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Eriko Takefuji
Local ResidentEriko at a Chado Workshop at Mitcham Community Centre in 2025
As a dedicated instructor of the Urasenke school of Japanese tea ceremony (Chado), one of Japan’s oldest and largest tea traditions, I also conducts workshops introducing the art and spirit of Chado to Australian audiences.
Across my work in traditional crafts, landscape design and tea ceremony, I am passionate about sharing the richness of Japanese culture and the essence of Japanese aesthetics with people in Australia.
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While the online boutique is the heart of TAKEFUJI, Eriko also participates in Japanese cultural events and markets held in Adelaide, creating opportunities for people to discover and experience the richness of Japanese craftsmanship.
Launched in 2026, TAKEFUJI LAWLER is a landscape design practice that explores how Japanese aesthetics can be expressed within the unique natural environment of Australia. Working alongside her husband Richard, whose background is in architectural design, TAKEFUJI LAWLER aims to create gardens that are not confined to the traditional Japanese garden style, but instead draw on the essence of Japanese aesthetics to create spaces that respond to both people and nature.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Northern Tablelands
🎹 Peter Allen
Peter Allen was born at Tenterfield in 1944 and raised in Armidale, where he began performing at eleven in the New England Hotel. His grandfather George Woolnough, a saddle maker, later became the subject of Tenterfield Saddler. Cabaret, songwriting and international touring took Allen far beyond those beginnings, with songs including I Go to Rio and I Still Call Australia Home. The flamboyant stage image had a quieter family geography behind it: a grandfather’s workshop in one town and a young pianist finding an audience in another. Both places belong to the New England chapter of his life.
📚 Judith Wright
Judith Wright was born at Thalgarrah on Nganyaywana Country in 1915 and attended New England Girls’ School in Armidale. Her family’s pastoral history and her attachment to familiar country became important subjects for poetry and later historical reflection. She also campaigned for conservation and Aboriginal land rights, reconsidering the consequences of the colonial expansion in which her ancestors had participated. Her writing joins a strong sense of place with difficult questions about belonging and responsibility. New England remained part of the intellectual and emotional country she explored in her writing.
