DAILY IMPRINT
Every year there are new recruits into the Australian interior design world, but only a handful stay the distance. Meryl Hare is an example par excellence. Since launching her practice in 1988, she...
Read morePHOTOGRAPHER + FILM MAKER KIRSTEN UTZON POPOV
“It was only recently that I picked up the still camera again and fell back in love with its immediacy,” says Sydney-based photographer Kirsten Utzon Popov. She found the experience liberat...
Read moreWhile she had only been working as an interior designer for just over a year, Aleisha Lancaster was getting frustrated that she couldn’t source the types of products she wanted for her clients. The...
Read moreStyling is a part of Bettina McIlwraith of Appetite for Decoration- thanks to the way she was brought up, she says. “But it runs deeper than that, now styling is a vital communication tool for bett...
Read more“I always knew I wanted to be creative, working with nature gave me the tools to explore where this would take me and over time the path crossed over to a more sculptural form of my floral sculptur...
Read more“For me, the right path is the path you enjoy,” says ceramicist Tara Burke. So when it came to her career, she says there was never any doubt. Ceramics are delightful, Tara says. “I love the inters...
Read moreFor as long as she can remember Ashley Pratt has had an interest in interiors. “The creative flare was there but I wasn’t quite sure how I could make a career out of it,” she says. She started out ...
Read more“Art is the first thing I can remember inspiring me,” says Sydney-based artist Henry Curchod. “Why do anything at all? You can fill your life with all kinds of seemingly meaningful or pointless thi...
Read moreBuilding boats gives you a lot of respect for space. You learn to appreciate what’s necessary and what’s superfluous. Nathan White spent four years completing a shipwright’s apprenticeship, and his...
Read moreMonica Levy was working as an interior designer when she decided to take a practice run at the National Art Schoolentrance assessment. “When I walked out on that day of tests and interviews I knew ...
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