Make the Most of Outdoor ConcertsFor many music lovers, there are few things better than an evening spent at a concert, sprawled out on the lawn with friends. Concerts and interesting venues can also
Life ain’t easy for one parent families, but when Stephanie Lane and Holly Thompson met, it was a match made in heaven. Steph and her daughter Frida (6) and Holly and her daughter Lola (5) moved in together, forming an unconventional ‘family’, and turning a shared rental house in Kew into a love-filled home.
The pair run Goodspace, a homewares and vintage furniture store that operates primarily over Instagram, born out of a shared love of timeless design and second chances.
We chatted with these two super mums about sharing the parenting load, going into business, and how two families operate together.
Last year’s lockdowns were a turning point in the fledgling practice of student ceramicist, Bell Carver. Where she had previously kept her focus on functional objects, stay-at-home orders and banishment from the RMIT studios led the young creative to play around with the conceptual side of ceramics. And then these experiments won her the inaugural Shelley Simpson Ceramics Prize!
Bell’s gentle porcelain orbs attempt to encapsulate the experience of the months-long lockdown in clay. Two creamy hemispheres split apart along an imaginary central axis remain joined at the seam to represent the slow but assured separation of everyone around the world. Whether by chance or design, Bell’s pieces resemble the earth turned upside down, or completely split in two.