2026 VIVID FINALISTS

FLORASPHERE – Rising Sun Lamp

FLORASPHERE – Rising Sun is a sculptural lamp combining undulating coral- inspired growth with a radiant sunrise palette. Unlit, its colours define a dappled organic sculpture; illuminated, they bleed into the warm radiance of first light on water. Each piece is uniquely grown, uniting colour, light and form into functional art.

Imprint on Me

Inspired by the Victorian coast, Imprint on Me is a sculptural outdoor side table cast in a hybrid sand-formwork mould system. The custom limecrete mix celebrates the natural transparency of its alkaline properties and alchemy with oxide pigments. It evokes a hazy nostalgia in sun-soaked, weathered sea-life inspired tones.

Soft Plane Wall Hook Series

These wall hooks combine slipcasting and slab-building techniques to create pieces that are both sculptural and functional. The different shapes are designed to complement each other and create a striking, yet playful, arrangement in their setting. They treat the wall as an active surface for composition, instead of simply installation.

Loom Armchair

The Loom Armchair explores the potential of textile off-cuts as a viable upholstery material. Drawing from rag-rug weaving traditions, textile off-cuts are hand tufted through a woven wire mesh supported by an electropolished stainless steel frame, creating a surface that is both visually rich and materially intentional.

Second Subject

Developed as an evolution of First Subject, Second Subject explores how familiar forms can be reworked through scale, material and instinct-led making. Combining hardwood, steel and varied timbers, the piece celebrates adaptability, experimentation and objects shaped through process rather than fixed outcomes.

Para Stool and Para Bench

An exploration of form, materiality, and tactile detail, the Para Stool and Para Bench comprise a complementary set crafted from Victorian Ash and hand-woven paracord. Their pared-back structure emphasises function, while the woven seat introduces texture. Hand-painted in a low-sheen water-based finish, the pieces balance durability with contemporary sensibility.

Copper Sailor Lamp

Made with PLA resin infused with copper, and inspired by 19th-century naval lamps. The subtly textured face diffuses light into a soft, ambient glow, while its geometric form anchors any space. Over time, the copper will develop a natural patina, adding character. Designed for bedside, desk, or shelf.

Second Skin

Second Skin challenges standardized sizing by proposing a modular wearable object that adapts to the individual. Through additive manufacturing, asymmetrical form, and a dual-layer system, it explores the relationship between body, material, and industrial production, embracing imperfection, identity, and transformation.

Stork Stools

Project Stork began with the desire to create a series of furniture that explores new avenues of form, function, and materiality. Designed to stack and pack into a single unit, the collection of sculptural stools transitions effortlessly between seating and storage, offering a considered, adaptable solution for space-conscious living environments.

Akin

Akin explores the human form, abstracting it through glass to create uncanny mildly familiar forms. These textured, lifelike pieces are created by blowing glass into moulds taken from the artist’s elbows. This shift repositions the body from a personal subject to a sculptural form, inviting viewers to encounter it anew.

HAL

Inspired in part, by the rouge AI entity depicted in the film - 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL is a visual representation of the veil of opacity that shields modern day artificial intelligence. This pervasive secrecy masquerading as informed reason, can be seen through and illuminated.

The Limbo Chair

The Limbo Chair distils seating to its most essential form: a single, flowing silhouette cut from 9mm laminated plywood pieces. Precision adhesives and steam bending produce a seamless, ergonomic structure without visible joints or mechanical fixings. Like a limbo, it is light, durable, and from some angles, nearly invisible.

The Modular Couch Project

This project reimagines furniture as a flexible, modular system. Four elements stack into a single lounge seat or separate into three cushioned seats and a low table. Carefully proportioned, the user’s weight stabilises the pieces, creating adaptable, understated comfort that invites improvisation, gathering, and effortless reshaping of compact living spaces.

Almost Bookshelf

Almost Bookshelf is a handcrafted solid timber piece defined by its subtly slanted shelves. The gentle angle allows large stone spheres to roll along a carved channel, transforming them into dynamic, sculptural bookends.

Framed by the Square, Transformed by the Circle

The furniture collection began as an honours project questioning why some objects are kept while others are discarded. Drawing from Cantonese cultural memory and traditional craftsmanship, the collection transforms between chair, stool, and table, encouraging slower interaction and positioning furniture as a meaningful, evolving part of everyday life.

Flat-Pack Coffee Table

This aluminium and travertine coffee table combines the portability of flat- pack furniture with the luxury of stone and brushed metal. Its dimensions follow standardised stone tile sizes, improving affordability. As the business scales, aluminium frames can be shipped internationally while customers source tiles locally, reducing freight costs and environmental impact.

Yield

Yield explores the relationship between a rock’s weight and a table’s function. The rock’s constant pressure forces the table to yield physically and conceptually, reshaping interaction by limiting access to a single point. This disruption questions the table’s purpose: has its function been lost, or transformed through the pressure?

Daisy Stool

Daisy explores the beauty found in imperfection. Rather than concealing flaws, this work embraces them. Allowing the natural variations, cracks, and textures of the wood to become defining features. By highlighting these imperfections, the piece is enhanced, revealing the material’s inherent character and honesty.

Wave Table

Inspired by rattan, The Wave Table investigates how high-performance composites can impact the contemporary furniture landscape. Strips of CF overlap to form a sturdy, moulded triaxial weave. Though CF is heavily associated with industrial sectors, perforations in the weave create lightweightness in visual mass, resolving this incongruity for non-industrial settings.

Para Stool and Para Bench

An exploration of form, materiality, and tactile detail, the Para Stool and Para Bench comprise a complementary set crafted from Victorian Ash and hand-woven paracord. Their pared-back structure emphasises function, while the woven seat introduces texture. Hand-painted in a low-sheen water-based finish, the pieces balance durability with contemporary sensibility.

Stacked Stools

Designed for the space conscious modern home, the Stacked Stools can join together to form a singular entity or seperate to function independently when called for. A robust and space effective answer to guest seating, which can be converted to a side table when the guests go home.

Corded Bench

Bespoke Danish Cord weaved bench seat crafted using traditional techniques and drawing inspiration from Scandinavian Mid Century design. Sculpted primarily using hand tools, this bench is entirely unique and also, imperfect. Designed with the belief that there is beauty in individuality and an assurance that it cannot be identically replicated.

Imprint on Me

A sculptural outdoor side table, designed to weather Australia’s current climate. It centres on the material exploration of natural hydraulic lime as a carbon-negative alternative to concrete. In reclaiming a material rooted in history, we continue a necessary conversation that questions past, present and future sustainable practices.

Marker Chair

The Marker chair was designed as an elegant piece that feels both strong and delicate, highlighting my love of curves and the seamless integration of legs, seat and back rest. Made from sustainably sourced Tasmanian Blackwood, it’s designed to use standard lumber sizes, reducing waste both financially and environmentally.

Whistle Cabinet

A wall-mounted piece crafted from American Walnut, the Whistle Cabinet features a circular body achieved through coopering and kerfing techniques. Inspired by a whistle shape, the design includes an extending wing-like shelf and a central push-to-open drawer. Originally conceived as a bedside, it stands confidently as a standalone form.

Tall Button Stool

Handmade in Canberra, the Button Stool features a recessed seat cradled by frame legs with elegant curved joins. A triangular connection unites the legs, ensuring every intricate detail is deeply structural as well as aesthetic. Simple yet playful, this timber design delivers a confident stance and handmade craftsmanship.

Restless Coffee Table

Restless Coffee Table balances sculptural form with functional design. Its base is constructed from freely folded lengths of extruded ceramic, capturing movement within a restrained form. A substantial smoked glass top anchors the piece, while its generous scale and low profile lend a grounded presence within contemporary interiors.

Balboa

Balboa is a flat-pack rocking chair, constructed by connecting four bamboo ply slabs with brass fixings. Clean joinery and considered proportions create a visually refined silhouette. An upholstered seat and back pad add comfort, while the sustainable bamboo construction delivers quiet, enduring quality.

Tether

Tether is a hand bent steel chair and stool, designed and made in Melbourne. Inspired by early modernist principles, its open construction achieves structural integrity without visual and literal weight. Laced back supports and woven details add understated character, while a powder- coated finish ensures durability.

Tall Coaster

Tall Coaster is a compact side table crafted from reclaimed Oregon balusters. Purposefully small to resist clutter, its size is informed by a single daily ritual: a morning coffee, an evening wine, or a novel. The simple form is carefully considered to elevate, rather than detract, from Oregon's natural grain.

Recession Coffee Table

The Recession coffee Table is influenced by early Russian Constructivist design and the later Brutalist movement. It is made from solid American Ash timber and joined using hand-chiselled recesses for strength. The design highlights the prominent ash grain, with an end-grain inlay adding contrast in tone and texture.

Loom Arm Chair

The Loom Armchair explores the potential of textile offcuts as a viable upholstery material. Drawing from rag-rug weaving traditions, textile offcuts are hand tufted through a woven wire mesh supported by a stainless steel frame, creating a surface that is both visually rich and materially intentional.

Infinity Loop

This curved bench explores flowing organic form through bent laminated American White Ash. Designed to balance strength, comfort, and visual softness, the piece highlights continuous curves, refined joinery, and handcrafted construction while creating a functional statement seating piece with sculptural character.

Second Subject

Developed as an evolution of First Subject, Second Subject explores how familiar forms can be reworked through scale, material and instinct-led making. Combining hardwood, steel and varied timbers, the piece celebrates adaptability, experimentation and objects shaped through process rather than fixed outcomes.

Block39

Hand crafted from blackbutt, Block39 was developed in response to the increased pace of our lived environment. The lattice surface is designed as a vessel to accommodate the function of movement and play. The legs are accessories to the bench seat that should be manipulated to the desired form.

Bark

Inspired by ironbark’s deeply furrowed surface, Kaytar translated natural texture into cast aluminium through hand sand-casting. A mirror-polished top meets raw, textural form, balancing utility and presence. Designed to evolve through patina, it reflects a continual transformation of material, process, and surface over time.

Ode

Indicative of place through referenced geometries, materials & historical markers. Crafted from a single slab of storm felled timber, gathered by the banks of the Murray River/Dhungala, Ode moves beyond function to become a reflection of its origin. Subtly capturing the spirit and story of a small regional town.

Diosca

A play on proportions, Disoca is a freestanding cabinet that resists perceived norms,through an intentional distortion of balance and form. The piece invites a sense of play and inquisitiveness through tactile interaction, encouraging the viewer to engage beyond what they might expect.

Mesa Dog Bed

Mesa is a mid-century modern inspired dog bed, designed as an architectural object for the home. Guided by the clean lines and principles of Le Corbusier, Mesa evokes the leisurely spirit of Palm Springs, where form and rest come together in this object for modern animal living.

Sella: Sensual Living Systems ™

Sella (chair) : Made by hand from solid salvaged Oregon, the chair uses mechanical fixings and can flat-pack. It is hand chiselled and embellished with hand-made nails that express the timber’s former life. No two chairs are the same due to the organic properties of the maker and material.

Selulla and Banca : Sensual Living Systems ™

Sellula + Banca work independently, or when placed with additional modules the assemblages are endless. The foundation of Femme Brutale is a simple form, a cube with a single curved edge, which in isolation is stark, unyielding, brutal. SLS's balance utility with beauty, playfulness with precision, and starkness with warmth.

Leaf Pendant

Design inspired from the leaves of a gum tree, constructed from multiple veneers pressed into a mould, and illuminated by an LED globe, casting light in 3 “V” patterns in the surrounding space

Structural Glow

Inspired by Brutalist architecture and Cubist spatial division, this piece explores the interplay between light and geometric mass. The repetitive, industrial-inspired patterns create a rhythmic surface, while the deliberate 'cut-out' section transforms the solid form into a functional light sculpture, casting soft, architectural shadows within a contemporary interior

X Sconce

The X Sconce features Joe’s signature X-form glass design, incorporating two light sources within the internal design, casting striking light patterns through the X openings top and bottom. The translucent white glass softly diffuses the light to create a warm, atmospheric glow to its surroundings.

Sap Lamp

This oak & resin lamp marries sculpture, function, and material resourcefulness. The triangular form was created from just three salvaged boards and has been hand-shaped to appear as though it were carved from one solid piece. The resin components were cast using mouldings of found pebbles and dyed with tea.

Alu Lamp

Alu lamp is an exercise in form and material clarity. Composed of a singular geometric volume, its surface displaced inward to reveal luminance. The design embraces structure, proportion and materiality as defining elements of its presence. Alu lamp is available in a small edition of 20 fabricated locally.

Eden Column — Oyster Shell Composite Series

Eden Column is an elongated, sculptural wall light designed to cast a soft, atmospheric glow. Its fluted form balances function and aesthetics, creating warmth without visual heaviness. Locally 3D printed in Brisbane using sustainable materials, it reflects a considered approach to lighting, craftsmanship and contemporary Australian design.

FLORASPHERE – Rising Sun

FLORASPHERE – Rising Sun is a sculptural lamp combining undulating coral- inspired growth with a radiant sunrise palette. Unlit, its colours define a dappled organic sculpture; illuminated, they bleed into the warm radiance of first light on water. Each piece is uniquely grown, uniting colour, light and form into functional art.

Linea

Linea explores the contrast of complex finishing techniques applied to simple, found objects. Linea utilises economical construction materials to create an elegant wall sconce easily scalable to fit any space. Warm light accentuates the unique surface finish of Linea, achieved by acid etching aluminium extrusion.

The Glossy Duo

The Glossy Duo highlights the contrast between glass and ceramics, repeating the same form in both materials. One lamp with a ceramic shade and glass base, and another with a glass shade and ceramic base. Placed together, they reveal the distinct material qualities and how each interacts with light differently.

Sailor Lamp

Crafted from resin infused with magnetite, this sculptural lamp balances industrial materiality with quiet warmth. The subtly textured face diffuses light into a soft, ambient glow, while its monolithic form anchors any space. A tactile, modern object that feels grounded, refined, and quietly magnetic. Designed for bedside, desk, or shelf.

SMOKE LIGHT TOTEM: Sensual Living Systems ™

Smoke Light Totem is part of Sensual Living Systems™. Through a language of metaphor, volume, and material, Femme Brutale creates objects that balance utility with beauty, playfulness with precision, and starkness with warmth. This piece is part-seat, part-shelf, part-light. It defies categorization and is functional sculpture.

Rockpool | Mirror

Hand sand-cast in aluminium, The Rockpool is composed of five mirrored pools that capture and scatter light. Formed through an ancient casting process, each surface carries the direct imprint of its sand mould, with variation emerging through hand fabrication. A low-intervention, locally grounded work evoking fluid, shifting natural reflection.

Three Flow

Composed of three vessels: Rise, Pulse, and Drift, the container aligns with the body's circadian rhythm. Varying magnet resistance and shifting aluminium reflections offer quiet sensory markers throughout the day, grounding the act of taking supplements in something closer to ritual.

Bubble Set

The Bubble Set is a clear glass composition exploring the starting point of glassblowing: the initial bubble formed from molten glass. Rather than concealing it, the work makes this moment visible as a defining design element. It emphasizes transparency, soft forms, and the direct link between process and object.

Soft Plane Wall Hook Series

These wall hooks combine slipcasting and slab-building techniques to create pieces that are both sculptural and functional. The different shapes are designed to complement each other and create a striking, yet playful, arrangement in their setting. They treat the wall as an active surface for composition, instead of simply installation

Alishan Noren (Curtain textile)

This traditional curtain has been created by hand with japanese ink onto canvas, a Noren (暖簾). This can be hung decoratively or to create private spaces within the home or work environment. If you have travelled to Japan or Taiwan you would be familiar with these artistic unobstrusive designs.

Catatumbo Chess Set (2026)

Representation of The Three Thousand Lightnings War, a fictional battle creation of our own imagination and inspired by Zulia State northern Shores. Part of our body of work "Grainchromie" highlighting natural End Grain Patterns with colours.

Speculo (mirror) : Sensual Living Systems ™

Featuring Femme Brutale's signature motif: a cube with single curved edge. For walls, ceilings or as freestanding objects. Aluminium treated three ways; polished, sandblasted, and bush-hammered. When installed in multiples, the mirrors tessellate for a myriad of configurations.

Flat-Pack Coffee Table

This aluminium and travertine coffee table combines the portability of flat- pack furniture with the luxury of stone and brushed metal. Its dimensions follow standardised stone tile sizes, improving affordability. As the business scales, aluminium frames can be shipped internationally while customers source tiles locally, reducing freight costs and environmental impact.

Sap Lamp

This oak & resin lamp marries sculpture, function, and material resourcefulness. The triangular form was created from just three salvaged boards and has been hand-shaped to appear as though it were carved from one solid piece. The resin components were cast using mouldings of found pebbles and dyed with tea.

Alu Lamp

Alu lamp is an exercise in form and material clarity. Composed of a singular geometric volume, its surface displaced inward to reveal luminance. The design embraces structure, proportion and materiality as defining elements of its presence. Alu lamp is available in a small edition of 20 fabricated locally.

Three Flow

Composed of three vessels: Rise, Pulse, and Drift, the container aligns with the body's circadian rhythm. Varying magnet resistance and shifting aluminium reflections offer quiet sensory markers throughout the day, grounding the act of taking supplements in something closer to ritual.

Stacked Stools

Designed for the space conscious modern home, the Stacked Stools can join together to form a singular entity or seperate to function independently when called for. A robust and space effective answer to guest seating, which can be converted to a side table when the guests go home.

Corded Bench

Bespoke Danish Cord weaved bench seat crafted using traditional techniques and drawing inspiration from Scandinavian Mid Century design. Sculpted primarily using hand tools, this bench is entirely unique and also, imperfect. Designed with the belief that there is beauty in individuality and an assurance that it cannot be identically replicated.

Recession Coffee Table

The Recession coffee Table is influenced by early Russian Constructivist design and the later Brutalist movement. It is made from solid American Ash timber and joined using hand-chiselled recesses for strength. The design highlights the prominent ash grain, with an end-grain inlay adding contrast in tone and texture.