My good mate @otishopecarey has let his paintbrush fly once again creating the most amazing artwork now available on the worlds comfiest of blankets!!! Do yourself a favour and checkout @ngaarlu and grab one while they’re hot🔥 @sophiewilling
Marking story in the skin of the Ngaarlu, light bending, ancestral lines moving beneath the surface.
You can feel it, not seen, but known.
Our ancestors footsteps softened into ripples, their voices carried in the silence between waves.
Ngaarlu remembers us, always.
In the shallow pools where tide meets stone, time slows and the old world sings again.
Stories not written in words but in movement, in return, in the pull of the ocean calling you home.
Where the sun rises through salt and spirit, where circles drawn in sand echo the shape of forever.
Each wave speaks our name.
And still through light, through tide, through us they live.
Cozy moments with @ngaarlu ☕️🖤
Thank you @otishopecarey and @sophiewilling for gifting me this beautiful tapestry. So grateful for this, it’s beautiful. Artwork by Otis Hope Carey: Giilayjun Biliiyaming Nyanuumba / High Tide Through Wetlands
We love sourcing beautiful pieces that truly complete a space and make it feel special and unique. This incredible @ngaarlu throw (almost feels like a piece of art!) called ‘Dancing Water’ was the perfect finishing touch in the living room at Luke’s @lukeandsassyscott home
Photographer @elisescott.studio
Breath of the hills,
old spirits moving through green valleys
where light rests gently on Country.
You are the quiet before movement,
the pulse beneath soil,
the remembering.
Memory moves like water.
It never forgets.
It circles stone,
presses into earth,
carries songs in its undercurrent.
What was spoken long ago
still ripples here
downstream,
into us.
Ancestors carrying the wind
through leaves lit gold.
Ancestors carrying stories
in wind and water.
Songs dance in the dark greens,
in the spaces between breath,
in the knowing that rises
without being taught.
Water shaping valleys,
carving paths through rock and time.
So too the spirit
steady, patient,
unseen but undeniable.
What flows with love
reshapes the world.
What is carried with honour
becomes the path.
Ngaarlu
still moving,
still remembering,
still becoming.
Otis.
📸 @soft_urge__
🎥 @ryan_bienefelt
Shadows of branches
reach like old stories
across a pale wall,
veins of memory
stretching above your head
like moving water in slow light.
You lean there,
wrapped in circles and pathways,
maps that hum of country,
of footprints turning back
to where they began,
like currents finding the river mouth.
A child looks up at you
as if you are a horizon.
Light spills gold across her face,
and in her eyes
is the quiet question of tomorrow,
shimmering like moving water.
The wind catches the blanket,
suddenly it is not cloth
but sky,
not fabric
but tide.
A sail against the deep blue dusk,
patterns flowing like moving water
seen from above,
circles widening,
songlines carried on a current
older than stone.
A doorway carved from sun
and shadow.
You stand between earth and air,
between holding on
and letting go,
steady as a riverbank
watching the water move.
And everywhere
the circles repeat.
Father and child,
past and becoming.
And in the space between your gaze
and hers,
a future unfolds,
wide as the evening sky,
restless and alive like moving water. - Otis
📸 @soft_urge__
We are excited to be joined by NGAARLU Founders; Otis Hope Carey and Sophie Willing this week at the Atelier in an exhibition of art and design.
265 Swan Street, Richmond
Exhibiting 18-25 February
#aesquethetic
Announcing an exhibition at The A-ESQUE Atelier of work by Ngaarlu.
February 18-25
265 Swan Street Richmond, 3121
@ngaarlu
By @otishopecarey & @sophiewilling
#aesquethetic
Our spirits meet
in the soft in-between,
where water remembers skin
and time loosens its grip.
The stories of our ancestors
rise through tide and movement,
spoken not in words
but in feeling,
in knowing.
Mirrors carved
by stone and time
hold every footstep,
every song,
every return.
In these waters
we are never alone
only listening,
only remembering.
📸 @soft_urge__
Nyangga
Basin / Rock Pools
Growing, watching, learning and playing in and around rock pools creates a lifelong sense of curiosity in children. I was privileged to experience this myself, learning from rock pools along coastal headlands and up river systems. As a curious child, with an open heart and a mind excited for adventure, these moments embedded deeply, becoming core memories that stayed with me into adulthood.
The design of this tapestry is a reflection of my childhood and the way playing, observing and learning amongst rock pools shaped those early memories. When I return to these moments in my mind, I feel safe and supported, much like the feeling of being wrapped in this tapestry.
Now, as a parent, watching my own children play in rock pools has become a deeply healing and beautiful experience. Wrapping them in my love, sharing these places of wonder, and creating new memories together allows the story to continue, carrying forward into the future.
📸 @soft_urge__
📸 @alwayskeen_productions
The ocean embodies the love of a hug from your favourite person, a moment where time slows and we are healed simply by being held. It invites us to surrender, to be embraced by both its beauty and its power at once.
As water moves around us, it carries us to a place where imagination is free, where we can be whatever or whoever we need to be in that moment. When the ocean travels inland, moving up rivers to meet the base of waterfalls, dancing and intertwining with fresh water, many stories come together in one body, just as we do.
Let water nourish you, hold you, sing to you, and tell you its stories. From the coastline to the mountains, and out into the red earth, water connects us all.
Otis.
🎥 @sambrumby_
📸 @soft_urge__
📸 @alwayskeen_productions
🎶 @tomvsnowdon
