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When Brian Tunks’ mother gave her son a set of children's encyclopaedias, she probably had little inkling of how lifechanging the gift would prove. The ACTbased ceramics and glassware designer recalls being instantly captivated by entries on antiquity, in particular the cave paintings at Altamira in northern Spain.

“There I was as a little boy in primary school in Grenfell in the NSW Central West, just fascinated by the colours and evidence of an ancient culture on the other side of the world,” Brian recalls. “I registered the Bison Home trademark long before I had the

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