Livingstone City

Distinguished and Famous people from Livingstone City

🎨 Steve Bishopric and Sue McBurnie

Potter Steve Bishopric and ceramic artist and teacher Sue McBurnie developed their creative work at Nob Creek Pottery in Byfield. The studio combines functional pottery with wood-fired and pit-fired pieces, while the surrounding forest supplies recurring subjects, including the distinctive Byfield fern. Their galleries have also presented work by other makers. The local connection is a working studio embedded in the Byfield landscape, where visitors encounter both finished pieces and the processes behind them. It is a contribution to the district’s cultural life through sustained making and teaching.

📚 Julian Tenison Woods

Priest and naturalist Julian Tenison Woods visited the Capricorn Coast during the 1870s and 1880s and studied local plants around Emu Park. The Haven’s history records that botanical work, commemorated there by the Tenison Woods Memorial Garden. His better-known religious work included co-founding the Sisters of St Joseph with Mary MacKillop, but the Emu Park association is also scientific fieldwork. The garden makes that less familiar part of his career visible through plants, connecting a named person with observations made in the district rather than relying only on his religious reputation.