Deborah Wace is a botanical artist, fabric designer and professional printmaker from Tasmania. Through her highly detailed and intimate artwork she creates a window into the botany of Tasmania’s wild and often endangered plant communities including native orchids, rainforest, buttongrass and marine plants.
Deborah’s inspiration for her range is drawn from her extensive, private plant specimen collection, gathered and digitised over 30 years. She combines digital plant images with dry point and mono-print original artwork and etchings, which she layers to create her rich, complex Tasmanian botanical designs printed on fine fabric, wallpaper and a range of architectural substrates. She is embedding sustainable plant specimen collection, production and printing processes into her bontanical art.
Exquisite silk scarves, silk handkerchiefs, sumptuous European flax linen cushions, elaborate wallpaper art & limited edition prints.
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Cinematographer Michael Gissing created ‘Threatened Species Dance’ for me, which is a mesmerizing slow motion dance featuring my Tasmanian plant designs set to the incredible music of Linsey Pollak & Lizzie O’Keefe.
Botanical artist Deborah Wace designed and produced a bespoke artwork which features on the underside of the lid of the Van Diemen’s Band’s harpsichord, which was officially launched in Hobart on 21 August 2023.
This autobiographical blog is taken from a rich and detailed transcript of Deborah’s 2018 interview with Helene Thomas of The Wayfinder Mobile Story Studio, at
At Deborah WACE our vision is to inspire a love of wild Tasmanian flora through beauty and design. We continually aim to create a unique
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A fabric designer, ecological activist, plant advocate and professional printmaker from Hobart, Tasmania.
Deborah WACE acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work
