ARTISTS - MAKERS
Made By Morgen
Furniture Maker & Designer
[ + Host of the exhibition ]
Nick McDonald, the Founder and Director of Made by Morgen, recounts his journey from working in construction to establishing a successful bespoke furniture business in Melbourne. After spending six months in Denmark, he fell in love with Scandinavian furniture design, which inspired him to bring those influences back to Australia. With a focus on creating beautiful and functional spaces, he developed the philosophy of “make it simple, make it well,” which serves as the foundation for his brand.
Emma Shepherd - Sundance Studio
Weaver
Emma Shepherd, a weaver from Flinders, honors the ancient craft of weaving with an artistic approach that reflects her natural surroundings. She draws on yarns from around the world and explores the historical significance of fiber, viewing weaving as one of humanity's earliest forms of expression. Incorporating elements of Bauhaus design, Shepherd uses colors inspired by local landscapes—green foliage, dark tree trunks, and neutral sand and rock—while also integrating materials like pine needles, horsehair, and bark. This blend of diverse textures and hues allows her work to resonate with both her environment and the rich traditions of weaving.
Martyn Thompson
Photographer, Glass, Textile & Ceramic Artist
An artist celebrated for his tactile, painterly style, reflecting his hands-on approach and connection to the world around him. His creative journey began in fashion in cities like Sydney, Paris, London, and New York, before transitioning to photography.
He has collaborated with prestigious brands such as Tiffany & Co., Gucci, and Hermès. Since 2012, he has expanded into textiles, ceramics, and glasswork, earning accolades like the Elle Decoration UK’s Best Tableware Award in 2020 for his Accidental Expressionist collection with 1882Ltd.
In 2021, Thompson relocated from New York to Sydney, where he established a workspace and showroom in Alexandria’s design district, continuing to explore new mediums with recent exhibitions at Studio Alm, Oigall Projects, and Canberra Glassworks.
Sarah Nedovic
Ceramic Lighting Maker & Designer
A Melbourne-based artist, forges unions between materials, light, form and innovation to elicit outcomes that are ever-evolving, constantly shifting to make space for new influences. Having established herself as a ceramic artist, producing works held in collections within Australia and abroad, Sarah’s work has begun to evolve into other materials while remaining anchored by a strong cross-disciplinary spirit that has come to define her. Through a mediation between intuition, research and the employment of both traditional techniques and investigative discovery.
Lana Launay
Lighting maker and designer
Lana Launay is an Australian lighting artist, currently working within the creative landscapes of Sydney and Los Angeles.
Rooted in a multidisciplinary foundation of jewellery, textiles, and visual arts, her practice explores the interplay of materiality, form, and illumination.
Through a fusion of artisanal craft and experimental processes, she reimagines lighting as sculptural expressions of space and emotion, engaging with contemporary exhibitions, collaborative partnerships, and works within both commercial and residential contexts.
denHolm
Stonemason and Furniture Designer
Melbourne-based furniture and Art studio, DenHolm, fuses furniture design with fine art. The artist behind the studio, Steven John Clark, creates sculptural pieces that blur lines between art and design. With a background in stonemasonry, Clark takes inspiration from architecture, fashion, art, literature and the mundane, using conventional materials and techniques in unconventional ways.
Andrew Hustwaite
Sculptor and Furniture Designer
Andrew Hustwaite is a Melbourne based sculptor working predominantly through the medium of metals (steel, brass, bronze, gold).
Thang Do
Sculptor and Performer
Thang Do is a queer Vietnamese artist in Melbourne whose sculptures and installations embody the human obsession with spectacles as means of escaping reality and fuelling hope.
As a migrant worker obsessed with chasing the 'American/Australian' dream, Thang manifests empowerment in his work and invites others to do the same.
Working with domestic materials such as paper, glitter, and foil, the artist uses techniques like embellishing, scoring, and folding, to assemble fantasised vessels resembling his constant travels between the physical reality and the wishful realm of the privileged and wealthy.
Miniscapes
Landscape Designer
Clea Cregan, founder of the Melbourne-based landscape design studio Miniscapes and POTO, explores the intersection of sustainability, design, and nature through her innovative creations. Specialising in transforming excess tiles from building industry waste into exquisite vessels for plants and water, Clea’s work embodies a deep commitment to up-cycling and environmental responsibility.
Her creations not only serve as stunning decor but also attract wildlife, making them ideal for urban spaces. Each creation reflects a thoughtful dialogue between materials and form, inviting a meaningful connection to the natural world.
Paul Vizzari
Designer, Chairmaker and Weaver
From his workshop in Eltham, Melbourne, Paul crafts seating by hand. Beyond his original chair range, he takes on custom projects tailored to clients' needs and spaces. Wood, with its natural visual diversity is Paul's preferred medium, giving each chair a distinct character. He prioritises local timber sourcing for sustainability and draws inspiration from the exclusive hues found in Australia's captivating landscape.
Paul is also a Danish Cord weaver, as well as using it for his own range he restores and re-weaves classic designs with Danish Cord, amazing material that offers strength, resilience and comfort. It has a beautiful understated feel that brings texture and elegance to a room. Paul believes in creating work that is ethical and conscientious of the environment.
Moya Delany
Sculptural Lighting Artist
Melbourne-based artist with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Sculpture, Moya Delany is known for her handmade sculptural lighting and chandeliers that evoke the energy of the Space Race and the calm of the ocean. With a deep love of authentic repurposed vintage parachutes, flags, banners and spinnakers, Moya draws inspiration from space, flight, and aviation, deep sea creatures, obsolete sporting equipment, the aesthetics of the 60’s and 70’s, Palm Springs and Life magazine. These original, otherworldly creations fuse history, art and a sensitivity to the materials’ original stories. Moya also makes sculptural assemblages that incorporate vintage objects, souvenirs, botanical specimens and mementos to craft a unique nostalgic language.
Park Minjeong
Furniture and Object Designer
Park Minjeong is a Korean artist and maker working primarily with discarded paper, Styrofoam, fruit boxes found at markets, and other reused materials. Her practice is rooted in minimizing environmental impact—from sourcing materials to the making process and even considering the end of an object’s life. Inspired by traditional Korean motifs such as stone pagodas, folk crafts, and shamanic symbols, Min explores form and color with a focus on reinterpretation. Her work celebrates the unexpected beauty of imperfect structures and unfamiliar shapes, revealing a quiet but compelling visual language. While she began with functional objects, her interests now extend toward larger, more architectural forms—blurring the lines between sculpture, craft, and design. Through her works, she continues to create thoughtful, hand-built pieces that invite reflection on materiality, heritage, and our relationship to the things we choose to keep.
Ryan L. Foote
Installation artist
Ryan L. Foote is a creative artist based in Melbourne and Hong Kong, recognized for his unique event-based artworks that merge food, fashion, art, and design. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Spatial Practices from the Victorian College of the Arts and has exhibited widely, including at the National Gallery of Victoria and Federation Square.
Jacqueline Cilia
Interior and Furniture Designer
Jacqueline is a Melbourne based interior designer, exploring the realm of furniture and lighting design. Central to her creative practice is the common thread of the 'object' that can shift through different contexts over time. Her current venture is an exploration of the elegant interplay between proportion and materiality, guided by a fascination for shaping meaningful environments.
Weighted Lines
Natural relief printer
For years Dave Aldous, aka Weighted Lines, has walked past fallen trees out in nature, he has always stopped to appreciate their beauty and unique qualities that make them all so different. His imprints are an homage to their life, to their contribution to this world, to personify their existence, to see and feel the subtle differences in each tree. He loves being able to work so closely and intimately with these giants that have stood longer on this earth than us. Working by hand, slowly uncovering their raw identity, highlighting all of their amazing characteristics. Every pressing is as unique and beautiful as the tree from which it comes.
Nadine Draper
Jeweller and sculptor
Nadine Draper is a contemporary artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans bronze, timber, oils, music, and traditional gold and silversmithing techniques. Her work explores material hybridity and the intersections of natural and universal systems, often delving into themes of ritual, storytelling, and the cosmos. Guided by a deep reverence for the natural world, Nadine’s art reflects on geological time, the ephemerality of existence, and the poetic tension between beauty and decay. Through motifs of love, loss, and transformation, her work evokes the enchantment of ancient myth and alchemy, aiming to stir emotion and reflection in the viewer. Ultimately, Nadine creates to express and share the profound interconnectedness of life, time, and the stories we tell to understand it all.