Deborah WACE - Botanical artist

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Deborah WACE - Botanical artist Deborah Wace is a botanical artist, fabric designer and professional printmaker from Cygnet, Tasmania Both films can be viewed on her website.

The Deborah WACE range includes exquisite silk scarves and hankies, European flax linen cushions, elaborate wallpaper art and limited edition prints. Deborah’s inspiration for her range is drawn from her extensive, private plant specimen collection that has been gathered and digitised over 30 years. She combines digital plant images with dry point and mono-print original artwork and etchings, which she layers using computer software to create rich, complex botanical designs on fine fabric, wallpaper and a range of architectural substrates. Deborah uses sustainable production and printing processes. Advocating for Tasmania’s wild and endangered botany to protect threatened species and valuable ecological, historical and cultural environments, is an important part of Deborah’s work. She was a key member of the community campaign to protect the north-east peninsula of Recherche Bay from logging in the early 2000s, using her artwork and song-writing skills to highlight its conservation values. The French d’Entrecasteaux expedition documented this landscape in the 1790s, and gathered important pioneering scientific collections. Deborah’s 2018 Churchill Fellowship took her to Europe to study the botanical records of this and other French expeditions to Tasmania. Aside from her Fellowship report, her experiences were captured in a short film, ‘Fabric of Botany’. In 2021, the material she gathered inspired another short film, ‘The Sartorial Naturalist’. This multiform art collaboration with nationally and internationally recognised film makers, designers, musicians, and costume and dance professionals, is an autobiographical fantasy showcasing both her artistic practice and her latest botanical designs, printed onto silk. Explore the Deborah WACE range via her website or by visiting her Studio in Hobart, Tasmania.

In 2022 I was commissioned by Van Diemen's Band, to create a design for the underside of the lid of their newly commissi...
16/10/2026

In 2022 I was commissioned by Van Diemen's Band, to create a design for the underside of the lid of their newly commissioned harpsichord. Please enjoy the short film shown here (by Michael Gissing, cinematographer), about my design process for this work.
I am so proud to have my artwork from the Flora of Tasmania, represented in this Baroque touring instrument, bringing art and exquisite music into people’s lives, all around the country.
Please book in to Van Diemen’s Band upcoming concerts. There is a Cygnet concert in the Town Hall, tomorrow (Sat 17/10) at 3pm.
Link in the comments.
Why not drop into my studio at ‘The Artisan’s Hand’, 22 Mary St, Cygnet, before the show? It’s about 80m up the Main Street 😁🎼

Botanical artist Deborah Wace designed & produced a bespoke artwork featured on the underside lid of the Van Diemen’s Band’s harpsichord.

Two weeks to go! 🌿I’ll be opening my studio as part of the Huon Valley Studio Art Trail, 23–25 October 2026.It’s a won...
15/10/2026

Two weeks to go! 🌿

I’ll be opening my studio as part of the Huon Valley Studio Art Trail, 23–25 October 2026.

It’s a wonderful opportunity to explore artist studios and creative spaces throughout the Huon Valley and Far South, meet local artists, see live demonstrations and experience the region’s vibrant creative community.

I’d love to welcome you to my studio and share my work with you, and show you my process.

Find out more about the trail and my artist profile here: www.huonvalleystudioarttrail.org.au/deborah-wace

It was such an honour to be one of three Judges, with Sally Jackson, Gail Stiffe, for the Paper on skin Wearable Paper A...
15/10/2026

It was such an honour to be one of three Judges, with Sally Jackson, Gail Stiffe, for the Paper on skin Wearable Paper Art Competition. Tasmania, Australia., at the Paranaple Arts Centre.

Paper artists from Australia and Internationally, created a huge variety of inspired wearable artworks of great beauty and ingenuity. It was very challenging to judge the results!

Thank you to the amazing Lyndal Thorne and her team for curating and producing this incredible event. Also my thanks to for the luxurious accomodation.

Paper on Skin Exhibition is now showing at the Devonport Regional Gallery. Do get along to experience these many exceptional works.

09/10/2026
After an incredible weekend of being surrounded by magnificent creative works for the Paper on skin Wearable Paper Art C...
05/10/2026

After an incredible weekend of being surrounded by magnificent creative works for the Paper on skin Wearable Paper Art Competition. Tasmania, Australia.Here are the winning prize entries.
As one of the three judges, it was a Herculean task to come to our decisions. Every entry was very worthy.
Pictured here is the first prize winner ‘Ancestral Memory’ by Ilke Bauer from Canada.
More images to follow.

A huge thanks to Lyndal Thorne and the team from Paper on Skin, for running an exciting and very well managed event of this magnitude.

There are still four opportunities to join me in the studio for a Print, Press & Draw workshop this month.📅 9 October📅 1...
05/10/2026

There are still four opportunities to join me in the studio for a Print, Press & Draw workshop this month.

📅 9 October
📅 16 October
📅 17 October
📅 30 October

I’ll guide you through various monoprint techniques, using multiple tools, found items, a range of botanical specimens that I provide, as well as hand-cut stencils.
You’ll leave the workshop with a portfolio of new works and skills. 🌿

Bookings are available through Humanitix:
https://events.humanitix.com/print-press-and-draw-studio-workshop

I am away from my Cygnet studio this weekend, as I’m one of the judges for the fabulous ‘Paper on Skin’- wearable art & ...
01/10/2026

I am away from my Cygnet studio this weekend, as I’m one of the judges for the fabulous ‘Paper on Skin’- wearable art & fashion event, in Devonport.
Paper on skin Wearable Paper Art Competition. Tasmania, Australia.
Today I get to see and to judge all of the amazing entries. Over the weekend we will meet the artists who submitted work from around the world.
Creativity is life! Very exciting!

Key dates, prize pool, award winners, sponsors, terms and conditions for Paper on Skin and Paper off Skin.

Come and visit me in the studio!🌿 Print, Press & Draw Studio WorkshopsJoin me in the studio for a hands-on printmaking w...
01/10/2026

Come and visit me in the studio!

🌿 Print, Press & Draw Studio Workshops
Join me in the studio for a hands-on printmaking workshop.
👉 https://events.humanitix.com/print-press-and-draw-studio-workshop

🌿 Huon Valley Art Trail
I’ll be opening the studio as part of the Huon Valley Art Trail, 23–25 October 2026.
🔗 www.huonvalleystudioarttrail.org.au/deborah-wace

🌿 General Studio Hours
The studio is open to the public each Thursday to Sunday, 10am–3pm.
📍The Artisan's Hand, Balfour House, Cygnet

27/09/2026

Advocacy for Tasmania’s plants has been my life. Our Herbarium holds the specimens and the knowledge base which makes the many uses of these plants understandable and available.
Please stand against these TMAG job cuts!
Thank you to Peter George - Independent Member for Franklin, for stepping up for scientific rigour in Tasmania.

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22Mary Street, Cygnet. The Artisan’s Hand, Balfour House
Hobart, TAS
7112

Opening Hours

Thursday 10am - 3pm
Friday 10am - 3am
Saturday 10am - 3pm
Sunday 10am - 3pm

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