It’s a long way from the dirt tracks of Railway Bore in the remote northern desert of South Australia to the well-heeled West London enclave of Marylebone. And yet recently on show in Mint Gallery, renowned for finely crafted, limited-edition furniture were a sideboard, a cupboard and low-laying chairs that had been carved to evoke the Australian outback.

The result of a collaboration between self-proclaimed “design anthropologist” Trent Jansen, who lives and works in coastal Thirroul, south of Sydney, and Tanya Singer, a Minyma Anangu woman who comes from a family of artists and makers, the Manta Pilti (Dry Sand) series is intended to elegantly evoke the changing climate.