Current Residents

VWA Residents can be contacted directly, via their details below, for all manner of commission work.

Freddy Mata Mendoza

Freddy has always had a fascination with design. He started his career as an architect at FM Studio before going back to school and learning the art of furniture design. Freddy’s designs are inspired by real-life experiences – sounds of the city, rhythm of live music, textures of nature, art and even scents.

https://www.marateka.xyz/
@marateka.xyz

Wanda Gillespie

Wanda is a contemporary artist working in sculpture, installation and public art. Renowned for her interactive small and large scale abacus sculptures as well as her wood carved figurative and portrait sculpture, she is driven by a belief in the spiritual potency of physical matter. Her work explores themes of history, time, truth, and the mystical, drawing inspiration from ancient artifacts and the harmonious patterns and perfection of nature’s mathematics.

https://www.wandagillespie.com/
@wanda.gillespie

Emily McRae

Emily is a Naarm/Melbourne based designer and maker with a background in architecture. She has a particular interest in experimenting with traditional craft techniques in a playful way. From one-of-a-kind furniture pieces to small batch production, her work seeks to produce considered, timeless outcomes.

@lottolottolottolotto

Caleb Biffanti

Caleb Biffanti is an emerging designer-maker with a background in architecture and a developing practice grounded in concept and craft. Guided by personal bias and cultural clutter, he works somewhere between the tangible and the intangible – enlisting quiet, deliberate gestures and considered craftsmanship to make the everyday feel just unfamiliar enough to notice again.

www.calebbiffanti.com
@calebbiffanti

Margot Feast

Margot is captivated by the design process and its unlimited possibilities. 

With a background in sculpture her work focuses on exploring the visual elements of space and form in creative and dynamic ways. Inspired by landscape, journeys and life’s dualities her work further aims to invite connection, conversations and wonder. 

She favours hand tools in her making imbuing each piece with a tactile quality and craftsmanship. Her work, ranging from lamps to dining tables and everything in between carry both functionality and imagination at their core.   

@margotfeast

Past Residents

Jess Humpston Website Instagram
Russell Davidson 0410 591 517
Bailey Farmer 0437 649 460
Ian Hall 0425 803 297
Chris James 0420 332 892 Instagram
Keira James 0423 352 090
Sam Johnston 0404 520 680
Daniel Love 0422 262 472
Callum Matheson 0420 503 444
Ilmo Pylkkanen 0468 406 602
Alex Rains 0431 460 735
Adam Markowitz Website Instagram
Raven Mahon Website Instagram
Simeon Dux Website Instagram
Brandon Harrison Instagram
Isabel Avendano Hazbun 0410 298 941 Website Instagram
Arthur Seigneur Website Instagram

Contact Us

Victorian Woodworkers Association (VWA)
Postal Address

42 Courtney St,
North Melbourne, VIC 3051

VWA Wood Design Centre and Workshop

5 Tyrone St,
North Melbourne, VIC 3051
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