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

Bioplastic Futures: 3D Printing and the Maker Movement

9 Jun - 9 Jul

Australian Design Centre

Profile: Contemporary Jewellery and Object Award

4 Aug - 28 Sep

“We are all connected”: Chiharu Shiota’s State of Being in pictures

Looking at Chiharu Shiota’s art paradoxically offers an uncanny awareness of one’s bodily existence alongside the elusiveness of time. To see Shiota’s latest installation and works at Anna Schwartz Gallery is to be awe-struck.

Art Guide Australia

Feature

Eight artists painting outside the frame

“It’s not the last word in painting at all”: Like a Wheel That Turns at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) doesn’t focus on what painting is—but what painting can do.

Autumn Royal

Opinion

A Call to Arms Part II

Why aren’t more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in positions of power in the art world, and what needs to change? Wardandi (Nyoongar) Aboriginal woman and senior curator Clothilde Bullen explores these questions.

Clothilde Bullen

Interview

Food and art: 20 questions with Elizabeth Willing

Elizabeth Willing has transformed the way we think about food and contemporary art. Through sculpture, participatory events, performance, collages and installation, Willing has used materials from marzipan to sherbet to liquorice. Ahead of her upcoming exhibition at Tolarno Galleries, we asked Willing 20 insightful and fun questions.

Australian Design Centre

Australian Design Centre

Exhibitions

Australian Design Centre

Bioplastic Futures: 3D Printing and the Maker Movement

Australian Design Centre

Profile: Contemporary Jewellery and Object Award

Suggested Reading

Feature

“We are all connected”: Chiharu Shiota’s State of Being in pictures

Art Guide Australia

Feature

Eight artists painting outside the frame

Autumn Royal

Opinion

A Call to Arms Part II

Clothilde Bullen

Interview

Food and art: 20 questions with Elizabeth Willing

Tiarney Miekus

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Australian Design Centre

Australian Design Centre

Exhibitions

Australian Design Centre

Bioplastic Futures: 3D Printing and the Maker Movement

Australian Design Centre

Profile: Contemporary Jewellery and Object Award

Suggested Reading

Feature

“We are all connected”: Chiharu Shiota’s State of Being in pictures

Art Guide Australia

Feature

Eight artists painting outside the frame

Autumn Royal

Opinion

A Call to Arms Part II

Clothilde Bullen

Interview

Food and art: 20 questions with Elizabeth Willing

Tiarney Miekus

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