Will Bayliss

William is a multi-award winning craftsman who started as an apprentice with Dunstone Design in Australia.

William was awarded the 2020 scholarship to attend the Michael Fortune Residency Programme where he made his extraordinary Cable Bay Cabinet.

In 2021, William took out overall winner as well as winning in the Tables, Chairs & Desks category with his Bunyjul Occasional Tables. 

Will has been invited back here to be involved in the 2024 Michael Fortune Residency as technician/teaching assistant to Mr Fortune & Lou Fuller.

Thorkild Hansen

3/6/1969-6/11/2021

Moe mai, moe mai, moe mai rā, e hoa  
We hold you in our hearts

Thorkild was born into a creative family environment - his father Jens Hansen was the renowned Danish silversmith. Much of Thorkild's former working life was spent designing and creating jewellery in the family business. After a change in career to furniture making and teaching, Thorkild's furniture design was an amalgam of Danish modernist design, exploring functional simplicity with a focus on materiality within the tradition of fine woodworking.

Thorkild inspired many, many of our past and existing students.