Australian Wood Review

Double Take in Wood

The Victorian Woodworkers Association has a history of producing high profile exhibitions and Double Take in Wood was another in a great lineage. Not since 2005 has the VWA run an exhibition with a fine woodworking theme, but this year it did, and combined it with another rendition of its much lauded recycled pallet timber series.

Privileged to be one of five judges, I spent three hours stalking around the Manningham Art Gallery space, looking over, inside and upwards at each numbered

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