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Studio Shields

Designing interiors with bold colour, bespoke joinery & layered materiality with a signature twist

06/09/2026

• IN THE PRESS•

Okay... this is the one I’ve been teasing.

In the latest issue of Belle magazine you’ll find SIX whole pages created in collaboration with King Living shot at our home, The View.

And this one brings me a LOT of joy.

The challenge? Taking a brand with its own established design language and weaving it into mine ~ without either losing its voice.

I wanted the King pieces to feel like they had always belonged here.
Woven amongst vintage finds, Australian art, pieces Pat and I have made, collected objects, rich timber, muddy colours, pattern and texture. Nothing screaming SHOWROOM! Everything becoming another layer in our story.

Like a bloody good lasagne, it’s the layers that create the richness.

Before interiors, I spent six years as an Art Director in advertising, and that brain never left. I’m still thinking about narrative, composition, brand, colour and the hundreds of tiny decisions that make something feel unmistakably you ~ weave that with my design language and you have some serious MAGIC ✨

My colour. My layering. My curation. My voice.

And seeing that point of view ~ something I’ve spent years developing, refining and learning to trust ~ across SIX PAGES of Belle feels pretty bloody special.

A huge thank you to the beautiful teams at Belle magazine and King Living for trusting me to do what I do & share that with your audiences. A special thank you to Tanya Buchanan for thinking of me 🤎

What a bloody moment!!!

SIX! PAGES! IN! BELLE! 💥 Issue is out now with some incredible talents.

Design, art direction, curation & styling 𝗥 𝗨 𝗕 𝗬 𝗦 𝗛 𝗜 𝗘 𝗟 𝗗 𝗦
Photography lana landsberry
Words Hannah James
In collaboration with King Living X Belle magazine

20/08/2026

I had so much fun curating this edit for Bonnie and Neil🤎💚 our home The View looks absolutely delicious ~ full of texture, colour & pattern. Read the full story at Bonnie & Neil Journal ✨

14/06/2026

Joy Haus featured on The Design Files 🧡

20/05/2026

•PONDER•

Ponder is an extension of Studio Shields’ ongoing exploration of material honesty, reuse, and narrative-led making directed by The chair is constructed entirely from salvaged Oregon timber, no new timber introduced and no attempt to disguise its former life.

Oregon is a timber of inherent contradiction: light and dark, soft and dense, orderly and unruly. Rather than resisting these qualities, the chair leans into them. The grain is celebrated, interrupted, and re-stitched. Joins are intentionally visible; natural lines are broken and reformed.

The form is organic and sculptural, achieved through hand carving rather than precision machining. It will take the shape of a high-backed chair with an adjoining side table, a companion piece designed for slowing down. A chair for reading, pausing, resting a glass. A place to ponder.

Title of Work: Ponder
Materials: Reclaimed Oregon Timber
Design: .shields &
Construction & making:

On display at 100 Chairs .associates
Exhibition open till Sunday

Credits ~
Ingrid Rhule - Creative Director & Photographer
Ellen Keillar - Creative Director & Producer
Mark Harper - Lighting and Technical Director
Chad Weerasighe - Technical Support and Video Production
Kayell Australia & Boncolor - Lighting Equipment

17/05/2026

•SYNTHESIS•

Synthesis is an immersive interior installation curated by Ruby Shields, principal of Studio Shields, with a collection of 48 Australian artists, makers & designers.

Synthesis explores the emotional capacity of space; how colour, material, light and scent shape the way we feel, inhabit and connect. The exhibition unfolds as a sequence of layered domestic vignettes that read both as distinct moments and as a resolved whole. Nothing sits in isolation, each piece existing in relation to another, forming a cohesive interior language that prioritises atmosphere over display.

A collective authorship, many voices woven together and resolved as one, revealing the power of interior design to hold, to move, to stay with us long after we leave.

This is a space with memory. With personality. With weight. With magic.

So what are you waiting for? Come in & stay a while.

14-22 May
11am-5.30pm daily
Bishop’s Parlour, Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford
Photography by .xyz
Portrait by

This event is part of Melbourne Design Week 2026, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the

06/05/2026

•MDW 2026•

So beyond excited to be part of Melbourne Design Week with my debut exhibition .mdw at the Bishop’s Parlour within the

It’s going to be a wild and hectic 11 days of amazing design, talent and community. All the things we love.

Studio Shields will be presenting “Ponder” at 100 Chairs with .associates and I’ll be doing a panel discussion with “Hand of the Maker”.

Huge thank you to for , this program shapes what design is all about and brings together the whole of Aus, for that my deepest gratitude.

Clear those diaries ladies & gents. We’ve got business.

See you soon!!

Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and is curated and delivered by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Visit designweek.melbourne to view the full program.

Synthesis image shot by the talented
Styled & art directed by Ruby Shields .shields

19/04/2026

•MILANO•

Mentally, emotionally… spiritually parked in Milan Design Week right now while our feed is flooded and I’m sitting here in Melbourne pretending I’m not jealous. I am. Deeply.

Two years ago, I somehow landed the golden ticket, a trip with to Milan, moving through ateliers that most of us only ever see through a screen. , , , … each one a masterclass in obsession, craft and absolute devotion to process.

And that’s the thing, it wasn’t just beautiful (though… it really was). It was the level of care. Watching a leather hide at get scanned, mapped, cut around its imperfections like it’s some kind of sacred artefact. Seeing the rugs at shift in tone thread by thread, like a painting translated into fibre. Sitting in pieces at that feel less like furniture and more like fully realised ideas.

Everything held narrative & nothing felt accidental.

There was a moment, somewhere between warehouses of hand-pulled rugs, fresco-lined showrooms and a slightly too many spritzs, where it all clicked. This is what it means for design to be ingrained rather than applied. It’s not surface. It’s not styling. It’s decisions, stacked over time, held with intent.

Yes, there were fashion fits. Yes, there was w**e. Yes, there was a slightly unhinged level of enthusiasm over chairs (no regrets). But what stayed with me was the reverence for making. The patience. The pride.

It shifted something. It still does.

The trip gave me more than access, it gave me a deeper understanding of what sits behind the pieces we specify, and a sharper lens on how I want to design. With story. With weight. With that same sense of care stitched into every decision.

Forever grateful for that experience
But also… I’m ready to go back.

17/04/2026

•SHORTLISTED•

We’re going for a double here ~ so bloody proud to have The View has been shortlisted in the 2026 Residential design category for the Australian Interior Design Awards .

It is so amazing to have our home recognised on such a scale, it’s been seven years of hard work. There were no builders or joiners. No tilers, painters, floor finishers or plasterers. No drawing set, no neat details resolved on paper. Just Pat and I in the shed, at the dining table, figuring it out as we went. (An electrician. A reluctant plumber. That’s it).

This house is Christmases spent sanding instead of celebrating. The night before our wedding, repainting the kitchen in Moroccan clay because I couldn’t live with green. It’s arriving home from work and picking up a nail gun or trowel. It’s our arguments, doubt, exhaustion, and choosing to keep going anyway.

This recognition… these moments… make it all worth it. So thank you judges, for seeing the love, care, amount of sheer effort it takes to craft a home that is unique.

Again, none of it would be what it is without my very talented other half. poured so much craft, care and intelligence into this home. We’re a team, always, and The View simply would not exist in the way it does without you.

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Carpentry & bespoke pieces
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17/04/2026

•SHORTLISTED•

Absolutely beyond excited to share that The View has been shortlisted in the 2026 Residential Decoration category for the Australian Interior Design Awards

This one has absolutely floored me, in the best possible way.

Our home has always been our little bowerbird nest of treasures. When I was pulling everything together for the shoot, I remember thinking, “well, this won’t go anywhere… I don’t have the budgets for those award worthy pieces, and surely my hard-rubbish sofa and Marketplace coffee tables aren’t going to cut it”. But I stayed true to the story. True to what I believe makes a home feel powerful. A home that genuinely reflects the people who live there. A home where every piece is woven into the bigger picture, like a delicious tapestry of life. And well… here we are.

Beside that hard-rubbish sofa, which, mind you, is a Simmons Playpen, but that’s another story, sit pieces by dear friends and brilliant Australian creatives. A table by , an sequence lamp, works from and a whole collection of bits and pieces gathered over time. Bones, feathers, bark, objects, memories. A treasure trove of love.

This project was as much about championing the incredible Australian designers and artists around us as it was about showing the power of colour, curation and a home with soul.

And of course, none of it would be what it is without my very talented other half. poured so much craft and care into this home. We’re a team, always, and The View simply would not exist in the way it does without you.

I could talk about this project for hours, so I’ll leave it here: stay true to your eye. Stay true to your story. Authenticity always lands.

A MASSIVE thank you to the judges for seeing our home and the presence it has. I’m just over the moon to be beside the designers & decorators that I have idolised for years.

Interior design & decoration .shields
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17/04/2026

•SHORTLISTED•

WOW, WOW, WOW!! Beyond thrilled and bloody humbled to announce that Joy Haus has been shortlisted for Residential Design 2026

My first project outside of my own home, sitting alongside designers I’ve admired for years… it feels surreal. There’s not enough words to express all the feelings.

But more than anything, Joy Haus is special because of Mitch & Clare. The level of trust they gave me ~ full reins, no hesitation, is rare. It shaped not just the outcome, but a friendship that will last well beyond the project.

This is why I love what I do. Creating homes that feel deeply personal. Spaces that don’t just look good, but feel like something.

Thank you to the judges for recognising the joy, and the love poured into this one.

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