About Us
a bit about us...
Angela Maher established Splatter on 15 August, 1996, after fruitful careers in marketing, publicity, publishing, film making, photography, music, entertainment and education.
With a Bachelor of Education from the Melbourne College of Advanced Education, and many years of promotional work for the Australian Commonwealth Government, including time as the Publicity Officer for the United Nation's International Year of the Family, Angela believed it was time to put her overloaded 'bag of interesting tricks' to good, personal use.
A highly visual person, Angela has always wanted to create beautiful, inspiring and meaningful products. A little offbeat, Angela's own style has always followed the "road less travelled", yet has remained impeccably tasteful.
She has exhibited her own films, photographs, and ceramics
and was a professional singer and songwriter. She has always loved
creating, and it is the expressive passion that keeps her motivated
and inspired in all areas of her life. She collects chairs.
Originally ceramic home wares and tiles carried the Splatter logo, becoming popular collectors items in their own right.
The designs soon found their way to canvas however, when the birth of her third child meant Angela had to get help with the sheer volume of work Splatter was generating.
Enter Christopher Martin, brush in hand, stage left...
Christopher Martin began designing part-time for Splatter as an artistic consultant in 1997, and in 2005, after a decade long career as a Horticulturalist, he traded in his secateurs as the growing demand for his beautiful artwork meant plants and soil were replaced by paint and ink as his creative mediums.
The second youngest in a family of seven children,
Christopher has always had strong ties to family. At ten years of age
Chris lost his father, turning to his love of popular culture, art,
movies, music and his very large family to fill his life.
Chris credits the influence of popular television shows, cartoons, comics, movies, and modern artists like Michael Leunig, Brett Whiteley, Richard Scarry, Charles M. Schulz, and Bill Watterson, as the stylistic backbone to his work. He is also a voracious reader of modern science fiction novels.
Christopher's artwork is inspired, witty, simple in form and line yet still able to convey sophisticated character and depth.
He holds a Diploma in Cartooning and Illustration, and a Diploma of Applied Science (Horticulture), and his original artworks are borne of his continuing love, since childhood, of cartoons and comics. His works are sometimes obtuse, other times just tongue in cheek, light-handed and smart.
Christopher's abstract works also carry elements of cartooning; economy of line, harder outlines and edges, texture and shading. His "doodles" as he calls them, are beautiful in their simplicity and inspired by many years of quietly observing and absorbing life experience.
Splatter Pty Limited, after eleven years operating as a sole-trader, became a company on 28 June 2007, and was invited onto Austrade's New Exporter Development Program, following an explosive response to it's products in the South East Asian gateway market of Singapore in March 2007.
Splatter's large 'mosaic' installation; a graphic wall of 320 mini paintings, at Robinson's Centrepoint Store in Singapore, is generating continued interest in the company.
The company was involved in an export mentoring program with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Canberra Business Point in Australia and won the 2008 Emerging Exporter Award, presented by Canberra Business Point; real recognition of the company's growth in the export arena. Splatter was also a finalist in the ACT Chief Minister's Export Awards for 2008 and 2009, in the Arts and Entertainment category.
Clear business direction, with a strong customer focus are two of the many reasons for Splatter's success. A really beautiful product range and huge variety gives the Company it's leading edge. We listen to our customers and are very in tune with developments in interior and other design fields. We attempt to be the "head, and not the tail, of the tiger" in our fields of endeavour in an attempt to stay ahead of the competition.
Splatter creates commercial and fine art pieces so there is a price point for everyone. They have launched new art-based products to broaden the Company's scope and diversify its range so everyone can have their own piece of Splatter.
The Flash BastardTrust
Together, Angela and Christopher make a dynamic team; Angela with her design and product focus, attention to detail, extensive marketing and project management experience; and Christopher with his very special artistic gifts, wonderful humour, amazing visual merchandising abilities and strategic thinking skills.
They have three very creative children aged twenty two (professional photographer), sixteen (elite Australian junior basketballer) and eight (budding singer, actress, dancer, raconteur), a busy family life and a blossoming business that is expanding their already strong export activities.
Angela, the Managing Director, was nominated in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 for Telstra's Business Woman of the Year, and is currently renovating the family home and studio in Murrumbateman; a cold-climate wine growing community, just outside Canberra, Australia's capital city.
Christopher, as the Creative Director for Splatter, successfully completed his first solo overseas exhibition, "Small World"; a collection of 'windows' into the world of the child within us all, at the Andrew Shire Gallery in Singapore in September, 2007.
That exhibition built on the relationship Chris currently has with his growing following; children and adults alike are drawn to the simple, colourful, fantastic yet honest and truthful depiction of his world.
Angela and Christopher designed their first line of manufactured products for Splatter that they launched in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in May 2008, along with their first children's book "Do Bunyips Have Spots?"; an add-on to Splatter's beautiful original artwork, and to further expand the already well respected Splatter brand globally.
They have since released a second book in collaboration with
Singapoean Author Adeline Foo, "The Thing Under My Bed", which has
travelled to Frankfurt and Bologna Book Fairs with their Singaporean
Publisher.
This was followed by a solo exhibition of Splatter's works in Los Angeles, and then representing Australia at the Australian Pavilion of the China International Small and Medium Enterprise Fair in Guangzhou, China in September 2010 on the heels of the World Expo, where they launched their new and exciting product range.
8 December 2010 saw the successful opening of Splatter's flagship store at Robinson's Centrepoint Store on busy Orchard Road in Singapore.
Splatter's future is bright, with continued growth in the export sector and a growing collector's base world wide.
Angela Maher established Splatter on 15 August, 1996, after fruitful careers in marketing, publicity, publishing, film making, photography, music, entertainment and education.
With a Bachelor of Education from the Melbourne College of Advanced Education, and many years of promotional work for the Australian Commonwealth Government, including time as the Publicity Officer for the United Nation's International Year of the Family, Angela believed it was time to put her overloaded 'bag of interesting tricks' to good, personal use.
A highly visual person, Angela has always wanted to create beautiful, inspiring and meaningful products. A little offbeat, Angela's own style has always followed the "road less travelled", yet has remained impeccably tasteful.
Originally ceramic home wares and tiles carried the Splatter logo, becoming popular collectors items in their own right.
The designs soon found their way to canvas however, when the birth of her third child meant Angela had to get help with the sheer volume of work Splatter was generating.
Enter Christopher Martin, brush in hand, stage left...
Christopher Martin began designing part-time for Splatter as an artistic consultant in 1997, and in 2005, after a decade long career as a Horticulturalist, he traded in his secateurs as the growing demand for his beautiful artwork meant plants and soil were replaced by paint and ink as his creative mediums.
Chris credits the influence of popular television shows, cartoons, comics, movies, and modern artists like Michael Leunig, Brett Whiteley, Richard Scarry, Charles M. Schulz, and Bill Watterson, as the stylistic backbone to his work. He is also a voracious reader of modern science fiction novels.
Christopher's artwork is inspired, witty, simple in form and line yet still able to convey sophisticated character and depth.
He holds a Diploma in Cartooning and Illustration, and a Diploma of Applied Science (Horticulture), and his original artworks are borne of his continuing love, since childhood, of cartoons and comics. His works are sometimes obtuse, other times just tongue in cheek, light-handed and smart.
Christopher's abstract works also carry elements of cartooning; economy of line, harder outlines and edges, texture and shading. His "doodles" as he calls them, are beautiful in their simplicity and inspired by many years of quietly observing and absorbing life experience.
Splatter Pty Limited, after eleven years operating as a sole-trader, became a company on 28 June 2007, and was invited onto Austrade's New Exporter Development Program, following an explosive response to it's products in the South East Asian gateway market of Singapore in March 2007.
Splatter's large 'mosaic' installation; a graphic wall of 320 mini paintings, at Robinson's Centrepoint Store in Singapore, is generating continued interest in the company.
The company was involved in an export mentoring program with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Canberra Business Point in Australia and won the 2008 Emerging Exporter Award, presented by Canberra Business Point; real recognition of the company's growth in the export arena. Splatter was also a finalist in the ACT Chief Minister's Export Awards for 2008 and 2009, in the Arts and Entertainment category.
Clear business direction, with a strong customer focus are two of the many reasons for Splatter's success. A really beautiful product range and huge variety gives the Company it's leading edge. We listen to our customers and are very in tune with developments in interior and other design fields. We attempt to be the "head, and not the tail, of the tiger" in our fields of endeavour in an attempt to stay ahead of the competition.
Splatter creates commercial and fine art pieces so there is a price point for everyone. They have launched new art-based products to broaden the Company's scope and diversify its range so everyone can have their own piece of Splatter.
The Flash BastardTrust
Together, Angela and Christopher make a dynamic team; Angela with her design and product focus, attention to detail, extensive marketing and project management experience; and Christopher with his very special artistic gifts, wonderful humour, amazing visual merchandising abilities and strategic thinking skills.
They have three very creative children aged twenty two (professional photographer), sixteen (elite Australian junior basketballer) and eight (budding singer, actress, dancer, raconteur), a busy family life and a blossoming business that is expanding their already strong export activities.
Angela, the Managing Director, was nominated in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 for Telstra's Business Woman of the Year, and is currently renovating the family home and studio in Murrumbateman; a cold-climate wine growing community, just outside Canberra, Australia's capital city.
Christopher, as the Creative Director for Splatter, successfully completed his first solo overseas exhibition, "Small World"; a collection of 'windows' into the world of the child within us all, at the Andrew Shire Gallery in Singapore in September, 2007.
That exhibition built on the relationship Chris currently has with his growing following; children and adults alike are drawn to the simple, colourful, fantastic yet honest and truthful depiction of his world.
Angela and Christopher designed their first line of manufactured products for Splatter that they launched in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in May 2008, along with their first children's book "Do Bunyips Have Spots?"; an add-on to Splatter's beautiful original artwork, and to further expand the already well respected Splatter brand globally.
This was followed by a solo exhibition of Splatter's works in Los Angeles, and then representing Australia at the Australian Pavilion of the China International Small and Medium Enterprise Fair in Guangzhou, China in September 2010 on the heels of the World Expo, where they launched their new and exciting product range.
8 December 2010 saw the successful opening of Splatter's flagship store at Robinson's Centrepoint Store on busy Orchard Road in Singapore.
Splatter's future is bright, with continued growth in the export sector and a growing collector's base world wide.