Tasmania Makes 2025
Exhibition One: 24 January – 31 May
Exhibition Two: 1 June – 21 September
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.
From the Southeast Coast and Hobart to Launceston, 16 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. 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).
Crossing two exhibitions over eight months, the exhibitions features designers such as an architect creating small-scale accessible objects, a public artist designing lamps with VR technology, and a ceramicist transforming Knocklofty Reserve’s historic quarry refuse into tiles for a contemporary coffee table.
Employed are a spectrum of making modes, from the practical to philosophical, traditional hand tools to advanced digital processes, all exemplifying a unique Tasmanian approach to shaping the future through design.
