Sunshine Coast Hinterland

Printmaking

3D Printing Services Sunshine Coast - Design 3D Print Shed

Family-run out of Currimundi, Design 3D Print Shed brings 35 years of manufacturing experience to FDM filament and DLP resin printing. Andrew and the team handle everything from CAD file repair to post-processing, with Australia-wide delivery. Minimum print run starts at $120. Useful for product designers and engineers who need functional parts rather than novelty.

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

Art Workshops brings the ancient language of clay to life on Main Street in Queensland, offering a hands-on ceramics experience grounded in genuine craft skill. This studio operates with intention rather than convenience, opening Thursday through Sunday to create dedicated creative sessions where visitors can learn, make, and discover the meditative properties of working with clay. The workshop environment fosters genuine learning, where techniques pass from experienced hands to eager ones. Whether you're drawn to hand-building, wheel-throwing, or surface decoration, Art Workshops creates space for the messy, joyful, sometimes frustrating process of ceramics. Leave with clay under your fingernails and a deeper appreciation for this enduring craft.

Printmaking

Artmania

Artmania, located at 6 Azalea Place in Queensland, is a dedicated printmaking studio where traditional and contemporary techniques come alive. This creative space celebrates the rich possibilities of the print medium, offering visitors a chance to witness skilled craftsmanship firsthand. The studio balances artistic vision with technical precision, producing work that ranges from bold editions to intricate detail. Here in regional Queensland, printmakers engage with their craft in an intimate setting, making Artmania an essential destination for those drawn to the texture, layering, and expressive potential unique to printmaking.

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

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.

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.

Printmaking

Caloundra Screenprints

Ewan has been pulling ink through mesh for over 30 years, and his family business has served the Sunshine Coast for fifteen of them. The range is practical and broad — hi-vis workwear, bowls cloths, trucker caps, surfboard decals, vinyl stickers, corflute signs — but the operation stays deliberately local and personal.

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.

Ceramics & Clay

Club Creative Studios

Maroochydore's go-to for getting your hands muddy. Syndicate Creative runs regular public pottery classes on the Sunshine Coast — beginners welcome, with options like Wine Ceramics and candle holder workshops alongside private bookings for hen's parties and work groups. Hand-made ceramics are available to buy in studio. Prices are kept straightforward, with no hidden costs.

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

Cut Glass operates from Queensland's southside, where glass workers craft functional and decorative pieces with precision and artistry. Open early mornings Monday through Thursday, this studio specialises in cutting, finishing, and transforming glass into bespoke solutions. Whether you're seeking custom mirror work, architectural glass details, or decorative pieces, the makers approach each project with technical mastery and creative vision. Glass demands respect—understanding how light moves through it, how edges catch reflection, how thickness affects both durability and beauty. Here, traditional craft meets contemporary design sensibility, resulting in pieces that elevate their surroundings.

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.

Printmaking

Evolution Screenprinting & Design

Evolution Screenprinting & Design in Queensland is where colour, precision, and creativity converge on fabric and paper. This dynamic printmaking studio specializes in screenprinting, offering both finished pieces and custom work that brings visions to life. The team brings technical expertise and artistic flair to every project, whether designing bold graphics or intricate multi-colour prints. Visitors experience the craft firsthand—understanding how screens, inks, and intention create stunning visual results. It's a hub for those seeking original printed work or eager to collaborate with skilled printmakers who combine commercial savvy with genuine artistic passion.

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.

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 specializing 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 color 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.

Printmaking

GT Print Australia

GT Print Australia stands as a comprehensive printing resource in Queensland, offering both fine art editions and commercial printing services from their Robert Street workspace. The studio bridges the gap between artistic vision and technical execution, where printmakers and designers collaborate to bring work to life. From traditional screen printing to digital techniques, the facility supports both established artists and emerging makers exploring the medium's possibilities. Visitors experience a space that respects printing's rich history while embracing contemporary innovation. Whether commissioning a run of prints, exploring edition work, or seeking advice on printing techniques, you'll find a team with genuine expertise and enthusiasm for the craft.

Printmaking

Hello Merch

Hello Merch brings printmaking energy to Plaza Parade in Queensland, specializing in screen printing that transforms designs into wearable and displayable art. The studio excels at collaborative creation, working with artists and brands to realize their visions through the vibrant possibilities of the print medium. The workspace pulses with the hands-on activity of the craft—from screen preparation to the satisfying moment of final impressions. Whether you're commissioning custom work or sourcing printed pieces, the team here combines technical expertise with creative enthusiasm. This is where ideas meet ink, and where printmaking becomes tangible expression.

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.

Printmaking

Jammin Handprints

Charles and Jamie have been screen printing on the Sunshine Coast since 1995 — between them, more than 50 years of experience running ink through mesh. From their Marcoola workshop, they handle everything from sporting uniforms to fabric metrage printing. Multi-award winning, owner-operated, and still on the original tpg.com.au email address.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Printmaking

Scream Print Screenprinting

Eleven years on the Sunshine Coast, Scream Print handles screen printing, embroidery, and heat-press decoration for schools, sports clubs, restaurants, and the military. Minimum order quantities apply; turnaround is ten business days. The straightforward process — budget, placement, mock-up approval — is the pitch. No fuss, just ink on fabric, done properly.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Textile & Fibre

weavery

weavery operates as a creative sanctuary for textile practitioners on Wilson Road in Queensland, dedicated to the ancient craft of weaving reimagined for contemporary practice. This studio provides space, knowledge, and community for makers exploring the loom as a tool for artistic expression and functional creation. The weavery experience centers on the meditative rhythm of weaving—the interlacing of threads that builds color, pattern, and meaning. Whether you're discovering weaving for the first time or deepening an established practice, this studio welcomes inquirers with genuine expertise and encouragement. It's a place where the tactile joy of fiber work connects makers to both tradition and innovation.