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.
@lottolottolottolottoCaleb 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.
@margotfeastPast Residents
| Jess Humpston | Website | |||
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| Keira James | ||||
| Sam Johnston | ||||
| Daniel Love | ||||
| Callum Matheson | ||||
| Ilmo Pylkkanen | ||||
| Alex Rains | ||||
| Adam Markowitz | Website | |||
| Raven Mahon | Website | |||
| Simeon Dux | Website | |||
| Brandon Harrison | ||||
| Isabel Avendano Hazbun | Website | |||
| Arthur Seigneur | Website |