Till Death Us Do Part

The Wootha Prize (named after the local aboriginal name for Australian red cedar) is an annual competition held as part of the Maleny Wood Festival to promote the creative use of sustainable timbers.

Entries must be of Australian timbers sustainably harvested from native forests or plantations, or recycled or weed timbers. One entry is invited per applicant.

The Wootha Prize forms the feature exhibition at the Maleny Wood Expo, and attracts thousands of visitors to the area with a huge program of displays, demonstrations as well as  educational and commercial exhibits.

In 2018 the theme was ‘Joined’. Robert Howard’s work Till Death Us Do Part took out the $10,000 overall prize, and this is a behind the scenes look at the process involved in creating this masterpiece.