Jewellery & Metalwork
GILDED POPPY MAKERY
Storm spent her early years in New Zealand carving wood, bone and stone before — genuinely — running away to join the circus. She eventually returned to jewellery, this time adding metalsmithing, enamelling, wire work, cord weaving and gemstone carving to her repertoire. Her Boronia studio runs classes across all of it: tactile, technique-driven, and by her own account, reliably loud with laughter.
Visual Art
Rainforest Gallery
Rainforest Gallery, set along Acheron Way in Victoria's lush landscape, offers an extraordinary immersion in natural beauty and art. This gallery opens continuously to visitors, creating an ever-welcoming sanctuary where contemporary art dwells in dialogue with the surrounding forest environment. The setting itself becomes part of the artistic experience—works are encountered amidst ferns, towering trees, and the gentle sounds of the rainforest. Whether you arrive on a misty morning or bright afternoon, the gallery invites contemplation and wonder. This is a place where artistic vision and natural landscape speak to each other in quiet, profound ways.
Printmaking
The Baldessin Press & Studio
George Baldessin designed and built this bluestone studio in the 1970s, and his fingerprints remain on the place — in the architecture, the bushland setting outside St Andrews, and a program that takes etching, relief, and screenprint seriously. Open-access and volunteer-run, it draws working printmakers and beginners into the same rooms. Twenty-plus years in, it's still the real thing.