Creative Couples

In this series, we’re getting to know a few creative folk that span a cross-section of inspiring careers and ambitions.

Creative Couples: Cushla Whiting and Nicholas Hawker

FashionEvery engagement and wedding ring tells a love story. Cushla Whiting and Nicholas Hawker make some of those stories happen working side-by-side on her eponymous jewellery label. And the life they’ve crafted together is a bit of a gem.

Creative Couples: Sydney Dance Company Dancers Piran Scott and Naiara de Matos

Home & LifestyleThe spark was immediate for “larrikin Aussie” Scott. Brazillian de Matos now can’t imagine life, or work, without him.

Creative Couples: Winemaker Uffe Deichmann and Potter Nicole Deichmann

Home & LifestyleThey met at a Canberra music festival – 12 years later the couple juggles parenting duties while making wine, selling ceramics and thrifting homewares.

Creative Couples: Actor-Director Bali Padda and Educator and Music Director Adam Majsay

Home & LifestyleThey fell in love over Bourke Street Bakery’s lemon curd tarts. Now the couple live together in Sydney’s inner west, and even though their schedules are busy, Tuesday takeaway night is “sacrosanct”.

Creative Couples: Artist Gillian Kayrooz and Comedian Harry Jun

EntertainmentThey met at the doors of a comedy club four years ago and have been making each other laugh – and keeping each other in check – ever since.

Creative Couples: Comedian Zoe Coombs Marr and MIFF Programmer Kate Jinx

EntertainmentThe arts power couple share a home in Fitzroy, a merle poodle called Top Chef and a venn diagram of the films they can watch together.

Creative Couples: Jacob Mills and Giovanna Fois, Co-Founders of Homewares Brand Sunday Lunch

Home & LifestyleHe’s an art director. She’s a marketing specialist. Together they have a child, an idyllic home and a homewares business named for their favourite family mealtime.

Creative Couples: Stage Designer Elizabeth Gadsby and Filmmaker Alex Barry

EntertainmentShe’s an in-demand set and costume designer. He’s an award-winning documentary maker. They met in a theatre foyer and moved to the Blue Mountains for their dream home.

Creative Couples: Six-Eyed Scorpion’s Sandra Seah and Jordana Adams

Food & DrinkChef Sandra Seah loves to cook. Designer Jordana Adams loves to eat. It’s a match made in food heaven, and here’s how it happened. Plus their tips on the best ways to enjoy crispy chilli oil at home (including a very spicy Bloody Mary).

Creative Couples: Heartbreak High Directors Jessie Oldfield and Adam Murfet

Home & LifestyleThey met on a film set and were best friends before falling in love. Now the directing duo own a film production company together, have a kid, and live in a home in Melbourne designed by an influential contemporary jeweller.

Creative Couples: Playwright Tommy Murphy and Bangarra’s John Quertermous

EntertainmentThey met at 4am on the dance floor at a NYE party. Both work in the arts, but one’s organised and the other is more carefree. The couple shows us their beautifully designed Surry Hills home.

Creative Couples: Chefs Hyoju Park and Rong Yao Soh

Food & DrinkThey met at culinary school in London. After years of working in Michelin-starred restaurants, a long-distance stint in their relationship and moving their lives from the UK to Australia, the duo opened Madeleine De Proust, a Melbourne bricks-and-mortar bakery dedicated to madeleines.

Creative Couples: Artist and Designer Evi O and Photographer Andrew Grune

ActiveTheir Day Trip travel book series encourages people to explore hidden adventures in their own backyards, and was inspired by a romance that flourished off the beaten track.

Creative Couples: Actor Paris Rodgers and Agency CEO Max Jahufer

Home & LifestyleBeing open to change is an everyday mantra for this loved-up couple. Together they’ve taken on parenthood, business-building and intense creative projects. Plus, what it means for Jahufer to come out as a trans man.

Creative Couples: Publisher Georgia Frances King and Art Director Mete Erdogan

Home & LifestyleThey met over dumplings and their love language is snacks. Now the cultural power couple call a Brunswick apartment home – it’s decorated in “maximalist Australiana” style, and filled with keepsakes from their relationship and creative lives.

Creative Couples: Will and Garrett Huxley

Art & DesignThe glam artistic duo live together, create together and perform together across Australia and the globe – sometimes dressed as sexy kangaroos, always flying the flag for queer love, joy and freedom (and Kate Bush fandom). Broadsheet visits the couple’s studio ahead of their biggest show to date.

Creative Couples: Photographer Sean Fennessy and Art Director and Stylist Jess Lillico

Home & LifestyleFennessy works behind the lens to capture the architectural shapes of Australian venues, and Lillico is a “gun for hire”, styling sets and interiors for brands such as Country Road and David Jones. They live together in a mid-century property on the edge of the Yarra River.

Creative Couples: Boy & Bear Frontman David Hosking and Film Director Taylor Ferguson

Home & LifestyleHe’s in one of the most successful Australian bands of the last decade, she’s an emerging film writer-director with a stacked acting resume. From their bright inner-west home in Sydney, they share how a newfound creative partnership brought them closer together.

Creative Couples: Jascha Boyce, Founder of Gravity & Other Myths, and Acrobat Joren Dawson

Home & LifestyleFor the globe-trotting entertainers, a former gospel hall in Adelaide felt like the right place to finally put down roots. They share it with a boisterous Irish setter and artworks from loved ones. Here, they tell Broadsheet how the silver linings of the pandemic helped their business stay afloat.

Creative Couples: Daniel To and Emma Aiston

Home & LifestyleThis industrial design duo are partners in work and life. We dropped in to their sunlight-flooded home on a chilly winter morning to talk inspiration, process and the art of cosiness.

Creative Couples: Richard Tognetti and Satu Vanska

Home & LifestyleAn exquisitely renovated beachside Masonic temple provides the perfect haven for ACO musicians Richard Tognetti and Satu Vänskä, partners in love and life.

Creative Couples: Jimblah and Goji

Home & LifestyleThis musical couple discovered that home is where the recording studio is.

Creative Couples: Mariam Arcilla and Mason Kimber

Home & LifestyleShe describes her style as “hyper-clash salad” and he’s more ordered, but this arts writer and artist both explore the unknown in their work.

Creative Couples: Luke Currie-Richardson and Elle Evangelista

Home & LifestyleSharing a passion for dance, this globe-trotting duo have made their home in the heart of Sydney.

Creative Couples: Sophie Hyde and Bryan Mason

Home & LifestyleFilmmaking is a family affair for this close-knit team.

Creative Couples: Peter Drew and Julie White

Home & LifestyleHow do you keep a creative marriage inspired? Start a podcast and broadcast the hard stuff.

Creative Couples: Aaron Schuppan and Hanna Galbraith

Home & LifestyleThe director-actor duo shares how they sustain a film career in Adelaide.

Creative Couples: Melanie Joosten and Rajith Savanadasa

Home & LifestyleOur visit to the home of two authors is an insight into a novel partnership.

Creative Couples: Georgia Perry and Dave Horne

Home & LifestyleThe design duo on DJing together and winning Oprah’s praises.

Creative Couples: Victoria Aguirre and Carl Wilson

Home & LifestyleWe visited the Bangalow home and Byron Bay showroom of the couple behind homewares brand, Pampa.

Creative Couples: Gail Sorronda and Atlas Harwood

Home & LifestyleInside the Hamilton home of a Brisbane fashion power couple.

Creative Couples: Bree Caggiati and Andrew Webber

Home & LifestyleThe husband-and-wife duo combine creative passions to document their travels.

Creative Couple: Botanica’s Simon Zappia and Lesley Williams

Home & LifestyleThis design duo brings nature (and childhood memories) indoors.

Creative Couples: Julia Robinson and Roy Ananda

Home & LifestyleLike the perfect mixtape, this couple’s work/life balance is the result of careful curation.

Creative Couples: Wendy Ma and Patrick Byron

Home & LifestyleThis DIY Brisbane couple have found the perfect balance of work and play, managing their creative projects around stable nine-to-fives.

Creative Couples: Ross and Tara McHenry

Home & LifestyleHaving a child made this musical couple more organised.

Creative Couples: Karen Walker and Mikhail Gherman

Home & LifestyleInside the home of the design power couple.

Creative Couples: Hayley Smith and Mclean Stephenson

Home & LifestyleOne’s a photographer, the other designs clothes. This Sydney couple's shared aesthetic and support of each other has played a huge part in their longevity and growth.

Creative Couples: Mark Roper and Deb Kaloper

Home & LifestylePhotographer Mark Roper and food stylist Deb Kaloper may not be romantically attached, but they still finish each other’s sentences. We chat to them about collaboration, having fun on the job and bringing The Broadsheet Melbourne Cookbook to life.

Creative Couples: Sophie Tatlow and Bruce Slorach

Home & LifestyleWe pay a visit to the leafy, sunlit home of Sophie Tatlow and Bruce Slorarch of Utopia Goods, where their love for Australiana and design shows no bounds.

Creative Couples: Desmond and Dee

Home & LifestyleWe step into the home of a wallpaper maker and a homewares designer to find out what makes them tick.

Creative Couples: William Griffiths and Alice Edgeley

Home & LifestyleWe step into the wunderkammer that is jewellery designer William Griffiths and fashion designer Alice Edgeley’s upstairs apartment, and are told stories of resuscitating old chandeliers and topless dancing.

Creative Couples: Matthew Tomkins and Pip West

Home & LifestyleViolinists with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Matthew Tomkins and Pip West don’t just make beautiful music together.

Creative Couples: Jacqueline Hunt and Patrick Blue

Home & LifestyleSometimes you wake up next to your colleague and other times you wake up next to your partner. Such is the nature of living and working together for Jac + Jack designers Jacqueline Hunt and Patrick Blue.

Creative Couples: Aaron & Maryanne Moodie

Home & LifestyleAaron and Maryanne Moodie – an Etsy designer and a tapestry weaver respectively – share the story of how they first met, plus some stuff that happened after that.

Creative Couples: Marcus & Daniella Balscheit

Home & LifestyleInterior designers and entrepreneurs Marcus and Daniella Balscheit chat to us about how they’ve kept their three businesses and a marriage alive for more than two decades.

Creative Couples: Tristan Ceddia and Adriana Giuffrida

Home & LifestyleInside the home of husband-and-wife designer Tristan Ceddia and jeweller Adriana Giuffrida, Broadsheet learns about work life balance when neither partner works nine to five.

Creative Couples: The Contemporary Dancers

Home & LifestyleWaangenga Blanco and Tara Gower have toured the world with Bangarra Dance Theatre and have spent the past six years working together. So why did it take so long for them to become a couple?

Creative Couples: The Taits

Home & LifestyleWe chat with Susan and Gordon Tait, the creative couple at the helm of the proudly Australian furniture label Tait, on the key to celebrating 21 years in the business.

Creative Couples: A Real Life Circus

Home & LifestyleWe’re getting to know a few creative couples around town that span a cross-section of inspiring career and ambitions. This time around, we meet with Kate Denborough and Gordon Wilson – a duo who have shared family life with the stage and the big top for over 15 years.

Creative Couples: The Ballet Dancers

Home & Lifestyle“Everyone should dance together, somewhere. Your kitchen, the bathroom, the bedroom, wherever.” We caught up with Chris Rodgers-Wilson and Andrew Killian, a couple who dance with the Australian Ballet.

Creative Couples: Playing Ping Pong with Dumbo Feather

Home & LifestyleWe’re getting to know a few creative folk around town that span a cross-section of inspiring careers and ambitions. The third in our series is a couple with an appetite for innovation - Berry Liberman and Danny Almagor at Small Giants.

Creative Couples: The Briands

Home & LifestyleIn a new Broadsheet series, we’re getting to know a few creative folk that span a cross-section of inspiring careers and ambitions. The second in our series are husband and wife duo Ben and Brenda Briand – a couple with a yen for collaboration.

Creative Couples: The Gilmours

Home & LifestyleIn a new Broadsheet series, we’re getting to know a few creative folk that span a cross-section of inspiring careers and ambitions. First up are filmmaker Benjamin Gilmour and stylist Kaspia Gilmour, a husband and wife team with a penchant for travel.

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