Studio Woodworkers Australia (SWA) is a community celebrating craftsmanship. We support sustainability through the sensitive use of timber. The functional and beautiful objects we craft are designed to be passed through generations. Join us as either a client or a practitioner.
“Craftsmanship is a way of thinking and doing where humanity is in tune with nature, not working against it.”
Gaynor Strachan Chun, Craftsmanship Quarterly
Studio Woodworkers Australia Limited (SWA) was established to promote Australia’s finest designer makers and artists working in wood and the values that sustain makers for a life dedicated to studio practice, embracing a fine tradition of high craft that seeks to express the qualities of a living material, forming an holistic way to live.
SWA supports The World Craft Council Australia
This past year has seen most of us spending more time than usual at our homes. We have all come to realise how important our domestic space is. Furniture helps define the soul of a home. Thoughtful furniture is a...
Silvio was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the visual arts as a sculptor. Silvio has been sculpting for around 40 years and is based in Balhannah in the...
Will Matthysen welcomed the 20 members to the AGM and Members Forum on 22 September. David MacLaren, proprietor of Bungendore Woodworks Gallery, was elected as a director of Studio Woodworker Australia Limited replacing Darren Fry . Members passed a resolution...
