Anthony Hansen started his Career as a metal machinist with the steel giant B.H.P. mainly using a metal lathe turning precision components from a blue print. This gave Anthony a comprehensive knowledge of cutting techniques, often having tolerances of + or - 1.5 Thousandths of an inch. After completing his trade he went in search of something more challenging, more exciting and more natural. This search took him to a 1.5 million acre property in the northern Kimberly area of Western Australia. Here he would muster cattle for two years with twenty other stockmen, mainly aboriginal, sleeping under the stars, working fourteen hours a day and living on bread and beef. Anthony Hansen started his Career as a metal machinist with the steel giant B.H.P. mainly using a metal lathe turning precision components from a blue print. This gave Anthony a comprehensive knowledge of cutting techniques, often having tolerances of + or - 1.5 Thousandths of an inch. After completing his trade Anthony went in search of something more challenging, more exciting and more natural. This search took him to a 1.5 million acre property in the northern Kimberly area of Western Australia. Here he would muster cattle for two years with twenty other stockmen, mainly aboriginal, sleeping under the stars, working fourteen hours a day and living on bread and beef.

After outback Australia Anthony moved to a three hundred acre forested property on the south coast of New South Wales. In 1983 he began working with wood and supplying local galleries all over Australia. Over the past twenty six years Anthony Hansen has established himself as one of the worlds leading wood workers. He Is famous for his forest flowers, an exhibition piece turned from a single piece of wood. A goblet shaped piece with a cup turned to the thickness of 15 thousandths of an inch with the stem is thin as a toothpick. In 1992 Anthony Hansen opened his own gallery in the Gold Coast Hinterland in Queensland, Australia. His Gallery attracted visitors from all over the world to see what exciting and innovative works he had produced since their last Visit.