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Sculptural event flowers that respond to individual spaces & “hero” local materials...this lot for @fleurieulivingmagazine & the new, local cellar door designed by “outside the square” architect @scholz.oli.

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Until I make soundtracks (or have a teen nearby), you will have to hum while I work...
Botanical feature created to hang over (& soften-off) the back of a park bench, for a couple to marry in front of, on the cliffs of Port Willunga.

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Celebrating our Nation’s wondrous flora this week @ellisbutchers1954, with all materials harvested nearby...and a collection of vessels to represent many voices and eras “of here”.

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We are back, sort of, from a Summer road trip (with a serendipitous vintage vessel harvest) & are in the studio part-time until Jan 23, working on events & orders.

Our botanicals (for donation/ auction) will be turning up at various local bushfire fundraising events; stay tuned & stay cool. (This trip: Windmills. Homesteads. Crops. Smoke. Ruins. Rust. Saltbush. Narungga. Country friendliness. Ghost-towns. Majestic sunsets & sunrises. Strong wind. Road trains. Extreme heat. Welcome rain. Quandong pie. Wedge-tailed eagles. Camel milk. Yellow grass. Roos by my bedside. Crabs. Orange dirt. Purple ranges. Turquoise water.)

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We’d like to thank you all for your interest in our locally informed creative work, & we send a BIG thanks to all our valued clients & customers for your support over the last year. It is all of you who make this artistic small business survive & ultimately thrive.
We deeply appreciate your contributions towards our project of creating seasonal, sculptural & spatial botanical offerings that are truly “of here”, & connect back to the landscape, farmers & harvesters of the Willunga Basin.
If you are wondering how you can continue to support our quest to build a local, visual language with integrity, through our botanical gestures, installations & event design, perhaps you may know of a family member, friend or business who you feel would appreciate the one-of-a-kind outcomes of our studio (as well as our holistic processes & local networks). If so, please recommend they check out our work at www.harveststudio.com.au.
We would love to create more beauty & continue to uniquely transform more spaces in 2020, to reconnect people more strongly with the majesty of the natural world... And Happy Christmas Eve! We are trading today until around 4pm, & our studio re-opens for orders & events only from January 9th. Regular studio operations recommence from January 23. Happy Summer break, & here’s to more beauty & connection with nature being consciously woven into our everyday lives...

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Happy Summer Solstice (for yesterday)! Regular subscribers get to enjoy our collection of vintage & rustic vessels with their botanicals (excellent justification for ongoing op-shop harvesting & garage sale foraging). We also do gift vouchers; for those who prefer to choose when they would like some extra beauty & nature in their lives...

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Keeping fresh materials cool (& walking past the dried) in our four room cellar this week...making hardy, festive botanicals.
We have so many lovely natives for Christmas. Open today, Monday/Tuesday. Phone us to order ahead & get exactly what you want (or beyond what you could even imagine).

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These “Summery” & festive dried (or drying out) wreaths & bunches for sale...ideal for when it is 46 degrees, like today. Or ask us to create one especially for you.
Studio is open for some of today, & also in the cooler weather on Saturday, Monday & Christmas Eve for orders & collections.
Big thanks to the stoic & talented @_ruby_jones for doing much of the dried making with me this week in challenging weather...

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“Simplicity mixed with antique, custom & the reclaimed, curated & haphazard, a mixture of textures, velvety & granular, crunchy & smooth, earthy & glossy...” The architect’s take on the beautiful space for new offering on the block @finovino_adelaide. We think it describes our botanical work pretty perfectly too.

Working on the street this week, in around 40 degrees, bringing a large, sculptural piece of the Fleurieu to the window space of this exciting, new, former-local to-city venture. Opens this Friday!

Our wild bunch of dried (or to dry out) botanicals includes many foraged elements (from the Willunga Basin) & much that is edible...all sourced from near our studio. And, Fino Vino, in their words: genuine hospitality, simple, authentic, refined, rustic, a playful celebration of country & city, a contrast & coming together... A perfect fit, again, for the work of our studio.

Cheers! And here’s to good times ahead...

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“...I think it is the ‘action’ of nature which has struck me most forcefully, and as a fresh insight. Without favour and, mercifully, without prejudice, the elastic embrace of nature opens and closes around us all the time. In every locality, even in urban settings where nature struggles on, there’s a network of animation with its own rhythms happening right under our noses, to which we’re largely oblivious. Few of us rely on that kind of physical awareness anymore to get by on a practical level, but I count it as a lost competency and, further, an eroding factor in the quality of our lives.” Vicki Hastrich, Night Fishing (after spending time in sync with nature)

Recent local, seasonal & partly foraged centrepieces for weddings, parties, anything; actually weddings, engagements & birthdays pictured here...

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Happy Summer...(recent, hardy bunches/orders)
Gotta love sunflowers & the paw at the moment...

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Hardy, local, festive & “Summery” arrangements for local spaces...
We are open this week for orders, including Saturday (in the cool) plus Monday/Tuesday of next week, before we close for a couple of weeks & are then doing orders/events only until January 23.

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Check out our freshly updated website (yes, about time...), with a smattering of the last couple of years of botanical projects, large & small. And follow us on insta/FB for studio updates & offerings.

Pictured here; event flowers, responding to the space and made on site, for @theretreatchapelhill last week.

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We love making one-of-a-kind, personalised responses... Bespoke wedding bouquet & reception flowers; plus dried, & to-be-dried, bouquet for a bride-to-be celebration...

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Birds on the veranda using our wreath bases, while I was sitting drinking tea...& hanging out on the steps (our new studio pets; very low maintenance...check out the marigold for the scale of these two beauties! Harvested from the op-shop of the hospital in which I was born, commissioned from a local ceramicist by the woman who served me, for her mother 30 years ago). Gotta love the Vale...(they have metallic gold on their feet too for goodness sake).

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Seasonal centrepieces & wreaths to order, fresh or dried, in production in here at the moment... Summery or festive, large or small, & totally one-of-a-kind.

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Some details of a total delight of a job, responding to this beautiful, sprawling collection of spaces, with a perfect, spatial, brief... With 28 years experience in contemporary visual art, installations, site-specific public art & events, transforming spaces is what we do best. We look for areas of opportunity to highlight & do damage control on other elements; creating an immersive, spatial experience in line with your context & brief. All utilising locally farmed & foraged, seasonal materials. “Magnificent!!!!” according to our happy client.

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Clusters of small vessels for two late Spring photo shoots, the first with a Christmas theme; for @sweetshutephotos & @fleurieulivingmagazine / @dowiedoole/ @littleroadstudio

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Twilight trading in McLaren Vale tonight until 7pm... Place an order for your festive bunch, centrepiece or wreath, fresh or dried, & go into the draw to win hundreds of dollars of offerings from local businesses, drawn tonight in the piazza.
All of our work is local, compostable or recyclable, without foam. We also have vouchers & create bespoke subscriptions. And if you have never seen where or how we work, pop your head in and share a drink with us!

Recent local bunches pictured, including one with a native seedling woven into the offering, along with a succulent to plant out...

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These dried (& drying out) beauties, very large, sculptural bunches, soon to be sprawling along wine barrels as Summer welcome statements @serafino_wines.