Canberra’s annual Timber & Working With Wood Show is set to blast off next week. From September 5–7, Exhibition Park will come alive with an array of demonstrations, displays and plenty of opportunities to purchase fine tools and woodworking necessities.
Program and general details are available here
Tickets may also be purchased online from this link as well.
The exhibition titled Treasures in Timber is undoubtedly the showpiece of the Canberrra Timber & Working With Wood Show.
The Act Woodcraft Guild has around 250 members who stage regular meetings and ‘special interest groups’ at their well-equipped facility at Kambah fondly known as “The Shed”.
This year’s exhibition will feature around 200 pieces which will be judged by a panel of three to determine prizewinners in 11 categories. Judges for this year's exhibition are: Kevin Rodel, teacher and furniture designer/maker (USA), Keith Houston, carver and former President Woodcraft Guild ACT, Niklavs Rubenis furniture designer/maker and staff/PhD student at ANU School of Art.
The actual set-up day will be a busy one. At 8am on the day before the show opens, exhibition pieces will be loaded into a truck and then taken to EPIC Centre in Canberra to be set up within the Timber Show.
Once pieces have been arranged to best effect, judging will take place. Presentation of awards will be made in the evening of the same day.
According to Guild Secretary Hugh Milloy, who has been a member for some eight years, it’s amazing how year after year, it all comes seamlessly together. ‘There’s a core group of 10–15 people who just show up and work. Everyone just seems to know what to do. There’s no hierarchy. If you ask who’s in charge, no one can answer. And the Guild itself has worked so well over the years with various people have taken turns at leadership’.
For a taste of what to expect see images of prizewinning work from the 2013 Treasures in Timber exhibition.
More information about the ACT Woodcraft Guild is at: www.woodcraftguild.org.au