Fallen Fruit

California-based artists Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young), make public art which explores the role of fruit in creating shared culture. Known for their awe-inspiring installations at both public and private institutions 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" include a physical print for the primary sale, and one fruit tree planted in honour of the genesis owner in Los Angeles' State Historic Park mapped on endlessorchard.com

“We aim to bring more beauty into the world," says Fallen Fruit. "Natural History" and "Native Plants", are patterns of flora native to Australia, created for the artist’s immersive installation artwork "Natural History" at the NGV Triennial in Melbourne.

"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).

Native Plants

"Love is Blind in Natural History" is a collage using an image of a statue "Love is Blind" (Amore Accieca) (c. 1875). Donato Barcaglia, in situ with "Sketchbooks and Drawings," an asynchronous repeat pattern created with historic drawing from the permanent collection of the NGV made by the early explorers and first settlers of Australia. The original artwork installation "Natural History" was commissioned by NGV Triennial, National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 2020. 

Using the medium of wallpaper, Fallen Fruit creates 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 with indigenous ones. This is a detail of an immersive artwork created for the European Galleries at the NGV. 

**The genesis sale of this NFT includes "Love is Blind in Natural History" - a 24" x 36" archival watercolour printed on acid-free paper (an edition of 150 with 2 APs). It will also include one fruit tree planted in a public space for sharing and mapped on endlessorchard.com in honour of the new owner. 

Music by Andrew Stanley (of Yolanda Be Cool).

Love is Blind in Natural History

"Public Gathering at the Monument to Sharing" is a digital collage made with recontextualized anthropomorphic fruit characters originally created by the public for "Fallen Fruit Magazine" - mainly from their participatory project at the V&A Museum in London, and also various cities around the world. 

The characters are gathered around the "Monument to Sharing,” the artist's permanent installation artwork in Los Angeles' State Historic Park. It is an installation of 32 orange trees meant to be shared with everyone. 

This image was created in 2021 to celebrate the launch of the Endless Orchard - Fallen Fruit's collaborative non-contiguous public sharing orchard. Join them in creating the largest edible artwork in the world. 

**The genesis sale of this NFT includes "Public Gathering at the Monument to Sharing” - a physical 30" x 40" work printed on acid-free paper (in an edition of 6 with 2 APs). It will also include one fruit tree planted in a public space for sharing and mapped on endlessorchard.com in honour of the new owner. 

Music by Andrew Stanley (of Yolanda Be Cool).