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Meet the Artist Behind the Other-Worldly Butterflies and Insects in Mecca’s 2026 Holiday Artwork Tai Snaith It started with Tai Snaith pouring inks and watercolours in her Abbotsford studio – soon it’ll be all over your holiday gifts. In partnership with Mecca, we chat to the Melbourne artist about the joyful commission and being part of the NGV Triennial. The season of giving takes a more colourful, whimsical turn each year thanks to Mecca’s festive holiday packaging. Whether it’s a Kris Kringle gift at a work party or a present for your sister hidden under the tree, the packaging takes…
Meet Tai Snaith: The Artist Behind Our Wildest Holiday Yet! Words by Romy Erdos The most wonderful time of the year is here – the moment MECCA reveals the artist whose work will light up our stores and adorn countless gifts, from Friendsmases to family lunches, Kris Kringles to work mingles. And this year, things are getting a little wild. “I hope that it makes people feel like they can be their weird selves, with all their imperfections and nuances and celebrate their own wild chorus within,” says Australian artist and author Tai Snaith of the Join the Wild Chorus…
Robson Rak design an expressive home in Melbourne with surprises at every turn Designed around the owners’ art collection, this two-bedroom home turns the constraints of downsizing into a creative opportunity, pairing heritage details with bold flourishes. Photographed by Anson Smart. Architecture, Interior design, furniture, art procurement and styling by Robson Rak. Saskia Tillers September 30, 2026 – 8:28AM Downsizing needn’t mean limiting or losing sight of personality. Instead, it can provide an otherwise unforeseen opportunity to consolidate, curate and flex creative muscles. Never has this sentiment rung truer than at Celine, a Victorian home in Melbourne’s leafy eastern…
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GALLERY IN UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ALUMNI NEWS
Read article here – text version below: UQ Art History graduate opens his own commercial gallery 24 March 2015 Nicholas Thompson, an Honours graduate in Art History from the University of Queensland, has opened his own commercial gallery in Melbourne. Nicholas completed his Honours thesis on Australian Indigenous Art at UQ and has worked at some of the most esteemed galleries in Australia. Mr Thompson said his experience in galleries including Australian Galleries and John Buckley Gallery in Melbourne and Philip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane was where he honed his skills in the commercial sector of the art world. “I had…
GALLERY IN THE AGE AND SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Read the article online here, text version below: Nicholas Thompson’s new Collingwood gallery sparks dialogue between artists young and old Dylan Rainforth Published: March 17, 2015 – 2:32PM Nicholas Thompson opens a new, eponymous gallery in Langridge Street, Collingwood, this Saturday, only a stone’s throw from Australian Galleries where he was gallery manager for the past three years. Before that he worked for John Buckley and, in his hometown of Brisbane, Philip Bacon Galleries. “I’d been working for galleries for about a decade and it was kind of just time to do my own thing,” Thompson says. “I’m opening with15 artists…
NICHOLAS THOMPSON INTERVIEWED ON ALEX MCCULLOCH’S THE ART SHOW
Link to the interview here
GALLERY IN ART COLLECTOR MAGAZINE
Column in Jan 2015 issue on the opening of the gallery.