Media Mentions

ADC in the media

Chili Philly with Natalia Today Show

2024

ADC Turns 60 | 1964-2024
InDesignLive

Kettles
ArchitectureAU

The Art of Making
WoodReview: Preview
Sydney Morning Herald: Interview with Nick Pedulla
- ABC Radio Weekend Breakfast with Simon Marnie What’s On
- Sun-Herald S Magazine Best of the Week
ABC Radio Illawarra: Interview with Eliza Maunsell
ABC Radio Nightlife: Interview with Lou Harriss and Eliza Maunsell- Wentworth Courier What’s On

2023

MAKE Award: Biennial Prize for Innovation in Australian Craft and Design
Indesign Live 2 October 2023
Canberra Times
Living Arts Canberra
Living Arts Canberra
Living Arts Canberra
2SER Breakfast 26 September 2023
Hunter and Folk
Australian Design Review
ABC News
Radio National
Eastside Radio
Arts Hub
SMSA (Sydney Mechanics School of Arts)
ArchitectureAU
Sydney Mechanics School of the Arts (SMSA)
The Art Show on ABC

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GOOD NATURED: art design architecture
Green Magazine

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Celebration of Sydney WorldPride including Unravelling Queerly, Queer Mart: A Darlo Makers Market and Chili Philly: Crochet Social 2023

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2022

Les Blakebrough obituary

WA Today
ArtHub - Vale Les Blakebrough

Profile: Contemporary Jewellery and Object Award

Eastside Radio Arts Thursday - listen from 67.10

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Transformative Repair x ADC

Australian Financial Review - Life and Leisure
Yellow Trace
Broadsheet Sydney
Australian Design Review
Green Magazine
Art Edit Magazine

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SIXTY: The Journal of Australian Ceramics 60th Anniversary 1962–2022
 31 March to 25 May 2022

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The Art of Making: Studio Woodworkers Australia
10 February – 19 March 2022

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2021

Happy Objects
18 November 2021 - 2 February 2022

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Revisiting Shoei Yoh
30 November – 2 February 2022

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Sydney Craft Week Festival
 8-17 October 2021

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WORKSHOPPED21
20 July - 18 August

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Natalie Rosin: Endangered and Extinct
20 May - 7 July 2021

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MADE/WORN: Australian Contemporary Jewellery
ADC On Tour
 20 May – 24 June 2021

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Anita Johnson Larkin: Come To Me Without A Word
4 February – 20 March 2021

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2020

Design | Isolate
26 November – 27 January 2021

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Isolate Make: Creative Resilience in a Pandemic
26 November – 27 January 2021

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FUSE Glass Prize
9 October - 17 November 2020

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Sydney Craft Week
9 -18 October 2020

WORKSHOPPED20
6 August - 30 September 2020

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Open House: Tamworth Textiles Triennial
9 June - 29 July 2020

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Funding and advocacy

Made/Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery

Art Jewellery Forum

CONCRETE: art design architecture
31 January - 18 March 2020

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2019

Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft / Prue Venables
ADC On Tour

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Sydney Craft Week
11 - 20 October 2019

Gadigal Mural 

STEEL: art design architecture
1 February - April 2019

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2018

Sydney Craft Week
5 -14 October 2018

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Urban Decay: Joshua Smith
2 August - 26 September 2018

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Painting with Thread: Samples and Tapestries from Australian Tapestry Workshop
2 August - 26 September 2018

WORKSHOPPED18: New Australian Furniture, Lighting and Object Design
21 June - 25 July

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Let's Tea Party: Taiwan Design Now
31 May - 13 June
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Obsessed: Compelled to Make 

Presenting the work of 14 artists from across Australia, this exhibition delves beyond the finished object, beyond the personality of the maker, into the fundamental conceptual framework of their creations.
Exhibits Australian Design Centre, Sydney: 8 February to 24 March 2018
On tour: 20 April 2018 - 10 October 2021

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2017

Designing Bright Futures
Surveying twelve of the most outstanding 2017 UNSW Art & Design graduating students across Bachelor and Masters of Design fields including: jewellery, textiles, graphics, object, interactive and spatial design.
23 November 2017 - 31 January 2018

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Bulay(i):Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Artists with Indigenous Jewellery Project 
Features 40 Yolŋu jewellers from Buku-Larrnggay Mulka who participated in the workshops with the Indigenous Jewellery Project over 2016 and early 2017.
October - 15 November 2017

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Biotextilogy, The Cellular Catwalk
Melissa Knothe Tate's transdisciplinary, interactive exhibition presents her multifunctional textiles and smart materials inspired by nature, tying together the fields of biotechnology and textile design on "The Cellular Catwalk.
6 October - 15 November 2017

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FRACTURE: DIFFERENCES
The works of Shannon McGrath and Marcus Piper explore the interplay of light in abstract spatial environments.
17 August - 27 September 2017

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Green Asylum 
A large-scale experimental textile and video installation that blurs the boundaries between tapestry weaving and architecture, landscape and language by multi-disciplinary creative Charlotte Haywood.
17 August - 27 September 2017

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LOCAL MILAN 
During this year’s Milan Design Week LOCAL DESIGN presented LOCAL MILAN, an exhibition showcasing eleven established Australian designers, curated by designer, stylist and creative director of LOCAL DESIGN, Emma Elizabeth. On returning to Australia LOCAL DESIGN is showcasing LOCAL MILAN at the Australian Design Centre. 
15 June - 9 August 2017

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Object Therapy 
An exhibition and project that explores creative transformation and notions of value and repair.  Object Therapy is part of ADC On Tour, the Australian Design Centre's national touring program. ADC is partnering with Hotel Hotel for the first time to develop and deliver an eight-venue national tour supported by the Australian Government's, Visions of Australia (Visions) program. 6 April – 7 June 2017

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Chili Philly: Crochet Social
The first major solo exhibition of crochet wearable art by Melbourne-based artist Phil Ferguson.
2 February - 29 March 2017

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Image: Phil Fergus (Chili Philly) on Today Show with reporter Natalia Cooper. Photo: ADC