Adelaide-based GSiD director Georgie Shepherd shares her design journey and explains why there is so much value in the freedom to explore your creative calling.

Perth-born multidisciplinary maker and designer, Olive Gill-Hille blends the worlds between art and function with her otherworldly timber sculptures.

Nicole Steele’s new design destination in Byron Bay, which she shares with local artist Jai Vasicek, features a beautifully curated selection of ceramics and plants

Swedish-born artist Sara Ödman grew up in a creative family — today based in Lyon, France, she channels this into her expressive abstract paintings.

Set within a prominent Victorian building in Melbourne’s Abbotsford, La Fantaisie by Bergman & Co. artfully combines florist, café and function spaces where superior materials and finely crafted details reign supreme.

Set on a tiny block of under 70 square metres, Newtown House by Architect George is an exploration of how to cleverly utilise every inch of a compact site.

Kuku Yalanji artist Tiarna Herczeg’s works are vividly colourful, abstract representations of Country and felt ancestral roots flowing from the artist onto the canvas.

Full of colour, pattern, and texture, YSG’s Yasmine Ghoniem’s own home in Bondi is a feast for the senses.

Artist Samantha McIntyre balances her creative focus between ceramics and painting. Her artistic eye is applied to all areas of her life; from her home and business, to her sprawling rooftop garden.

Emiko Davies takes us on a culinary journey through Taranto, Turin and Tuscany recreating heirloom family recipes in her cookbook Tortellini at Midnight.

In a wooden and earthy palette of timbers and green hues, Kim Kneipp reimagines a Kensington home to have better circulation and a stronger connection between external and internal spaces in Bent Street Project.

We talk to three sculptors about how they took a leap of faith to turn their passion projects into full-time jobs.