Media Mentions
ADC in the media
2024
FUSE Glass Prize 2024
ABC September 2024
Sydney Craft Week 2024
Architecture AU
Art Jewelry Forum
Wood Diary
- Touch Clay Weekly, The Australian Ceramics Association, 23 September
Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum Spring events
Northern Beaches Council
Lake Macquarie City
MAKE Award: Biennial Prize for Innovation in Australian Craft and Design
Green Magazine July 2024
ABC's The Art Show - Interview with Vipoo
Geelong Advertiser Article August 2024
Artshub
Radio 3MBS Arts Weekly
Wood Diary
- The Australian, Public Works, Review, September 2024
Transformative Repair
Green Magazine July 2024
CURRENT: Gail Mabo, Lisa Waup, Dominic White
Garland Magazine, artist Dominic White feature on Current
- Art Collector, Public and Regionals: What's On newsletter for Current
Arts Hub
- ABC Radio Saturday Breakfast with Simon Marnie, What’s On with Simone Whetton, Current: Gail Mabo, Lisa Waup, Dominic White
Dither
Visual Arts
- Wentworth Courier, What's On, August 2024
National Indigenous Times
Eastside Radio Arts Friday, Interview with Lisa Waup and Dominic White
ABC Radio Weekend Evenings with Christina Anu
LACED
Eastside Radio Interview with Jane Theau
Arts Hub
- ABC Radio Saturday Breakfast, What’s On with Simone Whetton, LACED
Vessels: Transcending Tradition
- ABC Saturday Mornings with Simon Marnie, interview with Lisa at National Indigenous Art Fair
- Australian Wood Review, NAIDOC week feature on Vessels exhibition
Object Space: Canopy
Garland Magazine, Vicki Mason interview online about Canopy
SIXTY: The Journal of Australian Ceramics 60th Anniversary 1962–2022
The Examiner: A new exhibition and the ceramic 'revival'
Northern Daily Leader, August 2024
Object Shop
- Sunday Life, Sun-Herald, Mother's Day Gift Guide
- Wentworth Courier, North Shore Times and Mosman Daily Mother's Day Gift Guide
60 Cups Morning Tea
Eastside Radio, Arts Friday
ABC Saturday Breakfast
2SER Drive program
- Wentworth Courier
Treasures
Eastside Radio, Arts Friday
- Touch Clay Weekly, The Australian Ceramics Association, 13 May
Arts Hub
Arts Friday Interview with Lauren Joffe
Arts Friday Interview with Prue Venables
Design Isolate: The pandemic through a creative lens
- Openbook Winter 2024
ADC Turns 60 | 1964-2024
InDesignLive
Eastside Radio, Arts Tuesday
Eastside Radio, Arts Thursday
ArchitectureAU
Eastside Radio, Arts Friday
Kettles
ArchitectureAU
The Art of Making
WoodReview: Preview
Sydney Morning Herald: Interview with Nick Pedulla
ABC Radio Saturday Breakfast- 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
Australian Wood Review I & II
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
Explore the MAKE Award website here
GOOD NATURED: art design architecture
Green Magazine
Explore the GOOD NATURED website here
Celebration of Sydney WorldPride including Unravelling Queerly, Queer Mart: A Darlo Makers Market and Chili Philly: Crochet Social 2023
- The Australian -Wish Magazine pg 26 3 February 2023
- Qantas Magazine - 4 February 2023
- Concrete Playground
- Art Guide
- Man of Many Sydney WorldPride Unofficial Guide
- A Rich Life
Explore the Unravelling Queerly website here
2022
Les Blakebrough obituary
WA Today
ArtHub - Vale Les Blakebrough
Profile: Contemporary Jewellery and Object Award
Eastside Radio Arts Thursday - listen from 67.10
Explore the Profile website here
Transformative Repair x ADC
Australian Financial Review - Life and Leisure
Yellow Trace
Broadsheet Sydney
Australian Design Review
Green Magazine
Art Edit Magazine
Explore the Transformative Repair x ADC website here
SIXTY: The Journal of Australian Ceramics 60th Anniversary 1962–2022
31 March to 25 May 2022
- Exhibition review SIXTY - Artshub
- Eastside Radio Arts Thursday - Damon Moon
- The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Sixth Anniversary Edition, March 2022.
- Touch Clay Weekly 25 April
- Artshub 2022
Explore the SIXTY website here
The Art of Making: Studio Woodworkers Australia
10 February – 19 March 2022
Explore the The Art of Making: Studio Woodworkers Australia website here
2021
Happy Objects
18 November 2021 - 2 February 2022
Explore the Happy Objects website here
Revisiting Shoei Yoh
30 November – 2 February 2022
Explore the Revisiting Shoei Yoh website here
Sydney Craft Week Festival
8-17 October 2021
Explore the Sydney Craft Week website here
WORKSHOPPED21
20 July - 18 August
Explore the WORKSHOPPED21 website here
Natalie Rosin: Endangered and Extinct
20 May - 7 July 2021
- Review: Dr Julie Bartholomew
- Architecture AU
- The Journal of Australian Ceramics, 'In the Spotlight,' Vol 60 No.2 July 2021, p15
Explore the Endangered and Extinct website here
MADE/WORN: Australian Contemporary Jewellery
ADC On Tour
20 May – 24 June 2021
Explore the Made/Worn website here
Anita Johnson Larkin: Come To Me Without A Word
4 February – 20 March 2021
Explore the Anita Johnson Larkin website here
2020
Design | Isolate
26 November – 27 January 2021
- Artshub
- Australian Design Review
- Sydney Morning Herald - measuring your life in morning teas
- Sydney Morning Herald - Covid and single use objects
- The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Reflections on practice in ADC's Covid-19 project, Vol 60 No.1, April 2021, p 77
- Eastside Radio
Explore the Design/ Isolate website here
Isolate Make: Creative Resilience in a Pandemic
26 November – 27 January 2021
Explore the Isolate Make website here
FUSE Glass Prize
9 October - 17 November 2020
Explore the FUSE Glass Prize website here
Sydney Craft Week
9 -18 October 2020
- Time Out - things to do in Sydney
- Time Out
- ABC Sydney Breakfast
- Eastside Radio
- Eastside Radio - Arts Thursday
- Eastside Radio - Talk through your arts
- National Arts School
- Garland
- Sydney Morning Herald
WORKSHOPPED20
6 August - 30 September 2020
Explore the WORKSHOPPED20 website here
Open House: Tamworth Textiles Triennial
9 June - 29 July 2020
Explore Open House: Tamworth Textile Triennial website here
Funding and advocacy
Made/Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery
Art Jewellery Forum
CONCRETE: art design architecture
31 January - 18 March 2020
Explore the CONCRETE: art design architecture website here
2019
Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft / Prue Venables
ADC On Tour
- Eastside Radio
- Australian Ceramics Podcast
- Ceramic Arts Network
- Art Monthly review
- Mansfield Ceramics
- Artsguide
- Art Monthly
- Green Magazine
Explore the Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft / Prue Venables website here
Sydney Craft Week
11 - 20 October 2019
- Time Out
- Garland
- UNSW Art & Design
- Broadsheet
- ArtsHub
- Knitters Guild NSW
- Petals and Pins
- Cubby Space
- Arc UNSW
- Green Magazine
- Eastside Radio - Arts Thursday
- 2SER
Gadigal Mural
- SMH Photo of the Week
- Art & About Sydney
- Art Almanac
- Destination NSW
- Lord Mayor Clover Moore YouTube
- NSW Government Events
STEEL: art design architecture
1 February - April 2019
Explore the exhibition website here
2018
Sydney Craft Week
5 -14 October 2018
- Broadsheet
- UNSW Art and Design
- Green Magazine
- Museums and Galleries NSW
- Timeout
- SMH What's on
- Daily Telegraph - Weekend What’s on
- The Wentworth Courier
- Westfield Bondi Made by me
- Weekend notes
- Workshop
- Hello Asia
- Primrose paper
- Handweavers and Spinners guild
- UTS Library
- TAFTA
- Destination NSW
- Shared Threads
- Stanley St gallery
- Arts Hub
- The Sydney Connection
- ACCOR vacation club
- Made by me
- Bobbins and ink
- All Events
- Intercontinental Hotel what's on October
- FBi Radio Culture Guide
- MakerSpace and Co
- AGDA
- Studio Mu
- Artsnews portal
- Experience Sydney
- Bridget Kennedy
- Eastside Radio
- ABC Local radio National evenings
- ABC Sydney Weekends
Explore the Sydney Craft Week website here
Urban Decay: Joshua Smith
2 August - 26 September 2018
- Sydney Morning Herald
- TimeOut
- ABC News
- UTS Interior Architecture
- Sleek Design
- VICE
- Inner West Courier
- SBS Australia
- Broadsheet
- Sydney Morning Herald - Elizabeth Farrelly
- Architecture AU
Explore the Urban decay: Joshua Smith website here
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
Explore the WORKSHOPPED18 website here
Let's Tea Party: Taiwan Design Now
31 May - 13 June
To read selected media about the exhibition click on the titles below:
Explore the Let's Tea Party: Taiwan Design Now website here
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
To read selected media about the exhibition click on the titles below:
- Green Magazine
- Crafts Magazine
- In Design
- Sydney Design
- Art Month Sydney
- City of Sydney
- Artnews Portal
- Australian Financial Review Life and Leisure
- Sydney Morning Herald
- South Sydney Herald
- Red Room Company
- Art Month Sydney
- Broadsheet
- NETS Australia
Explore the Obsessed: Compelled to Make website here
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
To read selected media about the exhibition click on the titles below:
- UNSW Art and Design
- ADGA
- City of Sydney
- SBS Food
- SBS Korean News
- UNSW News room
- Institut Ranke Heinemann
- Packaging Review
- TAFTA news
- Anglo Systems
- Explore the Designing Bright Futures website here
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
To read selected media about the exhibition click on the titles below:
Explore the Bulay(i):Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Artists with Indigenous Jewellery Project website here
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
To read selected media about the exhibition click on the titles below:
Explore the Biotextilogy website here
FRACTURE: DIFFERENCES
The works of Shannon McGrath and Marcus Piper explore the interplay of light in abstract spatial environments.
17 August - 27 September 2017
To read selected media about the exhibition click on the titles below:
Explore the FRACTURE:DIFFERENCES website here
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
To read selected media about the exhibition click on the titles below:
Explore the Green Asylum website here
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
To read selected media about the exhibition click on the titles below:
- Grazia - A homecoming for young Australian designers
- 2SER - So hot this week
- mcontemporary
Explore the LOCAL MILAN website here
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
To read selected media about the exhibition click on the titles below:
- Daily Telegraph/ Wentworth Courier - Object Therapy exhibition shines a spotlight on transformative repair with broken items
- Green Magazine - creative repair and our attachment to objects
- Time Out Sydney
- Broadsheet Sydney
- UNSW News Room - The beauty of repair
- Fairfax videos
- Garland - The power of transformative repair
- ABC Sydney Weekends with Simon Marnie
- 1millionwomen - Broken Stuff Can Be Better Stuff: What I Learnt At A ‘Repair Fair’
- FBi radio - This week in Sydney
Explore the Object Therapy website here
Chili Philly: Crochet Social
The first major solo exhibition of crochet wearable art by Melbourne-based artist Phil Ferguson.
2 February - 29 March 2017
To read selected media about the exhibition click on the titles below:
- Central Sydney Magazine
- Daily Telegraph
- Concrete Playground
- Broadsheet Sydney
- Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival Guide
- Kitchen nine.com.au
- Sydney Arts Guide
- SBS Food
- Creative Sydney Mardi Gras Festival Guide
- 9news.com.au
- Urban List Top Five things to do
- The Design Writer
- Pedestrian TV
- The Daily Mail UK
- Australia Plus - ABC International
- 9now Today Show
- The Morning Show
- 2SER
- FBi Radio
- ABC Sydney Weekends - What's On
- Triple J Drive
- SMH What's on
- Concrete Playground - Makers Market
Explore the Chili Philly: Crochet Social website here
Image: Phil Fergus (Chili Philly) on Today Show with reporter Natalia Cooper. Photo: ADC