Recent News

Seed Stitch Contemporary Textile Awards is a new and exciting exhibition highlighting the abundance of textile artists in NSW and showcasing the progressive art form of textiles. We speak to the Seed Stitch Collective about the exhibition, which will be presented by the Australian Design Centre (ADC) during Sydney Craft Week.

We spoke to Annie Ivanova, author of “Taiwan by Design: 88 products for better living” to find out how she became interested in Taiwan and what to look out for in the showcase Let's Tea Party: Taiwan Design Now opening 31 May. 

Australian Design Centre (ADC) has been awarded an Australia Council grant to research and develop a new contemporary jewellery survey exhibition for a future national tour.

In 2017, ADC was successful in securing an Aboriginal Employment Program grant from Create NSW to employ a First Nations Creative Producer. Lucy Simpson and Dennis Golding, both exceptional creative people, talk with Lisa Cahill, CEO about their background and what they bring to this role. 

The Australian Design Centre is hosting a pop-up studio as part of the Australian Ceramics Open Studios 2018. 

ADC is celebrating International Museum Day with a range of activities in early May supporting the connection of museums with communities, cultural landscapes and the natural environment.

ADC's Annual Report of activities in 2017 and a preview of what’s in store for 2018. 

A short film about Sydney weaver Liz Williamson made by filmmaker Angus Lee Forbes for the Australian Design Centre (ADC) exhibition Obsessed: Compelled to make has been accepted into Real to Reel: The Craft Film Festival.

Founded in 2013, the Indigenous Jewellery Project (IJP) is the first nation-wide Indigenous Australian contemporary jewellery project. ADC CEO and Artistic Director Lisa Cahill spoke to IJP founding curator Emily McCulloch Childs about the project in preparation for the opening of Bulay(i):Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Artists with Indigenous Jewellery Project.

Biomedical engineer Professor Melissa Knothe Tate is turning art and science on their heads in her transdisciplinary, interactive exhibition, Biotextilogy: The Cellular Catwalk opening 6 October. We recently asked her about about the topic - “Handmade in a digital age” - and the questions "Why is craft important in a digital age? How does craft do good in the world? Why is it needed now more than ever?"