Jack Wilms – 2023 Sunshine Coast Wootha Prize People’s Choice winner

Header image: Jack Wilms with Sunshine Coast Wootha Prize Coordinator Corrie Wright Local woodworker to the Sunshine Coast, Jack Wilms took out the People’s Choice Award in the 2023 Sunshine Coast Wootha Prize with his piece ‘Cape Tribulation- Rainforest to the Reef’. Jack shares a little below about what it meant to receive the award,

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Calling all Wood Artisans – Entries now open for the 2024 Sunshine Coast Wootha Prize!

Sponsored by Sunshine Coast Council, the Sunshine Coast Wootha Prize invites woodworkers and artisans from across Australia to enter this prestigious woodworking competition with a conscience.  Finalist pieces of the Sunshine Coast Wootha Prize go on to form the feature exhibition at the Maleny Wood Expo, which will be held May 4 – 6, 2024,

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Set for our biggest exhibition yet!

The Sunshine Coast Wootha Prize is a prestigious national woodworking competition with a conscience and forms the feature exhibition at the Maleny Wood Expo each year. After three years of being cancelled due to the pandemic, it was unclear how the woodworking community would respond to a call to enter the 2023 Sunshine Coast Wootha

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Guy Breay – The Stiks

Header image: “Phoenix” Guy Breay is an inspiring artist specialising in timber sculptures based in the Western Downs region of Queensland. And his life has been just as beautiful and interesting as his sculptures are.  Guy was born in England, yet called the South of India home where his father was a Tea, Coffee and

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Bruce Gilchrist Fine Woodwork

Bruce Gilchrist began his woodworking journey over 62 years ago in Victoria, Australia. Starting an apprenticeship in carpentry and joinery, Bruce developed his passion for working with wood which has led to a life-long journey.  Inspired by the late Neil Scobie, Bruce joined his local woodworking club – Mid North Coast Woodworking over 10 years

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