Tread Sculptures

06/08/2026

We love when nature interacts with our art even if it is cocky’s!
Time to make another version of our spiralling Cascades water feature I think.

03/08/2026

'ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʜʀᴇꜱʜᴏʟᴅ' ꜰʀᴇꜱʜ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴛᴜᴅɪᴏ.

One of the things I love most about reclaimed materials is that they bring their own history with them.

The arch of this gateway is formed from reclaimed excavator track chain, while the beautiful teak doors once stood at the entrance to a home in Rajasthan. For somewhere between 150 and 200 years they welcomed family, friends and strangers alike. Now they've found a new purpose, framed in steel, with a disc of hand-slumped red glass suspended above to catch the changing light.

Long before these doors became sculpture, they welcomed people home. They still do.

A reminder that while we can't choose where every path begins, we can choose to step forward with openness and curiosity.

Created from reclaimed steel, antique teak and handmade kiln slumped glass.

28/07/2026

What a weekend!

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us for our Winter Open Weekend.

It was wonderful to welcome so many people discovering Tread Sculptures for the first time, alongside so many familiar faces returning again.

Despite a bit of winter weather, the conversations never stopped. Seeing people wander the sculpture trail, explore the studio, ask questions and share stories is one of the best parts of opening our place.

If you couldn’t make it this time, don’t worry. We’d still love to show you around. Just get in touch beforehand and we’ll arrange a time that suits. We welcome visitors Monday to Saturday by previous arrangement and we’d love to share the studio and sculpture trail with you.

Thank you for making the journey, for your encouragement, your conversations and your support. We never take any of it for granted.

Until next time,

Tim & the Tread Team

25/07/2026

The sun‘s out and the weather is looking great for the final day of our Winter Open Studio weekend.

Open today Sunday 26th July, 10am till 4pm 225 Catani Blvd Bend of Islands, Melbourne

24/07/2026

One Another

Some of nature’s most extraordinary beauty begins with imperfection.

The rare half-moon Monstera owes its striking appearance to a natural mutation. One half of each leaf is rich green, the other brilliant white. Two completely different halves, each relying on the other to create something remarkable.

That simple idea became the inspiration for this sculpture.

Rob Haley handcrafted every glass leaf, carefully recreating the extraordinary contrast found in nature. As the sculpture evolved, my focus became something different. Rather than asking how to build around the glass, I found myself asking:

“How can I make Rob’s glass look the best it possibly can?”

That question led to polished stainless steel branches that lift the leaves into the light, contrasted against a frame of reclaimed rusted and galvanised steel. Different materials. Different histories. Different qualities. None competing. Each allowing the others to shine.

As we worked, we realised the sculpture had quietly become about more than a rare plant. It had become about the way we have always worked together.

For many years, Rob and I have shared a simple philosophy. We don’t tell each other how our part should be done. Instead, we each try to create something that allows the other’s work to be at its very best. In many ways, it’s an act of one anothering—finding beauty not in sameness, but in complementing one another.

Looking at the finished piece, it feels as though the sculpture has reflected that philosophy back to us.

Perhaps that’s true beyond sculpture as well.

Our differences don’t have to divide us. When they’re respected and allowed to complement one another, they can become the very thing that creates beauty.

Difference doesn’t diminish beauty. Sometimes it creates it.

One Another

Created by Tim Read and Rob Haley.

23/07/2026

Winter Open Studio Weekend Friday 24th July - Sunday 26th 10am to 4pm 225 Catani Blvd Bend of Islands
Glass kiln opening at 12pm Saturday and at 2pm Sunday

22/07/2026

𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟎𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝟒𝐩𝐦

𝐋𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞, 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐢𝐭𝐬, 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐬, 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐎𝐟𝐟 𝐒𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬.

𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥. 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞.

𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐄
225 CATANI BLVD, BEND OF ISLANDS MELBOURNE

22/07/2026