with marks upon marks; others give the botanicals more room to breathe. Throughout, colour behaves with very little restraint.

There is something I love about putting the precious beside the scruffy. Australian native flowers can be spectacularly architectural and elegant, but they are also tough, strange, spiky and wonderfully eccentric. Graffiti has that same refusal to be polite. It interrupts. It layers itself over what was there before. It leaves evidence of energy and human
presence.

Bringing the two together let me push the work somewhere more urban, more graphic and slightly more rebellious, while still keeping the Australian botanical and bird imagery that sits at the heart of my practice.

The final designs range from richly patterned all-over surfaces to compositions where individual birds, flowers and insects emerge from the chaos. The collection includes everything from dark, moody grounds exploding with colour to bright turquoise, pink, orange and lime
combinations that are almost impossible to ignore.

Graffiti Bloom is noisy, layered, joyful and unapologetically exuberant. It is, perhaps, the Australian bush refusing to behave itself.

Order by 28th February 2027 for 30th August 2027 delivery