Australian Design Centre

Australian Design Centre is a leading centre for contemporary craft and design in Australia. It plays a critical role in building a significant design culture for this country by nurturing a nation of innovative makers and thinkers and inspiring audiences to use design in their lives.

Australian Design Centre

101—115 William Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW

02 9361 4555

australiandesigncentre.com

Tue to Saturday 11am – 4pm and by appointment. Closed Good Friday, ANZAC Day, Christmas, Boxing and New Year Day. Free Admission.

Exhibitions

Australian Design Centre

Sydney Craft Week

8 Oct - 17 Oct

Tamara Dean’s new show, in a new gallery: High Jinks in the Hydrangeas

The new regional gallery Ngununggula—based in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales—is opening with a show by Tamara Dean, considering the existentialism of the pandemic and recent bushfires. Within anxiety and uncertainty, Dean finds depth and lightheartedness.

Tracey Clement

Feature

Major museum leaders talk ‘Covid normal’

As Sydney galleries reopen this week, with Canberra and Melbourne not far behind, Australia’s most prominent museum leaders discuss the impacts and opportunities of the pandemic, and how they’re adapting to our new ‘Covid normal’.

Kelly Gellatly

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Frederick McCubbin: Whisperings in wattle boughs

“It transcends time and cultures,” says Geelong Gallery senior curator Lisa Sullivan of the well-known, perhaps even iconic, Frederick McCubbin painting A bush burial, 1890.

Barnaby Smith

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Pilar Mata Dupont traverses generations and geographies

The Argentinian-Australian artist’s solo exhibition at Moore Contemporary is grounded in extensive ancestral research.

Australian Design Centre

Australian Design Centre