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Creative Studio
︎RMIT Zines (2024)
︎DESA Residency (2024)
︎HF10: 10 Fingers, 10 Years (2023)
︎Apartamento ‘Tuber, or not Tuber’ (2023)

︎’Café Feelings: Labne’ Public Art Park (2023)
︎Wildwood Beekeeping Workshop (2023)
︎’Good Natured’ Australian Design Cntr. (2023)
︎Vivid ‘Natural Wonder’ (2023)
︎’Hive Hands’ (2022)
︎Craft Contemporary (2022)
︎Soft Vibrations (2022)
︎Playground Love, Caves (2022)
︎Mud Talks (2021)
︎Reunion, The Art of Beekeeping (2020-2021)
︎ Poetry zine launch (2020)
︎“Beehives” zine launch (2020)
︎Honey Fingers x Hattie Molloy (2020)
︎Plants / Mulch (2019)
︎Bee Bread / Ferments (2018)
︎Honeycomb Vessel (2017)
︎There is Room at the Table (2017)
︎Postcards / There Are No Words (2017)
︎Swarm Trap, Nishi Hotel (2016)
︎Pane + Miele (2016)
︎Bread + Honey (2015)


Short Films
︎Soft Vibrations (2022)
︎Hive Hands (2022)
︎What it is to be broken, what it is to mend (2021)
︎Reunion (2021)
Featured in: 
︎Upsodown (2023)

Podcasts
︎ABC Radio National: Earshot
︎RRR: Uncommon Sense (2024)
︎RRR: Uncommon Sense (2020)
︎Cleopatra’s Bling Podcast
︎Make Good Podcast

Published Essays
︎Gestalten Books: Urban Farmers
︎Assemble Papers (Swarm Traps)
︎Assemble Papers (Honey Ethics)
︎Dining in Place
︎Bee Project
︎Hotel Hotel: Smoking the Bees
︎House Wear 2
︎Lindsay Magazine
︎Matters Journal
︎Table Magazine
︎The Plant Hunter
︎Blog: A Tribute to Anton Janša

Press
︎Gardening Australia
︎The Age
︎Verve Zine
︎New York Times on Turkey
︎Food Tank
︎Gourmet Traveller
︎Green Magazine (Swarm Trap)
︎Green Magazine (Beehives zine)
︎The Plant Hunter


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EVENTS + LECTURES



Lindsay Magazine Gala.







In October 2019 we collaborated on a menu with Hotel Windsor for Lindsay Magazine’s Gala event– the launch of Lindsay No.4.

Honey Fingers founder Nic Dowse also collaborated with Stanislava Pinchuk on an essay in this new edition: The Honey Highway, in Morocco.

"It is no accident that this site was built at this exact point of the Honey Highway, above the tiny village of Argana. Located one thousand metres above sea level, the collective apiary faces south for optimum sun exposure and ample wind protection, and is in close proximity to a valley of pollens and nectars. The argan, almond and orange groves below lend honey a strong sweetness, while the Opuntia cactus leaves a spicy and medicinal taste."

Photo: Sam Wong.




Drawing Matters






In July 2019 Melbourne magazine Matters Journal launched Drawing Matter, a monthly event series hosted in the cosy, lo-fi surrounds of Cam’s Kiosk in the Abbotsford Convent.

Combining contemplative drawing with an intimate talk, each event will host a guest speaker who is an original thinker in their field. As guests absorb the talk, they will be invited to sketch an artefact relating to the talk’s theme - it could be honeycomb, or kelp, or funghi - displayed in the centre of the room. It’s like life drawing, minus the nudity. A Q&A will follow.

The series kicked off with a talk by Nic Dowse, founder of beekeeping collective Honey Fingers. Nic showcased some incredible honeycomb structures and discussed the parallels between modern beehive design, modernist architecture, and the impact of each on bees and humans.

This talk was supported by an essay Nic Dowse wrote for Matters Journal, Unboxing Modern Beekeeping. The paper investigated the bizarre amount of similarities between modernist architecture and modern beekeeping. The parallels are far more significant than you may imagine and may be contributing to the decline in global bee health.

Photos: @tshillierMattersjournal.






• Honey Fingers acknowledges First Nations Peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and keep bees