HUMANS

From leading challenges up mountains and across south-west Tassie’s waters to raise funds for people living with type 1 diabetes, to navigating life after a traumatic brain injury - this Ulverstone-born adventurer has found new purpose in simple rituals, the great outdoors … and making milkshakes for local blood donors.

A Geeveston-based portrait artist’s latest exhibition of tiny - and painstakingly detailed - paintings puts the everyday dramas of a quiet Tasmanian life into perspective.

From backyard bike trails to a career on two wheels, success is only as good as the fun you’re having for this Tasmanian mountain biking pro.

A pedigreed chef, a passionate local service team, and 200 guests: it’s a recipe for a night of exceptional dining replicated in hundreds of restaurants around Tasmania every night of the week. But one uncommon factor sets this dinner apart from the rest.

Sixty kilometres northeast of his tiny island home, the opportunity to make some of the southern hemisphere’s most delicious spirits on a tinier island still was an opportunity too good to pass up for this Tasmanian repatriate.

Despite a career that takes him to some of the most exotic destinations on earth, there’s no place like home for this born-and-bred Tasmanian photographer.

Meet Hobart-based lawyers Amy Smith and Daphne Yeoh, who recently launched Mita - a new clothing label profoundly shaped by Amy’s late grandmother’s experience living with dementia. 

Pulled home - twice - from the mainland, a long-held love of fashion has evolved into a career as a personal stylist for this Tasmanian creative.

Lutruwita/Tasmania-based artist Peter Yates’ realist paintings of people and the landscape carry a luminous momentum that builds the longer you spend time with them.

Born and raised in Hobart, a long-time Sydney-based business owner still calls Tasmania home.

The girl who fell from the sky is telling her story - and inviting others to do the same - in one of Launceston’s most beautiful new spaces. 

Tasmania’s first dedicated laser tattoo removal technician spent 10 years travelling the world, before putting down roots - and a one-of-a-kind business venture - back where it all began.

At three o’clock in the morning, Ron Francis’ eyes might be trained on a large canvas, his hand holding a brush loaded with oil paint. Painting in the early hours is a perfect situation for the Cygnet-based artist: he could be the only painter on the island, free from the day’s distracting energies.

Tasmania has always been in Melissa Egan’s paintings, though it’s only in the last seven years since she returned to Perth, in the state’s north, that she has consciously referenced the place of her childhood.

Inspired by her mother’s values of empowering women and communities, and paying homage to her Fijian roots, a Launceston entrepreneur just keeps on creating.

Launceston’s active vibe, thriving food scene and excellent coffee were enough to lure a keen traveller back to her home roots.

Harnessing natural materials from her surroundings, a Tasmanian ceramicist reimagines history, industry and the environment through beautiful objects.

For someone so dedicated to painting, it is intriguing that photography and the mechanical image are such important influences in James King’s work.

After leaving his childhood home in Mackay to travel the world for a professional basketball career, Clint Steindl found himself in lutruwita/Tasmania as the inaugural Captain of the Tasmania JackJumpers.

Tasmania’s north west coast offers family, business, creativity and purpose for this born-and-bred Latrobe local.

Inspired by childhood holidays in lutruwita/Tasmania, a New South Welshman finally found himself living - and mountain biking - on the island’s wild west coast.

Lured across Bass Strait by bush and beach in equal measure, a natural creative has found her happy place in mid-town Hobart.

The performing arts have taken Rochelle de Vries on adventures all over the world, but only Tasmania’s managed to keep her in one place for long. 

The path to a career in fine food and wine had an unlikely starting point for the Restaurant Manager at two of Hobart’s most celebrated restaurants.

Christian Ryan's signature dessert at Restaurant MARIA was inspired by his own travel experience in the Mediterranean - he tells the story here.

Through all of the varied rhythms of her life, Yodit Tefara’s love for cooking has remained a familiar constant. Growing up in Ethiopia, Yodit learned the secrets of traditional cuisine alongside her mother. As a young woman in a Sudanese refugee camp, cooking became her way to bring comfort and friendship to others fleeing conflict and persecution. 

After landing her dream job in Melbourne, Alicia Peardon didn’t think life could get any better. But a move to north-west Tasmania quickly changed her mind.

As Co-Founder and CEO at Hobart social enterprise Hamlet, Emily Briffa is tackling unemployment the tasty way.

A long-time lifestyle photographer and stylist is sharing her passion with the masses, growing her CV to include educational workshops that pass on the secrets of visual storytelling.

Inspired and influenced by his island home, a Hobart-based furniture designer and maker creates a portfolio of objects that are as beautiful in form as they are in function.