WORKSHOPPED20: Celebrating 20 Years of Australian Design was launched on Thursday 6 August. Four designs were awarded in the emerging, established and sustainable categories.
Australian Design Centre has been awarded $300,000 per year for the next four years in the NSW Government’s Create NSW Multi- Year Organisations Funding grant process.
ADC On Tour exhibition Obsessed: Compelled to make opens Saturday 1 August at Cowra Regional Art Gallery in New South Wales. ADC's CEO and Artistic Director Lisa Cahill spoke to Living Treasure Master of Australian Craft weaver Liz Williamson and a local Cowra artist with an international reputation, ceramicist Greg Daly, about their practice.
Australian Design Centre has been actively supporting the creative sector advocacy on multi-year Australia Council funding and Covid-19 support packages.
We’ve invited 100 designers/creative thinkers to document their thoughts on Covid-19, isolation, what ‘a new normal’ Australia might look like, how they are effected and how design might contribute to recovery post-pandemic.
ADC on behalf of the Australian Craft and Design Centres (ADCD) network ran an online sector survey over the month of May 2020 seeking to understand the specific impactof the Covid-19on Australian creative practitioners and arts workers.
Following government advice to close non-essential public spaces, Australian Design Centre will close to the public until further notice to help protect the health of all visitors and staff and minimise the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus).