Miranda Wilkinson and Nick Griffin founded Merri Studio as a design-focused practice with a social and environmental backbone.
Drawing on two decades of experience each, across scales and contexts from intimate gardens to precinct-scale masterplans, they structured the studio to keep directors hands-on across all projects, with ten per cent of project time dedicated for pro bono projects with First Nations organisations and community enterprise.
Nick Griffin, Director
“Growing up in rural New Zealand shaped how I see and design landscapes. Building elaborate huts in macrocarpa windbreaks, daydreaming in the crook of a walnut tree and going on expeditions to the back paddock. Reading place through material, texture, and journey.
Two decades of practice has deepened my inquiry of place into the ecologies, the stories, and what makes a site unlike any other. I am passionate about crafting landscape visions that could only belong to one project, one site, centring what makes a place truly unique.
I am deliberate with material and expression. Always in pursuit of the balance between restraint and spatial richness.”
Miranda Wilkinson, Director
“I am drawn to endless horizons, to oceans and forests, the dance of light through trees and drifting kelp. I seek to understand a place deeply: talking with knowledge holders, finding its joy, awe, intrigue, and calm. Continually returning to place to learn how it grows and shifts.
How a place feels is always central to my thinking, designing for comfort, for curiosity, and for the conditions that invite people to return. Through rigorous design I craft simple, purposeful interventions that support ecological processes and social diversity.
My work aims to create landscapes that are grounded, generous, and quietly transformative.”