How we work
Kirsten McMahon brings a rare balance of commercial leadership and creative practice to Ardrie Park Floral Studio.
Her professional career has been shaped by versatility, curiosity, and a commitment to excellence — with senior leadership and general management experience across energy, health, and financial services. She has worked across corporate, small to medium enterprise, and not-for-profit environments, developing a deep understanding of people, systems, and what it takes to build something that lasts.
Like many meaningful evolutions, Ardrie emerged during a season of change. What began as a return to creativity became a deliberate studio — shaped by Kirsten’s commercial discipline and her desire to create beauty with care and intention.
Kirsten is a graduate of the Sustainable Floristry Network and Thrive Flower School, with formal training in sustainable floristry. She continues to approach her work with both rigour and heart, leading Ardrie with the same professionalism, thoughtfulness, and quiet confidence that has defined her broader career.
Committed to continual growth within the floristry industry, Kirsten remains focused on bringing the very best thinking, practice, and care to her clients. In 2025, she was invited to speak at the Worldwide Slow Flower Summit, contributing to the global conversation on thoughtful, sustainable floristry and the future of the craft.
Ardrie creates bespoke floral arrangements using locally grown blooms, designed with intention and care.
Each piece is composed slowly and thoughtfully, guided by season, place and proportion. Our designs are not about abundance, but about balance: elevating a space without overwhelming it.
We partner with women who lead thoughtfully and care deeply about the environments they shape, for their clients, their teams and themselves. From design through to collection and composting, Ardrie offers a complete, considered floral service.
Beauty, created with intention. Care, quietly handled.
Ardrie Park is a quiet garden oasis tucked within a residential pocket of Malvern East — a place shaped by seasons, resilience, and community.
Its central pathway is lined with tall, deciduous elm trees that stand steady through heat, cold, and change. Each year they shed, rest, and return. A reminder that beauty does not need to be constant to be meaningful.
For founder and principal designer Kirsten McMahon, Ardrie Park holds deeply personal significance. It is a place of walking, reflection, and time spent with her children — a living reminder of why care, stewardship, and responsibility matter.
This connection shapes how we work.
At Ardrie, sustainability is not a marketing layer. It is a commitment to creating less new waste, reusing with intention, composting what has finished its work, and designing within nature’s rhythm rather than against it.
We believe in protecting what we borrow — for our children, and for the generations that follow.
Learn more about our sustainability commitments here