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Back, front, floor view & raw materials...
Every studio “sculpture”, large or small, is a total one-of-a-kind response.
This bouquet from a rockin’ it recent wedding @papershellfarm, highlighting moody local things, & edible loveliness.
Photo by studio colleague from the fab @anatolypatrickarchitecture team.

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Sculptural response for the space & offerings of the wondrous @finoseppeltsfield... PS. We are working on multiple event installations in the city next week & will do our best to accommodate other advance requests around this load...booking ahead is always advisable. Cheers :)

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The small details ready to be added to the room, for a recent spatial event response...with an emphasis on foraged & edible materials.

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We do drieds...of diverse scale. This one for a family history gathering to honour the colours of their family crest.
For larger versions, come see some of our installations at WOMADelaide the week after next...

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When your neighbour asks you to come & help tidy up their garden (Joy!) & influences the material selection for that weekend’s event... Photos by my youngest daughter :)

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Large, sculptural floating wreath created in-situ over the dance floor, with an emphasis on showcasing herbs & local foliage; for the delightful & individual J&J (who work with food). Fully compostable (no foam, cable-ties or metal/wire) & to be enjoyed as a dried feature beyond the event...

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You don’t have to wait for someone else to buy you flowers...of course (some of the nature-sculpture orders from yesterday pictured here).
Please phone ahead to not miss out for bespoke requests (we have a few extras made up for today; first in best dressed). And we have a smattering of vintage roses in too.

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We sculpt one-of-a-kind bunches of local wonder...for wonderful people. These two, to remind someone of their tropical home, as well as their new home.
Please phone ahead for special orders, especially this week! Generally, we love a good 24hrs notice, so we can gather the unique materials that will best respond to your needs.

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We have a had a massive clean-up around here (yep, this is tidy), including the front & back storage areas plus a cellar renovation (of sorts). WOMAD materials are carefully being collected & stored in our large event (allowed-hoarding) area... We welcome phone orders for sculptural arrangements, fresh or dried, seasonal installations & spatial event design, that champion local & unusual materials. Please make an appointment if you wish to discuss your unique space or event with us in a consultation.

Many thanks to my amazing team for support & encouragement (including tea, scroggin & kind words) in emptying out & reorganising our entire studio & grounds (including the never-before-tidied middle room aka the “sick-kid” den!).

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Sprawling, abundant responses to sit alongside local good things @maxwellwines & @mullygrubmv.
And many thanks too to our amazing local farmers, growers, gardeners, harvesters & kind-hearted/plant-loving random donators...you enable this creative studio to continuously give birth to magical things.

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Sometimes small & simple is the right fit...these, for wedding vow renewals on the weekend; for a Mother & her daughters.

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If you are a lover of expressions of love, please order ahead for Valentine’s Day next week...so we can respond to your individual request in the best possible way.

These arrangements were created & donated for auction at local bushfire recovery fundraisers held recently by @maxwellwines @salopianinn @serafino_wines @wirrawirrawines & @chalkhillwines. #mclarenvalebusinessassociation
Thanks for all the good work to all involved...

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We craft one-of-a-kind wedding & event responses from local, seasonal materials (this response only for the strong & determined - as quite heavy). Congratulations Pippa & Jack... & Thanks @evan_bailey_photography for the first shot.
Thanks too to Nat for technical support.

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Sculptural event flowers that respond to individual spaces & “hero” local materials...this lot for @fleurieulivingmagazine & the new @dowiedoole 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).