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Stuart trained as a scientific illustrator before enjoying a career in design in London, and later, as partner in a Sydney based studio. Intending to return to London to study furniture design, life and marriage intervened.
Instead, he undertook a cabinet making trade course, and in 1997 completed the full-time course at the Sturt School for Wood, Australia. Upon graduating, he was invited to design and teach courses for Stuart’s fledgling short course programme.
An honors graduate of Parnham College (Dorset, UK), Brian studied under the renowned designer Sir John Makepeace and principal Robert Ingham. He is the 5th from only a total of 8 Americans to have attended this distinguished program.
Brian splits his time between furniture making and fine woodworking course instruction with over 15 years of teaching worldwide in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand. At the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship (Rockport, ME), he leads the twelve week intensive programme and is former senior fellow of the Studio Fellowship Programme. He also lectures and speaks about contemporary design practices and the history of furniture to a wide range of audiences.
Michael Fortune has designed and made furniture since 1975 for private residences across North America.
He received the prestigious Bronfman Award in 1993, was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts in 2000 and received the 2007 Award of Distinction from the Furniture Society. He graduated from Sheridan College near Toronto in 1974 and then interned with Alan Peters in Devon England.
Michael is acknowledged for both his technical and design expertise and has taught worldwide. He continues to be fascinated by chair design and construction.
As a sculptor and jeweller Hape has been working for many years refining a language in shape and form that reflects his deep connection to the natural world. This relationship is at the heart of all his work and is a reflection on the spiritual connection humans have to all of ecology.
Hape’s work demonstrates the development of this language through the mediums of wood, stone and precious metals.
For more than a decade Hape has shared his love of making things by hand. There is a slowing down and reconnection to self that happens in this process that is something that really resonates for his students.
David studied furniture making and design at Parnham, John Makepeace’s school, in England under the remarkable tutelage of Robert Ingham. David loves teaching and has done so since the early ‘90s - at the Australian National University, the Australian School of Fine Furniture, as lead instructor at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine and Sturt School for Wood.
His greatest pleasure is witnessing students find ability deep within themselves, seeing how the craft generates a powerful physical, practical, emotional, almost primal intelligence, seeing them become something like dancers or athletes, individuals whose minds speak through their bodies.
Aled studied furniture making at Rycotewood College in Oxford and after graduating began his career in restoring antique furniture.
For the next twenty years he ran a busy workshop employing a small team of craftsmen designing and making high quality furniture for private, corporate and academic institutions.
In 2005 Aled was invited to teach at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine, USA and subsequently became the programme’s lead instructor of the world-leading 9-month comprehensive furniture making programme.
Aled is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers. He exhibits work in London and New York and his furniture is in private collections in both the UK and USA.
After ten years in the merchant bank industry, Roy recognised a need to have a more tactile career. On completing his studies at the Sturt School for Wood in 1994, he opened up his first workshop in Brisbane and has been operating from Queensland ever since.
Roy’s school is The Brisbane School of Fine Woodwork, and he makes under the banner of Roy Schack Fine Furniture.
The things that matter most to Roy as a designer–maker include quality without compromise, a good working relationship with his clients and above all else, his enjoyment in the process.
Andy Buck is a furniture maker, sculptor, and educator. Currently a full professor
and programme chair for the Furniture Design Programme at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.
Andy holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and BA from Virginia Commonwealth University. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Art & Design, Museum of Applied Art, Frankfurt, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Andy’s colourful work of furniture and sculpture
is included in a many of private and public collections.
William is a multi-award winning craftsman who started as an apprentice with Dunstone Design in Australia.
William was awarded the 2020 scholarship to attend the Michael Fortune Residency Programme where he made his extraordinary Cable Bay Cabinet.
In 2021, William took out overall winner as well as winning in the Tables, Chairs & Desks category with his Bunyjul Occasional Tables.
Will has been invited back here to be involved in the 2024 Michael Fortune Residency as technician/teaching assistant to Mr Fortune & Lou Fuller.
Kelly Parker is a designer and maker of contemporary studio furniture and sculpture. After 18 years of working in the corporate world she took a side track into art.
She has been awarded a professional development grant from the Furniture Society, was the first recipient of a professional development grant awarded by the Krenov Foundation and was recently awarded Best in Show at the biannual chair exhibition, American Craft Today.
Her work has been featured in Fine Woodworking, Australian Wood Review, and Rooted. Kelly’s work often incorporates other materials such as metal, glass and acrylic.
She is a passionate advocate for the craft and enjoys sharing her knowledge with others.
