10 Feb 2010
Biographies - 23.03.2007
‘A successful business, almost by mistake …’
Brian Tunks established Bison Australia in 1997 to make a wide range of ‘mix and match’ table-ware in stoneware clay.
From small beginnings, slip casting forms in his father’s shed, Tunks moved in 2004 to a factory in Pialligo, Australian Capital Territory. His solution to production is to employ locally, working with standard materials and good systems to make items of world quality, produced on a personal and local level.
Bison has over 60 stockists in Australia and New Zealand, with a strong international market. A key part of Bison’s promotion strategy is to include its tableware in photographic features in food and wine magazines.
You can see Bison Australia table-ware in the new exhibition Smart works: design and the handmade, from 30 March 2007 at the Powerhouse Museum.
Smart works: design and the handmade
Bison Australia
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From small beginnings, slip casting forms in his father’s shed, Tunks moved in 2004 to a factory in Pialligo, Australian Capital Territory. His solution to production is to employ locally, working with standard materials and good systems to make items of world quality, produced on a personal and local level.
Bison has over 60 stockists in Australia and New Zealand, with a strong international market. A key part of Bison’s promotion strategy is to include its tableware in photographic features in food and wine magazines.
You can see Bison Australia table-ware in the new exhibition Smart works: design and the handmade, from 30 March 2007 at the Powerhouse Museum.
Smart works: design and the handmadeBison Australia
TAGS
+ Smart works