CAST Gallery

Alan Livermore’s long career as a designer/maker has involved him in many aspects of craft and design practice. Following early training in Manual Arts Teaching, and a period of National Service, in 1975 Alan completed a Diploma of Visual Art (Design) at the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart. Initially based in southern Tasmania, in the early 1980s Alan relocated his design studio and furniture workshop to Deviot in the Tamar Valley, his practice is currently based in Launceston. While the key focus of his practice has been the design and production of furniture, he has also established and run a number of craft, furniture and design galleries, including Aspect Design in Hobart in 1976, and his current venture, TWOFOURTWO. This most recent venture, established in Launceston in 2004 with his wife, Kate, mixes design, wine and three serviced apartments featuring Alan’s furniture. As well as his ongoing production work, over the past three decades, Alan has completed a number of significant design and production commissions for private, government and corporate clients including the Office of the Vice Chancellor University of Tasmania, Peak Marwick Hungerford, North Midland Council, Parliamentary Library Hobart, and the Federal Group. His work has won numerous awards, including the National Wood Design Award, DuPont Innovation Award and three Design Excellence awards. He has also been engaged as a specialist design and production consultant by numerous furniture manufacturers and has taught at the Australian School of Fine Furniture and University of Tasmania (Launceston).