Melbourne International Flower Garden Show 2025 collection

Featured in The Artist’s Garden by CLeed in partnership with foundry

Photographic Renderings in Enamel

Combining photographs with enamel, overglaze paints and self printed iron oxide decals. I call these ‘photographic renderings in enamel’. Even in monochromatic tones, I can achieve a realism that has previously eluded me with other forms of Enamelling.

I am a collector at heart and this is a consistent thread in my work: from the materials I source, to the personal themes and subjects I feel driven to capture and immortalise in enamel. I enjoy the challenge of using industrial offcuts, found and repurposed objects wherever possible. For these pieces, I have been using industrial offcuts from a whiteboard manufacturer. 

This work emerged after wanting to represent unusual botanic specimens and man-made hybrids that I have cultivated and collected in my own garden located in East Gippsland. In particular, Agaves, Aloes and other succulents are a common theme.” Callie Leed (née Whelan), CLeed

The three pieces in this collection are:

• Aloe Polyphilla - Enamel, Whiteboard steel offcuts, china paint, decal, 24 × 24cm

• Mangave ‘Tooth Fairy’ - Enamel, Whiteboard steel offcuts, china paint, decal, 24 × 24cm

• Mangave ‘Purple People Eater’ - Enamel, Whiteboard steel offcuts, china paint, decal, 24 × 24cm