THE NEST CREATIVE SPACE

setting up for a third experience come all down the alley at 4 pm to 8 pm twilight market at The Nest 24 Bourke road ALEXANDRIA @thenestcreativespace #sydneyart #artistsupportartists #whatsonsydney

🤩IT’S COMING TOMORROW! The hip hop adventure awaits, and our 1st upcycled collection in collab with @hushclub.au and @yusuf_goods_ is dropping at Operation: Takeover in 24 hours! Pre-owned garments reimagined into elevated street style One-of-a-kind Asymmetric Raw finishes Gender-neutral Made in Australia (at @thenestcreativespace ) More styles coming online in the future Debuting May 2nd for the @brezieofficial x @the.ikatana EP LAUNCH & HUSH CLUB hip hop adventure May 2nd Kiss My Brass - Marrickville 7pm till late Sydney besties get your tickets via link in bio💖🎵💫 #upcycledfashion #asymmetry #oneofakind #unisexfashion #madeinaustralia

Not long now… ZINE LAUNCH for #5 - MAY 09 at @thenestcreativespace 4PM-8PM

SCAPES Ratul Alam & Nicolas Bouf gallery47rylstone 2 May to 30 May 2026 opening reception 16 May 4:30-6:30 pm #ratulalam #nicolasbouf #sydneyartist @conc_studio_ @thenestcreativespace @twilightexperienceatthenest

Reclaim to Transform Initiative : Launching Melbourne Design Week 14th - 24th May @abbotsfordconvent curated by @ngvmelbourne Elemental Sigils is a series of four sculptural works conceptualised and designed by artist Melissa Gilbert as part of a larger directional compass within the Reclaim to Transform Initiative. Each sigil corresponds to an element and cardinal point, forming a symbolic and spatial system that orients the viewer through material, story, and relation. Grounded in First Nations weaving knowledge, natural raffia, and Gilbert’s signature collaboration with Defy Design’s innovative closed-loop material processes, the works bring ancient and future practices into sculptural conversation. Each sigil is available to acquire upon request and can be adapted for indoor or outdoor presentation. #melbournedesignweek #uniteplayperform #reclaimtotransforminitiative Image @sianfay and ceremonial performance by @i_am_offerings Partner @defy_design

Reclaim to Transform Initiative: Launching Melbourne Design Week 14th - 24th May @abbotsfordconvent curated by @ngvmelbourne Elemental Sigil: Earth / North is one of four sculptural works conceptualised and designed by artist Melissa Gilbert as part of the larger directional compass within the Reclaim to Transform Initiative. Each sigil corresponds to an element and cardinal point, forming a symbolic and spatial system that guides audiences through material, memory, and relation. Aligned with the North, Earth speaks to grounding, stability, embodiment, and the intelligence of form. It is the element of foundation — of soil, structure, support, and the slow accumulations that sustain life over time. In this work, earth is held as both origin and anchor: a force that carries memory, holds weight, and reminds us of the importance of building in right relationship with place. Bringing together custom-made closed-loop circuit plastic components with First Nations weaving practices, Earth / North creates a meeting point between reclaimed contemporary materials and ancestral knowledge systems. Through this material dialogue, Gilbert explores how sculptural form can hold both density and care. The plastic components speak to circular futures and the possibility of transforming waste into enduring cultural form, while the woven elements carry rhythm, touch, memory, and the embodied intelligence of the hand. Within the four-part compass, Earth / North holds the grounding field of the work the place of support, steadiness, and material connection. It asks what it means to build with responsibility, and how design might move from extraction toward stewardship. Together, the Elemental Sigils form a contemporary ceremonial architecture: a compass for reorienting around elemental forces, cultural memory, and more reciprocal systems of design. In Earth / North, the work holds the grounding force of the compass a space of stability, memory, and belonging. #melbournedesignweek @uniteplayperform #uniteplayperform #reclaimtotransform @creative_vic Partner @defy_design image @sianfay with artist @i_am_offerings wearing @kourh.co

Reclaim to Transform Initiative Launching at Melbourne Design Week 14–24 May @abbotsfordconvent Elemental Sigil: Water / West is one of four sculptural works conceptualised and designed by artist Melissa Gilbert @iamofferings as part of the directional compass within the Reclaim to Transform Initiative. Aligned with the West, Water speaks to feeling, intuition, reflection, surrender, and the intelligence of change through flow. It considers water as a force of adaptation shaping through persistence, softening through contact, and carrying memory across time. Bringing together custom-made closed-loop circuit plastic components and First Nations weaving practices, the work creates a meeting point between reclaimed industrial material and ancestral knowledge systems. Through this material dialogue, Water / West explores how sculptural form can hold both fluidity and structure, and how materials can be re-authored through care, rhythm, and relation. As part of the four-part compass, the work holds the energy of receptivity, soft power, and transformation through attunement. It asks what becomes possible when we stop forcing form and instead listen to the movement already present. Together, the Elemental Sigils form a contemporary ceremonial architecture a compass for reorienting around elemental intelligence, cultural memory, and more reciprocal ways of making. SOLD: Available for new commissions and acquisitions upon request. #melbournedesignweek #uniteplayperform #reclaimtotransforminitiative @uniteplayperform @i_am_offerings @defy_design @ngvmelbourne @creative_vic #creativevictoria Images by @sianfay ceremonial performance @i_am_offerings

Reclaim to Transform Initiative : Launching Melbourne Design Week 14-24th May @abbotsfordconvent curated by @ngvmelbourne Elemental Sigil: Fire / South is one of four sculptural works conceptualised and designed by artist Melissa Gilbert as part of the directional compass within the Reclaim to Transform Initiative. Aligned with the South, Fire speaks to heat, will, destruction, renewal, and the force of ignition that transforms matter from one state to another. It holds fire as both maker and unmaker — a purifier, a warning, and a source of life. Bringing together custom-made closed-loop circuit plastic components and First Nations weaving practices, the work creates a meeting point between reclaimed contemporary materials and enduring ancestral knowledge systems. Through this material dialogue, Fire / South explores how sculptural form can carry both structural tension and ceremonial charge. As part of the four-part compass, the work asks what must be burned away for something new to emerge, and how material practice might support renewal rather than depletion. Together, the Elemental Sigils form a contemporary ceremonial architecture — reorienting us through elemental intelligence, cultural memory, and more reciprocal ways of making. #melbournedesignweek #uniteplayperform #reclaimandtransforminitiative images by @sianfay ceremonial performamce @i_am_offerings Partership with @defy_design SOLD Elemental Sigil series : South / Fire New commissions available for acquisition upon request.

Reclaim to Transform Initiative: Launching at Melbourne Design Week Elemental Sigils is a series of four sculptural works conceptualised and designed by artist Melissa Gilbert @i_am_offerings as part of a larger directional compass within the Reclaim to Transform Initiative. Each sigil corresponds to an element and cardinal point, forming a symbolic and spatial system that orients the viewer through material, story, and relation. Elemental Sigil: Air / East speaks to breath, movement, transmission, and the invisible forces that shape perception and exchange. Aligned with the East — the direction of dawn, awakening, and new perspective the work marks a threshold of emergence. It considers how ideas, signals, prayer, and sound move across bodies, landscapes, and systems, and how sculpture might give form to what is often unseen but deeply felt. The series brings together innovative processes, custom-made closed-loop circuit plastic components with her First Nations weaving practices, creating a meeting point between contemporary fabrication and ancestral material intelligence. Through this dialogue, Gilbert explores how reclaimed matter can be transformed into cultural form, and how design can hold both structural innovation and relational meaning. The plastic elements are shaped as part of a circular material process, while woven languages introduce rhythm, tension, memory, and touch. As one work within a four-part compass, Air / East operates both as an individual sculptural gesture and as part of a wider cosmology. Together, the sigils form a navigational system one that invites audiences to reorient around elemental knowledge, collective memory, and more reciprocal ways of making. In this series, waste does not exist, only material with the potential to be re-authored through care, collaboration, and cultural intention. Elemental Sigils positions sculpture as both marker and portal: a contemporary ceremonial architecture for rethinking how we relate to materials, to direction, and to the living systems that hold us. SOLD - New commissions and acquisitions available upon request. Visit 14-24th May #melbournedesignweek @ngvmelbourne @abbotsfordconvent

Zine #5 is coming! And with it a zine fair to launch it 🚀 The Nest, West End - MAY 9th : 4PM-8PM

Feeling deeply honoured to share @UnitePlayPerform inclusion in the @ngvmelbourne #MelbourneDesignWeek 2026 official program at @abbotsfordconvent curated by @_timothymoore (Design and Architecture). A real privilege to have our new initiative and collectable works held within a wider design conversation that makes space for material experimentation, cultural repair, participation, and future-facing thinking. 💪🏽🌏❤️ Today also marks the launch of RECLAIM AND TRANSFORM INITIATIVE: a long-term vision held by our Founder and Artist Melissa Gilbert @i_am_offerings exploring material innovation in design, storytelling our steps towards the Symbiocene. 📣 Announcing UPP’s exciting new material innovation partners @knovus_knitmelbourne @defy_design and conversation contributors @plparchitecture @glenn.a.albrecht PROGRAM *tix in bio • 13 May (Arts industry preview) Opening Night + launch of Reclaim and Transform Initiative, @abbotsfordconvent • 14–24 May Hybrid Habitat: Reclaim and Transform (interactive exhibition). Convent Courtyard, @abbotsfordconvent • 14–24 May @UnitePlayPerform Concept Store open alongside the exhibition. Convent Courtyard, @abbotsfordconvent • 16 May Storytelling Right Relationship in Design, Material, and Form (conversation). Convent Courtyard, @abbotsfordconvent • 20 May Tactile Logic: Play, Structure, Knit (workshop and tour). @knovus_knitmelbourne , 90 Grattan Street, Carlton • 21 May Material Intersections: The Future of 3D Knit & First Nations Design (Playshop). Magdalen Laundry, @abbotsfordconvent • 22 May Play to Prototype (Playshop). Magdalen Laundry, @abbotsfordconvent • 22 May Embodying Emergence (Deep Dive Sensory Playshop). Magdalen Laundry, @abbotsfordconvent • 23 May Embodying Emergence (Deep Dive Sensory Playshop). Magdalen Laundry, @abbotsfordconvent • 23 May Play to Prototype (Playshop). Magdalen Laundry, @abbotsfordconvent • 24 May Tactile Logic: Play, Structure, Knit (workshop and tour). @knovus_knitmelbourne , 90 Grattan Street, Carlton Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. designweek.melbourne #MelbourneDesignWeek #NGV @ngvmelbourne

@honorsworld and @zeppelinhamilton on film by @lexilaphorphoto . Featuring WAH-WAH X @tarabooth in both cardigan and jumper form. Thank you to Michael at @thenestcreativespace for allowing us to shoot in your incredible workspace. 🙏 Creative direction and styling by @kirstybarros