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Artist - Designer - Educator

Sally Jackson is a sustainable designer, artist, and educator whose career includes commercial bridal wear, fashion, and costume design. She currently teaches Fashion Illustration at the University of Technology Sydney. The Bowerbirds, Sally’s 100% up-cycled couture collection, illustrates her commitment to circularity and reimagining luxury designs. She believes in skill-sharing and storytelling through clothing, passionately advocating for DIY fashion education. Sally is enthusiastic about community engagement, collaborating on multiple projects with First Nations Fashion and Design. Her contributions include designing sustainable fashion programs for UTS and The Powerhouse Museum and facilitating community workshops for Sydney World Pride at the Sydney Opera House.

Growing up with a bush gully a favourite playground led Gail Stiffe to a lifelong love of nature. She learned hand papermaking when her children were young and her science background seemed to be good fit. The versatility of paper as a medium in its own right has led to a long career in the paper art world. Stiffe makes artist books, framed artworks, installations, jewellery and cards. Her paper is often the artwork itself and at other times the carrier of the art.

Quickly becoming addicted to hand papermaking and the many possibilities it offers for creative expression led to a buildup of paper supplies which in turn led her to investigate bookbinding as a way of presenting her work. She hasn’t looked back since then and her books are held in many public and private collections.

Gail is President of the Papermakers of Victoria.

Deborah Wace is a Churchill Fellow, a botanical artist & fabric designer, ecological activist, and professional printmaker from Tasmania. Her highly detailed and intimate artwork creates a window into the botany of Tasmanian wild plant communities.

Deborah uses her plant specimen collection and her print making/teaching, to create an intersection between botany and fine fabrics, refreshing a conversation about ecology and threatened species and the protection of valuable ecological/historical/cultural environments.

Through her botanical fabric designs, original printmaking and wallpaper collections, her goal is to create real conversations about habitat loss & biodiversity. She invites a deeper, more informed and sustainable connection into our natural world, using fabric design, song, art and film, the most subversive democratic mediums for creating social change!

She now lives and works in Cygnet. You can find her at www.deborahwace.com