Creative Studio

recycle.studio

Upcycling discarded materials into joyful, bold art objects & experiences.

Upcycling Sculpture Installation Workshop Design
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What We Do

We transform the overlooked, the broken, and the discarded into bold, Memphis-inspired art objects. Every piece begins life as something else — a circuit board, a plastic bottle, an old magazine — and emerges as a joyful sculpture, installation, or functional object.

Our studio practice fuses 1980s Memphis Group design language with contemporary upcycling ethics: maximum color, maximum geometry, zero waste.

Studio Projects

Sculpture 2025

Circuit Bloom

72 salvaged PCBs soldered into a 1.2m flowering form. What was e-waste becomes an iron garden.

Installation

Bottle Chandelier

600 plastic bottles, coloured with pigment, suspended from a 4m steel armature.

Workshop

Memphis Zine Lab

Community zine-making from magazine offcuts.

Object Design

Patchwork Stools

Denim offcuts stretched over salvaged wooden forms. Every seat is unique — no two patterns alike.

Mural 2024

Tile Mosaic No.7

Broken ceramic tiles from demolition sites, reassembled into a 12m² Memphis-grid wall mural.

Print

Newsprint Totems

Rolled newspaper columns, lacquered into structural totems.

Textile Ongoing

Colour-Field Quilts

Fabric offcuts from Seoul garment districts stitched into bold geometric quilts that reference Rothko's colour field paintings — but with the volume turned way up.

Installation

Mirror Shards

Broken mirror fragments rearranged on timber panels. Light scatters into confetti across gallery walls.

Workshop

Vinyl Portraits

Old records cut into portrait silhouettes.

How We Work

01

Collect

We source discarded materials from manufacturers, demolition sites, community drop-offs, and our own studio detritus.

02

Transform

Materials are cleaned, sorted by colour and texture, then re-imagined through the lens of Memphis geometry and bold palette.

03

Build

Sculpture, installation, textile, or print — the form follows the material. We never force a medium.

04

Share

Exhibitions, commissions, workshops, and online drops. Everything leaves the studio and lives in the world.

Let's Make Something

Have materials? Have an idea? Have a wall that needs filling?