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Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
Today the ladies of Golden Ink Collaborative share some of their favourite collaborations. Don't forget to leave a comment before 10pm tonight on any of this weeks post from Abby and Katherine to go into the draw to win either a necklace or a bangle. The winners will be drawn randomly and announced tomorrow! - Jenny x
Obviously together we - Golden Ink have an affinity for collaborations, so collectively we thought we should share why this is so and also some other amazing duo's.
"The promise of collaboration is not only that it helps us redefine our relationships with each other, but that it helps us create, in Marvin Weisbord's words, "a joint relationship to the wider world." -Scott London
Katherine and I started out our collaborative process the studio, by discussing our concepts over tea and coffee. It was after a few years of several artists and lecturers passing comment on how well our aesthetics would work together that we started this collaboration. We have always adored each others retrospective trade skills and aesthetics and so we feel it was only natural for Golden Ink to happen. One of the best things (apart from our work!) that we have acquired from this process is a fantastic mutual ground between our methodologies. As solitary artists we both felt restrictions and limitations on our practices, by collaborating together we were, and still are, able to bridge gaps and look out to the wider world.
- Abby
Melbourne based collaboration since 1999. One favours collage and the other watercolour, both are besotted with paper.
Visit: Gracia Habby, Louise Jennison and Gracia + Louise
Kyoko Imazu and Damon Kowarsky met at Australian Print Workshop in 2008 and have collaborated since 2010. Their work explores themes including nature, science, art and technology in a globalised world.
Visit: Damon and Kyoko
Unnatural, Naturally: a collaborative touring exhibition by Australian contemporary jewellery Melinda Young and Lauren Simeoni
Visit: Melinda Young, Lauren Simeoni and Unnatural, Naturally
Measuring the Space Between- A collaboration between Melissa Cameron and Chloe Vallance.
Visit: Melissa Cameron, Chloe Vallance and Measuring the Space Between
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