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Harvest Studio

Locality: McLaren Vale, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8323 9669

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25.01.2022 Materials out the back awaiting big things, slowly unfolding, taking shape & coming to life during the (enhanced) unpredictability of Now... Check out our Spring botanical immersion/installation @hahndorfacademy in early October, in collaboration with @gooseberryhillflowers @rebeccamcewan.artist @evebud @twiningarts

24.01.2022 We make centrepieces & feature arrangements of diverse kinds to order...be they wild & colourful, earthy or rustic, contemplative or celebratory. Or whatever you might imagine. Until July 26 flowers to order for delivery (or pickup across the week) are being made on Thursdays, with veranda sales open 24/7 with various price points. The most unique roadside stall flowers around...& all materials organic or spray-free. Happy Winter... @ McLaren Vale, South Australia

23.01.2022 Welcome Spring. @ellisbutchers1954 this week. Talk to us about transforming & enlivening your space, with local, seasonal botanicals (fresh or dried). In our 29th year of working in the visual arts, public art & installation art, we specialise in working sculpturally & creatively, in response to spaces & contexts, whatever the scale.

23.01.2022 Getting bridal & Spring-y on the studio veranda last week (sort of, in an apron & with uncut stems...). This one had a pastel brief, to go with lemon cuttings decorating the aisle, especially for someone who works with local plants & the bush.

23.01.2022 Welcome Home An immersive botanical installation through which to wander & experience the cycles of Nature...and Life. The dying back & breaking down, the decay & the dormancy, the budding & then bursting forth - an explosion of majestic colour & life-force.... Drink up the sensory nourishment of a tapestry of colour, texture, scent & form highlighting the inherent beauty of the natural world. And welcome yourself Home... The float is loaded & we are installing today & tomorrow @hahndorfacademy with the fabulous @gooseberryhillflowers @evebud & @rebeccamcewan.artist Wednesday Oct 7 to Sunday Oct 18 Come for Soulful, Spatial, Sculptural Wildness & Reconnection, Abundance, Enchantment & an exploration of Awe.

23.01.2022 I cannot tell you how exciting it was to be creating to a context & transforming the experience of a local space again yesterday; total joy. Healing & nourishment was the brief (for the times) for what is unfurling from those cooking & crock pots, with a fair whack of life-force & vitality thrown in... It might be amazing if instead of always looking to go elsewhere (to escape) for a restorative & wondrous experience, we chose to invest more attention in making our everyday ...spaces & experiences more soulful, vital & connected with the wonders of nature around us...as a meaningful expression of who we are & where we are at, at any given time. @ Ellis Butchers

23.01.2022 Fence camouflage for a recent 50th...reworked a fortnight later for their daughter’s 18th.

23.01.2022 Spring wedding flowers for Erin & Matt last weekend...a pale brief with pops of colour & lots of freedom. Front, detail, & rear views of bouquet, hair flowers, buttonholes & a sweet, soft Maid bouquet.

23.01.2022 Beautiful seasonal materials, for our fresh & dried wreaths & centrepieces...currently being transformed & created.

23.01.2022 Flowers to order return Monday 12th (after school holidays finish) - hardy veranda sales available this week. Please join us too for the opening tonight of Welcome Home, a collaborative botanical installation exploring our relationship with the natural world. Runs until 4pm Sunday 18th October. @harveststudio... @rebeccamcewan.artist @gooseberryhillflowers @evebud See more

22.01.2022 Bespoke. Local. Of Spring. For someone fortunate, last weekend @salopianinn We love a good brief. And, sourcing & curating unique combinations of ingredients, for our botanicals to order.

20.01.2022 For Brides & special occasion bunches we have an assortment of vintage treasure to bind your botanicals with; lace, ribbon, linen, embroideries, saris & more. Also, beautiful silks & crepes hand-dyed with botanicals from the garden of a creative friend in the Hills. Just ask for a vintage or one-of-a-kind binding when you order. @ Harvest Studio

20.01.2022 Early Spring at the studio... Bespoke orders 9-12 Monday to Friday (minimum hours) Pick-up or local, metro or greater fleurieu delivery available. ... Same day delivery for local orders booked before Noon. Next day delivery for metro or further afield. Phone ahead or drop in to make an order. Local, seasonal materials change daily throughout the week. Order ahead for best results, so we can stash away the most special & fitting materials for your botanical needs.

20.01.2022 I have actually been totally disabled about how to use social media for good, as a business & an artist, since watching @thesocialdilemma I have no words and no plan of how to move forward yet...(in light of more confronting information than I even imagined, about new technologies). In the meanwhile, while I figure out my position, here is our veranda stall stocked up with local loveliness. As the temperature increases, these offerings will be hardy materials only, & a small...er number available each arvo/pm/weekend. To get something lush or bespoke (& therefore more fabulous/meaningful), please order ahead. And live well & enjoy the sunshine in the meanwhile...

20.01.2022 Nearly the last @womadelaide snippets...(I am now the proud owner of many a retro suitcase). Every element of the guest lounge was sourced, curated & installed by (or with) us; sculpting both the functionality of the (originally barren) site, plus the feel of the experience of the space, including the aesthetics, driven by our overall concept design.

19.01.2022 Some of our fabulous local spaces... Talk to us about enlivening & transforming your professional or private spaces, creating a unique locally-formed experience to reimagine your welcome, context, theme or brand. We also respond to small & large gatherings in diverse spaces for special occasions & events (get creative). @ Fleurieu Peninsula

19.01.2022 Welcome Home An immersive botanical installation Open until Sunday 5pm @hahndorfacademy A collaboration between @harveststudio @gooseberryhillflowers @rebeccamcewan.artist @evebud ... Some installation details of my areas of focus, the Regrowth/rebirth sections, plus collaborative areas we constructed together, plus details of the sections from the rest of the fabulous team of artists. A soundtrack is an additional feature of the unfolding (as you move through the space) exhibition.

19.01.2022 Seasonal, festive centrepieces & wreaths to order, from locally grown & harvested, diverse & unique materials. We have lovely beeswax candles arriving soon for our centrepieces (kept fresh in water) &, our fresh or dried wreaths are hand made from local grapevine prunings & fully compostable.

19.01.2022 We love late Autumn...& have lots of gorgeous materials flowing into & out of our door through the week right now. General hours: Monday to Friday 10-3 (sometimes longer) or by appointment. We can deliver or leave flowers for collection outside of these times, if you order ahead. ... You are always welcome to ring (or pop in) & see what special things we can create for you, on a given day...

19.01.2022 Responding to spaces (& working spatially), is our happy place... Here, botanical elements for a recent, late Spring wedding in Willunga.

19.01.2022 Luscious, Wintry bunches to order on Thursdays (for delivery or pick up), until our regular studio hours return on July 27. Veranda sales available 24/7 with bunches at various price points & payment details on studio door. See you in late Winter (if not before)... @ Harvest Studio

18.01.2022 Recent bespoke wreaths, fresh & dried, by multiple creatives (elves?) from the Harvest Studio team...cosy-ing up the town. Så hyggeligt! @gorgeoussoles_au @anatolypatrickarchitecture @ellisbutchers1954 ... #russelspizza @harveststudio See more

18.01.2022 Spreading festive cheer around the Vale... The studio is open this week including Saturday 9-3 & next week until 3pm(ish) Christmas Eve. Orders for (dried or fresh) bunches, centrepieces, wreaths & events are welcome.

16.01.2022 Festive, Summer Christmas install today...with possibly the largest wreath in town :)

15.01.2022 Our studio veranda, with bunches available 24/7, filled with the lush, local spoils of Winter... We are on Mid-Winter skeleton staffing from Mon June 29 & reopen our normal studio hours from Mon July 27. Veranda bunches will be topped up throughout the week during this time, & you can still request flowers to order on Thursdays (when we attend to our regular orders for spaces). May Winter restore & nourish you, & may the seeds you sow in this dark & cold time bring forth many blooms & fruits in the coming Spring & Summer... @ Harvest Studio

15.01.2022 Recent studio vase work & details... Phone us (or drop in) to organise one-of-a-kind bespoke responses, with mindfully sourced local materials, carefully curated to meet your context as well as the character of who will receive it & your budget. Thanks for sending some more love & cheer out into the world...

15.01.2022 We are back at the Inn... Veranda Sales 24/7 (Minimum) Studio Hours M-F 9-12 Orders for pick-up or local delivery by Noon. Orders for metro or greater Fleurieu delivery (or Haiku) by Noon a day prior.... 08 8323 9669 for orders or appointments. (Pick-ups & deliveries can be booked for outside regular hours) Cheers Welcome/Seasonal entry statement for the fabulous & sustainable @inkwellwine

15.01.2022 within her warm hands forgetful wood remembers it's flowering heart Some beautiful bespoke haiku poems are being sent out into the world alongside our flowers at the moment; the ones I have shared on insta were written by local writer Samara Mitchell in honour of our studio, our botanical work & the time of year... ... This first arrangement, in honour of a newly arrived local baby girl. @ McLaren Vale, South Australia

14.01.2022 One minute of contemplation...best experienced amongst the sounds of the natural world (especially birdsong). Some of my creation for Welcome Home @hahndorfacademy on show until Sunday 18th, 4pm. A multi-sensory, immersive botanical installation in collaboration with other artists @rebecca amcewan.artist @gooseberryhillflowers @evebud exploring our connections with the natural world. Enjoy the wonders...

14.01.2022 We make diverse wreaths to order, of many shapes, styles & materials, fresh or dry (or fresh, made to dry well). With a candle in the centre they make a lovely centrepiece too. We also make fresh centrepieces (pics soon), in vessels, with or without candles...& Summery or festive dried features to order too. These images are indications of some of the directions we can go in...

14.01.2022 New public art in McLaren Vale on our studio garden wall... Couldn’t ask for a better wall @henryjock @rebeccamcewan.artist & big thanks to @dailygrindskateco our new neighbours. Also a Shimmer festival install in the garden for the next month by @theforestry_experiments ... Plus Spring gorgeousness on the veranda for sale 24/7. Enjoy!

14.01.2022 Recent local, seasonal, sculptural bunches to order... @ McLaren Vale, South Australia

13.01.2022 Recent bespoke, early Autumn studio bunches. We are closed for a school holiday break from Saturday April 11 & reopen Monday April 20. Fresh veranda stall offerings will be available until Monday pm & dried arrangements until we return. Enjoy the winding back of the seasons & the time for starting to let go & turning inward...

13.01.2022 Welcome Home. Trying to give you a taste, without spoiling the layered experiences that unfold as you move through our collaborative botanical, immersive installation, exploring our connections with the natural world. Come do as the teens in the last image did & envelop yourself in the sights, sounds, scents, textures, feels & wonders of the natural world. Exhibition runs until Sun. Oct. 18, 4pm. The earlier you are, the more life-force will still be in the room. Enjoy...

13.01.2022 The claret vine curls in the late afternoon sun It's heart on it’s leaves We now have a local writer (& dear friend), Samara Mitchell, writing personalised haiku poems as offerings to sit alongside our flower orders.... $10 gets you a unique haiku, beautifully written up & delivered as a scroll, with references to your person/context & usually a nod to the season or nature, within the chosen parameters of this traditional form of Japanese poetry. Please order & supply your context info a day in advance. More of these word-treasures to come soon...

12.01.2022 Autumn Equinox wedding bouquet...for Rebecca, @serafinowines Multiple views of one nature-sculpture, jam-packed with local materials. Happy Autumn

12.01.2022 We make seasonal fresh & dried arrangements to order & often like to combine the two types of locally sourced materials. We can also create offerings that are designed to dry out & be kept. Remember too that we have botanicals at different price points, for sale from our veranda at all times; with payment details on the studio door (cash or bank transfer).

12.01.2022 Festive bunches can be delivered with local wines, almonds, chocolate, beeswax or botanical candles, pillow spray, metal art, hand-made or vintage vases, cards by local artists’ or a personalised haiku by a local writer. We also create vouchers & bespoke subscriptions. We are open all this week including Saturday 19th (9-3) & the week of Christmas until December 24th, 3pm. We reopen from Summer break from January 11. Please order festive bunches, wreaths, & centrepieces in advance to not miss out on Summer loveliness...

12.01.2022 Skates, surf gear, skate boards & @littleblackbike bmx (plus foliage & foragings by us). Check out our new neighbours @dailygrindskateco open from today

12.01.2022 Bespoke, local flowers to order; individual responses for beautiful people & diverse situations... Order by phone, or we are in the studio Mon to Fri 9-12 (minimum) making orders for pick-up (at any time) or delivery. Veranda sales 24/7 for the not-so-organised or spontaneous moments. @ McLaren Vale, South Australia

12.01.2022 When we clean up the dried storage areas; & why...

12.01.2022 Saying farewell to Autumn/ Winter tones, so we can welcome in full-bore Spring-iness from tomorrow...woo hoo!

12.01.2022 Autumnal harvest celebration installed yesterday, with a nod to Easter/Oestre... Having grown up in the Vale, what I always love about installing @ellisbutchers1954 is the conversations that are triggered with passers by about the materials & what I am doing; on this occasion, lovely chats with older women about preserving & never wanting to see another fig, from making so much fig jam & chutney in one’s life! Was so happy (some time ago) to find these preserving jars still labelled from prior use, and to feature a crate from my grandparent’s business. Every time I use these familiar things, I am plugged back in to where I am from, where I live, & where I belong.

11.01.2022 And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in Winter. It’s quiet but the roots are down there riotous. Rumi... The first-picked & only bunch of ranuculus from the fabulous @gooseberryhillflowers from the week before last...sigh. Bring it on Winter. @ McLaren Vale, South Australia

11.01.2022 So lovely to be creating again this week in response to some of our amazing local venues...many of them reopening this long weekend. May you enjoy, again, the unique experiences on offer at some of our leading local venues. @ Samuel's Gorge

11.01.2022 Where we live, harvest & play...as the world wakes up again (sort of, & perhaps).

10.01.2022 Old wood and fresh blooms rest in warm companionship on a sculptor’s bench Autumnal centrepiece by us, original Haiku by local writer Samara Mitchell.... Commission your own personalised Haiku to order: follows the traditional 17 syllables (usually in 3 lines of 5|7|5), usually references the season, or a natural element, and infers deeper meaning without obvious metaphors or similie. Magic. Provide us with your unique context for your personalised botanical sculpture & poem to accompany it. @ McLaren Vale, South Australia

10.01.2022 Recent late Spring bunches... We are currently taking orders for festive bunches heading into December & Summer, & booking in advance for Christmas is advisable so we can source & curate the best outcomes for you. When all else fails, there is our veranda stall, however once the weather heats up there will be reduced stock left outside. Ideally, phone ahead for us to make you something specific (& potentially more delicate or lush) for you to collect.

09.01.2022 Soft wood snakes sideways green flames run along the vine To feed sleeping fruit Spring Haiku by our writer in residence @madame_abattoir ... Bespoke bunches to order by the Harvest Studio team; 9-12 Monday to Friday (minimum hours). Veranda sales if you miss us.

09.01.2022 Winter farewell flowers for a well-loved local, who loved pink & liked it loud. Creating a rambling, garden-like landscape from local materials was our conceptual response. A bespoke, mid-Winter, sculptural, spatial hero-ing of good local things... @ McLaren Vale, South Australia

08.01.2022 Recent festive centrepieces & wreaths, fresh & dried, each one unique, made individually by different creatives from our team; hyggelig, cosy, celebratory, reverential, welcoming.

08.01.2022 To the class of 2020, Willunga Waldorf School, the most amazing group of young people that I know. Graduating this week, they designed, planned, sourced (mostly from their own gardens) & created, an amazing spatial response for their recent formal (assisted by a smattering of adults, including myself). You lot are rockstars (or whatever you want to be) in the making. Go forth & bring even more wondrous experiences into the world...

08.01.2022 We are open today, 9-3, with The Inn filled with some of the Harvest Studio team, making & taking orders for Christmas. We are open up until 3pm Christmas Eve, for collection of orders & last minute rememberings...

08.01.2022 Recent bespoke vase-work... Local, seasonal, sculptural, contextual & one-of-a-kind. Orders Monday to Friday 9-12 (minimum hrs, with pick-up or delivery available outside these hours). Or get yourself to our veranda stall...open 24/7 for pot-luck offerings.

07.01.2022 Designing dried or fresh, local responses for interesting spaces is our specialty; including installations & whole-site experiences to transform an environment. You can also bring a vessel to the studio for us to fill to your brief...to enliven your own world (or that of another). The fabulous @capricornia_sa @dowiedoole / @scholz.oli local spaces pictured here, plus a customer’s vessel at the studio, waiting to be collected (while teen studies). Always a delight to respond conceptually, holistically & soulfully to the spaces & initiatives of people we respect & love! @ Capricornia_SA

06.01.2022 When parents, children & creatives work together...(mostly) From our herbal flower crown/wreath workshop for the Willunga Chilli Festival held in late Summer this year. Thanks @_ruby_jones for flexible artistic & child-wrangling support. We are looking forward to community events in our lovely village again soon... @ Willunga, South Australia

06.01.2022 Okay. We have nearly recovered from the epic week revolving around Mother’s Day 2020...& will start to share some of the lovely or unusual local offerings that went out into the world from our studio. Like the 6 earthy, natural looking bunches ordered here, from one man, to the 6 mothers in his extended family; his Mother, Mother-in -law, sisters & sister-in-laws. A loving, respectful & generous gesture for sure... @ Harvest Studio

06.01.2022 Bespoke almost Spring, sculptural, local flowers to order...this one, a centrepiece for a recent birthday gathering. Plus, more orders awaiting collection or delivery out the back yesterday. And, our roadside stall/ studio veranda filled with daily offerings at various price points (for when you have not organised a bespoke response).

06.01.2022 Thank you Coorong...for the balance of humans & nature to be reversed for a few days, for diverse kinds of fluffy things everywhere(!) aka fluffies, for baby emus drinking nearby, for roos mostly ignoring us, for the many small creatures, amazing bird life & birdsong, for walks, bathing, sunrises, sunsets, & the wind & waves. For perfect camping weather, some quiet & time away from clocks & technology of many kinds. And to the natural world, my eternal muse, for endless connection, inspiration, & always more landscapes & awe-inspiring experiences to bring into being.

06.01.2022 Love this time of year on home turf...these are the almond trees across the road from the house I grew up in. It warms my heart to see them still doing their Winter-cheer spectacular thing. And we do love a bit of blossom woven into a wild arrangement... And for all those who have expressed interest in being part of our flowersmithing, flower-wrangling & sometimes flower-whispering team, we will get back to you sometime next week.

05.01.2022 Sprawling local gorgeousness in blackberry, raspberry & deep red tones, for the launch of a fabulous sparkling red @samuels_gorge last weekend. In their words, We were SO stoked with the installation, thank you =)))). Home to surely one of the best views around town & a fabulous team of creative people. And, obviously, some darn good wine. ... Fabulous food for the event by @comida_hahndorf

05.01.2022 Recent bespoke studio work (still a few Wintery pics to share). Phone us ahead of time to get the most fabulous materials collected & put aside for you. We do spectacular botanicals for every occasion & context - one of yesterday’s orders was to repair goodwill with a partner; as the orderer explained she’s pissed off with me. ... We revamped our veranda/roadside stall this week too, to make it more possum, wind, sun & rain resilient! Check it out if you are in the Vale.

04.01.2022 Recent, epic-scale, studio vase work...each crafted by a different member of the Harvest Studio team, to different briefs.

04.01.2022 Smashing late Winter bunches for sale this weekend on our studio veranda, along the garden path... Veranda sales 24/7 Flowers to order Mon-Fri 9-12 (& often later) - the best way to get the best things.... For installations, spatial responses (fresh or dry) & subscriptions for your business, workplace or home, please phone us. Ditto for future events...small or large. @ Harvest Studio

04.01.2022 Elements from our Frida Kahlo inspired recent wedding, with local, seasonal materials, & the delightful Mexican bride. A total joy to engage with this brief...just wait until you see the wild arbour (soon).

04.01.2022 Sometimes it’s really all about the tree (& we suggested non-arbour/ installation alternatives to frame & hero the tree more next time). What I loved about this install was seeing the tonal relationships between the colours of the feature gum tree & the earthy palette of local materials. Arbour details from an Autumn Equinox wedding; the bride wanted things natural, wild & not too flower heavy, with her bouquet being the spark of colour & lushness for the event. With thanks... to @rebeccamcewan.artist for support on the day. AND a reminder we are closed for Autumn Break; the veranda is stocked with fresh materials until Monday night, & then Autumnal dried offerings until we reopen on Monday April 19th.

03.01.2022 Bespoke local flowers, foliage & foragings to order for pick up or delivery (local, metro or greater fleurieu), whatever your context. One of these sent from Paris, with love, to a local. One of the delights of global connectedness is the chats we get from interesting people from all over the world & Australia-wide. And I so love that someone bought the last of our almond blossom as a rather large bunch...... Wonderful too to have a mix of fellow creatives @rebeccamcewan.artist @evebud & Lisa as studio support at the moment, preparing for Spring. Go team @ McLaren Vale, South Australia

02.01.2022 People are still getting married around here, in all sorts of wonderful & creative ways... This couple, a flashback to late last year, before the newness of now. @whiteorchideventsadelaide... @ivoryfoxphotography @ Adelaide, South Australia

02.01.2022 Wet, green, footprints weave across a blanket of frost A foragers trail Happy Winter Solstice from the weekend...enjoy your longer days & shorter nights, as we move more towards Summer now. Bring it on...... Haiku by Samara Mitchell @madame_abattoir for Harvest Studio (commission bespoke versions with our bespoke flower orders) @ Meadows, South Australia

01.01.2022 Spring centrepieces killing me with their beauty...for a 40th, a 50th, a Barmitzvah for 150 people, & for when your own baby turns 18. @starofgreece @maxwellwines @chalkhillwines #russelspizza

01.01.2022 WANTED: A talented creative with botanical experience, to join our studio team...visual art /installation art/ sculpture background an asset. Project management &/or admin skills a bonus. Up to 15-20 hrs a week plus potential for extra hours for installs & events. Please email us an EOI describing your skills & experience...plus why you would want to work for our studio, creating everything from sculptural bouquets to large installations & spatial botanical responses.... We look forward to meeting our new team member soon... @ McLaren Vale, South Australia

01.01.2022 Very late Spring, bespoke studio bunches... Please order in advance for December/festive madness ;)

01.01.2022 Spring has arrived! Check out our welcome this week @ellisbutchers1954 (with a nod to Father’s Day woven in). Banksias, leucodendren, wattles, snap dragon, daffodil, poppy, ornamental prune, rocket, broadbean, twisted willow & maybe more that I can’t recall...