The Brisbane Floods made us realise how much beautiful stock we have accumulated in the first six months of opening, including nine beautiful Rachael Sarra paintings. These are now available online.

From late February to early March 2022, Brisbane suffered an extraordinary weather event with significant “rain bomb” that produced an enormous amount of water, equal to 80% of the annual rainfall within in a 4 day period. Aboriginal Art Co store was in the flood zone, so, as a precaution, we took all of our possessions upstairs. Luckily, the flood waters only reached our doorstep and didn’t get inside the building, never-the-less, this was a huge disruption to our business and we closed our doors for a week to reset the gallery.

During this reset, we realised how much beautiful stock we have accumulated, including some Rachael Sarra paintings from her solo exhibition last year. We got in touch with Rachael and she has kindly allowed us to do a special online release of her 30 x 30cm paintings that we had in our stock room.

Rachael is a prolific creative and primarily works in digital spaces. She has her own range of merchandise with her signature pink palette and has collaborated with many businesses; How We Roll toilet paper, Matrix Australia hair products, Peggy and Finn underwear and accessories, Hey Tiger Co chocolate, tbh skincare, Hardie Grant book and puzzles and the very sort after Concrete Jelly earrings. She has work on Brisbane City Council buses and large murals on the side of buildings and done a huge amount of design work for corporate clients, government and community organisations.

These small paintings are unique and rare and we had the opportunity to interview Rachael Sarra to learn more about her world and why these paintings are so special to her.