Hiroshi Yamaguchi is furniture designer and maker and runs the furniture making studio, Koitoya Design/Make Teach. He and his team make commissioned wood craft pieces, furniture, and joinery work, as well as run woodwork classes. His commissioned works reflect his crafted skills in traditional woodwork skills with contemporary interpretation.

Hiroshi was born and raised in Japan and trained at a private woodworking school in Japan called Shinrin-Takumi Juku, under Master Craftsman Osamu Shoji in 1995. After 17 years designing, creating and teaching craft and furniture making in Japan, he moved to Canberra in 2012 with his family and established KOITOYA in 2015.

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Graduating from the Glass Studio at Sydney College of the Arts with a BA (Visual) with Honours in 1999, Hariet Schwarzock is currently a PhD candidate at the Australian National University. She has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and abroad. Her work is widely collected, and she has won various awards and been selected for prestigious residencies, including Canberra Glassworks Art Group Fellowship, the Asialink Toyama residency and the ANU Procter Fellowship. Recently her public artwork murmuration secured the ACT’s Pamille Berg, Art in Architecture award in 2021 and was shortlisted for the INDE.AWARD in 2022. Her illuminated plasma heart installations have been exhibited at the Canberra Glassworks, the Berengo studio, Venice, Murano, and the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.

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Amy Beggs-French is a ceramic artist respectfully creating on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country. Amy is the hands and heart behind Deep Blue Ceramics. She loves to create functional forms and highlight the natural beauty of clay.

Devoid of creativity for much of her previous professional life she fell head first into ceramics; learning, making, sharing and teaching. She loves to share her love for clay through a wide variety of classes. Her style is laid back, supportive and inclusive. When she's got some free time you'll find her underwater, being mesmerised and inspired by the ocean.

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Tania Vrancic is a contemporary ceramic artist working in her sunny little home studio in Red Hill, and an emerging mixed media artist working from her new studio in Narrabundah.

Drawing her inspiration from landscape and childhood memories Tania creates a sense of freedom and whimsy mixed with a Scandinavian design aesthetic.

Using various printing on clay techniques, hand building and slip casting makes each item unique. Details are added with sgraffito, ceramic pencil and slip trailing, creating multiple layers which are enhanced by the translucency of high fired porcelain.

As an emerging intuitive abstract mixed media artist, she finds that working in different mediums, one practice informs the other. In time Tania hopes to exhibit her ceramics and painting as one coherent story.

Sara Hogwood’s pottery journey began in 1996. The first 17 years were spent learning and honing her craft, showing her work in various exhibitions, including group shows, one solo and one two-person show and selling in small markets and pop-ups.

In 2013 Sara moved her focus from exhibiting to selling at art and design markets and other sales outlets. Her product range, sold under the name ‘bopdotz’, consists of wheel-thrown homewares. Taking inspiration from wherever she can find it, the work has a quiet and unassuming aesthetic and is designed to be used daily.

Since 2014 Sara has also produced a range of sterling silver jewellery. In keeping with her ceramic production, the jewellery is also quiet and unassuming, designed to bring pleasure when worn. With pottery currently undergoing a resurgence in popularity, output from her jewellery workshop is currently limited.

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Lelde Vitols is a long-term Canberra-based artist with a strong connection to nature. She enjoys walking and camping in the local bush and other wild places. Through her photography, Lelde has a source of images which she uses as a basis to experiment with, in many different media. Her work is influenced by technological opportunities that spark her curiosity. She works in innovative and exploratory ways, searching and uncovering.

Her works include landscape photographs, prints, paintings, drawings and digital work as well as wall hangings printed on cotton drill and silks. Lelde also produces stunning lamp shades with patterns digitally developed from her photographs and printed onto cotton in Berlin.

Lelde has several degrees including one in Fine Arts (print making) from the ANU School of Art.

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An independent studio artist since 2000, Lisa Cahill is known internationally for her kiln formed glass sculptures and installations.

Lisa graduated from Monash University, Victoria, and practices from her glass studio in Fyshwick. Awarded international art residencies in the USA and Scotland, Cahill has been a regular finalist in many prominent art prizes and won the Art Group Creative Fellowship at the Canberra Glassworks in 2018. Her large-scale glass installations are highly sought-after internationally and include site specific artworks for Tiffany & Co, Vacheron Constantin and Nobu Hotel.

Her work has been published in numerous publications including entries in the books Australian Glass Today by Margot Osborne and Contemporary Glass, Black Dog Publishing, UK. Her artworks can be found in private and public collections worldwide including the Palm Springs Art Museum, USA, Ebeltoft Glass Museum, Denmark, and Sir John Monash Centre, Australian National Memorial, France.

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Benedict Laffan is a designer and maker of fine solid wood furniture, selected cabinetry and objects who has lived and worked in his craft in both Sweden and Canberra Australia. At the core of his practice is a deep understanding of his preferred material wood and a vast knowledge and experience in using traditional joinery techniques while also embracing the modern design aesthetic and materials such as plywood to create unique pieces for his clients and exhibition. Ben has a distinct design language which expresses an interest in Scandinavian and Japanese architecture and furniture while paying respect to the material wood and it's source. Ben completed studies at the ANU School of Art Wood workshop in 2002 and has continuously practiced and worked in industry in both countries which has given him the strongest foundation in launching his new practice Detailed Wood in 2008.

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Mixed media clay artist Lex Sorrentino began sculpting in 1996 and being self- taught, her minimal training has left her free to approach clay sculpting with no preconceptions as to how it ought to be used.

‘Ignorance is not only bliss, but genuinely constructive, particularly in a medium as adaptable as Polymer and Air Dry clay.’ Lex Sorrentino

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