Lou Fuller - Lead Tutor
Cheril Barber
Lou is our Full-time Lead Tutor here at the school, teaching terms 1 & 2 of the full-time Furniture Making Programme as well as teaching short courses throughout the rest of year. Lou oversees all of our Visiting Tutors, as well as our Workshop Assistants, keeping everything humming with grace and good humour.
Lou completed a degree in Furniture Design & Craftsmanship in the UK and moved to New Zealand in 2006. She set up and taught a furniture making programme for at-risk youth through the YMCA, which she ran for three years. Lou designs and makes furniture, has been involved with the school since 2010, and has also taught in Australia, Canada, and the USA.
Lou has worked extensively with Michael Fortune who she met here on his first visit. Since then she has worked as his teaching assistant in Australia, NZ and the USA as well as making his privately commissioned furniture for the Canadian Embassies in Berlin, Chicago, Jakarta, and most recently for the Wellington Chancery in NZ.
