Image: Diane Allison, 2025, image: Ivett Dodd

Makers: the object

Ivett Dodd, Aunt Vicky Laine-Green, Chantale Delrue, Deborah Wace, Diane Allison, Patrick Hall, Duncan Meerding, Emma Bugg, Jane Bamford, Laura McCusker, Nanna Bayer, Lindsey Wherrett, Michelle Maynard, Nataša Milenović, Lee Farrell, Ben Grieve-Johnson, Lillian Wheatley, Simon Ancher, Ben Richardson, Gabbee Stolp, Scott Van-Tuil, Armie Sungvaribud

Exhibition dates: Friday 23 January – Saturday 14 February

Launch event: 5.30pm, Thursday 22 January

Makers is an exhibition inspired by the book of the same name, celebrating the creative heart of Lutruwita / Tasmania. It is a collection of work from local jewellers, ceramicists, furniture makers and textile artists who are shaping a distinctive design culture in the State.

Captured in the pages of Makers are the physical objects created by Tasmanian creatives. These objects are the end result of an initial idea. The process of making, re-thinking, problem-solving, dreaming and learning is all presented in a three-dimensional form. The chaos of the studio is left behind and the object is finished, still, complete. Ready to be used in someone’s life.

Entry to the galleries is free.

Panel Discussion with artists: 7pm Thursday 22 January

Join us after the launch of Makers for a conversation with artists Ben Grieve-Johnson, Laura McCusker and Ivett Dodd, mediated by Judith Abell. They will discuss what inspires them to make objects, what it takes to create something beautiful and how they arrived at making in the first place. Open to all who would like to attend. Free event.

This exhibition is Part 1 of a two-part exhibition series.

Part 1

Makers: the object

Moonah Arts Centre

Friday 23 January – Saturday 14 February

This exhibition explores the object, the final result of the making process.

Part 2

Makers: the process

Design Tasmania, Cnr Brisbane & Tamar St Launceston

Dates TBC

Part 2 explores the process, the making of the object itself.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Moonah Arts Centre and Glenorchy City Council acknowledge the Muwinina people as the traditional owners of this Land on which we gather. We recognise all Tasmanian Aboriginal people as the original owners and continuing custodians of the land and waters of this island, Lutruwita. We pay our respect to Aboriginal Elders, past and present. We commit to working for a City that welcomes and respects all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

SAFE SPACE
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Image credit: Nanna Bayer, 2025, Image: Ivi photo