When your home is your gallery: Inside Australia’s ultimate live-work spaces

Live-in studios and artists' homes are redefining prestige real estate, with buyers increasingly valuing homes that express individuality.If you walked into my three-level Bondi Beach home on any given day, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d accidentally stumbled into an avant-garde gallery — or the chaotic aftermath of a high-end museum heist.Classical torsos sit cheek-by-jowl with hand-built, dual-faced, ceramic heads. Massive abstract canvases lean against walls. Art supplies share square footage with a fully stocked under-house wine cellar. And navigating all of it, with surprising precision are my two rescue dogs, who have learned the hard way to dodge wet paint and fragile clay sculptures.For two decades, my life revolved around newsrooms and TV studios as a senior journalist and producer across the UK, Middle East, and Australia. But transitioning to full-time art wasn't so much a dramatic pivot as a homecoming—I’m really just telling the same human stories, except now using steel, clay, and canvas instead of a laptop or camera crew.When I finally traded deadline meltdowns for a studio practice, my domestic setup had to undergo its own evolution. I didn't just need a place...