Sunshine Coast Hinterland

Ceramics & Clay

A Little Creative

Melinda Saunders is a qualified teacher and multi-disciplinary artist — graphic design, ceramics, printmaking, photography — and since 2011 she's run this Bulcock Street studio as a genuinely mixed-use creative space. Kids' workshops, school incursions, birthday parties, adult classes, art materials for sale. The range is real, and so is the background behind it.

Visual Art

Art Nuvo Gallery, Framing and Art Restorations

On Gloucester Road in Buderim, this small gallery handles fine art sales, professional framing, and restoration work under one roof — a combination that's genuinely useful rather than merely convenient. Tuesday to Friday, with a short Saturday window. Worth planning around.

Ceramics & Clay

Art Workshops

A hinterland studio in the Sunshine Coast running pottery, painting and drawing classes for adults and children from age six. Small groups work through hand-building, wheel throwing, glazing, and techniques like Japanese neriage, alongside sessions in acrylics, watercolours, pastels and ink. Formats range from one-day workshops and evening glaze-and-sip evenings to multi-week courses, guided by local tutors.

Textile & Fibre

B'Creative Patchwork & Sewing

Caloundra's largest independent sewing machine retailer stocks Husqvarna Viking, PFAFF, Singer, and Handi Quilter machines alongside fabric, threads, embroidery designs, and patchwork supplies. The operation runs primarily online, with Australia-wide delivery. Straightforward specialist retail for quilters and dressmakers who know what they're after.

Wood & Furniture

Bare Joinery

Geoff Searle spent two years on large designer homes, then a stint at Patrick Shilling Woodcraft in London before returning to the Sunshine Coast to set up his own joinery operation in Coolum Beach. The focus is timber — kitchens, shopfits, custom furniture — covering the corridor from Noosa to Brisbane. Showroom visits by appointment.

Wood & Furniture

Ben Adams Handmade Furniture & Homewares

Ben Adams came to furniture-making via musical theatre and set-building — an unlikely path that shows in his work. From a workshop in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, he makes contemporary timber pieces, custom and made-to-order, from sustainably sourced local timber. One percent of every sale funds local tree planting. The furniture is designed to last; that's the whole point.

Wood & Furniture

Blackwood Collective

Gareth Robertson spent a decade on high-end residential renovations before a world trip sent him back to the workbench. His Moffat Beach workshop builds furniture by hand, letting the timber lead — Tasmanian Blackwood is the favourite, a species with personal weight: as a proud Indigenous man, Robertson notes its traditional use in boomerangs, spear throwers and clap sticks. Pieces are made to commission.

Visual Art

Bluechip Investment Art Galleries

Bluechip Investment Art Galleries occupies Flinders Lane in Queensland, serving as a dedicated space for contemporary visual art with a curatorial eye toward quality and significance. This gallery approaches art as both aesthetic experience and considered investment, presenting work by established and emerging artists. The selective hours reflect a thoughtful, appointment-friendly approach to viewing—encouraging meaningful engagement with each piece on display. For collectors and art enthusiasts seeking professional guidance and access to significant contemporary work, this gallery offers expertise and a carefully curated perspective on visual practice in Australia.

Ceramics & Clay

Buderim Craft Cottage

Since 1967, this not-for-profit on Buderim's Main Street has grown from a handful of artists meeting in private homes to 300 members across 12 groups — silversmiths, patchworkers, mixed-media artists. Twice a year, Easter Saturday and late November, the Easter and Christmas Fairs draw crowds for handmade work and outdoor refreshments. A functioning community studio, not a gallery.

Textile & Fibre

Caloundra Arts Centre Association Inc.

Twenty-two groups meet weekly on North Street — lacemakers, potters, spinners, quilters, printmakers — in a volunteer-run centre approaching its 50th year. The onsite shop, North Street Made, sells members' work daily from 10am to 2pm. Less art school, more working collective: the kind of place where someone will show you exactly how they did it.

Visual Art

Caloundra Regional Gallery

Caloundra Regional Gallery runs a changing exhibition program out of Omrah Avenue, with curators and education staff shaping shows that draw on Sunshine Coast culture alongside national artists. The gallery store stocks handmade work from local artisans — practical if you want something to take home that isn't a print-on-demand postcard.

Ceramics & Clay

Claytivity Pottery Studio Australia

Buderim's Claytivity runs the full spectrum of clay-focused programming — kids' Mud Mates sessions, school holiday workshops, birthday parties, corporate events, and open studio hire. The name is cheerfully literal: this is pottery as activity rather than art school. A practical, low-barrier entry point into ceramics on the Sunshine Coast.

Wood & Furniture

Creative Co

Cabinet maker Josh Walton and interior designer Kasey Walton have run this Warana studio together since 2015, handling everything from kitchen joinery and walk-in robes to café serveries and reception desks. The integrated model — design consultation through to workshop fabrication and installation — means the same team that draws the plans builds the piece.

Glass

Cut Glass

A family-owned glass manufacturer at Warana on the Sunshine Coast, Cut Glass processes glass for the local glazing trade. The work runs across toughening, heat soaking, custom lamination and CNC cutting, with the business set up to develop products alongside nearby companies. Orders and enquiries go through the team by phone or email.

Jewellery & Metalwork

D'avila Jewels

Francine Godoy, a Brazilian living on the Sunshine Coast, founded D'Ávila around a simple material argument: gold-filled construction — a thick layer of real gold bonded to a base metal — outlasts gold-plated by years. Every piece is made in small batches in Brazil. The Serpente snake chain and Maré pearl huggies are among the most reordered. Permanent jewellery appointments available.

Wood & Furniture

David Suters Timbercraftsman Showroom Gallery

On Caplick Way in Eumundi, David Suter's showroom carries timber furniture and decorative objects — mirrors, dining tables, sideboards — made by hand. The range spans bedroom to commercial. Limited hours suit the pace of the work.

Jewellery & Metalwork

DM Jewellers Maroochydore

Daniel McKenna runs his workshop and showroom out of Maroochydore, taking commissions for everything from diamond engagement rings to gemstone pieces built entirely to specification — any stone, any setting. Remodelling and restoration work sits alongside the custom offer, meaning an inherited ring can be remade rather than retired. The on-site workshop keeps turnarounds short.

Textile & Fibre

Echidna Sewing

Echidna Sewing, located along Bruce Highway in Queensland, celebrates the craft of textile construction with skill and creativity. Here, sewing transcends basic function to become genuine artistry, with each stitch purposeful and considered. The studio produces work that demonstrates technical mastery alongside thoughtful design, creating garments and pieces that feel both wearable and artistic. Open Tuesday and Wednesday, this is a destination for those who appreciate quality textiles and the patient, precise work required to bring them to life.

Visual Art

Fab Art

Moved from Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast, this online gallery deals in lowbrow, surrealist and tattoo-adjacent print art — Audrey Kawasaki limited editions alongside more affordable unframed pieces from artists like Abril Andrade and Keith Weesner. Appointments available to view selected works in person. Prices run from $30 to well over $1,000.

Textile & Fibre

Fabric Cartel

Nambour's answer to the big-city fabric shop, Fabric Cartel stocks modern quilting and sewing fabrics from labels including Tula Pink, Ruby Star Society and Libs Elliott — whose *Perfect Day* range runs to a dozen colourways. The orientation is quilters, bag makers and sewers after something less conservative than the mainstream. Open Mondays from 9:30am.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Flair Jewellery on Kawana

Peter started his apprenticeship in 1968. His son Josh made a twisted silver bangle for his Year 2 teacher. That lineage now runs across three Sunshine Coast stores, with jewellers working on-site at each. The Kawana shop opened in 2006. Custom work is the main draw — bring a brief, leave with something made for you rather than a display case.

Textile & Fibre

FreeStyleQuilts Longarm Quilting Service

Jos runs this longarm quilting service from her home in Coolum Beach, finishing other quilters' pieced tops on a computerised Bernina Q24. The machine handles the precision stitching that defeats most domestic setups. Send your quilt top; get back something you can actually use.

Wood & Furniture

Gary O'Neill Custom Timber Works

Gary O'Neill Custom Timber Works operates from Commerce Avenue in Queensland as a maker-centered practice specialising in bespoke wooden furniture and architectural elements. The studio represents a commitment to timber craft at its highest level, where design intelligence meets material mastery. Visitors and clients experience the difference quality timber work makes—the hand-finished surfaces, the structural elegance, the way grain and colour create visual warmth. This is furniture and joinery made for longevity and beauty in equal measure. The studio welcomes those seeking pieces crafted with intention, whether commissioning custom work or understanding what separates exceptional timber practice from mass production. Gary O'Neill's practice stands as testament to wood's enduring power in contemporary design.

Leatherwork

HC Leather Belts

Trevor came to leather from boat building, joinery and cabinetmaking, and now works alone from a small Sunshine Coast workshop, hand-cutting and stitching belts from full-grain butt leather. Each is made to order, the buyer choosing colour, width, buckle and fit, and he turns the same hide into key rings and tobacco pouches. He sells across three ranges, from the budget Midland to the double-keeper Cooper. You'll find him at the Eumundi Markets every Wednesday.

Glass

Illume Creations

Hand-blown glass by Tina Cooper, sold through a shop on Montville's Main Street. The work sits across functional and sculptural — vessels and forms built around how glass holds and throws light. Shiralee Cooper runs the gallery side. For a hinterland town full of weekend browsers, it's a legitimate reason to stop.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Jewellery Collective

A studio on the Sunshine Coast where jewellery-making is taught hands-on. Workshops cover lost wax carving, ring-making for couples, and private four-hour tuition sessions. The wedding ring workshop—half a day, two people, recycled or new gold—is the drawcard. Custom designs and repairs round out the offer.

Textile & Fibre

Johno's Fabric Centre

Johno's Fabric Centre on Duporth Avenue in Queensland operates as a vibrant resource for textile makers, sewers, and fibre enthusiasts. Weekday mornings and early afternoons create the perfect window for exploring curated fabric selections and sourcing materials for creative projects. The centre functions as both retail destination and community hub, where textile knowledge flows freely and fellow makers naturally gather. Duporth Avenue's location positions the centre within Queensland's creative fabric (quite literally), making it essential for anyone working with textiles. Whether seeking inspiration through texture and colour, or hunting specific materials for commissioned work, visitors find themselves welcomed into a space where textile craft is celebrated and supported.

Textile & Fibre

Kimz Sewing & Patchwork Centre

Kim has been quilting for 30 years; Christine has taught beside her for 15. Together they run this Warana shop stocking Bernina, bernette and Janome machines alongside fabric, notions and a class programme that runs from raw beginner to advanced. Kim's specialism is ByAnnie bag patterns. It's a working shop — knowledgeable, unhurried, built around people who actually sew.

Textile & Fibre

Krysalis Eco-Dyeing

Kris Morriss eco-dyes cloth in Mapleton, bundling wind-fallen leaves, bark and flowers gathered on the Sunshine Coast against silk and merino wool, then steaming the parcels so the plants print their own colour into the fabric. No two come out alike. A former art teacher who took up the process recently, she makes scarves, dresses, wraps and pillowcases, sold from a main-street studio open Thursday to Sunday and at the Eumundi and Witta markets.

Textile & Fibre

Lynette Anderson Designs

Lynette Anderson Designs produces quilting patterns and fabrics sold through local quilt stores rather than direct to retail customers. The wholesale operation is currently on hold — a signal, perhaps, of a one-person studio running at its own pace. Find her work through a stockist; the online shop is there to browse.

Jewellery & Metalwork

McLean & Co Jewellers

Stuart and Angeline McLean are qualified gemmologists, which matters here: the Buddina studio designs and makes most pieces on-site, with artisans handling everything from heirloom restorations to engagement rings on a six-week turnaround. The couple's dual expertise — stone science and jewellery design — means the person sourcing your diamond and the person setting it share the same bench.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Meg Watson Jewellery

Meg Watson Jewellery, based on Quanda Road in Queensland, represents jewellery-making as a deeply personal craft. This studio crafts pieces with intention and care, drawing on skill developed through dedicated practice in metalwork. Each creation reflects a philosophy that jewellery should resonate with its wearer—beautiful, considered, and meaningful. Whether commissioning something entirely unique or discovering ready-made pieces, visitors experience the thoughtfulness embedded in every detail. Meg Watson Jewellery demonstrates that contemporary jewellery thrives when maker and wearer share a genuine connection.

Ceramics & Clay

Mel Lumb Ceramics

Mel Lumb works from a home studio on a farm in the Noosa hinterland, making high-fired stoneware and porcelain by hand from start to finish, with her own glazes and an onsite kiln. Her textural homewares move between wheel-thrown, altered and slab-built forms and kurinuki, the Japanese method of carving a vessel from a solid block. A decade of study under ceramicists like Akira Satake and Ken Matsuzaki sits behind work that has shown at JamFactory and Saint Cloche.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Metal Bones Jewellery

Metal Bones Jewellery creates distinctive metalwork near Mudjimba Beach in Queensland, drawing inspiration from coastal light and the natural world. The studio produces jewellery that balances sculptural presence with wearability, each piece carefully crafted and thoughtfully designed. Operating steadily throughout the week, the studio welcomes customers seeking exceptional jewellery with character and integrity. Metal Bones represents contemporary jewellery-making at its most authentic—work that speaks to individuality and appreciation for skilled metalcraft.

Visual Art

Montville Art Gallery

Thirty-seven local artists hang on the walls of this Main Street gallery in Montville's hinterland village, 90 minutes north of Brisbane. Works can be commissioned in different sizes or colours, shipped worldwide, or — unusually — brought to your Sunshine Coast home for a trial hang before you commit.

Wood & Furniture

Montville Woods Gallery

The front counter — solid satinay from K'gari, built by the original owners — sets the tone. Open since 1995, this Montville gallery represents around 45 woodworkers across Australia, selling turned bowls, carved pieces and timber blanks alongside running workshops and the annual Timber Trail long weekend in May. Arabella and Bruce run it; the building started life as a clock and antique museum in 1972.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Morgan & Co Engagement Jewellers (By Appointment)

By-appointment studio on Buderim's Main Street, making custom engagement rings and wedding bands from around $5,900. Clients work directly with the makers to spec a piece — stone shape, setting style, budget — rather than choosing from a cabinet. Won the 2025 ABIA Wedding Jeweller of the Year award. Heirloom redesigns also available.

Visual Art

Moving Canvas Art Gallery and Studio

Kaye Fox and Mike Banks — he paints as Banx — have run this art rental and sales operation since 2004, with their Moffat Beach studio handling the messy work: bold acrylics on canvas, no glass-framed prints. Corporate clients across Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast lease works quarterly or buy outright; site-specific commissions are a speciality.

Textile & Fibre

My Every Fibre

Women's clothing made from natural fibres, designed in Australia and produced ethically offshore. The Coolum Beach label's Bamboo Essentials and maternity ranges cover everyday wear, activewear and yoga pieces, from bamboo singlets to relaxed beach pants. The focus falls on breathable, hypoallergenic materials, with the makers citing fair trade practices in their sourcing and manufacturing.

Ceramics & Clay

Naturemuse Ceramic Studio

The Doonan studio where ceramic and visual artist Fiona Cuthbert O'Meara lives, practises and teaches. Classes run for absolute beginners through to those with existing experience, across wheel throwing, hand building, glazing and sculpture. Students work with eight pottery wheels, a slab roller and extruder, and can join atmospheric firings held on site — gas reduction, pit, raku and wood. Glazes are made from scratch using ground rock and minerals.

Visual Art

Neo Gallery

Neo Gallery in Queensland showcases visual art with an eye toward emerging and established practice, creating space for contemporary artists to exhibit work in dialogue with audiences. Open daily from Berry Court, the gallery functions as both destination and gathering place—where you encounter paintings, installations, photography, and mixed media that reflect current creative conversation. A visit here connects you not just to individual artworks, but to the broader ecosystem of artists and makers shaping visual culture in contemporary Australia.

Jewellery & Metalwork

NY2K Jewellers

Paul New, an Associate Member of the Gold and Silversmiths Guild of Australia, runs this Cotton Tree workshop where clients can watch their pieces being made. The focus is engagement and wedding rings, custom commissions, and repairs — all completed on site. Stock pieces range from a $2,960 citrine pendant to a $90,000 solitaire diamond.

Visual Art

OCEAN ART NAOMI

Naomi Pettenuzzo grew up watching the Southern Ocean off Portland, Victoria — that coastal upbringing shows in the bold, ink-heavy palette she's developed since launching Ocean Art Naomi in 2020. Working in acrylic gouache, watercolour, ink, and conte pastel, she produces sea life and surf studies that have found their way into hospitals, resorts, and private homes across Australia and internationally.

Ceramics & Clay

Oxide Clay Art

Joe Ottaway has spent 30 years developing the high-fire stoneware glazes used in his Ninderry pottery studio, firing to 1280°C using reduction techniques refined across decades of teaching at TAFE in Brisbane. Classes run in a bush setting near Mount Ninderry, with views toward Mount Eerwah. The glazes alone are worth the drive out.

Ceramics & Clay

Palmfolk

Tamara, a single mum with zero construction experience, spent nine months gutting a derelict building across from her original Courthouse studio in Maroochydore. The result is a ceramics space that feels like a well-travelled beach house — every piece of furniture sourced separately, each with its own story. Ask about them.

Shoemaking

Pendragon Shoes

Adrian Lockwood and Jackie Orme Ward have made shoes as Pendragon since 1987, working now from a Sunshine Coast workshop. They hand-make sandals, boots and bespoke shoes drawn from the fairytale and fantastical — themed ranges run to Enchanted Forest, Dark Romance and Steampunk — and have built costume footwear for stage and screen, including boots for the Captain Hook production. Bespoke pairs start from a customer's own measurements. They also teach the craft, running sandal- and shoemaking workshops.

Ceramics & Clay

Pottery For The Planet (Eumundi)

Pottery For The Planet's Eumundi showroom brings considered ceramics to Queensland's hinterland, nestled in a location known for creative craft. This satellite space showcases the studio's commitment to sustainable ceramic practice, offering visitors access to thoughtfully made functional ware in a welcoming, accessible setting. The Eumundi location brings a regional dimension to the work, connecting with the community's appreciation for authentic craftsmanship and ethical practice. Visitors discover pieces that balance beauty with responsibility, where the pleasure of owning handmade ceramics aligns with values of environmental consciousness.

Wood & Furniture

RAW Sunshine Coast - Custom Timber Furniture & Joinery

RAW Sunshine Coast brings custom timber furniture and joinery to Queensland's creative landscape, operating from Kayleigh Drive with a passion for bespoke design. This studio translates individual visions into handcrafted furniture that reflects both personal taste and masterful woodworking. The team approaches each commission as a conversation, understanding how pieces will fit into lives and spaces. Working with quality timber and traditional joinery techniques, they create furniture built to last and treasured for generations. Visitors discover a studio where custom craft isn't precious or distant, but accessible, collaborative, and genuinely responsive to client needs.

Ceramics & Clay

Red Door Art Studio

Kat Woodland runs classes out of a studio in Ninderry that moves between mixed media, painting, clay and printmaking — sometimes mid-session. Oracle cards and crystal mandalas feature alongside the more expected materials. Whether that sounds like too much or exactly enough will tell you everything you need to know about whether to book.

Wood & Furniture

Revive Timber Designs

Two Zimbabweans — Garth, a former tool-and-die maker, and Rijks, who spent years building timber wine cellars on the Sunshine Coast — now run this Doonan workshop making furniture from reclaimed Australian hardwoods. The work is commission-based: bring a brief, leave with a table that won't need replacing.

Leatherwork

RMK Leatherworks

RMK Leather Works started when Matt Keillor, wanting a break from fly-in fly-out work, spent a day with his father Ross making a belt and an ammo pouch — Ross being the "R" in the name. It's now a family workshop at Coolum Beach, where Matt, his partner and his siblings make everyday-carry and outdoor gear: Leatherman holsters, knife sheaths, ammo pouches, rifle slings, wallets and belts in full-grain kangaroo and bovine, most made to order within five to ten days.

Textile & Fibre

Sapling Textiles

On Maple Street in Maleny's Sunshine Coast hinterland, this small shop stocks ethically sourced Indian textiles — block-printed Anokhi cottons, crewel embroidery, regenerated silk, modal — alongside Malabrigo yarn and haberdashery. The range runs from fabric by the metre to finished cushions, bedding, and fair-trade clothing. Serious sewers and casual browsers find equal purchase here.

Ceramics & Clay

Sarah Sheppard Ceramics

Sarah Sheppard works from The Beachouse in Golden Beach, Queensland, making functional and decorative ceramics. The work is unprecious — pieces that are meant to be used, handled, lived with.

Visual Art

Seaview Artists Gallery

Since the mid-1990s, this artist-run gallery opposite Moffat Beach has kept working artists on the floor daily — available, unhurried, and willing to talk through the work. Around fifteen painters and mixed-media artists rotate through, covering a wide range of styles. On a strip of cafés and boutiques, it's the place that actually has something to explain itself.

Wood & Furniture

Serrata Joinery - Sunshine Coast Cabinetmakers

Serrata Joinery brings exceptional cabinetmaking craft to Queensland's Sunshine Coast, where timber transforms into considered functional art. Located on Enterprise Street, this studio specialises in the kind of woodworking that demands both technical precision and artistic sensitivity. Visitors encountering their work discover pieces built to last—furniture and joinery that speak to quality in every joint and finish. The focused weekday hours reflect a working studio at full creative capacity, where each project receives the attention it deserves from makers who understand wood's potential deeply.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Set Together Jewellery Design

Lisa Clune trained under two master jewellers in Melbourne for eight years before completing a gemmology qualification that took her to sapphire mines in Sri Lanka. Her Forest Glen studio on Mons Road specialises in gemstone-first design—the centre stone selected before a setting is drawn—with sapphire sourcing as a particular strength. Heirloom remodelling and commission work by appointment.

Visual Art

Sharon Hegarty Art

Buderim painter Sharon Hegarty works to brief — interior designers and developers supply colour schemes and fabric swatches, she returns original, hand-painted works on 40mm premium stretched canvas. Sizes are standard or custom; colours matched to Dulux or Resene specifications. Functional rather than gallery-precious, and useful if you need the art to actually fit the room.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Silvershop Maroochydore

One of six Queensland Silvershop locations, this Maroochydore store stocks jewellery from established and emerging designers across sterling silver, gold-plated, rose gold-plated and solid gold. The range runs to earrings, necklaces, rings, bracelets, bangles, charms and watches, with in-store silver stylists on hand. Brands include Kirstin Ash, Najo, By Charlotte and Von Treskow, alongside pieces exclusive to Silvershop. Click and collect is available.

Wood & Furniture

Simonetto’S Cabinets & Joinery

Simon Simonetto grew up in Bassano del Grappa watching Italian cabinet makers work before emigrating in 2010 and setting up on Brookes Street, Nambour. He works in kitchens, laundries, wardrobes and living areas, drawing on both European training and contemporary Australian joinery. The workshop runs a short week — closed by early afternoon most days — so call ahead.

Wood & Furniture

Spiral Joinery

Sam Devine spent years working on heritage-listed London homes and running one of Johannesburg's better-regarded custom interior companies before returning to Australia. Now based in Rosemount on the Sunshine Coast, he builds furniture individually by hand using traditional joinery techniques—mortise, tenon, the slow way. The kind of work you commission once and keep indefinitely.

Visual Art

Stevens Street Gallery

Toni Eggleston — the force behind Sculpture on the Edge and Open Studios Sunshine Coast — runs this Yandina gallery with curator and artist Alicia Mireille. The focus is regional: Sunshine Coast and Southeast Queensland makers across visual art and design. Workshops, pop-ups, and a sculpture garden round out a program built to put buyers in front of local artists without the usual gallery formality.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Suncoast Gem & Fossicking Club

Since 1985, this not-for-profit club in Buderim has taught silversmithing, lapidary and faceting to Sunshine Coast locals. Sessions run four mornings a week plus Thursday evenings, cost $6, and always have someone on hand with the machines. Practical, unpretentious, and genuinely useful if you want to learn to cut stones or make jewellery without enrolling in a course.

Visual Art

Sunshine Art Studio and Gallery

Mike Banks (Banx) paints full-time in acrylics at Moffat Beach — coastal scenes, hinterland, and outback landscapes fired by a 2013 field trip to Ruby Gap in the MacDonnell Ranges. His partner Kaye Fox makes mixed-media collages using antique postcards and memorabilia. The studio sells and rents originals, and will hang work at your home or office on the Sunshine Coast.

Visual Art

Sunshine Coast Art & Framing Gallery

Jeff and Lis McColl recently took ownership of this two-location framing operation — Minyama and Noosaville — with Jeff stepping up from Operations Manager. The team handles custom framing, canvas stretching, jersey framing, memorabilia, and fine art printing, specifying acid-free matboard and appropriate acrylic glazing for each job. Unusually capable with photographic reproduction, they've earned a reputation for colour accuracy and fast turnaround.

Ceramics & Clay

Sunshine Coast Art Group (SCArt)

Fifty years of clay, paint and community in Buderim. SCArt runs weekly untutored sessions across pottery, painting, life drawing and craft — plus tutored workshops in wheel throwing and glaze making led by Marc Savage. Annual membership is $140. Bands rehearse here too, which tells you something about the place.

Wood & Furniture

Sunshine Coast Creative Carpentry

Alex, originally from the UK via Hong Kong's Convention and Exhibition Centre, has been working Sunshine Coast timber and plasterboard since 2010. From Maroochy River, he handles decks, pergolas, partition walls, roof framing, and full internal fix-out — plastering included. The reviews note something increasingly rare: he shows up when he says he will.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Sunstate Jewellers

Four decades at the bench gives Ian McDougall a CV few jewellers can match — two full apprenticeships, the second specialising in diamond and gemstone setting. Owner Rita Williams has won the Queensland Boulder Opal Association's Queen of Gems award three consecutive years. Everything is hallmarked with the studio mark and backed by a 25-year written guarantee. Moffat Beach, Sunshine Coast.

Ceramics & Clay

Syndicate Creative

A Maroochydore studio where local potters run public and private classes for all levels — from beginners getting their first feel for clay to groups booking hen's nights and work events. The Wine Ceramics session is a reliable crowd draw. Hand-thrown pieces are available to buy in-studio, useful if you'd rather take something home than make it.

Ceramics & Clay

The Clay Shed

Kunda Park's go-to ceramics supply shop stocks everything from Spanish black clay and Keane's Midfire White to raw minerals, oxides, and Kiwi Underglazes. Beginners can book wheel-throwing classes; working potters can drop off their wheels for servicing or use the in-house bisque and midfire firing service. Workaday, useful, and open six days a week.

Ceramics & Clay

The Pottery Studio

A shed on Brookes Street in Nambour, on Gubbi Gubbi Country, running wheel throwing, hand building, glazing classes, and art therapy workshops for adults and kids. Memberships unlock 24-hour studio access year-round. The Clay & Wine class ($100) offers an easy entry point; four-week beginner courses in wheel throwing or hand building run $499.

Leatherwork

The Real McCaul Leathergoods

Paul McCaul started making things from spent calico flour bags as a science student in the 1970s, copied a leather jacket for a friend, and never really stopped. Five decades on, he runs The Real McCaul from a shop in Eumundi with his wife Oosaar on the sewing machine and daughter Melody making the belts — bags, wallets, jackets and dog collars cut and stitched out the back, mostly to order, in kangaroo from a Brisbane tannery and thick vegetable-tanned cowhide. Everything carries a ten-year workmanship warranty.

Wood & Furniture

Things of Metal and Wood Custom Furniture

Paolo Baretta has spent over 30 years working steel, aluminium, stainless steel and hardwood timber into custom furniture. His Maroochydore workshop and showroom takes commissions of any size — commercial fit-outs, one-off pieces — with a typical lead time of three to six weeks. No minimum orders, no set fees; everything is made on site.

Visual Art

Tina Cooper Art & Glass Gallery

Tina Cooper works in hot glass, wood and iron, drawing on influences ranging from indigenous culture to myth. She trained under a lineage that includes Lino Tagliapietra and Dante Marioni. Her Montville gallery shows large-scale blown pieces — expressive, figurative work concerned with human origins and the relationship between nature and death.

Jewellery & Metalwork

To Hold & To Have

Buderim jeweller working in gold, silver, and gemstone — baroque pearl tassel necklaces, bezel-set opal bands, garnet solitaire rings, tourmaline cluster earrings. The range spans wearable daily pieces under $500 through to solid gold bangles at $10,900. Colour and texture do the work here: chrysoprase, rhodolite garnet, Tahitian pearl, Chinese jade.

Visual Art

UniSC Art Gallery

UniSC Art Gallery at Sippy Downs, Queensland, provides a vital cultural platform for contemporary visual art across diverse mediums and practices. Situated within the university precinct, the gallery curates exhibitions that amplify emerging and established artistic voices, offering thoughtful spaces for encountering new work. Visitors experience carefully considered exhibitions, often featuring sculptures, paintings, installations, and experimental practices that challenge and expand perception. The gallery's regular hours and weekend accessibility encourage genuine community engagement. Beyond viewing, the space facilitates dialogue between artists, students, and public—fostering an understanding that contemporary art remains a living, evolving conversation about meaning, culture, and human experience.

Textile & Fibre

weavery

Workshops in weaving run year-round: one- and two-day introductions, a regular basketry group, and sessions where participants develop their own designs. A seasonal weekend retreat operates from Bribie Island. Extended programs travel to Arnhem Land, combining weaving technique with time spent with Indigenous artists and knowledge holders. The space also hosts community art projects and cultural exchange work, with weaving embedded across these activities rather than isolated as a standalone skill.

Jewellery & Metalwork

West 4th Studio

Bec makes lightweight jewellery on the Sunshine Coast, known especially for earrings and pendants set with Japanese origami paper: koi, cherry blossom and small florals sealed under glass and resin so the paper becomes the piece. Alongside them run hand-stamped stainless-steel letter charms for personalised necklaces and bracelets. She's traded under the trees at Eumundi Markets for 17 years, Wednesdays and Saturdays, and sells online.