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

Jess Humpston is a Naarm/Melbourne-based maker and designer and a recent graduate of the Sturt School for Wood. A background in both fashion and interior design has given Jess a finely tuned understanding of the space a piece of furniture inhabits and a sensitivity to the intimate physical interaction between user and object. Jess’s work is minimal, yet detail focussed and her practice is dedicated to material exploration within highly rational and brief-driven parameters.
www.jesshumpston.com/@jesshumpston
Brandon Harrison

Brandon Harrison is a furniture designer-maker from Meanjin/Brisbane. He studied fine furniture design at Sturt School for Wood and has worked in set design. Drawing inspiration from the modernists of the early 20th century, Japanese simplicity and Scandinavian functionality, Brandon creates sculptural pieces which focus on fine joinery and material exploration, with a visually striking minimalism.
@branharrFreddy 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
Isabel Avendano Hazbun

Isabel is a designer maker producing works in timber and fibre. In her own practice, driven by experimentation, she is interested in intersecting these two mediums in new and stimulating ways resulting in 3D objects that may or may not have a practical function.
At the School of Woodcraft, Isabel not only wants to help her students to design and make a piece of furniture from start to finish but also to grasp the idiosyncrasies of working with timber. And through this process and experience of making, instill the value and worth of the hand-made object.
isabel-avendano-hazbun.com
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.
@lottolottolottolottoPast Residents
Russell Davidson | ||||
Bailey Farmer | ||||
Ian Hall | ||||
Chris James | Website | |||
Keira James | ||||
Sam Johnston | Website | |||
Daniel Love | ||||
Callum Matheson | ||||
Ilmo Pylkkanen | ||||
Alex Rains | ||||
Adam Markowitz | Website | |||
Raven Mahon | Website | |||
Simeon Dux | Website |