About this Event
Delve into the worlds of diverse and inspiring creative minds. Join four uniquely celebrated artisans, designers, creative thinkers and doers engaged in conversation with Natasha Morgan, to unravel what inspires, motivates and challenges their creative practices and crafts.
Through authentic ‘Creative Conversation’ we are provided a rare and insightful window into the key life choices, values, visions and milestones that have guided and shaped a marriage of passions, creative working lifestyles, and practices. Through facilitated open discourse we are offered generous insights into their dynamic projects, processes, practices and measures for success, across diverse creative vocations and lifestyles, each challenging the norms of what it is to be a ‘creative’ in today’s society.
The panel will include artisans, designers, creative thinkers and doers in diverse fields ranging from landscape and interior design, architecture and heritage restoration, event styling and botanical artistry, craftsmanship and design.
The Creative Conversations Series opens up rich discussions by way of curiosity and conversation, highlighting diverse creatives doing their best work in an authentic manner. Through this perspective, we are offered insights into their vision and practice, and what is possible if we remain curious and innovative.
The Creative Conversations Series seeks to ignite dynamic discussions, expand collaborative creativity, foster connections and a creative community in a generous and welcoming setting.
Wine and canapés included.
The evening includes:
• Musk Lane wine by Leon Rolls of Barry & Co and canapés by Emma James Catering.
About Natasha:
Natasha Morgan is an award winning landscape architect by profession and a multi-disciplinary creative collaborator by natural inclination. For a decade Natasha worked on some of Australia's significant landscape architecture and urban design projects - most notably several years spent managing the design and construction of The Australian Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne. Concurrently she shared her craft as a sessional lecturer in Masters of Landscape Architecture at RMIT and Melbourne Universities. In 2014 she made a tree change with a purpose to Spargo Creek, a tiny hamlet just outside of Daylesford in the Central Victorian Highlands. Here Natasha transformed a dream into reality, creating Oak and Monkey Puzzle, the internationally renowned design, event and horticultural production focussed property and its idyllic gardens.
Oak and Monkey Puzzle not only provided an evolving special hub for, garden design, artisans and craftspeople by way of workshops, collaborations, and bespoke events. It engendered a warm sense of community, sparked dynamic conversations, fostered collaborative connections, cultivated creativity and provided a place for meeting of the minds.
It is here also that Natasha began her journey creating a way of life she had long yearned for. Rooted in her flower, berry and kitchen gardens, orchards and forest surrounds, she learnt to live with the land, the shifting season’s, and how to live ‘well’.
In 2022 , Natasha and her family moved on from the idyllic property. "What a privilege it's been to create this, to inhabit it, to share it, to nurture, and now pass it on." In this next chapter, Natasha has set herself the challenge of taking the best of the lessons learnt at Oak & Monkey Puzzle’s 5 acres, combined with her love for gardens, growing, harvesting, cooking and preserving, and distilling this in the design of beautifully productive and sustainably focussed gardens at her new 515m2 Daylesford property, Little Cottage on a Hill.Natasha is a sought after public speaker, workshop teacher and facilitator, and creative collaboration partner. Natasha shares her inspiring story of tree change, garden design, and country life, through guest speaker events, writing, her workshops, social media following, print and digital media. She has been widely featured both locally and internationally, including Australian Woman’s Weekly, Country Style magazine, Better Homes & Gardens (Channel 7), and recently The Block (Channel 9).
About Carla and Simon:
O A K L A N E & Co. showcases beautifully handcrafted antique Australian, English and French furniture and decorative objects, homewares and quality newly-made goods for your home.
Established in 2018 by Carla and Simon, O A K L A N E & Co. was created as a means of articulating shared lifelong interest and passion for architecture, gardens, interiors, antiques and vintage, music and the arts, as well as travel. These passions come together abundantly in both our stores on Piper Street in Kyneton in Central Victoria through the gathering and styling of hand-picked pieces for your home.
Through working on the restoration of heritage houses and gardens, the concept of designing a sustainable lifestyle, based around creating timeless and convivial spaces complimented by antique furniture, homewares and books became cemented in the creation and sharing of an inspiring, immersive and relaxed retail space for others to enjoy.
We believe that the age-related characteristics and patina of an item are a unique and irreplaceable part of its distinctive story. These features, combined with the overall quality and functional condition are what bring an element of layered individuality and timeless style to your home. To this end, we encourage you to enjoy the in-store experience; to handle and hold; and to fully imagine how it can be incorporated into your own home.
We look forward to welcoming you!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Oak Lane & Co, 66 Piper Street, Kyneton, Australia
AUD 95.00
