David Brodziak Custom Knives

David Brodziak has made custom knives in Albany, on Western Australia's south coast, for more than three decades. Much of his most ambitious work is collaborative: blades made by Brodziak and then painted, over months, by artist Carol Ann O'Connor, resulting in intricately decorated collector pieces alongside a working line of fishing knives. The materials run to the unusual, including inlays of dinosaur bone. It is a maker's practice built on handwork and one-off commissions rather than production, and grounded in the couple's home town of Albany.