Makers and Artists
The Gallery represents over 200 Makers and Visual Artists. Most makers also accept commissions. Contact us with enquiries on commissions or work from a particular maker.
The following makers and artists regularly contribute work to the Gallery for exhibition and sale.
Adrian Potter
Adrian Potter is one of Australia’s leading wood artists and studio furniture maker / designer destined for international recognition. Bungendore Wood Works was honoured to host his exhibition Water (2008) that had been travelling regional areas of Australia with the support of Arts South Australia.
Adrian is an articulate passionate man who speaks about his work and the issues that motivated him to create with clarity and eloquence. Potter trained originally as a mechanical engineer working for many... Read more
Alan Baptist
Allan Baptist has been painting and drawing since the age of three. Born in Sydney in 1950 he began studying art seriously as part of his teaching degree at the Riverina College of Advanced Education and the Wagga Wagga Technical College. In 1995 he left the reasonably secure life of a primary school principal to pursue a rest-of-life involvement in and self-study of art. Early influences included Roberts Picasso Whitely Williams and Lloyd Rees and his first foray into the life of a full-time artist came with a three month painting excursion to a small village in the south of France.... Read more
Alan Williams
Alan was born at Ballina New South Wales in 1942. The son of a farmer who was also a timber getter and sawrniller Alan has had a close association with wood most of his life. His apprenticeships in sawmilling joinery and cabinet making built his technical skill while a two-year Visual Arts course at the Northern Rivers C.A.E. refined his design and artistic abilities. His breadth of experience is impressive having been at different times a house builder furniture maker boat builder musical instrument and toy maker.
Prior to 1987 Alan was largely undertaking commissions for... Read more
Alex Fekete
Alex Fekete arrived in Australia in 1966 as a political refugee from Hungary. After obtaining his bachelors degree in Agricultural Science at Melbourne University he established a wholesale nursery business. In the winter of 1977 he borrowed his father’s small homemade lathe and an armful of books from the library he began to teach himself the craft of woodturning. Bowls platters rovers and mallets were turned with enthusiasm. Culled fruit trees discarded pallets and firewood heaps were constantly raided.
A book for a birthday present called Lathe Art inspired him further and became... Read more
Alex McDowell
Alex McDowell has always had an interest in woodworking for as long as he can remember. In 2006 he took it to the next level and completed the Sturt School for Wood course. From 2007 until recently he has been working fulll time designing and making furniture as commissions and for various galleries including Bungendore Wood Works.
Alex scaled down the business to a part time operation in the Lismore area and will still be making pieces for galleries and excepting a small number of commissions hoping that this will enable him to complete some more challenging and interesting pieces... Read more
Andre Vanne
Andre Vanne was born in Johannesburg South Africa in 1949. The only son of a photographer he spent his early years training with his father and became a professional photographer working in South Africa and London. Having developed a keen eye for line and form he turned his hand to wood carving and founded the internationally famous Feathers Studio and Galleries. Feathers Galleries spread to the US and Europe taking Andre's unique style into collections around the globe. Wanting to express himself further he turned his hand to working in bronze. Andre migrated to Australia in 2000 and... Read more
Anthony Hansen
Anthony Hansen started his Career as a metal machinist with the steel giant B.H.P. mainly using a metal lathe turning precision components from a blue print. This gave Anthony a comprehensive knowledge of cutting techniques often having tolerances of + or - 1.5 Thousandths of an inch.
After completing his trade he went in search of something more challenging more exciting and more natural. This search took him to a 1.5 million acre property in the northern Kimberly area of Western Australia. Here he would muster cattle for two years with twenty other stockmen mainly aboriginal... Read more
Anton Gerner
Anton Gerner's design philosophy is contemporary with inspiration drawn from the American Shaker furniture and the Biedermeier and Art Deco periods. Clean lines and strong shapes are emphasized and fine details featured. Contrasting timbers and inlay details are a strong design feature.
Although often using highly figured veneers Anton prefers to work in solid timber both Australian and imported. Uncompromising high quality construction and attention to detail is achieved using traditional hand tool techniques of construction and finish. Most of Anton's work is a mixture of private... Read more
Barry Black
Barry Black was born in NSW in 1928 and began his association with woodwork as an apprentice carpenter and joiner. In 1949 Barry took his trade to Papua New Guinea where he lived for the next 25 years. Along the lines of another more infamous Australian Errol Flynn Barry tried his hand at crocodile shooting saw milling logging bridge and boat building and rubber coffee and coconut plantation farming. Barry Black could also match Errol in the swashbuckling department as at 79 he still competes in the sport of Fencing and is an internationally accredited judge right up to Olympic level.... Read more
Brad Latham
Brad was lucky enough to get into woodworking at a young age. At school art and woodwork were the only subjects he approached with any enthusiasm. At 16 he had his first lathe and not long after left school to do an apprenticeship as an engineering patternmaker for a company that made mining equipment. It was an exacting trade that warranted thinking inside out upside down and back to front in order to make the patterns that would be then molded in sand removed from the mold into which molten metal would be poured to get the metal castings. During this time he went to the night classes at... Read more
Bungendore Wood Works Design
David Mac Laren is the Artistic Director and owner of Bungendore Wood Works Gallery. Now in its 25th Year the Gallery offers a range of designs from small giftware to major furniture pieces under the banner of BWWG Design.
David Mac Laren left mechanical engineering at Yale University and arrived at the Australian National University in 1963 to do an arts degree in Philosophy and English Literature. He returned to the United States to try his hand at playwriting, and joined the anti war political campaigns of the late 60’s. With limited success in writing and the demoralisation of... Read more
Carolyn Young
Carolyn Young has 14 years of experience in the natural resource management field. For the past six years Carolyn has been studying photography at The Australian National University School of Art and is currently enrolled in a Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Arts. Carolyn is researching the relationship between natural resource management and the visual arts with particular focus on the photographic medium. The key concept behind her research is to visually present what a healthy ecosystem represents to different people. Australians are bombarded with value-laden images of the natural... Read more
Chris Reid
Eight years ago WA-based craftsman Chris Reid was asked by a gallery to create a timber pepper mill and he came up with a design quite different from most simple cylindrical grinders. Chris says that the statuesque design of the base came quickly but the top took time until he was satisfied with it. His beautiful pepper mills are a continuation of Chris’s earlier work as a sculptor.
Born in New Zealand Chris has been living and working in Western Australia for nearly three decades. He first began working with timber to create large sculptural pieces on a self-taught basis and he has... Read more
Clive and Jenny Kendrick
Clive and Jenny Kendrick are a husband and wife team who live and work in Walpole Western Australia. Both retired school teachers they collaborate to produce embellished turned timber art pieces. Clive is a wood turner and Jenny adds her artistic embellishments to much of his work. The year Clive retired from teaching 1995 he bought his first wood lathe and began turning wood objects for sale in various gift shops in the Perth metropolitan area. After undertaking one-on-one tuition with Dean Malcolm one of Australia's finest wood turners he began turning work for galleries. Jenny began the... Read more
Darren Oates
Darren has been working with timber for over ten years. His furniture is unique usually having some laminated form incorporated into the design a process which he engages in from the drawing board to final finishing thus allowing for individual works. Darren’s work reflects traditional woodworking methods of dovetail and mortice and tenon joinery that gives his work strength and integrity. His extensive use of Australian native timbers allows him to explore the unique qualities found in Eucalyptus and other native species.
The creation of smaller scale pieces in the form of... Read more
David Emery
David Emery's professional interest is in making furniture of a clean uncluttered nature with an emphasis on balance and proportion. His skills are mainly in the use of timber with an emphasis on veneering as this allows greater flexibility in design avoiding the limitations of solid timber construction. All veneers are pressed in his own workshop after components have been cut to size and had timber lippings applied to their edges. He believes his veneering process gives a better edge detail than can be achieved using pre-veneered board and gives greater versatility in the ways the veneer... Read more
David Haig
David Haig was born in Malaysia in 1955. Educated in England and finally completing a History degree from Oxford University David moved to New Zealand for family reasons in 1976. Inspired to follow a creative bent he gradually refined his woodworking skills and for the past twenty years has been one of New Zealand's most successful furniture designer-makers working from his home and workshop in Cable Bay. In 1990 he built the first of his now internationally renowned Signature rocking chairs.
He was a part-time tutor at the Nelson Polytechnic's Visual Arts Furniture course in the... Read more
David Herring
David Herring’s passion for design and in particular furniture design stems from memories of furniture made by his grandfather who took inspiration from the Californian Bungalow styles illustrated in imported American magazines of the 1920s and 30s from his love of the Australian bush the environment and native timbers and a background in photography which developed his sense of composition and love of graphic lined imaging and hard edge styles.
After completing studies in Industrial Design and Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts he travelled and worked in the boating industry... Read more
David Lim
Lim Pen BoxDavid Lim is a part time wood worker specialising in pens and small boxes. He graduated from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Science (Architecture) majoring in design and architectural history. The designs he produces are heavily influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese and Chinese traditional architecture. His pieces are focused on highly figured timbers characterised by simple joints and clean lines.
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David Mac Laren
David MacLaren began woodworking in 1973 at a Manhattan gallery called ‘Impressions in Wood’.
He moved to a larger space to design and make domestic furniture, kitchens and architectural fit-outs to client briefs while designing and making small items for craft fairs.
He first left the US to study literature at the ANU in 1963 and in1979 with a desire to create “a place for woodworkers to display their works, where diversity is encouraged and fine craftsmanship essential,” MacLaren approached eight makers to produce a piece from his American... Read more
David Upfill-Brown
David Upfill-Brown graduated from Parnham College in 1981 and moved to Canberra Australia where he established a reputation as a designer and maker of fine furniture working on commissions for domestic and architectural clients. The arrival of George Ingham to head up the new Canberra School of Art Wood Workshop co-incided with David Upfill-Brown establishing his workshop at Tharwa near Canberra. Graduates from the newly established school and a very active group of Canberra woodworkers provided the energy and enthusiasm led to a most successful wood Conference at the ANU in 1987 at which... Read more
David Voigt
David Voigt was born in Sydney in 1944 and studied at the National Art School from 1964 to 1968. Between 1969 and 1972 he lived and exhibited in France and Holland with extensive travels throughout Europe returning to live and work in Australia in late 1972. Among his many awards are the Blake Prize in 1976 and the Blake and Wynne Prizes in 1981. He is represented in the National Gallery of Australia and State Galleries of WA, Queensland and Tasmania as well as numerous Regional Galleries, and Internationally in the Utrecht Collection of Contemporary Art – Holland.
Looking into,... Read more
Dean Malcolm
Dean Malcolm was born in Perth Western Australia in 1965. After completing a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Industrial Design in 1985 he moved to Denmark WA to establish a woodturning studio. Dean has been a major contributor to the growth and development of the fine woodcraft industry in Western Australia. Since entering into professional practice in 1986 Dean has been a committee member of the Fine Wood Working Association of WA founding President of the Woodturners of Denmark a member of the committee formed to develop the Certificate III of Woodcraft through TAFE Chairman of the committee... Read more
Des King
Des returned to Australia from Japan in March 2009 after twelve months’ study on the Post-Graduate Architecture Course at the Toyama International College of Crafts and Arts (Shokugei Gakuin) in Toyama Japan a technical college focusing on the traditional craftsmanship of Japanese carpentry furniture-making tategu (shoji) and landscaping/gardening. He studied tategu under a very demanding instructor with more than 40 years’ experience in the field. All instruction was entirely in Japanese and towards the end of the course an increasing amount of time was spent making repairing and... Read more
Des McKenna
Des McKenna and his wife Carmel live in the hills of Upper Beaconsfield in Victoria, Australia where they have raised a family of eleven many of whom are practising artists. A food technologist by profession Des spent most of his "working life" in the food industry in managerial positions with one of the world's largest multinational food groups. Opting for early retirement in 1986 he decided to take up woodworking as a hobby as in his early years he had made some of the furniture for the family home. It did not take long before his life-long love of nature and art and his developing... Read more
Don Burrows
Don Burrows is equally at home in the photographic darkroom as he is on the stage. To be blessed with a talent at a level few artists attain is one thing, to carry that talent to a second artistic medium is reserved for a few gifted individuals.
Don Burrows has been treading the boards as a professional musician for 65 years. In 1973 the twice-named Australian Living Treasure received the first Gold Record ever awarded to an Australian jazz musician, instigated the first Jazz studies program in the Southern Hemisphere at the NSW Conservatorium of Music and was awarded an MBE.
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Drew Badcock
Drew Badcock is a cabinet-maker and also a farmer growing poppies and grain crops on the red soils of Tasmania’s north coast at Exton.
Interested in woodwork from an early age making model planes and boats he gained experience with timber after leaving school by building a shearing shed and over a dozen other farm buildings and through restoring furniture for local clients. He is self taught mainly from books and observation and is developing his own style in contemporary furniture – strong construction for a long life is a priority for him. He originally started making boxes to use... Read more
Emily Hurt
When Emily Hurt found herself with some spare time to occupy she started playing around with timbers. As she loved stained glass and other inlay work she started experimenting in this style with timber. With firm views on protecting our native forests she scrounged timber whenever and wherever possible building sites beaches paddocks friends fallen branches etc. Loving the colours textures and enormous variety of timbers Emily learnt as she went.
Having no formal training her style began to develop with spectacular results. First sketching the piece be it abstract or definitive a... Read more
Eugene Zacharewicz
Born in France, Eugene arrived in Australia when he was 4 years old with his family. His father was an artist who came to Australia to work on the Snowy River Scheme. His family is originally from Listonia where his grandfather was private cabinetmaker to the Czar of Russia.
While he was an apprentice with two German masters in Fyshwick, Eugene was taught all the skills of German craftsmanship. He worked as an antique restorer and furniture maker for 37 years. During this time he collected some unusual timbers, some of which are no longer available as the timber is protected. He... Read more
Evan Dunstone
Evan Dunstone specialises in the use of our wonderful native timbers. Many of the techniques and approaches to the craft which so dominate furniture making were developed in Europe and are not always appropriate for Australian natives. Evan enjoys the challenge of designing for our "difficult" woods by questioning every aspect of the process in order to accommodate all their strengths and weaknesses.
Bungendore Wood Works Gallery owner and artistic director David MacLaren taught Evan as much about approaching the difficulties of design as he did about technique. He instilled inEvan... Read more
Fernando A Costa
Fernando arrived in Australia in 1969 from Montevideo Uruguay after studying architecture. The excellence quality and variety of the Australian timbers triggered an old hobby for working with timber. Around 1975 and to further improve his skills he undertook a course in French polishing wood carving and lead light.
He particularly enjoys developing his time pieces which are the product of spontaneous inspiration with a strong tendency towards the Art Deco style. Every design is unique.
Fernando's work has been extensively exhibited throughout Australia
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Frank Wiesner
Frank Wiesner started working in wood in the later part of the 1940s when his Grandfather obtained an apprenticeship with old Master Schirrmacher in the war-torn town of Berlin, Germany. It was there that Frank, during his early life as a cabinetmaker, formed a strong bond with his craft and the material he worked with.
It was learning the demanding discipline of the German Master, that makes Frank strive for excellence in the work he does. Long hours spent each day in his workshop makes it clear that Frank has grown to love, and is firmly embedded, in his craft. Many a weekend is... Read more