Chef Clayton Wells always planned to be a designer or architect, however, he found himself sculpting a more temporal material than concrete or clay.

Clae Studio is a ceramic design studio that showcases minimal design through expressive curves.

Music becomes a mediative painting language for artists, Alex Xerri and Evi O in MUSIC TELEVISION at Saint Cloche, Paddington.

Antonia Mrljak uses paint as an expressive tool to cover the canvas with colour, form, and mark-making.

Hannah Nowlan and My General Store provide two ways of looking that sing in harmony together.

Kimmy Hogan is an artist who expands on the idea of what a digital piece of artwork can look like, inviting nature and soft colour into her artistic scopes.

Ash Holmes is a Sydney-based artist who draws on music and nature for an ever-evolving source of inspiration for her large-scale paintings.

Located in Melbourne, Via Porta is a family venture that explores the Italian heritage family’s connection to food, and the love of cooking only a nonna can pass on.

The 2019 Tarnanthi launches on 18 October with a celebration of Indigenous culture in the home of the Kaurna People in Adelaide at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Kate Banazi defines her creative identity as perpetually evolving, while her use of colour and form reflect their environment and play off each other in sculptures and prints.

The latest Experimental Hotel & Villa has opened — embracing the mile-long sandy beaches, turquoise watered bays, and the pine tree lined coast of Menorca.

Boldly declaring itself as Santa Monica's only luxury lifestyle hotel, the Santa Monica Proper Hotel is a testament to the relaxed atmosphere of the city. The ocean breeze seems to shape the interiors of the hotel — shells, the sun, or a beach umbrella visually appear throughout or wind-whipped textured art, linen, carved wood, and raw concrete.

Sabine Marcelis is known for her highly processed objects that blend the boundaries of art and design.

Petrina Hicks reveals a surreal scene — within a highly controlled studio space by manipulating lighting, background, objects, and her sitters, to achieve these glossy, sculptural photographs.

Art no longer has to fix within one box, it can challenge, question, and inspire a little smirk. Gerwyn Davies shares how fun it can be to watch people struggle with his work, "people are frequently asking permission to smile or laugh, I feel like because it's art they're not able to engage with [the humour]."

At Deakin Edge in Melbourne on Thursday 19 September, The Design Files announced the first winners for the inaugural TDF Design Awards. The talented winners also got to take home their own piece of art — a bespoke hand-blown glass trophy Amanda Dziedzic.

The Spanish-inspired finca has been designed by the certified BCorp owners of The Farm — Emma and Tom Lane, who live on the property. As with the Bryon Bay, paddock to plate philosophy-driven, restaurant and café, The Range encourages consciousness around everyday choices, something Emma shares is based on the family ethos and commitment to give back to the environment.

Tom Adairs's art practice began early ⁠— from a young age, he was drawing, painting and building in every spare moment. But, as a country-kid living an hour out of Melbourne, it wasn't until he was late into high school — discovering graffiti on buildings and down the side of trains — that the art career began. After ten years of a somewhat unconventional art practice, serendipitously, he found himself getting his first studio space — only after being busted by the police.

Nadia Hernández is an emerging artist whose work draws on what she is most passionate about - the current political climate of her home country, Venezuela.

This year’s fair will become a place to experience art in experimental approaches, thanks to Performance Contemporary. Curated by Jeff Khan and Katie Winten from Performance Space, they share the artworks are surprising and intimate; with moments of tenderness to allow for contemplation.