Maleny Expo and Wootha prize: back in 2022

"I love my job as a firefighter but...when I’m building furniture I’m in complete control, and can obsess over the smallest details."

Working by day as a geophysicist where 'nothing is absolute', Dallas Gara finds woodworking ‘more tangible, with an outcome that you have a lot more control over’.

Through the medium of furniture and object design, Discovered brings together the work of 20 emerging designers from 16 countries in an exhibition that opened yesterday in London.

Only one per cent of the nation’s carpentry workforce is female, but Jessica Drady has been nominated for top honours.

Presented by the National Gallery of Victoria and Stylecraft as part of Melbourne Design Week 2022, Australian designers, architects and makers are challenged to submit a new and original designs.

These days events are like mirages that beckon in the distance, only to fade and reappear. But here’s one date to hang on to.