Native Plants

"Native Plants" is an asynchronous repeat pattern from Fallen Fruit, created using photographs taken at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Cranbourne during a visit to Melbourne in 2020. It features banksias, kangaroo paws, and other flora among the hundreds of indigenous species preserved in this pristine ecosystem.

Using the medium of wallpaper, David and Austin / Fallen Fruit create unique designs inspired by seemingly local flora and fauna. "Natural History" 2020, takes its subject matter from Australia and critically combines introduced species of birds and plants together with indigenous ones, many of them drawn from images held in the NGV Collection.

"Native Plants" draws into focus the complex and dynamic relationship between historical and contemporary ideals of beauty and nature, religious ideology, and narrative themes of colonialism and how they function as storytelling in Western art. This is a detail of an immersive artwork created for the European Galleries at the NGV.

Music by Andrew Stanley (of Yolanda Be Cool).

Fallen Fruit, David Allen Burns & Austin Young, make art which explores the role of fruit in creating shared culture. Known for their awe-inspiring installations across the globe, this is their first foray into the NFT space. "Garden of Delight" is their genesis collection, consisting of 36 items drawn from three original digital works. "Public Gathering at the Monument to Sharing" and "Love is Blind in Natural History" includes a physical print for the primary sale, and one fruit tree planted in honour of the genesis owner and mapped on endlessorchard.com for sharing.

"Natural History" and "Native Plants", are patterns of flora native to Australia, created for the artist’s installation artwork "Natural History" at the NGV Triennial in Melbourne.Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.