Craft

I am a contemporary artist with my new found mediums of paint and ceramics. The study of colour and developing my own visual language is something I am working on daily.

Daniel López Lomelí is a multidisciplinary artist born in Mexico City and currently based in the Blue Mountains, Australia. With a background in architecture, the space where he first witnessed the vast scale of material waste, particularly plastics. Fascinated by their overlooked potential, he began collecting discarded polymers such as polyethylene terephthalate amongst many others to transform into sculptural works that question our relationship to plastic and its perceived disposability. In his hands, plastic becomes something dynamic: a gesture frozen in time, shaped through controlled heat and fire into forms that mimic weighty materials or emphasize the raw honesty of transformation. Central to his practice is a reverence for material memory and a deepening sense of ecological interconnectedness. Drawing from the Japanese concept of Kodama—spirits that inhabit trees, forests, and mountains—López Lomelí expands the idea to include plastic: an omnipresent material born of fossilized life, decayed over millennia, now shaping the rhythms of our daily existence. His sculptures embody what Donna Haraway terms the "Chthulucene"—a call for more curious, caring, and creative ways of living within our damaged world. Imbalance, for López Lomelí, is truthful. His asymmetrical forms celebrate imperfection as a form of equilibrium, reflecting a belief that we relate most deeply to the flawed, the broken, and the unfinished. Through these works, he invites viewers to reconsider value, origin, and agency—not as fixed, but as ever-evolving. Working across sculpture, installation, projection, and collective making, his recent projects investigate themes of transformation, identity, and time. In 2024, he was awarded the Casula Powerhouse Scholarship, which includes a forthcoming exhibition integrating his sculptural language with the site’s architecture.

I’m a bookbinder and the creative mind behind Luminary Lines, where each piece is crafted with care and passion for all things paper. There’s something magical about the texture of fine paper, the flow of ink from pen to page, and the stories held within the pages of a well-loved notebook. I carry a notebook wherever I go—whether to jot down fleeting ideas or preserve cherished moments—and often create custom designs for special occasions, like travels or gifts. At Luminary Lines, I aim to make stationery that’s not just practical but also a source of inspiration and joy—a faithful companion for your thoughts, dreams, and adventures.

I am a Photographer based in beautiful Leura, originally from the east coast of the United States. Growing up in a small country town, I was surrounded by the natural beauty of forests and farmland, which inspired her creativity at a young age. Throughout my life, I've worked with both film and digital. I work across many genres of photography, creating imagery through Fine Art, Fashion, Portraits, Product, Documentary & Street, Landscape, Botanicals, Wildlife and more. As a creative, I also work with floristry, beadwork, embroidery, watercolour painting, pyrography, ceramics, textiles and illustration. Current and past clients have included Jasco, Eckersley's Art & Craft and Warin Wildflowers, Pip Magazine and various published Authors.