DOT is an eclectic community of designers, makers and artists. We value diversity in areas of practice, skills and experience because we believe this fosters a creative environment where great work can be produced.
DOT is an incorporated association and charity which is run by its members, for its members. Direction and decision making is the role of its member-appointed board. Our Current board members are:
Executive Committee: Chair: Christopher Clinton. Vice Chair: Lachlan Taylor. Public Officer: Murray Jessup. Treasurer: Bernadette Schramm. Secretary: Ross Straker. General Board Member: Liam Starcevich.
DOT employs a part time administrator, Shannon Greer, who provides information to members on commissions, exhibitions, design markets, grants and retail opportunities. This information is made available to DOT members through a monthly newsletter.
DOT has existed for more than 30 years, and it’s members create an eclectic community of designers, makers, artists and craftspeople. Some of our members regularly access our workshop and studio facilities, while others practise elsewhere but remain DOT members and a part of the community. Below you will find a small selection of DOT members. If you are interested in finding out more about their practise, or engaging them for a commission or project, please feel free to get in touch directly through the links provided.
Christopher Clinton
Christopher is a Hobart-based architect, designer and maker.
Originally from a trade background, his vision combines a craftsman’s eye-for-detail with practical design rigour, and an in-depth knowledge of materials and construction.
Chris’ design-by-making process and the making of finely-crafted furniture and objects is inextricably linked to his practice of architecture.
Andrea Barker
Andrea Barker is a ceramic artist whose work explores human concerns of truth, memory and humility and notions of stillness, silence and simplicity.
Barker holds a BA in Ceramic Design graduating in 1990. She is a former lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne and now happily resides in nipaluna/Hobart Tasmania
Instagram: @andreabarkerceramics
Email: latrax@icloud.com
Debbie Hill
Debbie Hill is a ceramic artist, her work explores the minutiae of the environment.
Debbie has a BFA - Drawing and Honours Degree in visual arts. She has been a lecturer of Drawing and Multi dimensional studies at ACU and Federation University, Ballarat.
Instagram: @debbiehillclay
Email:debhill3350@gmail.com
Lawrence Hurst
Laurence has a strong interest in spacial relationships and symmetry. Previous projects have included sandstone and Tasmanian timbers such as Sassafras and celery top pine.
Email: lherst@utas.edu.au
Patrick Adeney
Patrick Adeney is a Design Maker focused on creating sculptural, yet functional pieces for the spaces they inhabit. Inspired by the natural world around him, the Hobart based designer seeks to imbue the organic and sculptural nature of Tasmania’s rich landscape into his designs.
Web: www.studioadeney.com.a
Email: info@studioadeney.com.au
Instagram: @studio.adeney
Nick Randall
Nick is a furniture designer and maker who combines his passion for creating with his passion for boats. The result is curvaceous flowing forms.
Duncan Meerding
Duncan Meerding is a Lighting and Furniture Designer/Maker. Much of his work is informed by the natural environment and the effects we have upon it, coupled with the dispersion of light through and around objects. Products are available as well as custom commission work.
Duncan’s Stump light recently won an international DARC Award in London for ‘Best Floor Light of 2018’
Email: info@duncanmeerding.com.au
W: www.duncanmeerding.com.au
Phil Vanier
Phil is a furniture designer/maker who loves the challenge of building one-off pieces that perfectly answer the customer’s unique brief. Originally from London, UK he has a strong Mid Century Modern style and combines both traditional and modern techniques to build his bespoke pieces.
Instagram: @thelittleshedproject
Hamish Gibson
Studio made ceramic pieces inspired by the pristine Tasmanian wilderness. Custom designs, standing orders and one off commissions welcome.
Email: hobarthillsdesign@gmail.com
Instagram: @hobarthillsdesign
Scott van Tuil
Scott van Tuil is a designer/maker who creates work varied in scale, function and material. From large bespoke installations to limited edition pieces and batch-manufactured furniture and small products, Scott seeks to create work which is beautiful in form and function, and has a thoughtful connection to where it has come from.
Email: studio@van-tuil.com
Web: www.van-tuil.com
Instagram: @van.tuil
Marjorie Lenehan
Marjorie finds inspiration in the arts of Medieval and Ancient history. Initially this propelled her into textile decoration and calligraphy, now she uses it as a driver for her ceramics practice. Her intent is to create things of beauty, with the ethos that good design can be applied to everything.
Email: blackSquirrel@y7mail.com
Murray Jessup
Murray Jessup makes a variety of objects ranging from serving platters to furniture from retired wine barrels and whisky casks. The timber for wine or whisky barrels is sawn from trees sustainably harvested from French or American oak forests at least 125 years of age and are usually stained a rich red hue by the red wine they held.
Email:mjjessup@internode.on.net
Studio visits by appointment.
Lachlan Taylor
Lachy is a designer, maker & architectural graduate based in Hobart. Lachy is passionate about designing and working with clients to create beautiful and considered objects & spaces for people to use & live in, with a focus on simplicity and function strongly influenced by the Tasmanian wilderness.
Email: lachytaylor@gmail.com
Instagram: @_lachy_taylor
B.EnvD (Arch.). M.Arch, A.Arts .
Tim Frost
After more than 30 years as an educator in various arts disciplines Tim now creates ceramic handbuilt sculptural vase forms. He recently exhibited in the “Images of Tasmania” an exhibition of artists who graduated from the University of Tasmania School of Art held late December each year. He is now working as an artist creating work for future exhibitions
Paul Allen
Paul enjoys designing and building innovative and original contemporary furniture. Originally an industrial development engineer he has also studied Fine Arts in Furniture in Hobart, Tasmania.
Website pallendesigns.info
Instagram Pallendesigns
Email: Pallen71@gmail.com