Healing spaces, Curated experiences.

Island Healing offers a curated selection of health and wellness products, supplements, and herbal dispensary essentials….

Then step into the adjoining gallery, Living Space.

Living Space is a studio gallery offering artworks and artist-designed products, alongside creative and healing practices grounded in community.

Here you'll find artworks by Melissa McDevitt-Weston, a Bunurong/Boon Wurrung and Yorta Yorta woman and artist who lives locally, alongside artworks and artist-designed products by Alisoun Neville, an artist arts therapist with a commitment to land and social justice.

Melissa and Alisoun have come together with a shared vision for this space, while each maintaining their own independent artistic and professional practice. Living Space is held within an active, living relationship with each other, welcoming all communities into respectful engagement with art, making, and ways of knowing that honour the beauty of Country and each other.

Meet Melissa McDevitt-Weston

Melissa is a contemporary Aboriginal artist whose work is deeply rooted in her connection to Country and her enduring commitment to environmental storytelling. For more than forty years, she has explored painting as a way to honour culture, land, and the intricate relationships between people and the natural world.

Her practice is distinguished by the use of natural materials and resources, reflecting respect for the environment and a desire to work in harmony with it. Her pieces often speak to pressing ecological issues, weaving together traditional knowledge, personal experience, and a profound sense of responsibility to protect Country.

Beyond her artistic practice, Melissa is a passionate advocate for inclusiveness and community empowerment, creating opportunities for people of all backgrounds to engage with art, culture, and storytelling through workshops, collaborative projects, and community-led initiatives.

Melissa McDevitt Weston

Let's Heal

letsheal@hotmail.com

Meet Alisoun Neville

Alisoun is a multidisciplinary artist whose work sits at the intersection of art-making, healing, and everyday life. Working across painting, pastel, photography, and artist-designed products, her work explores the living spaces of art, body, and place, inviting embodied engagement with art-making and artworks as sites of possibility and change.

The studio gallery coincides with the launch of Alisoun's new product range, Artful Interiors, which invites broader forms of companionship with art and place in everyday life.

Working locally as a creative arts and somatic therapist, Alisoun's practice is informed by long-standing interests in creativity and embodiment, the ethics of social and land justice, and relational ways of working.

Two percent of all art sales by Alisoun are contributed to First Nations initiatives and self-determination.

Alisoun Neville Art

For Artful Interiors and Alisoun’s therapeutic practice, see Crayons and Stuff

  • Stack of books on a wooden shelf with titles including 'Beachside Modern,' 'It Is All Equally Fragile,' 'Waves Come In Sets,' 'The Unbearable Beauty,' and 'Salt Water,' against a wooden wall in a cozy room.

  • A black and white brochure with a woman's face and the title 'Emotional Aesthetics', a book about surfing with a picture of the ocean and cliffs, and a book titled 'Cabin Porn Inside' on a beige tablecloth.

  • Display of skincare and wellness products on wooden shelves and a large shell, including boxes and bottles of LAMAV, Grove, and The Seashell Oracle.

  • Decorative ceramic and wooden tableware including small spoons, bowls, plates, and a distressed light blue wooden beam.

  • Wooden bookshelf with two books titled 'Early Medicine' and 'Beachside Modern' standing upright on the middle shelf. A basket with a beige fabric pillow and a few black and white pom-pom trim pillows is on the wooden surface below the shelf, with a paper bag filled with copies of a book titled 'The Seashell Oracle' inside. The background features a wooden-paneled wall.

  • Interior of a retail or boutique space with wicker pendant lights hanging from a wooden branch, wooden shelving and furniture, potted plant, and large window showing an outdoor scene.

  • An antique wooden chair with intricately carved backrest and woven rush seat, placed on a table in a vintage store.