HoMie established in 2015 by 3 friends eager to break down the stigma of homelessness and those experiencing it rough on the streets. Starting as a Facebook page - 'Homelessness of Melbourne' the initiative aimed to draw awareness to the faces and stories of everyday people affected by homelessness. To share their own narrative in a dignified way and to humanise the issue. The following year, they became HoMie - 'Homelessness Of Melbourne and a radical retail pop-up at Melbourne Central, was born, with a singular monogram tee and a few other brands hanging on racks and much creativity. Homie.com.au

Grégoire Scalabre’s latest masterpiece is inspired by a Greek Goddess. His signature style is both minute and megalithic. He creates ceramics and sculptures that border on fine art. He is experimental and daring; finding expression in a smorgasbord of sizes, shapes and materials that clash and collide. With over 70,000 porcelain miniatures turned individually by hand, Grégoire Scalabre’s latest masterpiece took months to put together. Weighing a whopping 450 kilos and standing 2 metres tall, the monumental piece debuts at the Porcelain Virtuosity Exhibition as part of Homo Faber 2022 in Venice. Found on the YellowTrace https://www.yellowtrace.com.au/gregoire-scalabre-ceramic

This artwork by Filipino artist Leeroy represents a flotilla of boats. They float above viewers and speak to the nature of the Philippines as a country made up of many islands, in which water has a central place in everyday life. Made from water containers, PET bottles, twine, bicycle wheel frames, ribbons, other found objects and Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with assistance from Mirvac and Parramatta Artists’ Studios. These fantastical forms could refer to the main type of transportation employed by people throughout the region for thousands of years.  https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/leeroy-new/

“This unique residential complex includes two buildings designed as vertical forests. The firm Stefano Boeri Architetti China, has completed construction of its first vertical forest complex, in Huanggang, Hubei province, China. The complex covers an area of 4.54 hectares and includes five towers, two of which were designed as a vertical forest. The towers combine open and closed balconies planted with 404 trees, 4,620 shrubs, and 2,408 square metres of perennial grass, flowers, and climbing plants. Sustainability and the need to reduce global warming have become part of the vernacular of this architecture” Seen in Springwise.com. Website: stefanoboeriarchitetti.net

Gaetano PESCE is a furniture artist who is found somewhere beyond modernism. Pesce’s trademark is as a Trickster – with a smirk about to burst. In the 1970s, when the world was all matte black and chrome, as standardised as Le Corbusier and his ilk wished it, Italian-born Pesce began making furniture and objects of a delirious gloopiness – all polychromatic ooze and inherently inimitable. His practise has been global, his innovations consistently ground breaking. Boundaries between art, design and industry are irrelevant to him, as- art is most certainly not something created and put on a pedestal. http://www.gaetanopesce.com/

A silent Voice “Don’t treat food poorly” or “leaving food uneaten is wasteful”. These words were spoken to the artist as a child. Japan like other countries has dreadful food waste issues. The artist lent an ear to hear the voices of the lives of foods that were sacrificed because they were uneaten or past a use by date – or because they were not the right colour or shape This project places a toy eye on this waste to transform them into characters- in an effort to visualise the lives that vanish in the process of discarded food. https://ichio-usui.com