Melbourne International Flower Garden Show 2025 collection

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

Succulent Enamel Brooches

Inspired by the botanic art tradition, Callie’s finished pieces represent succulent specimens from her garden in Wy Yung. More recent artworks and jewellery use industrial offcuts from the manufacturing of vitreous enamel whiteboards. By upcycling this material, her practice is more sustainable and the abundance helps her take more creative risks she works towards achieving realistic representation.

“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