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Without further ado we wish to introduce Mana Nakamura ⚡️⚡️⚡️We were lucky enough to be introduced to Mana earlier last ...
15/10/2026

Without further ado we wish to introduce Mana Nakamura ⚡️⚡️⚡️

We were lucky enough to be introduced to Mana earlier last year when visiting the lovely Yuko Kan. We were excited to meet someone working with glass and especially Mana whose wizardry with this tricky medium showed us a something we’d never seen, or felt before! Puffy, light, fluffy!

Born in Hiroshima prefecture Mana is a glass artist based in Aichi. After studying at the Toyama Institute of Glass Art Centre, she has pioneered her own method - her works are created primarily from foam glass, shaped through blowing, then fired using traditional kiln casting techniques.

And the results are dreamy! When we first unpacked them, one of our other artists commented ‘Wow it’s like looking at dreams!’ So that’s what we called this collection - ‘Looking at Dreams’. Joyful creatures, sculptures, confectionary that look good enough to eat. They drift and form like moving clouds in the sky.

Thank you Mana Nakamura for sharing your work with us!

Please stop by DEA West and take a piece home - it’s like taking a piece of cake home from a birthday party and with each bite you relive the happy moments gone just before.

ONLINE now!

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LAST NIGHT we celebrated the relocation of our new DEA West store AND our 12th birthday! We took the first set of keys o...
15/10/2026

LAST NIGHT we celebrated the relocation of our new DEA West store AND our 12th birthday! We took the first set of keys on the 1st of October 2014 and what a wild ride it has been. Retail has never been so speculative!

Even so, we feel incredibly privileged to have and hold the trust of the artists working with DEA. We feel so passionately about what we do and it’s from the heart. We are so incredibly grateful to our artists, our staff past and present (so many talented artists in their own right) who have all gone on to do great things. We thank you, our customers, for embracing our vision. We work hard to present to you what we think is the very best. And somehow this constellation of human endeavour comes together so beautifully under one roof - sorry TWO roofs! Some 50 artists and WE CAN’T WAIT TO SHARE WHAT’S COMING UP!!!! ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

HUGE thanks to Lisa Cahill Lisa Cahill for carving out time to speak at our little celebration. An honour! Lisa’s work for the arts, crafts & design fields has been indefatigable. THANK YOU LISA from everyone!

To top it off, the lovely Stephanie Phillips had organised and made a card featuring birthday wishes from all our artists! What a huge surprise (see the pics!) and yes my mother did call in the middle of my speech! That’s where my witchy comes from - Carmen! Beautiful, witty, amazing Carmen!

HUGE THANKS also to my Darling Colin - if you KNOW him you LOVE him, and as a staff member once said ‘if someone doesn’t like Colin, there is something not right with that person’. Smart, funny, kind.

THANKS SPUNKS!!!!! I would love to list everyone to thank - but I’ll do it in person … see you at DEA

OH AND thank you to beautiful Eriko from 15cenchi Japanese Basque Cheesecake Sydney for our delicious birthday cake and P & V W**e + Liquor Merchants for the best wines!

HAPPY 12TH BIRTHDAY TO US!!!!It was our 12th Birthday yesterday! We took the keys for what eventually became DEA West on...
02/10/2026

HAPPY 12TH BIRTHDAY TO US!!!!

It was our 12th Birthday yesterday! We took the keys for what eventually became DEA West on the 1st October 2014 and 4 weeks later our bricks and mortar were OPEN.

Looking back on the photos from that time I can’t believe we went from zero to one hundred in the space of a year. Careful planning for stock with very limited funds (no handouts) saw us grow into a fully realised unique stand alone store with many strings (and artists) to our bow. We did and do everything ourselves. We take our own photographs, write our own copy, develop product, and present what we think are some of the best artists alive. We like to have something for everyone. We have personality and we have heart.

So we thought it was about time or a great time to feature some of our artists and how we met and how we grew together.

It is with GREAT joy and love that we first present STEPHANIE PHILLIPS. Stephanie has been with us through thick and thin and only until recently we were her only stockist.

Steff walked in one day many years ago (tho it still feels so fresh!) with the cutest little animals in terracotta and bronze … and the small and mighty became ICONIC!!!

DEA presented her first exhibition ever. It was called ‘Moonlight Garden’ and we paired her work with gorgeous collages/paintings by Michael McIntyre. We had the fortune of being hosted by the SUPERNOVAS at Y S G in their first studio who have always championed us and our artists, having the most discerning of eye areas themselves. We likened her glowing creatures to moonbeams made into sculpture.

Then we pooled all of our resources into opening DEA East. A haven, more room to feature artists and we opened DEA East with Stephanie’s work in the window!

Stephanie’s gorgeous character and personality is present in each sweetly and carefully constructed piece. So gentle yet softly bold, a true artist, a perfectionist with her works conveying a reassuring harmony. Even her new spiky work such as the delicious ‘Azzedine’ with her snatched waist and impressive figure kind of say, ‘I’ll keep an eye on you!’

Continued in comments …
Stephanie Phillips

YEP - he’s back! SUZUKI TomonoriHe turned up in our shop about 6 years ago. With lamps. Lamps like THIS. ALL painstaking...
25/09/2026

YEP - he’s back!

SUZUKI Tomonori

He turned up in our shop about 6 years ago. With lamps. Lamps like THIS. ALL painstakingly hand cut and assembled.

Generally no two are alike, but sometimes he’ll make a pair - and these are such a pair!

Tomonori disappeared back to Japan during covid. And when we were setting up our new store he wandered in - with gorgeous wooden tissue boxes, coasters and now we’ve asked him to make us some plate stands.

Plate stands - everyone asks so we got Tom to make these and he chose American Oak as he loves the grain. The design is strong enough to hold large platters (see rina bernabei’s lovely Dimple, Timna Taylor ‘s lovely luncheon plate AND 三浦 宏基 ‘s SIGNED book - YUP he signed them with an individual drawing in each book!)

So limited lamps, wooden tissue boxes, p[late stands, coasters … because Tomonori only has so much time in the day.

Thank you Tom - so good to have you back!

These items are at DEA West … and check out those books by Hiroki Miura WOW 💥

ANNOUNCING …🔵🔷🔵🔷🔵NOBUE IBARAKI | SHADOW AND LIGHTWEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 30th6-8pm | DEA East - 674 Bourke Street RedfernJoi...
17/09/2026

ANNOUNCING …

🔵🔷🔵🔷🔵

NOBUE IBARAKI | SHADOW AND LIGHT

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 30th
6-8pm | DEA East - 674 Bourke Street Redfern

Join us to celebrate a collection 2 years in the making …

Nobue Ibaraki’s elegant forms touch something in your heart. Gently sloping shoulders, slender necks.

Perhaps they speak to her time studying fashion design at Bunka University, followed by ceramic design at Tajimi Pottery Design & Technical Centre.

However what is evident is her mastery of glazing. Working in just four colours her technique of blending cobalt and copper with iron rich clay sourced in Tajimi (near Kyushu Volcano) results in a wonderful textured surface.

They speak to the vessels of Persian and Greek antiquity, grazing the surface of the ocean floor.

These modern yet weathered looking pieces are so sweetly proportioned. Negative space dances elegantly with the solid form.

Tender hand built care is given to the smallest of vases or jugs. Arranging them together gives such pleasing results and transports you to the pleasing pull of a Morandi painting.

This time we’ve ordered a few more of those mugs (selling instantly last time) and have an array of new shapes and plates, including the oval soft-form dish that served delicious morsels at Noma CPH Kyoto pop-up, two seasons in a row.

Thank you Nobue!

The works are so wonderful … we hope you can join us on this special occasion

wines by P & V W**e + Liquor Merchants
Japanese cheesecake by 15cenchi Japanese Basque Cheesecake Sydney

茨木 伸恵

Happy Father’s Day 2026Its a beautiful Spring Day here in Sydney …We hope you not only have a beautiful day spent with l...
06/09/2026

Happy Father’s Day 2026

Its a beautiful Spring Day here in Sydney …

We hope you not only have a beautiful day spent with loved ones feeling adored and celebrated but know our love carries to past, present and forever more.

The love and sacrifices made are acknowledged with a full heart - being a parent is the hardest job in the world.

Wishing everyone a beautiful day. ❤️❤️❤️

DEA - A Paradise for Collectors - ‘10 Pieces’Toru Hatta X David Collins X DEATHRILLED to be offering this incredibly LIM...
27/08/2026

DEA - A Paradise for Collectors - ‘10 Pieces’

Toru Hatta X David Collins X DEA

THRILLED to be offering this incredibly LIMITED Capsule collection of 10 pieces ONLY!!

Never to be repeated …

Back in February we had the absolute pleasure of hosting Toru-san as part of his conclusion of his World Tour. Over 400 wood fired pieces were selected to present to an adoring fan base + new devotees. As we have said, this show was highly anticipated as work is only offered every few years and it was Toru Hatta’s first visit to Australia.

During that time DEA organised a Toru Hatta wheel demonstration in David Collin’s divine studio overlooking the lush pastures and bucolic seaside landscape of Berry. It was fascinating to watch Toru throw with such ease and assuredness as Fumiko translated … what a treat. We had a delicious lunch and the 10 pieces were left with David Collins for firing and glazing.

NOW they are here!

It’s incredible to see these sublime pots in a glaze other than Hatta-san’s signature Kurokake, Shirokake and Matsukake glazes.

David Collins carefully applied Shino, Tenmoku, and Ash Glaze. The tenmoku is from a Bernard Leach recipe and the Shino is from a John Britt recipe.
The ash glaze is made from the ash collected from David’s winter fireplace and comes from a combination of South Coast of NSW wattle (acacia) and eucalyptus wood.

We think the results are incredible. Each piece is stamped with DEA + TH + DC indicating the collaboration between us three.

We can’t decide which is our favourite.

JUMP online or visit DEA East to collect these rare pieces.

We also have a limited stock of signed Toru Hatta books in both stores.

Thank you again Toru Hatta & David Collins for being part of such a special day.

A selection of vases, bowls, teapots and cups by David Collins can be found at both DEA East & West locations.

A limited range of Hatta’s Japanese wares are also available at both stores.

八田 亨
David Collins Pottery

INCOMING ⚡️⚡️⚡️3pm TODAY RYO KODOMARI - online and in-store!!!FINALLY Charming shapes, glowing glazes like melted honey ...
06/08/2026

INCOMING ⚡️⚡️⚡️

3pm TODAY

RYO KODOMARI - online and in-store!!!

FINALLY

Charming shapes, glowing glazes like melted honey + add a dash of geometry and Okinawan brushwork, and you have what makes up a vessel made by contemporary Japanese artist Ryo Kodomari. There’s just something about that cookie dough glaze - it feels warm, like it’s just out of the oven, excuse me, KILN. Full of goodness. There is no other work like it, and how can one of these charming pieces NOT make anyone’s day better, DAILY?

We have to admit a few pieces arrived smashed - heartbreaking but they are at the hospital now.

BUT … we have around 30 pieces waiting to be snapped up. They feel so good in the hands and Kodomari’s style is so inimitable, especially with his signature scratched artfully on each work like a design feature itself.

We are so happy to be offering this wonderful man’s functional works of art.

DON’T MISS OUT!!!!

RYO KODOMARI

WILD WILD PORCELAIN!Welcome to the ABYSS …Last March on a very cold day we were given a very warm welcome from artist Ka...
11/07/2026

WILD WILD PORCELAIN!

Welcome to the ABYSS …

Last March on a very cold day we were given a very warm welcome from artist Kazuya Ishida. We were lucky to have met Kaz a few years ago at the wonderful Sturt Galleries and Studio where he was artist in residence sharing his incredible technique and talent. And we have been lucky enough to be sharing his work in Australia ever since.

Kaz made a little party for us - spoiling everyone - barbecuing fresh local oysters (100 of them) among other tasty morsels, we even toasted marshmallows under the Bizen night sky.

Which brings us to the porcelain. Wild porcelain.

Ishida, a third generation potter was already a shining star from Bizen, began mining local porcelain clay himself around 5 years ago. And the results are astonishing. As you can see it’s a tough to material to handle raw, yet Kazuya’s vision transforms it into pieces that twinkle like stars in the Abyss. Colours range from crisp rock like white to swirls of blue, peach and charcoal. From raw to refined, in the hands and on the table they house your warm tea, rice, miso, whatever - they make everything more beautiful. That’s right - raw to refined. You can only imagine what it is like to sip saké or matcha tea from one of these sublime pieces from one of Japan’s biggest talents and pioneers. Lucky us!

And lucky you! For you we have a wonderful selection from Kaz AVAILABLE NOW!

JUMP ONLINE and secure your own little piece of magnificent beauty. Once again it is so hard NOT to keep everything.

THANK YOU KAZ 石田 和也

EXCITING NEWS … finally we are OPEN for business! DEA West - NEW location 128 Regent Street, Redfern💥 Just a few doors u...
10/07/2026

EXCITING NEWS … finally we are OPEN for business!

DEA West - NEW location 128 Regent Street, Redfern

💥 Just a few doors up (closer to the train station) from our old location at 146 Regent Street, Redfern.

💥Welcome to our bigger, more beautiful store where we will be holding workshops, events and artist’s talks.

💥 We’re still nutting out some details inside but we have everything available + lots of new exciting stuff we can’t wait to show you!

💥 We will be announcing our opening party soon - so stay tuned and stop by!

💅🏻 🚶🏽run … don’t walk … as always POOCHES 🐶 welcome

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Mon CLOSED
Tues-Fri 10-6pm
Sat 10-5pm
Sun 11-5pm

Address

146 Regent Street
Redfern, NSW

Opening Hours

Monday 12pm - 4pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

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+61296988150

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