Design Tasmania: Tasmania Makes 2025 Has Opened

Design Tasmania has announced the opening of Tasmania Makes 25, a celebration of innovative design and craftsmanship.

Now in its second iteration, Tasmania Makes is an annual platform designed to celebrate and invigorate Tasmania’s rich culture of innovation and craftsmanship across diverse design disciplines. Known for its thoughtful, resourceful, and naturally sustainable way of working, Tasmania boasts an ever-expanding reputation for its reliably good design and distinct vernacular approach.

In 2024, seventeen designer-makers from across our island State – spanning furniture, ceramics, jewellery, textiles, and object design – were selected through an Expressions of Interest process to create new work responding to local or global imperatives. From the Southeast Coast to Hobart and Launceston, these designers have been invited to reconsider and refine their practices. Through workshops facilitated by our workshop partners—Simon Ancher Studios in Launceston and DOT (Designed Objects Tasmania) in Hobart—the designers have developed pieces at varying scales, from prototypes to fully resolved works.

This year, Tasmania Makes will be split over two exhibitions.

Exhibition One runs from 24 January to 25 May and features work from:

Andrea Barker | Nanna Bayer | Kate Bowman | Christopher Clinton | Shauna Mayben | Liam Starcevich | Scott van Tuil | Adam Wallace | Isaac Williams

Exhibition Two designers will be announced in May.

Crossing two exhibitions over eight months, the exhibitions will feature 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. Employing a spectrum of making modes—from the practical to philosophical, traditional hand tools to advanced digital processes—these works exemplify a unique Tasmanian approach to shaping the future through design.

Three new sustainable industry partners have kindly sponsored materials and production support for select designers, including Hydrowood (Tasmanian myrtle), Timber World (Eucalyptus Nitens), and Waverley Mills (wool and production support).

More information: designtasmania.com.au