Take a virtual tour of ‘Natural History’ by Fallen Fruit / David Burns and Austin Young. A new artwork commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne for the Triennial 2020. The wall text for the ‘Natural History’ triptych are below. https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/virtual-tours/triennial-2020-fallen-fruit/

Natural History , 2020, Fallen Fruit artist collective, United States est. 2004 
David Allen Burns artist , United States born 1970 
Austin Young artist ,United States born 1966 

Natural History, 2020, Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns and Austin Young

Central to the work of Los Angeles–based art collective Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young) is the desire to create beautiful and sumptuous spaces where audiences can enjoy museum collections in new, unexpected ways that simultaneously reveal a series of layered social constructs.

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 together with indigenous ones, many of them drawn from images held in the NGV Collection.  

As an immersive environment, Natural History also includes works from the NGV Collection, creating completely new visual and cultural contexts in which to view canonical European and Australian paintings and sculptures. Seeing the artworks in this new way helps draw into question the preconceived knowledge and ideas that usually frame our understanding of art, history, place, indigeneity and colonialism.

Fallen Fruit critically revisits and questions a range of issues in Natural History, including exacerbated  colonialism and its social constructs with regards the classification of the natural world, narrative depictions of religion and the supernatural in art.  In the artists’ selection, organsation and juxtaposition of historical artworks from the NGV Collection combined with their wallpaper, contemporary disruptions and perspectives on race, class, gender and sexuality emerge.   

Natural History  2020 , digital prints (and found objects from the NGV collection), Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne , Natural History 2020 is supported by Nicholas Perkins and Paul Banks , Collection of the artists  

Naturalised plants (Royal Botanic Gardens) room E14A

The images on this wallpaper comprise a pattern of roses and other non-native plantsrepresenting European ideals materialized in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, alongside with fruits and flowers from the streets of inner-city Collingwood. The pattern images from photographs by the artists simultaneously represent colonizers’ social constructs regarding the ‘naturalization’ of plants as well as the adaptive powers of introduced species conducive to urban and rural environments. 

Naturalised plants (Royal Botanic Gardens) 2020  Room E14A, 2020 , digital prints (and found objects from the NGV collection) Collection of the artists 

Native plants (Cranbourne Gardens) This pattern from Fallen Fruit photographs taken at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne,  2020 freatures banksias, kangaroo paws, and others that are among the hundreds of indigenous species being preserved in this ecosystem.  Many artifacts in dialogue with the wallpaper here are European artifacts brought to Australia with limited cultural context and thus mis-identified. 

Native plants (Cranbourne Gardens)  room E14 B , 2020, digital print (and found objects from the NGV collection), Collection of the artists 

Sketchbooks and drawings (National Gallery of Victoria) is a pattern created from historic botanical drawings, notebooks and sketchbooks held in the NGV Collection. The intricately drawn birds, insects, and eucalypts and other indigenous shrubs creates an atmosphere that the artists speculate existed before and during the time of settlement. 

Sketchbooks and drawings (National Gallery of Victoria) room E14C, 2020, digital print (with found objects from the NGV Collection) Collection of the artists 

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The NGV Triennial brings contemporary art, design and architecture into dialogue, offering a visually arresting and thought-provoking view of the world at this time. Featuring major new commissions and recent works that span geography, perspective and genre, the exhibition celebrates the work of some of the world’s most accomplished artists and designers, while also giving voice to emerging practitioners.

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A Time capsule for the present. An online project – As told by artists and creators. Curated works for the present.

A question from #fallenfruit we want to hear from you. In simple language, share what you know best about being an extraordinary person. It can be thoughts from recent weeks or the past months, or maybe something you learned from family or a mentor. Give the insights that only you know best, and Fallen Fruit will create one of our signature scores with the answers we receive. Put your answer below or go to timeinthistime.com and email info@fallenfruit.org your answer #timeinthistime #fallenfruit

check it out HERE

19 DEC 2020 – 18 APR 2021

We are excited and grateful that our artwork is a part of the NGV Triennial.

www.ngv.vic.gov.au

The NGV Triennial brings contemporary art, design and architecture into dialogue, offering a visually arresting and thought-provoking view of the world at this time. Featuring major new commissions and recent works that span geography, perspective and genre, the exhibition celebrates the work of some of the world’s most accomplished artists and designers, while also giving voice to emerging practitioners.

Read our new interview HERE

What Artists Are Doing Now. Contemporary art collective Fallen Fruit in Los Angeles

“Fear is very easy to grow. Love is also very easy to grow. We are focused on promoting messages of love and joy. A fruit tree is a great symbol of generosity. And fruit trees are endlessly giving (fruit) without expecting anything in return. :)” – David and Austin of Fallen Fruit

Join us! Sunday February 23rd 1-4pm

It’s the LAST DAY to visit SUPERSHOW. We’ll hang out, talk about art and fruit. There will be tarot readings, teas and cakes. This event is FREE to the public. If you want to adopt a fruit tree for sharing with your neighborhood read the info below:
The Endless Orchard Fruit Tree Adoption!
Collaborate with us! Adopt a Fruit Tree to share with neighbors.

RSVP us at info@fallenfruit.org. and put your name on the list for a Fruit Tree!
· “Adopt” a tree: If you have a home or business, or community center in Los Angeles.
· The Tree is Accessible: You have space in the front of your yard next to the sidewalk.
· Care for the tree: You must agree to water the tree for the first two years.
· Share the bounty!  You must agree to share the fruit with everyone. The tree will be part of the Endless Orchard Map (endlessorchard.com) and part of a network of shared of trees.

Fallen Fruit is featured on “Hope Builders,” highlighting organizations doing good in San Bernardino, for the KVCR PBS station.  This episode is directed by Maria Burton.  Hope Builder  (all 6 pieces with an intro by Christine Lahti) aired in January, 2020.  Features our public fruit park we created with SB Arts Connection  during our project “Fallen Fruit of San Bernardino.”

Fallen Fruit Prints Now On Sale
Limited Edition

Did you have wallpaper envy during the Fallen Fruit tricentennial show at Newcomb Art Museum? Now’s your chance to own a piece of that memorable exhibition! Fallen Fruit and Newcomb Art Museum have partnered to sell limited edition (and one of-a-kind!) authentic wallpaper prints from the show. Patterns and pricing vary; stop by the museum gift shop or shop online to purchase yours today!

https://newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu/shop/

*download the catalog from our exhibition “EMPIRE” by Fallen Fruit, 2018, at Newcomb Art Museum:  HERE

The Largest Collaborative Zine ever made! Thank you for participating and/or enjoying it!  #fallenfruit #vamfamilies

 FALLEN FRUIT MAGAZINE V&A PART II

here is Part 1:

  FALLEN FRUIT MAGAZINE of the V&A PART I

Thanks everyone for participating and making the largest ever collaborative zine with us along with V&A Families team. We had so much fun with you! We will upload a link soon– where the magazine can be purchased as a hard bound book.  Sign up for our email list below and we’ll update you when it’s available and check out our exclusive V&A merch in the V&A Store.

Love,

Austin and David

Fallen Fruit Magazine:  V&A Edition brings together public participation, local histories and story-telling. Using strategies of collage this temporary team of culture advocates use fruit as a symbol, object and/or subject to create original editorial content to produce a site-specific limited edition contemporary culture magazine. Each edition is unique and is editorially focused to topics and subject matter that is historically meaningful to a neighborhood and/ or region. For the ‘Victoria and Albert Edition,’ we collaborated with the Families Programme at the V&A in South Kensington, during the spring and summer of 2019 in London on The Imagination Station.

V&A Families programme:  The V&A Families programme nurtures imagination, creativity and intergenerational play, developing innovative partnerships with practitioners to deliver thought-provoking and multi-sensory activities that foster a life-long love of learning.  #vamfamilies

Austin Young and David Burns, Collectively know as Fallen Fruit are included in the exhibition:   FOOD BIGGER THAN THE PLATE 

#fallenfruit  / fallenfruit.org / endlessorchard.com / fallen_fruit 

FOOD BIGGER THAN THE PLATE  was curated by Catherine Flood and May Rosenthal Sloan –  The exhibition invited visitors to participate, taste and debate, this bold exhibition explores current experiments at every stage of the food system – from compost to table.  #plateup

You can take part in Fallen Fruit’s collective mapping and planting experience, the Endless Orchard, which explores the meaning of community through creating and sharing fruit trees:“Plant a fruit tree near your home. Share your fruit!”.