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𝔗𝔞𝔵𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔪𝔶 | 𝔐𝔬𝔯𝔟𝔦𝔡 𝔄𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔬𝔪𝔶
𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜 & 𝚘𝚍𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜
𝙵𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚎:
🫀𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚎𝚝𝚜 | 𝙽𝚎𝚠𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚋
💀𝚁𝚎𝚌𝚢𝚌𝚕𝚎 𝚆𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎 | 𝙽𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚑 𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐

04/11/2026

Beautiful Morpho butterflies rest peacefully amongst the sacred decay of a serpent, whose skeletal remains have been hand positioned in-house in rural Victoria

04/11/2026

Memento Mori 🖤

A collection of ornate gold frames we have been working on - iridescent butterfly specimens mounted within these Victorian-inspired works.

These pieces will be coming along with us to the Aussie Oddities & Curiosities Expo tour in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney!

Featuring my beautiful skulls from the talented Dale Bamford and Daniel Cooper

03/11/2026

Ornate Victorian Frames Oddities & Curiosities Expo ready! 🖤🖤🖤🖤

30/10/2026

SANCTUM is following the Australian 2026 Oddities & Curiosities Expo tour around again this Christmas!

We will have large collections of our classic Victorian domes, entomology, taxidermy, vampire slaying kits, anatomical and medical anomaly illustrations, replica human skulls, Victorian mourning artefacts and our Sacred Decay displays, alongside plenty more 💀

📍 Melbourne • Adelaide • Sydney

We can’t wait to see you there! 🖤

20/10/2026

Thank you all for being here since 2020. It’s been a pleasure seeing you all monthly, creating and refining a style that has now become a recognisable part of Sanctum. One of my key signature pieces is human foetal skulls, hundreds of which I’ve curated over the years.

I wanted to showcase as many of these pieces that Instagram would allow me to, alas I’ve been capped at 20.

I’d love your help getting a word out that Sanctum was the original creator of human foetal skull domes in Australia.

While flattering, it isn’t entirely wholesome to be approached by a number of artists within my local communities telling me that I have been an inspiration to them for many years ….. when they are replicating my original intellectual property regarding human foetal skulls.

Over the last 12 months I have seen at least three small Victorian oddities businesses replicating my work whilst also coming to my face at events and tell me that I am an inspiration to them… whilst replicating and benefiting financially by creating income from this plagiarism.

The other original concept are my anatomical heart domes, these particularly close to me as this is my area in academic expertise.

Is plagiarism really the highest form of flattery?
It just makes me feel sick..

19/09/2026

Deathhead hawk moth lovingly mounted amongst dried botanicals within a golden ornate frame 🖤

13/09/2026

We were all given the same prompt. The same materials. The same starting point.

And yet every piece is different.

Different hands, different ideas, different experiences, different interpretations. That is what makes creating alongside other people so bloody wonderful.

I think there is something to be said for remembering that the same applies outside of art, too. We are all working with different experiences, circumstances and perspectives, and none of us knows what another person is carrying.

We don’t have to agree. We don’t have to understand everything about each other. But we can choose to be kind. We can choose to be gentle. We can support one another without needing to make someone else smaller.

There is room for all of us.

Thank you to Karina Mills (Bewitched Oddities) for being a great friend and curating something that brings artists together rather than setting us against one another 🖤

12/09/2026

What a big day on the tools after being sick this week! More Exsanguis Collection lovingly prepared for Oddities!

Exsanguis, Latin for “bloodless,” refers both to medical exsanguination and tales of pale, drained bodies that fuelled anti-vampiric hysteria in 18th–19th century in Eastern and Central Europe. These stories gave rise to apotropaic kits intended to ward against the undead. Exsanguis reimagines these historical relics and prepares them for display in your home.

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