Object Shop

Ann Howe designs and creates wheel thrown and hand built functional and decorative ceramics in her studio in Inner West Sydney. Every piece is completely unique and explores the ideas of nurture, community, and sharing in daily life.

Artist Profile is a leading quarterly journal taking its readers into the studios and minds of contemporary artists across Australasia and beyond. Artist Profile presents the artists behind the art.

The Australian Tapestry Workshop is regarded as an international centre of excellence for innovative, contemporary, hand-woven tapestries, created in collaboration with leading artists, architects & designers.

Anna-Lisa Backlund is a graphic designer and style editor, who gets just as excited about costume jewellery as she does about craft and contemporary hand-made objects.

Baluk Arts is an urban Aboriginal community arts centre based in Mornington, Victoria. Emerging and established Baluk artists hail from all over Australia and their art expresses their identity and cultural heritage in a contemporary context.

Danielle Barrie is a jewellery and object designer-maker currently based in South Australia. She aims to create innovative and contemporary pieces that allude to a sense of history and time, while evoking an understated luxury with a refined playfulness.

Emma Kidd, artist and illustrator, creates articulated hand-painted and hand-cut monsters and imaginary creatures.

Rina Bernabei has had a long, successful career as a designer and has most recently been working in ceramics, creating hand thrown, hand built pieces.

Froni Binns creates small batch porcelain jewellery, exploring colour in the clay body.

Through the use of natural fibres such as sisal, jute and wool Siân Boucherd creates meticulously hand crafted vessels by way of a coiling basketry technique.

Ruth Byrne, of Byrnt Ceramics is a Sydney based ceramicist. She uses range of clays including white, dark and iron rich stoneware. Most of her works start as wheel thrown vessels, which are then faceted at the leather hard stage.

Lisa Cahill has been making glass art for more than 20 years. Her art practice ranges from large public artworks, glass wall works and sculptures for the home to small intimate wearable artworks. 

Brett's engagement with ceramics dates back to the early 1970s. While he still have a fondness for eastern influences and craft ideology, he now embraces the tools of the digital age. He designs forms that have simplicity, choosing to decorate with simple glazes or overlay with complex patterns and combinations, searching for a unified whole.

Cobalt & Kin is a brand forged with the mantra "Treasures Worth Keeping" and where all pieces are imbued with a feeling of the handmade.

Emily is a contemporary metal smith who works with a fusion of both old and new technologies and materials. She practices from her studio in Sydney’s vibrant inner west and is exploring 3D printing and modeling for her forms.

Anna Davern’s practice straddles the visual arts, jewellery, fashion and education. She teaches, writes, curates and primarily makes jewellery and objects.

Corban & Blair was born out of an idea to work creatively. They carefully select materials and techniques, and collaborate with other designers and artists to produce products that delight.

Milly has an underlying philosophy based on the ideal of producing work that results in outcomes which are both utilitarian and sculptural. Using small-scale production methods along with distinctive marbling and geometric pattern work, the result challenges conventional expectations of tableware.

Using time honoured skills and new innovative techniques, Denise McDonald creates hand built tablewear and wheel formed ceramic pieces.

Ben Edols is a Sydney based glassblower who specialises in Venetian glassblowing techniques. His work ranges from functional jugs and bowls to unique vessels and sculptures and is considered one of Australia's most accomplished glassblowers.

Eggpicnic fuses design and conservation to end wildlife extinction through education. They create vibrant and contemporary illustrations, bringing you the stories of our critically endangered fauna, the environment and our relationship to it.

Artist and designer Shana Danon of Emilio Frank Design, creates vibrant paintings, prints and patterns from her Bondi studio. Her work celebrates form, function and colour with a touch of whimsy.

The Fortynine Studio is Ben Elbourne, Sarah Spackman and Harriet Watts. They aim to create an alternative to mass produced, commercial products with a focus on making and materiality.

Frances creates works that combines well with modern interior design. The pieces range from traditional forms that are both functional and artistic too highly decorated, illustrated ceramics with environmental themes. Frances is also exploring mixed media with basketry and ceramics.

Rowan Shaw's process has always been material lead, allowing her eclectic mix of found materials to inform the outcome of the design.

Girl Nomad Ceramics is designed and handcrafted in Canberra by Richilde Flavell. Richilde enjoys experimenting with a variety of clays and glazes, to make work that is subtle, featuring soft lines with contrasting and complementary elements.

Lola Greeno is a highly-respected Tasmanian Indigenous shell worker, sculptor, installation and fibre artist. Lola is one of a small number of women shell stringers who have been responsible for ensuring the craft is passed on from their Elders and continued to the present day.

Nanette Goodsell is a Sydney based basket maker whose work is created from a range of collected plant materials, principally using the coiled stitched technique of construction with linen thread.

Akie Haga utilises flameworking techniques to melt glass rods with a table top torch, and sculpt and manipulate the molten glass.

The focus of Jeannine's work is about making quality, handcrafted vessels for daily use and exploring the relationship we develop with these forms.

These charismatic animals get up to all kinds of mischief; from building time-machines, putting on plays and making Swedish gingerbread, life is never dull when the critters are around!

Grace Hummerston is a jewellery designer and maker from Perth, Western Australia. Grace's work draws inspiration from 1970's and 1980's fashion, culture and design aesthetics

Marc has an interest in sustainable design and extensively researched and incorporated bio-composites into his recent products. He fosters both concept design for international exhibitions alongside the creation of functional design focusing on innovative lighting, home-wares, architectural fittings and furniture for interiors and streetscapes.

Contemporary jeweller Kath Inglis hand colours and carves PVC into ornate bracelets and earrings. Raised in Darwin, she now lives in the Adelaide Hills, where her studio is located in a nineteenth century stable.

Vanessa Ion has combined her love of making art with craft by creating crochet characters that are unique and made without a pattern. She aims to capture facial expressions that her subjects might have when there is no audience – when no-one is looking.

JamFactory Studio Production focuses on the design of useful, well made products. Each piece is manufactured or hand finished within one or more of JamFactory’s four Adelaide based studios in Ceramics, Glass, Furniture, and Metal design.

Jessthechen creates a range of handmade products, all printed and handmade locally within her little home studio with materials sought and bought in Australia.

Kattasche is a small artisan run leather studio on the South Coast of NSW combining heritage craft with vibrant colours and minimalist design. With a background in theatre design and costume props.

Bridget Kennedy's jewellery combines diverse, non-precious and organic materials with traditionally precious materials creating an ongoing enquiry into environmental fragility, impermanence, choice and value.

Nicola discovered silversmithing, and stepped away from a career as a human rights lawyer to pursue this interest.

Inari Kiuru is a Melbourne-based artist and designer with a multidisciplinary practice encompassing jewellery, objects, images and installation. Born in Finland, she has a strong native relationship with the seasons, and reveals the poetic qualities of non-precious, industrial ingredients.

Pia Larsen is an Inner West artist who enjoys translating concepts through materials, imagery and objects. She creates handcrafted wearables, inspired by nature and astronomy.

Leon's sculpting arises from his need to create. He is drawn to the organic shapes and textures of wood, embracing their 'imperfections' and working in sympathy with the raw material to create a collaborative artefact that provides the owner with a functional celebration of natural wood.

Based on the landscape, and a strong sense of colour and design Denise reacts to what feels right as she create her work. Born on a sheep property Denise grew-up with wool and so it is not surprising that felting is the process she uses to create her vessels.

Rowan Sivyer is an Inner West Sydney painter and printmaker. Her work is inspired by Australian flora and fauna. Rowan creates intricate stamps to print unique greeting cards and original prints. 

Tara Lofhelm is a contemporary jewellery designer. Working from her Melbourne studio, Tara explores textural repetition and contrast through primitive processes such as stamping and embellishment

Jude Love is a seamstress, sewing teacher, graphic designer, web developer and teatowelist who has always loved the sweet graphics of Australian domestic linens.

Sofie Neuendorf is an Australian ceramic artist who was raised with a love and appreciation for the arts. This love extended to her discovering wheel throwing as a teenager. Sofie pursued a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) graduating in 2016.

Peter McCarthy is a night potter at Claypool Studio in Botany and makes functional pieces in stoneware that look equally at home on the mantlepiece.

Inspired by a medium which is expressive and exquisite; fragile and durable, Katherine tries – through the ritual and rhythm of wheel throwing – to create pieces that are simple, yet beautiful.

Margot Design is made in Sydney and is quintessentially about Sydney. The textile collections designed by Margot Warre, are bespoke quality products made with luxurious natural fibres.

Vicki Mason is a Melbourne-based contemporary jeweller. Vicki’s work references plants to explore notions of place, belonging and the life cycle. 

Keiko Matsui is a Japanese born, Melbourne based ceramic artist who approaches the creation of objects with poetry and whimsy, yet always displaying a simplicity of which she is known for.

With over 40 years experience as a maker and teacher and working overseas for the past seven years Bruce has returned to Sydney and set-up a studio in Bardwell Valley. His high fired colourful stoneware glazed with satin matt and edged with fluid glaze produce interest and movement.

Susan Chen combines her love of design and object art to create simple and sophisticated functional ware that can double as artwork in its own right.

Kanun Onsel is a woodworker, product designer and and furniture maker, merging the modern and the traditional.

Outer Island’s mission is to bring awareness to the magic of this world by creating products that focus on native plants, animals and habitats.

The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Australia’s most widely read tri-annual contemporary ceramics magazine, is a valuable resource for professional and amateur ceramicists, students, galleries, arts administrators, curators, buyers and passionate collectors.

The Raconteur scented candles are handmade in Bondi using 100% soy wax and cotton wicks. They tell the story of Australia's native botanicals, as originally found in iconic Australian locations. 

Sam is a ceramic artist currently living on the South Coast of NSW. Her work ranges from functional wares to fine porcelain sculptural pieces to abstracted wall art and glass work. Sam loves following quirky story lines within her work and seeing the enjoyment that it gives to others.

Sylvia Riley is a designer and dyer of natural textiles. Working only with natural fibres, primarily silk, linen and wool, Sylvia applies artisanal techniques, often combining her favourite disciplines (shibori, batik, gutta) to create new distinctive effects.

R L Foote Design Studio has a particular interest in the designed food and beverage experience, thinking not only about the physical elements of the space, tableware, tables, seats but also the ephemeral experience that runs along side these objects.

Acclaimed internationally for innovative woven textiles, Jennifer uses a purpose-built digital hand-loom to create a broad range of woven textiles, for fashion, interior and sculptural work. 

Nicole's practice is centred around a sense of time and place, especially the contemporary plant world around us in Sydney. She uses traditional techniques from basketry while embracing our current range of domestic, native and non-native plants – those that don’t feature in other places or times.

All of Scoops Design products are limited edition, handmade and based on a love of geometric shapes, colour and form.

Leonie Simpson is a designer and maker of jewellery and objects. Based in Sydney, she creates small run jewellery collections, bespoke pieces and individual commissions.

Studio A is a supported studio based in Sydney Australia that tackles the barriers that artists living with intellectual disability face in accessing conventional education, professional development pathways and opportunities needed to be successful and renowned visual artists.

Studio OneFive is all about glass. As a material it has such history, and yet it embodies the future as we find new creativity in sustainable design.

Sultana Shamshi creates work drawn from the landscape she lives in. The flora and fauna, the colours of the land and the sea, all manifest in her jewellery in different ways.

Helen Shin is a ceramic artist working in Sydney Australia. Helen prefers modern ceramics and contemporary art styles. Line drawings from other contemporary artists catch her eye and inspire her ceramic pieces.

Established in 2017 in Sydney, svikis. was founded by Marika Svikis, a designer and technologist with a background in architecture. Now instead of designing buildings, Marika is using 3D printing and jewellery as a medium to explore her love of clean minimalist edges, surfaces, and corner details.

Sometimes tiny sometimes enormous, Amy Tamblyn's jewellery focuses on linear shapes and forms that quietly occupy a space around the wearer. 

Using tools of domesticity, artist Niki McDonald depicts urban life through her modern needlepoint tapestries. The colours and shapes of the city streets inspire and empower the urban women she expresses in wool, as she imbues them all with a sense of sass and individuality.

Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council created to enable women in Australia's remote central deserts to earn their own income from fibre art. 

TRADE the MARK is an art and design studio led by artist Christina McLean. Currently focusing on hand built and painted ceramic vessels, bespoke art pieces and textile design, the TRADE the MARK studio and its output is constantly evolving.

Woven through all of Neil Turner's artwork is a deep respect for the material and the natural forces that have acted upon it - the quiet ripples eroded in soil by wind, the delicate eddies left by water, and the swirling lick of flames.

Clare Unger combines hand stitching and ceramics in a way that is both playful and pleasurable, while exploring narratives relating to family, identity and memory.

Upcycled Glassware by Tanya Reinli displays a process-driven, playful approach to surfaces, objects and space, combining found and manufactured objects in artworks that explore modernist aesthetics.

Manon van Kouswijk is a Dutch artist and contemporary jeweller whose working methodology is based on exploring and translating the archetypal forms and motifs of jewellery, and of other types of objects that we attach a similar personal value to, through a range of diverse materials and processes.

WOWW (War On Waste Weekly) was created by Sydney mum Helen Barry, a print journalist turned eco blogger and Zero Waste soapmaker.

Wild Fibres was founded by Ainsley Warner, an Australian jewellery designer and fibre artist, now currently based in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her current work includes a range of unique woven beaded earrings which she carefully creates one bead at a time using high quality Japanese glass beads. 

Sophia enjoys the challenge of designing and making pieces that are intimate, wearable constructions. These works have evolved from her innovative approach to materials, combined with a fascination of the relationship between texture and form.

Hayden Youlley believes that good design is about realising function with aesthetic integrity without unnecessary complications. He thinks the products and systems we interact with everyday should enable us, instead of frustrate us, and he hopes to instil that in each of his objects.

Contemporary jeweller Melinda Young takes delight in colour and texture and her work tends to be made from either brightly coloured reclaimed plastics or natural materials collected on the streets and in the parks of her neighbourhood on the south coast of NSW.

ADC exhibitions catalogues are available at Object Shop for very reasonable prices.

Allison Mueller originally trained and worked as an Interior Designer. She absolutely loves wheel forming and has also become interested in hand-building, inspired by the different shapes and textures that can be achieved.

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