Recent News

Australian Design Centre’s boutique outdoor Makers Market is back for the first time in 2020! With a distinctly Darlinghurst vibe this is a friendly local street market that emerges in the morning and is gone by nightfall returning the streets to local people.

An update on the Australian Design Centre in the context of COVID-19. 

UNSW Art & Design, in partnership with Australian Design Centre, JamFactory and Design Tasmania, have been awarded an Australian Research Council linkage grant to investigate sustainable design using a transformative repair model. 

As part of Art Month's popular precinct series Art at Night: East Sydney, we will be open late for you to explore CONCRETE: art design architecture between 6-8pm.

ADC is pleased to be partnering again with DENFAIR to bring you the forth instalment of FRONT CENTRE, a platform for emerging Australian design. Apply before 28 February. 

On display in ADC Object Space Gallery from 31 January to 18 March is the exhibition Sweet Spot by textile designer and artist Julie Paterson. ADC's CEO Lisa Cahill had a chat with Julie about her fabric design label CLOTH and where she gets her inspiration. 

We are delighted to announce leading fibre artist Mavis Warrngilna Ganambarr as the tenth artist in the exhibition series Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft.

There is so much happening in Sydney these holidays.  We’ve rounded up our selection of the best exhibitions in town that we’re planning to visit over the break. 

In 2020, we present 17 exhibitions and over 100 events in our three gallery spaces, 12 ADC On Tour openings and 200+ citywide events for Sydney Craft Week.

The Australia Council has announced its new vision for a creatively connected Australia where creative enterprise is entrenched across society, industry and government as the  fuel that ignites our social, cultural and economic  success.