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EXHIBITIONS

Affordable

Insurance

For artists and craftspeople

Inclusive of full
membership with the
Victorian Woodworkers
Association Inc

st
1 Sept 2018 to
st
1 Sept 2019

Public and Product Liability
Insurance to $10 – $20m cover:

For professional and amateur
craftspeople working or teaching from
home, or undertaking markets or craft
demonstrations in public. (Arranged
through City Rural Insurance Brokers
Above: Adrian Spano, Drinks Cabinet, American walnut, brass and mirror Pty Ltd and QBE) $220 for $10 million
‘I enjoy working with a range of materials and wanted to create a practical piece of cover, and we also offer an option of
furniture with the focus on the solid brass panel doors. I had no real plan when I started $240 for $20 million cover.
this drinks cabinet, only a rough sketch, and it was nice to mainly freestyle this piece from
start to finish. The brass was cut by CNC machine, and from there I worked on the shape
of the door frames and the mitred cabinet using splines some of which were also brass.’

Photo: Adrian Spano www.500workshop.com.au Additional Insurances offered
to VWA members by City

Rural Insurance Brokers:

1. Home & Contents;
Left and below: Steve Harper,
Nautilus Table, American rock 2. Home Workshop, equipment
maple, silky oak black epoxy resin and contents;
‘The design comes from the shape
of a nautilus shell. The underneath 3. Personal Accident and Illness
retains the 3D spiral shape but the
top surface, needing to be flat, was Insurance;
machined down to almost flat and the
residual “valley” replaced by the inlay. 4. Commercial Studio or Workshop
The bulk of the carving of the top, inlay Business Package: To cover
and legs was done using a CNC router those Members who operate
with hand work for the detailing. The
starting point was a 3D file (STL) and a business away from their
this was edited and finally imported residence.
into the CNC software.’

Photo: Max Harper
www.reddoordesigns.com.au
Contact Meg Allan,
VWA Membership Secretary
2650 Mansfield – Whitfield Rd,
TOLMIE VIC 3723
Tel 03 5776 2178
Email insurance@vwa.org.au
Web www.vwa.org.au

Important: Victorian Woodworkers Association Inc (VWA) does not hold
an Australian Financial Services Licence, but as a Group Purchasing
Body has engaged City Rural Insurance Brokers Pty Ltd (AFSL 237491)
to arrange Group or Master Liability Policies for its members. VWA does
not receive any form of remuneration (including commission) or other
benefits that are reasonably attributable to the group purchasing activity.

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