Discover more about the creatives featured inside FAIRE : Issue 9
Aurelie Alvarez
Aurélie Alvarez is a French visual artist whose art explores the duality between science and spirituality, a journey to the heart of matter and colour. Her unique studio is in the rafters of an authentic 16th-century hotel particulier in the heart of the celebrated antiques town, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, in Provence, France. Her contemporary canvases feature simple and geometric patterns where she plays with overlapping layers and textures to echo ancient Tibetan mandalas. Her second collection, her decorative work, is focused on lightness and simplicity, a creative journey that leads us into the poetic and colourful universe of plants and animals.
Photography by Ruth Ribeaucourt
For more information, follow Aurelie on Instagram and on her website
Tara Badcock
Tara Badcock is a visual and conceptual artist based in northern Tasmania who graduated from the University of Tasmania at Hobart with a postgraduate degree in fine art. After spending many years living in cities pursuing a creative career, Tara spent a three-year stint in Paris, which was a textile-fuelled, life-altering experience. Tara has spent the past 12 years raising children and endeavouring to maintain a creative career in textile art and design as well as exploring sculpture and installation. Tara has recently returned to live on the family farm with her children as a single parent to be able to focus on building a more symbiotic and restorative existence of art, gardening and self-sufficiency skills.
Photography by Ness Vanderburgh
For more information, follow Tara on Instagram
Cecile Boudon
Cecile Boudon has a way with colour, and every inch of her 17th-century home in the South of France reflects her gift. Passionate about antiques from an early age, Cecile has dedicated her life to creating evocative, storied tableaux. In Paris she worked for many years as a trusted consultant for celebrated interior decorators and designers before making her way south to Provence to source and sell antiques with a coveted eye for colour and an ability to mix the old with the contemporary.
Photography by Ruth Ribeaucourt
For more information, follow Cecile on Instagram
Louisa Creed
Louisa Creed is a celebrated British rag-rug makers, beloved for her sensitive handling of colour and a painterly appreciation of form. Her first book, My Rag Rug Life, will be published by Rylett Press in July 2023.
Photography by Aloha Bonser-Shaw
For more information, follow Louisa on her website
Ernesto Collado (Bravanariz)
Ernesto Collado had a career as a theatre actor, director and contemporary artist until the disease phantosmia robbed him of his sense of smell in 2014. A self-taught botanist, he embarked on a quest to heal himself through daily walks in the countryside of his native Empordà in Northern Spain. Today he is an environmental activist, educator and accidental perfumer who pours his indefatigable creativity into creating 100% pure, natural scents inspired by the landscape as a way to help people reconnect with their environment and with nature through their sense of smell.
Photography by Justine Robineau
Portrait photography by Anna Pla-Narbona
For more information, follow Ernesto on Instagram and on his website
Dorothy Cross
Dorothy Cross is a contemporary Irish artist whose work is multidisciplinary, embracing sculpture, film, photography, and at times opera. Living in Connemara, Dorothy is surrounded and inspired by nature and the ocean. Her work looks at our place in the natural world in relation to time and the sacred - often playing with the intimate, forgotten or unseen.
Photography by Cliodhna Prendergast
For more information, follow Dorothy on Instagram and on her website
Marie Ducaté
Marie Ducaté is a celebrated multidisciplinary contemporary artist who lives and works from an extraordinary loft space inside a restored early 20th-century shoe factory in the historical Armenian quarter of Marseille, France. Her poetic art dances between figurative and abstract and she ‘paints’ through many different mediums, including fabric, paper, glass, metal and ceramic.
Photography by Ruth Ribeaucourt
For more information, follow Marie on Instagram and on her website
Maja Beck Larsson
Swedish photographer and baker Maja Larsson and Irish carpenter Declan Clarke have consciously built a quiet life for themselves and their young family in a small farmhouse in Småland, Sweden. Their belief in living a slower, fuller life – spending more time with their two young children, creating a home and tending their garden – rewards them with a radical sense of freedom.
Photography by Karen Hilmersson
For more information, follow Maja on Instagram
Saghar Setareh
Saghar Setareh is an Iranian writer, photographer and cookbook author who has been living in Rome since 2007. In 2023 she published her début cookbook, Pomegranates & Artichokes (Murdoch Books/Interlinks Publishing). The book charts her personal culinary journey from Iran to Italy. It describes the many parallels that link Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food cultures and shows how ingredients and recipes – unconstrained by borders – are shared and transformed through the immigrant experience.
Photography by Valentina Solfrini
For more information, follow Saghar on Instagram and on her website or her substack
Venice: Art & Alchemy
A rare glimpse into the craftmanship, culture and tradition at the heart of contemporary Venice. We take you behind closed doors inside the ateliers of acclaimed creative and heritage companies Martina Vidal Venezia, Giorgio Giuman, Fernando Masone, Berta Battiloro and Fortuny.
Plus! we ask two insiders to share with us their itinerary for ‘the perfect day’ in Venice for creatives seeking beauty and inspiration.
Photography by Ruth Ribeaucourt and India Miller
For more information, follow Italy Segreta on Instagram and on their website
Ruth Steadman
Ruth Steadman is a writer and storyteller. She authors the column for ‘Stories of Salt and Starlight’ for Faire Magazine. Ruth has also been published in Oh Magazine, while her poetry can be found in the anthology Poems For The NHS, and Popshot Magazine, as well as in a variety of poetry journals. She is currently working on her first non-fiction book, and building a performance storytelling practice.
Photograph by @gary.eason
For more information, follow Ruth on Instagram and on her website
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Our Contributors
Aloha Bonser-Shaw
Photography for Luisa Creed
Aloha Bonser-Shaw is a UK-based photographer. Her work explores themes such as craftsmanship, family and relationships, and her love of the natural world. She has been published with multiple magazines and shot for publishers such as Pavilion books and Bloom Magazine, as well as shooting for independent companies.
Anna Pla-Narbon
Portrait photography of Ernesto Collado
Anna Pla-Narbona is a visual storyteller currently based in Mexico City and Barcelona, developing her practice in both photographic and audio-visual mediums. She balances her personal work with commercial projects in order to build her own voice and sight.
Antonia Oprea
Photography for Stories of Salt & Starlight
Through photography, Antonia reveals an intimacy while remaining discreet. Known for her instinctive approach by using clair-obscur, at the centre of her work (whether an interior or a travel story) is an evolving emotional narrative. When she’s not in France she travels back to her Romanian roots in Transylvania, where she documents the cultural heritage and explores the picturesque surroundings. Antonia’s creative aesthetic is informed by a love of history, an appreciation of beauty and a sense of stillness.
India Miller
Photography for Italy Segreta
India Miller is an American photographer. She grew up on a small farm in Northern Idaho and is now living in Provence, France. India is inspired by the natural beauty of everyday life.
Cliodhna Prendergast
Photography for Dorothy Cross
Cliodhna Prendergast is a food & travel writer, photographer living in Connemara on the west coast of Ireland. Working worldwide she creates both pictures and prose for compelling print media stories. She is co-founder of Lens and Larder (photography workshops), a professionally trained, award winning chef and is passionate about foraging for wild food. Cliodhna has worked as columnist for the Sunday Times magazine and is a freelance contributor to Image Interiors and the Financial Times ‘How To Spend it’ magazine among other publications.
Justine Robineau
Photography for Ernesto Collado (Bravanariz)
Justine Robineau is originally from the South of France and currently lives and works in Mallorca. She co-founded a creative studio, Maison Papakunu, with Michaël Diot. Oscillating between commissions for fashion and product brands, photo reports and personal productions, she considers photography to be her privileged space of expression and learning. Open to discovery, to others and influenced by the essence of the present moment, she is exploring the poetry of her surroundings.
Michaël Diot
Film for Ernesto Collado
Michaël Diot is a photographer and videographer who lives in the South of France. In 2019 he co-created the creative studio Maison Papakunu with Justine Robineau. He documents and imagines authentic and poetic visual stories for artists, craftsmen and brands he is passionate about. He draws inspiration from the gesture and the philosophy of his subjects and their different environments. Through storytelling, he captures the journey, the dream and the encounter.
Karen Hilmersson
Photography for Maja Beck Larsson
Karen Hilmersson is a French creative and lifestyle photographer based in Belgium who shoots primarily in natural light. Karen’s visual signature is soft colour combinations, nature and textures, moody pockets of light, people and strong emotions through storytelling.
Ness VANDERBURGH
Photography for Tara Badcock
Launceston-based photographer Ness Vanderburgh lives and works within and outside of the beautiful island of Lutruwita/Tasmania. At the heart of her work is a love for documenting the lives and loves of interesting and inspiring folks, what they make and do and how they make and do it, enjoying above all the moments of genuine connection to people and place.
Ruth Steadman
Ruth Steadman is a writer and storyteller. She authors the column for ‘Stories of Salt and Starlight’ for Faire Magazine. Ruth has also been published in Oh Magazine, while her poetry can be found in the anthology Poems For The NHS, and Popshot Magazine, as well as in a variety of poetry journals. She is currently working on her first non-fiction book, and building a performance storytelling practice.
Photograph by @gary.eason
For more information, follow Ruth on Instagram and on her website
Valentina Solfrini
Portrait Photography of Saghar
Valentina is a photographer who specializes in food, drink and lifestyle, based in the medieval village of Gradara, Italy. She is known for her romantic photography style, and has spent the past eight years photographing books and teaching the trade. Travel is her favourite fuel to foster her creativity.
