meet the makers of burnie
Darren Simpson
paper maker
Creative Paper Tasmania
Darren has been making paper at Creative Paper Tasmania since it started in 1996.
Darren's career started when he joined a training scheme getting long term unemployed people ready for work and has been making paper by hand ever since.
Mark Littler
whisky maker
hellyers road distillery
There are three things I love about my job making premium single malt whisky in Burnie - the people, the process and the products.
obie
picture maker
Obie is a self-taught artist who has been painting most of his life. However, in the past 10 years he has become more serious about it.
His paintings feature gorgeous colours with whimsical characters (mostly women) often lying around landscapes of rocks, moons and flowers.
Anne Dunham
glass artist
Anne Dunham has been teaching art in NW Tasmanian schools for almost 20 years. She has been a glass artist for nine years.
I use three complementary materials, metal, wood and glass. The work so well together.
Mary Lewis
glass bead maker
tasmania lampwork beads
Mary made here first glass beads in the late 1970s in the USA. For the last three years she has lived at South Riana, where she manufactures delightful glass beads from Italian and German fine glass rods, using a process called lampwork.
