The other half of Gaya is their Art Center run by the wonderfully talented Hilary Kane. 

Established as a dedicated studio to develop the art of ceramic and explore traditional techniques with their incredible facilities, featuring several kilns and tools not found anywhere else in Indonesia. The centre runs workshops, offers an artist residency programme, and houses a space dedicated to pushing the limits in ceramic creativity. 

Not typically working outside of artistic pursuits, we were lucky to inspire Hilary to create some unique pieces that will feature as part of our dining experience at NXT. Truly one-of-a-kind craftsmanship.

Gaya Arts Center Website

@gayacac

GAYA ARTS CENTER

Junglo are a team of certified forest makers who have helped us rewild areas of our NXT landscape. They use the Miyawaki Method created by Japanese botanist Dr. Akira Miyawaki, which focuses on understanding the original ecosystem that existed in an area and trying to recover it. 

Working with Junglo we have planted forest around our Eco Cottages with an approach that centres around biodiversity, fungi-rich soils and high plant density to help return the native nature around NXT and create a better habitat.

Junglo Website

@junglo.ecosystems

JUNGLO

Little Spoon Farm started with a mission to improve the local food system on the island of Bali, by reconciling the connection between farmers, nature and consumers. 

We have worked closely with founder Audria to create a regenerative farming system on our rooftop Food Forest  – a method of growing and harvesting fresh fruit and vegetables that gives back to the earth as much as it takes. It is the only sustainable way of farming that secures the future of our soil and indeed the future of food.

Little Spoon Farm Website

@littlespoonfarm

LITTLE SPOON FARM

Digital Nativ and their team craft ideas from commonplace components. Their visionary approach to solving problems is part ingenuity and part artwork. We have worked with them on several NXT installations and digital elements. They are partners in designing our B.I.O. Library – an open-source database of edible biodiversity with 3D scans  – and our Stream Of Consciousness installation.

@digitalnativ

DIGITAL NATIV

In seeking our architect partner for NXT part of the brief was innovation in how the space is an integral part of the restaurant project experience. BPA was awarded the work and have partnered with us to create a refreshing and creative modular space that reflects our aspiration to be closer to nature and regenerate more inspirational ideas for others to follow. 

Budi Pradono and his team are based in Jakarta and their portfolio features high profile government projects and private dwellings, and they have several initiatives such as Bintaro Design Week and other design competitions for architecture to solve environmental and social challenges.

Budi Pradono Website

@studio_bpa

BUDI PRADANO

The creative art studio at Black Hand Gang were the first dedicated print making facility in Indonesia. 

Proudly representing a new movement in printmaking in Indonesia, BHG combine traditional techniques with contemporary art direction and innovation of the medium. Working with established artists from Indonesian and international names, they publish limited editions of prints for exhibitions and sales. 

Working with clients such as Locavore, they also produce commissions, collaborate on ideas and produce the works. In the Concept Shop at Locavore NXT there is a display of several artwork commission specially made for the project, including many botanical mono-prints, some natural pigment from plants, and other artworks inspired by the project. 

Their studio is in Ubud and they host many workshops and other activities onsite.

Black Hand Gang Website

@blackhandgang.id

BLACK HAND GANG

Gaya group has two distinct halves. Gaya Ceramic Design Studio is run by husband-and-wife team Marcello and Michela, who create bespoke ceramic collections with incredible craftsmanship. 

We have a long running relationship with the people at Gaya and set them a new challenge with our brief for NXT to explore themes around nature and the space we have created. We have worked with them on many of the pieces that feature as part of our dining experience at NXT, and some are for sale in the Concept shop. 

We are forever simply mesmerised when they present their works by the creativity of ceramic finishes, designs and overall quality. It is literally eating from works of art.

Gaya Design Studio Website

@gaya.ceramic

GAYA CERAMIC

Aaron is the founder of Kulture, a mushroom cultivation programme and specialist mushroom product company with a focus on using fungi for health, nutrition and sustainable food. 

We have been working closely with him as our onsite Mushroom Man at NXT to explore the exciting, lesser-known local fungi that we can cultivate together and use in our cooking or sell in our Concept Shop.

Kulture Website

@kulturemushrooms

AARON AT KULTURE

Sub Zero Wolf are leaders in meticulously crafted and expertly engineered kitchen appliances. We have worked with them for several years on the kitchens for our Locavore LAB. For LabX – our new research and development kitchen at NXT – we were supported by Sub Zero Wolf to develop the open-kitchen facility and take our innovation to the next level. 

We also partner with them on 'Journey Of Flavours', our short film series documenting the LAB X project.

Sub Zero Wolf Website

SUB ZERO WOLF

Our favourite coffee gurus in Indonesia are the team at Hungry Bird Coffee. Their Canggu basecamp is a house conversion where they have their own lab and roastery to experiment with specialty local coffee beans from Indonesia and abroad. 

Headed by founder Edo who is a self confessed coffee geek, they have an interest in many farms and work with Arca, a coffee farmer from Kintamani, on special lots and processing. Not just great coffee roasters, but their brew craft and espresso know-how is up there with the best, and they pretty much win all the national competitions and have been on winners podiums in International coffee competitions and forums. 

They help work with our beverage team on coffee programmes, innovations and service.

Hungry Bird Coffee Website

@hungrybirdcoffee

HUNGRY BIRD COFFEE

Our sister company Agency X are our partners in creative projects across the Locavore Group business. They compliment our restaurant groups development with creativity in ideas, businesses, experiences and project management. All the design work for NXT and the art direction on the project vision is through our partnership with Agency X. 

Based in Bali but working on big projects with International and domestic clients, they are a cross discipline style agency that develop ideas which live across different experiences and mediums. Primarily working in Food and Beverage, their often disruptive approach looks at opportunities the current landscape isn't serving and find exciting dynamics in being different from the rest.

@agency_x_

AGENCY X

Kevala Ceramics are long time collaborators with the Locavore Group on many of our projects and a trusted partner for creative servingware commissions. 

We were excited to brief owner Wendy Thomas and her team on NXT and the theme of nature and sustainability. Working together with British designer Sarah Howard we commissioned a production of custom stoneware ceramics made by hand, with a particular focus on using recycled and upcycled waste. 

Glazes that use crushed glass from Sungai Watch river trash collections in Bali, old plaster moulds used to make new collection pieces, and ceramics mixed with natural stone waste from construction sites are all methods that feature in the pieces they have made for our diningware at NXT for use in the Canteen restaurant.

COLLABORATORS