ADC On Tour in 2025

ADC On Tour is about supporting creative practice by connecting people with good design, contemporary making, and creative experiences.  

Last month at Yarrila Art Museum and Gallery (YAM), I had the pleasure of opening the ADC On Tour exhibition SIXTY with work by 22 excellent ceramic artists to a big crowd of several hundred people. Presented alongside SIXTY were three locally curated exhibitions (ceramics, video and textiles) designed specifically to complement the ADC On Tour exhibition and its firm focus on the handcrafted.  An ADC On Tour  exhibition is often a catalyst for creating more local platforms for Australian artists.  

Like many others our funding from Creative Australia has diminished in recent years. Somehow though, with the consistent support of the Federal Government’s Visions of Australia program, generous private funding and our regional and public gallery partners, for the moment we are able to continue to offer high quality experiences for audiences and national and international platforms for artists. 

ADC On Tour is a brilliant program with three exhibitions currently touring: contemporary jewellery, nineteen First Nations and other Australian artists, currently in Munich at Galerie Handwerk during the international festival with people from across the globe connecting with Australian work; SIXTY, with 22 ceramics artists, at YAM and then Canberra Potters; a joyous project re/JOY with Vipoo Srivilasa about stories of migration at JamFactory Seppeltsfield; and later this year we launch for tour the tenth Living Treasures: Master of Australian Craft exhibition with the incredible Helen Britton. This will be followed closely by the richest prize exhibition in our space the MAKE Award: Biennial Prize for Innovation in Australian Craft and Design which is an entirely donor funded program.

Many thanks to the artists who continue to entrust us with their work, our funders, supporters and touring partners and the audiences who take the time to engage with craft and design practice.

Now more than ever we need your support. Every dollar you donate up to $50,000 is matched. Please consider making a donation to our matched funding campaign before 31 May 2025.

Lisa Cahill - CEO and Artistic Director

Touring Exhibitions

The Familiar in the Foreign

Galerie Handwek, Munich

ADC is delighted to present work by 19 Australian artists at Galerie Handwerk in Munich for Munich Jewellery Week.

NOW - 17 April 2025
Max-Joseph-Straße 4,
80333 München, Germany

For more info, click here.

re/JOY

JamFactory, Seppeltsfield

Ceramic artist Vipoo Srivilasa's solo exhibition re/JOY is a collaborative community project incorporating precious, yet broken, ceramic objects from people each with their own story of migration to Australia.

JamFactory Seppeltsfield is the first in this ADC On Tour exhibition tour showing across Australia until 2027.

NOW - 22 June 2025
730 Seppeltsfield Rd,
Seppeltsfield SA
5355 Australia

For more info, click here.

SIXTY

Yarrila Arts and Museum, Coffs Harbour

SIXTY: The Journal of Australian Ceramics 60th Anniversary 1962–2022 is a special ADC On Tour exhibition project presented in partnership with The Australian Ceramics Association to acknowledge this significant anniversary.

The exhibition is in it's final days at Yarrila Arts and Museum before moving onto it's next venue at Canberra Potters.

NOW - 30 March 2025
Yarrila Arts and Museum
27 Gordon St,
Coffs Harbour NSW
2450 Australia

For more info, click here.

Donate Now to Double Your Impact

There are many ways that you can help us fund the work that we do in Sydney and across ADC's On Tour programming. With matched funding, from Creative Australia's Plus 1 initiative, we aim to raise $100,000 by 31 May 2025 to support innovation in Australian craft and design practice.

Join us to champion Australian creative innovators by donating to support Australian Design Centre to secure a future for projects like the MAKE Award: Biennial Prize for Innovation in Australian Craft and Design.

Every dollar that you give in support of innovation in craft and design will be doubled.