Sponsored place winners announced

Above: Hannah Cheetham, Built-in-Kind. Photo: Livecreativelee

The two successful candidates for sponsored places at a production woodworking class at Queanbeyan furniture makers Dunstone Design have been announced.

Hannah Cheetham of Newcastle has been awarded the place sponsored by the Woodworkers’ Association of NSW. Owen Kirschenberg of Melbourne has been awarded the place sponsored by the Gottstein Trust.

Hannah is a trained architect and the principle behind Built-in-Kind, a woodworking workshop and teaching space in Newcastle, NSW. “Our (woodworking) projects at school consisted of MDF toilet roll holders and chipboard hat racks. I was fortunate that I had some old tools to continue to experiment with at home”, said Hannah.

Owen Kirschenberg

Owen Kirschenberg started woodwork at 12, and at 21 runs his bespoke woodworking business “out of his mum’s carport” in Melbourne. “I love creating bespoke furniture because I get to have a real human connection with my clients.”

Hannah and Owen will participate in Dunstone Design’s October production woodworking class. The sponsorships allow young Australian makers to experience professional woodworking in one of Australia’s leading fine furniture workshops.

“In 2022, I travelled on a Gottstein Fellowship to visit word-class woodworking schools in Sweden. It’s the chance for my team and I to give back to the craft we love”, commented Evan Dunstone.