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,

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

Terry Martin grew up in Melbourne and Swan Hill on the Murray River and left Australia in his early twenties to undertake a cornucopia of careers that included mining exploration in Papua New Guinea, touring the US with the Australian Ballet, sailing around the Pacific and ski patrolling in Austria.
On his return to Australia 13 years later he turned to woodworking as a means of

Stephen Hughes is a full time teacher and convenor of Design and Technology: Wood at Karingal Secondary College, Frankston,Victoria. That is his "real" job. In addition he is an exceptional artistic woodturner and a much sought after wood instructor and demonstrator.
Serving as an inspiration to Australian artists and acknowledged internationally for his leadership in the field, Stephen has won more awards than any other Australian woodturner, with 34 national and international prizes. His commissions include six major works for the Irving Lipton Collection in the United States, the most prestigious private collection of woodwork in the world.

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

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, sleeping under the stars, working fourteen hours a day and living on bread and beef. Anthony Hansen started his

In 1980 Rex graduated from the London College of Furniture. He returned to Tasmania with the desire to continue in a family business began by his father in the 1940’s. Tasmania not only gave him a sense of place, but the natural environment provided a (rare) source of raw materials.
Although he works in both solids and veneers his functional based products and furniture have in the past decade focussed largely on Tasmania’s hardware veneers