Welcome to Studio Integrifolia, the creative practice of artist Jo McLean.
Bringing together art-making, gardening, and playful experimentation, Jo works with living plants and their many symbolic and representational forms.
Ceramic artist call out
Artist opportunity
Call out to Australian Ceramic Artists
Unfurl
Exhibition open call
Submissions close midnight Tuesday 20th October
A Pollinator Plant-swap
Community event
A community event to welcome Spring (& pollinators) to your garden
Exhibit With Us!
Artist opportunity
Exhibition Proposals for 2027 now open
A Plant-filled play date!
Workshop
An immersive afternoon of creative experimentation in the studio garden
Work with Jo
Collaborate
Got a project brewing, an event in need of a little wonder, or an overlooked corner crying out for some plant-inspired magic?
Let’s collaborate.
Coming soon...
Mid November 2026
Launching in mid-November, Studio Integrifolia will open to the public in Tighes Hill, reactivating the former SMAC Space Studio as a collective of studios, a picture-framing workshop, gallery and a plant-inspired retail space.
The inaugural exhibition, UNFURL, will mark the opening of the gallery, launching an ongoing program of exhibitions, workshops and community events.
Studio Integrifolia is located on Newcastle's inner fringe, within an industrial site in Tighes Hill that backs onto Throsby Creek. In front of the space, a modest yet abundant garden provides habitat for pollinators and serves as an extension of the studio's creative practice.
The studio garden
Projects & Past Work
Lighteaters, 2026
Consolation Bower, 2023
Other Worldly (unseen), 2026
Botanical Extracts XII, 2023
Portable Meadow, 2026
Plants & Play Dates, 2023