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The Maker

Snakebird Designs is the creative endeavour of myself, Sarah Muir-Smith. I am incredibly grateful to live, work and create on and with the unceded land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. 

The maker behind Snakebird Designs, Sarah Muir-Smith, is smiling in her Coburg studio. She is wearing tan overalls and sitting amongst various pottery tools and equipment, smiling.

ABOUT THE MAKER (2025)

Sarah Muir-Smith is an emerging artist, designer and teacher who works under the name Snakebird Designs.

Her provocative works, rooted  in ceramic and basketry traditions, pose questions to invite much needed paradigmatic shifts:

What if the objects we made gave life instead of taking it?

What if instead of trying to do the least harm, we aimed to do the most good?

Do we really need to purchase new materials for our creative practices?

What would it look like to give the more-than-human world a seat at our table when we make decisions?

Committed to restorative environmental action, Sarah has undertaken a Habitat Conservation and Management course and is studying her Masters of Regenerative Design at Central Saint Martins, London.

She has exhibited in her solo shows “In Plain Sight” 2022, “Nothing New” 2024, in Design Fringe 2023 and 2024 and “Bulk Buy” with Alternative Ceramics Supply as part of Craft Contemporary 2023.