Spiraro

Introducing Cyclic ~~ Cyclic is a show about cycles. Exploring process, repetition, sustainability, continuity, and the tension between making and unmaking, growth and decay, creation and renewal. Featuring six artists from the @craftvictoria Fresh! Fellowship 2025 cohort. Working across woodworking, metalsmithing, textiles, bio-materials, lighting, and ceramics, each maker contributes a distinct yet interconnected voice within the evolving language of contemporary craft. @madelynmckenzie_ @georgie.szymanski @spiraro__ @allstarradiation @buijewellery @sal_lacious May 21-24 Opening night May 21, 5:30-9pm The Oratory, Abbotsford Convent Hope to see you there.. #MelbourneDesignWeek #NGV @ngvmelbourne

‘The Grotto’ is a collaborative installation of an interior environment by artists @spiraro__ and @hilarygreen__ . The exhibition is part of Melbourne Design Week and presents functional designs using site-specific materials such as seaweed and rocks found at Victorian beaches. By reimagining an interior space that values organic materials, forms and textures in contemporary design, this immersive experience explores alternative approaches to living closer to the natural world. The exhibition includes sculptural objects, lamps and furniture, all made from biomaterials, clay, found objects and natural fibres. These works combine hard and grounded with translucent and soft, while playing with how light can also be a source of wonder. Through this project, both artists bring together their interests in sustainable materials and sculpture to create an interior that blurs boundaries between natural and constructed worlds. Exhibition open all weekend 8 McIver St Brunswick Sat 16 and Sun 17 May, 10 am – 6 pm Public opening event Friday 15 May, 5:30 pm – 9 pm Immersive exhibition evening Saturday 16 May, 7:30 pm – 9 pm (ticketed) The event offers an opportunity to spend time inside the space to observe, draw and reflect on the installations alongside a live music soundscape. #melbournedesignweek #biomaterials

This Saturday night artists @spiraro__ and @hilarygreen__ invite you into their Melbourne Design Week Exhibition ‘The Grotto’ to experience their light sculptures in a relaxing and reflective environment. The exhibition includes sculptural objects, lamps, and furniture all made from biomaterials, clay, found objects and natural fibres. These works combine hard and grounded with translucent and soft, whilst playing with how light can also be a source of wonder. Visitors are invited to spend time inside the space with the artists, to observe, draw, and reflect on how they experience the installations. Documentation will also present how the materials were researched and formed throughout the creative process. You will be welcomed with tea, materials for drawing and a space to sit and reflect. The wonderful musician @annamorleymusic will play a live soundscape on vibraphone to add to the experience. 🪨 Limited Tickets are available via link in bio or via the Melbourne Design Week website. Tea and drawing materials provided. When: Saturday 16 May 7:30 - 9:30pm Where: @shellspace__ 8 McIver St Brunswick We hope to see you in The Grotto 🪨 #sculpture #melbournedesignweek #vibraphone #soundscape

‘The Grotto’ ~ Reimagined interiors from clay and kelp. This is a collaborative installation by artists @spiraro__ and @hilarygreen__ . The exhibition presents functional designs using site-specific materials such as seaweed and rocks found at Victorian beaches. By reimagining an interior space that values organic materials, forms and textures in contemporary design, this immersive experience explores alternative approaches to living closer to the natural world. The exhibition includes sculptural objects, lamps and furniture, all made from biomaterials, clay, found objects and natural fibres. These works combine hard and grounded with translucent and soft, while playing with how light can also be a source of wonder. Through this project, both artists bring together their interests in sustainable materials and sculpture to create an interior that blurs boundaries between natural and constructed worlds. 🪨 Exhibition open all weekend: DATE: Sat 16 and Sun 17 May, 10 am – 6 pm LOCATION: @shellspace__ 8 McIver St, Brunswick Public opening event This Friday 15 May, 5:30 pm – 9 pm Immersive exhibition evening with live vibraphonist @annamorleymusic Saturday 16 May, 7:30 pm – 9 pm (ticket link in bio) The event offers an opportunity to spend time inside the space to observe, draw and reflect on the installations alongside a live music soundscape. We hope to see you in The Grotto. #melbournedesignweek #biomaterials #recycledmaterials #lighting #sculpture

It’s Melbourne Design Week crunch time. This is what my eyes are seeing and hands making. ‘The Grotto’ with @hilarygreen__ opens next Friday 15 May @shellspace__ and runs until Sunday, short and sweet. Reimagined interiors from kelp and clay ~ @cyclic.mdw opens the week after ~ 21 May, exhibiting in the beautiful oratory building at @abbotsfordconvent with a group of artists that were apart of the @craftvictoria fellowship last year ~ @intermediary.pub is launching on the 22 May at @oddanygallery ~ I’ve written a poem about the process of making with bull kelp, my words sit next to @clemcnabb photos ~ Hope to see some friends and familiar faces 🫀 (Hugs welcomed - I feel like the last slide)

‘The River Is A Mirror’ showing until 17 May at @trocaderoprojects I’m honoured to be showing work amongst these artists, thankyou to @nap.enthusiast for allowing our work to be in symbiosis for a month. I’m sure our works have soaked up each others river ocean wisdom On until next Sunday in Footscray

Lamp by yours truly

cyclic May 21-24 @abbotsfordconvent Introducing @spiraro__ Spiraro is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist working across textiles, sculpture, biomaterials, and lighting. Their work explores the material life of textiles, both living and lived, through a heightened sensory experience. They work with natural pigments derived from rust and plant matter, biomaterials such as seaweed and bacterial leather, metal, found objects, and discarded textiles, interweaving these elements into sculptural pieces that question how future materials might coexist with those of the past. Blurring the line between organic and human-made, their work sits in the tension between what is grown and what is discarded. - - - First image thanks to @hilarygreen__ Second and third images thanks to @clemcnabb

Chuffed to share that my piece 𝙃𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 is exhibiting at @craftvictoria Members Only show until April 24. Made in Queenstown, Lutruwita/Tasmania on my residency at @qbankgallery from local bull kelp, stainless steel & waxed linen thread

Lichen paintings around Leeawuleena/Lake St Clair Lands of the Big River Nation. A truly special part of lutruwita/Tasmania

Created on my residency at @qbankgallery in January. Now a permanent part of Mal’s collection in Queenstown, Lutruwita, displayed across from the steam train station. Bull kelp, steel, waxed linen, hemp rope electrical chord, lamp parts 2026 Third photo taken by Nadia ~ took the studio to Lake Burbury for the afternoon & sewed up a section of the lamp in company of friends <3

Thank you takayna and @bobbrownfoundation for all that you teach me. An incredibly inspiring week learning skills and forest knowledge in takayna to help protect one of the world’s last undisturbed, ancient rainforests. This week brought hopeful news - after years of community resistance and care, MMG has abandoned plans to dump toxic mine waste in this valley. A huge testament to collective action, perseverance & love for place. Takayna still needs ongoing protection. Mining and logging pressures remain, and continued support is crucial. Ive popped a link in my bio to learn more. 🤎 Photos 1 + 5 by @nina.pirola