Tasmania Makes 25 – Exhibition Two now open

Liam Starcevich, Arno Bench, American white oak and cork. Photo: Kate Bowman

Tasmania Makes is an annual platform in its second year, designed to celebrate and invigorate Tasmania’s rich culture of innovation and craftsmanship across all design disciplines. Known for our thoughtful, resourceful and naturally sustainable way of working, Tasmania boasts an ever-expanding reputation for its reliably good and distinct vernacular design.

Sixteen designers from traditional design disciplines spanning furniture, ceramics, jewellery, textiles, and object design have been invited to reconsider and refine their practice, through the creation of new work responding to local or global imperatives.

Craig Ashton, Connections, timber, cast bronze. Photo: Ivett Dodd

The design pieces have been developed through a series of intensive workshops with Simon Ancher Studios (Launceston) and DOT (Designed Objects Tasmania, Hobart) and are being exhibited in various stages from prototypes through to resolved works. For Tasmania Makes 25, three local industry partners have supported select designers through supply of materials and production support including Hydrowood (myrtle), Timber World (Eucalyptus nitens) and Waverley Mills (wool and upholstery fabric production).

Isaac Williams, Coverge Vase, Eucalyptus nitens, blackwood, elm, Macrocarpa pine (all found material). Photo: Ivett Dodd

Exhibition One ran from 24 January to 31 May and featured work by Andrea Barker, Nanna Bayer, Kate Bowmam, Christopher Clinton, Shauna Mayben, Liam Starcevich, Scott van Tuil, Adam Wallace and Isaac Williams.

Exhibition Two is now on display until 21 September. Visitors may see work created by Craig Ashton, Travis Bell, Geoff Farquhar, Benjamin Grieve-Johnson, Sharon O'Donnell and Stuart Williams.

Ben Grieve-Johnson, Transfigure. Photo: Ivett Dodd

Four design works from Exhibition Two have now been acquired into the State Collection held at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG), purchased with funds from the TMAG Foundation. The acquisitions will enhance TMAG’s collection through this investment in Tasmania’s rich community of contemporary craftspeople and designers, acknowledging the contribution they make to Tasmania's cultural heritage, and we thank TMAG for this vision.

Learn more at https://designtasmania.com.au/