ADC Maker Marketplace
ADC Saturday Maker Marketplace
Throughout 2025 ADC presents a regular Maker Marketplace on selected Saturdays at the Centre in Darlinghurst .
See the exhibitions, browse Object Shop, meet the artists and perhaps acquire a new handmade work for your collection.
When: Saturday 5 April 11am-3pm
Where: Australian Design Centre
Featuring: Marina Civiero + Small Impact Studio
Marina Civiero is a jewellery designer, working from her studio in the Inner West to create pieces inspired by fabrics, print design and nature.
Small Impact Studio is a sustainable hot glass studio, and is the project of co-creatives Scott Chaseling - who brings an international career as 35-years of practice to their glass designs - and jewellery Gina Fairley - who's practice dwells in a mix of materials that carry memory and notions of place.
When: Saturday 12 April 11am-3pm
Where: Australian Design Centre
Featuring: Gillian Hodes + YOU ARE BRAVE Textiles x Motion Ceramics
Gillian Hodes is a Sydney-based emerging ceramic artist, honing her nerikomi skills. For Gillian, this fascinating process is akin to drawing through the clay, as opposed to on its surface, with each piece becoming an interaction between clay and maker.
YOU ARE BRAVE Textiles is a Sydney based label known for its hand screen printed range of fabrics and table linen. While the raw fabrics are imported, the print designs are hand screen printed in small batches, locally by the designer, Michelle, in her Sydney studio. Michelle has collaborated with Jeff Crozier and Iris Rees of Motion Ceramics, to curate complete table sets with linen and ceramics.
When: Saturday 3 May 11am-3pm
Where: Australian Design Centre
Featuring: Love and West + Cobalt & Kin
Love and West is the studio of graphic designers, ecommerce specialist and avowed teatowelist Jude Love. A dedicated repurposer, Jude is inspired by finding new uses for existing fabrics.
Cobalt & Kin is the ceramic studio of ceramic artist Chrystie Longworth, making functional and non-functional colour saturated pieces. All works are made on Dharawal Country in a studio between high cliffs and the sea where verdant flora and fauna are a daily inspiration and functional and decorative ceramic pieces fit seamlessly into a slower, more considered pace of life.
When: Saturday 10 May 11am-3pm
Where: Australian Design Centre
Featuring: Ian Bell + Upcycled Glassware
Ian Bell is a wood artist working with sustainably sourced materials, primarily from windfallen trees. Using power and hand tools, Ian forms work that is partially painted, with visible wood grain indicating evidence of a life once lived. Carved into the painted surface are detailed patterns, described as a pixelated distillation of the naturally occurring design.
Upcycled Glassware is a sustainable glass studio led by Sydney-based artist Tanya Reinli. Their work transforms discarded glass bottles into functional tableware and unique art pieces.
When: Saturday 31 May 11am-3pm
Where: Australian Design Centre
Featuring: Byrnt Ceramics + Tea With Sofie
Byrnt Ceramics is the ceramic studio of artist Ruth Byrne. Working from her Orange-based studio, her work is influenced by her experience with pottery in Japan, China and her home landscape in Australia.
Tea with Sophie is the multidisciplinary studio of Asher Abergel based in Marrickville. As an industrial designer Asher uses his experience designing lighting and furniture to embrace a locally-focused, hands-on approach to his tableware practice.
When: Saturday 7 June 11am-3pm
Where: Australian Design Centre
Featuring: Gabby Malpas + Basketry NSW
Gabby Malpas is a Sydney-based, New Zealand raised, Chinese ceramic artist. Her work echoes traditional Chinese ceramics but using current materials, modern technology and local motifs.
Basketry NSW promotes an appreciation of basketry, contributes to keeping traditional basketry skills alive, and encourages exploration of new forms of artistic expression using basketry techniques. Their group of basketry enthusiasts, makers and collectors is based in New South Wales and have met regularly at Primrose Park Art and Craft Centre in Cremorne since mid-2012, following several earlier years gathering in members’ homes.
When: Saturday 14 June 11am-3pm
Where: Australian Design Centre
Featuring: Yamaneco Pottery + Amanda Donohue
Yamaneco Pottery is the studio of Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Sato. Now based in Sydney, Keiko's ceramics are supported by Japanese traditional skills, such as inlay and sgraffito, unique technics which bring beautiful harmonised texture to her works.
Amanda Donohue is a textile artist with over 25 years experience. Her creative practice incorporates hand stitching, shibori, felting, indigo dyeing and printmaking (both paper and fabric), often combining mediums, printing onto textiles or hand stitching into prints.
When: Saturday 21 June 11am-3pm
Where: Australian Design Centre
Featuring: Anna-Lisa Backlund + BRIC Ceramics
Anna-Lisa Backlund is a Sydney-based ceramic artist with an interest in achieving painterly effects influenced by a love of abstract artists, and growing up with the work of my late uncle, Australian abstract painter Paul Partos.
BRIC Ceramics is a collaboration between Claudia Basler Forbes and Ingrid Richardson which emerged from a mutual regard and admiration for each other’s strengths in ceramic practice and a shared love of nature-inspired art. Claudia’s skill in wheel-thrown vessels combine with Ingrid’s love of line and colour.