Annual Report 2019
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Contents CEO’s Message
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Chair’s Message
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Vision and Values
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2019 Achievements
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Board and Committees
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ADC Team
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Creative Collaborators
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2019 in Review
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Exhibitions
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Object Space
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Sydney Craft Week Festival
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Indigenous Programs
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International Focus
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Object Shop
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ADC on Tour
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Events and Learning
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Object Platform
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Digital Programs
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Award Winners
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Research and Development
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Creative Program 2020
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Partners and Donors
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“ADC has done the Australian public the great service of showcasing our important craftspeople, celebrating their work and honouring their place in our cultural landscape … this organisation, this venue and this magnificent exhibition embody that capacity for arts and culture to bring people together.” - Adrian Collette AM, CEO of the Australia Council Opening remarks at launch of Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables 2019
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CEO’s message Lisa Cahill This year Australian Design Centre marked five years in Darlinghurst. Delivering programs locally and touring nationally to connect artists, designers and makers with audiences is what we do – promoting Australian craft and design globally across our multitude of platforms. The impact we generate is huge – working with over 1000 artists across our programs; generating direct income for artists of $250,000 in 2019 and indirectly much more; 81 creative partnerships with other organisations; 22 exhibitions; 396 events; an audience of over 225,000 people – for an organisation with just seven full time equivalent positions. This is only possible through the many, many collaborations we forge with creative practitioners, partners, donors, audiences and the local community. A standout project in 2019 was the launch of the next edition of our major series of ADC On Tour exhibition projects Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft with acclaimed ceramic artist and potter Prue Venables. Working with Prue to bring this project to fruition was a joy and I know that many people who have seen the exhibition on tour have thoroughly enjoyed connecting with Prue and seeing her magnificent work. Five different ADC on Tour projects landed in 15 different regional and metropolitan locations across Australia in 2019 with some fabulous outcomes. We thank Visions of Australia, the Australia Council for the Arts, Create NSW and our venue partners for their ongoing support for our touring program.
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Opening the exhibition Living Treasures Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables, Adrian Collette AM, CEO of the Australia Council said: “ For 15 years since the launch of the Living Treasures series, the ADC has done the Australian public the great service of showcasing our important craftspeople, celebrating their work and honouring their place in our cultural landscape … this organisation, this venue and this magnificent exhibition embody that capacity for arts and culture to bring people together … I’d especially like to acknowledge the work of ADC to champion the vital role of Aboriginal craft and design in our culture.” Here in Sydney our First Nations Creative producers and artist Jason Wing brought to life a collaboration with the City of Sydney, the Art and About project Gadigal Mural. Painted by the team at Cracknell Lonergan Architects Gadigal Mural stretches across the back of our building in Barnett Lane connecting ADC as a contemporary place of making with the first makers on this land. Featuring in our 2019 Sydney program were exhibitions and events that traversed many of the disciplines of contemporary craft and design including industrial design, architecture, furniture, lighting, jewellery, textiles, hybrid practice, ceramics, technology and the impact of design on the future of work. For our first exhibition for the year we presented STEEL: art design architecture curated by our partners at JamFactory and presented in collaboration with our William Street neighbours Stylecraft. It was a privilege to bring such a fine exhibition to Sydney. Similarly, in April we presented Island Welcome, an exhibition, curated and toured by Belinda Newick, that focused on contemporary jewellery as a gesture of welcome and commentary on refugee and immigration policy. The Teapot Project had its inaugural presentation with us in April. The project encapsulates what Australian Design Centre is about – a collision of craft and design; and the innovation and industry that is created when collaboration is central to the process. Other collaborative exhibition projects included WORKSHOPPED19, Small Tapestries from the Australian Tapestry Workshop, new design by students from UNSW Art and Design and the inaugural partnership exhibition with the Jewellery and Metalsmiths Group of NSW, Profile. Sydney Craft Week, the annual festival we produce for the whole of Sydney, was held for the third year running with substantial support from the City of Sydney and various community and corporate partners. Embraced by professional makers and the community the festival continues to go from success to success.
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Our retail platforms Object Shop and Makers Markets enable us to support hundreds of artists each year selling their unique, handmade, collectible work to enthusiastic collectors. In 2019 we also undertook our strategic planning for the next four years, this is the centrepiece for making our case to our funding partners to continue support for the organisation into the future. As part of this work many people wrote letters of support for us including these generous words from jeweller, educator, writer and curator Melinda Young, “As a crafts practitioner, the Australian Design Centre has played a formative and crucial role in the development of my creative and professional practice over the 20 years that I have been working in the field. Over the past 3 years I have been delighted to observe and engage with the ADC in an increasingly meaningful way. The ADC, under the dynamic, community facing steerage of Lisa Cahill and her excellent team, has blossomed into an inclusive, generously supportive organisation that reflects and represents the craft and design community of Sydney (and beyond). In addition to delivering a consistently dynamic and thoughtfully curated in-house exhibition program, the ADC presents touring exhibitions from around Australia and overseas in its exhibition spaces, all of which are supported by a broad range of outstanding public programs and education resources. However perhaps the most significant achievement of this dynamic, forward-facing organisation is the inception in 2017 of Sydney Craft Week, deftly filling a space in the cultural calendar of Sydney. As a maker I cannot begin to express the importance of this event. I wonder what we did before? Through Sydney Craft Week, the ADC has provided an umbrella for a community to come together; links have been forged between disciplines, collaborations, conversations; a sense of revival and value have been established.� Huge thanks to everyone who has supported ADC in 2019, from our team to our volunteer board of directors, the many and varied partners across all of our activities, the artists who are at the core of what we do and the community who connects and engages with us across the year – your support for creative practice is essential for a creative Australia.
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Chair’s message Diana D’Ambra
Australian Design Centre is a key contributor to growing Australia’s creative economy. Our vision is to lead the development of robust platforms that ignite creativity and ideas in the best of craft and design. Through our exhibition, touring and learning programs ADC brings the power of making to new audiences and inspires us to use design to transform our lives. At the same time, we are nurturing and helping artists develop their full potential. On behalf of the ADC Board I am very proud to report a year of strong growth in the level of activity and support for Australian Design Centre. The number of artists that participate in our programs grew over 1000 in 2019 with over $250,000 generated in income directly for artists. Audiences visiting the Centre and touring exhibitions around the country doubled in 2019 on the previous year and digital engagement is growing exponentially across all our platforms. This is a major feat for the small team of seven led by CEO Lisa Cahill. The Board thank our staff, creative collaborators, partners, donors, volunteers and audiences who made 2019 a great year in contemporary craft and design.
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Vision and values Our Vision Australian Design Centre is a major contemporary craft and design organisation igniting creative ideas and building cultural vibrancy. We take a lead role developing and supporting Australia’s craftspeople and designers to build audiences for their work globally. We do this through our extensive exhibition, festival, touring, retail, publishing and learning platforms.
Our Values • We are an ethical organisation committed to contributing to the creative lives of all Australians. • Our platforms provide opportunities for creative practitioners to experiment, test new ideas and push the boundaries of innovation across design and contemporary craft to build a better Australia. • We champion Australian Indigenous makers and designers, offering spaces for learning, dialogue and storytelling – places to make and share culture. • We connect and build audiences across Australia in cities and regional centres and globally by sharing our content. • We support and nurture diversity across age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race and religion. • We foster connection and collaboration within our team and with our stakeholders so that collectively we can grow our contribution to Australian culture. • We take pride in our history and ensure that our governance and operations are robust and financially sustainable for the future.
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2019 Achievements Artist Participation 182 exhibiting artists
374 374 182 104 40 70
makers in Object Shop Exhibiting 104 artists Makers in 40 Object Shop stall holders market Market stall holders 70 artists participating Artists participating in Sydney Craft Week in
artists artists
Sydney Craft Week
Audience Attendance
225,592 225,592 audience audience
224,652 exhibition attendance Sydney
224,652 Exhibition attendance Sydney 70,927 ADC 69,931 ADC On on TourTour audiences 69,000 Sydney Craft Week audiences 69,000 Sydney Craft Week
Exhibitions and Events
4,939 4,939
event event attendance attendance
15 ADC Sydney exhibitions 62 ADC events 15 ADC Sydney Sydney exhibitions 62 ADC Sydney events 150+Sydney Sydney Craft Craft WeekWeek events 150+ events 4 ADC On Tour exhibitions 4 ADC on Tour exhibitions
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Income Generated for Artists
$180,500 $38,000 $17,000 $73,500 $51,500
Object Shop revenue for artists Exhibition sales Exhibition artist fees Sales by artists at ADC Makers Markets
Communications 144,187 10,000 10,000 13,000 7500 7389 81,000 8000 5000
ADC website page views ADC eDM subscribers Facebook followers ADC Instagram followers ADC Twitter followers Views of ADC films watched online Sydney Craft Week website page views Sydney Craft Week eDM subscribers Sydney Craft Week social media followers
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Board and Committees Board of Directors 2019 Diana D’Ambra (Chair), Shannon Davis Jenny Green, Frank Howarth, Bridget Kennedy, and Andrew Simpson.
The Observership Program ADC participates in The Observership Program where participants complete a year long program and observe a not-for- profit Board. Sophie Robertson continued in 2019.
ADC Advisers Many people have given us invaluable advice about aspects of programming across the year. We thank them and the many others who provide us with their time and expertise.
ADC on Tour Advisory Group Deborah Abrahams, Andrew Glassop, Kingsley Mundey and Brian Parkes.
Sydney Craft Week Advisory Group Sky Carter, Liza Feeney, Felix Gill, Bridget Kennedy, Deb McDonald and Janine Smith.
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ADC Team CEO and Artistic Director
Finance and Operations
Lisa Cahill
Meghan Hay Financial Controller and Company Secretary
Strategy, Partnerships and Communications Penny Craswell Creative Strategy Associate Alix Fiveash Par tnerships and Communications Manager
Program Delivery Rhadi Bryant Programs Manager
Kylie Walsh Administration and Event Coordinator
Installers Justin Henderson, Robert Pulie, Jesse Rye, and Tom Thorby Lister.
Professional Experience Program Interns
Hana Hoogedeure Programs Coordinator
Lora Adzic Sarah Alsaimery Leila Frijat Mutiara Nada Mayra Hana Robinson Liam Wheatley
Anna May Kirk Programs Assistant
Volunteers
Lucy Simpson Australian First Nations Creative Producer
Rachel Bickovsky Amy Ge Yuyang Qin
Fiona Pulford Programs Manager
Dennis Golding Australian First Nations Creative Producer
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2019 Creative Collaborators We have the honour of working with so many talented people. Whether they be makers, designers, architects, visual artists, writers, filmmakers, art workers or performers crossing the divide, each and every one of them contribute to our diverse creative program offering. A Handmade Life Collective AGDA Alexander Ghent Alexis Eclectic Alice Whish Alisa Newey Alison Britton Alison Jackson Alison Thompson AM PM Ceramics Amy Jones Studio Amy Tamblyn Amy Ranck and Stephanie Chambers Anna Davern Andrea Bandoni Andrew Cooks Andrew Simpson Annette Huston & family Annabel Stevens Annie Rofe Designs Anthony Brink Angela Porritt Angus Easthope Angus Lee Forbes Anthill Construction Aphra Cheesman Arlene Textaqueen Art & About Art Month Arterie at Lifehouse Arthur Koutoulas Artist Profile Magazine Artshub Artspace Mackay ASRC Ayako Niki
Baluk Arts Barry Gardner Basketry NSW Beers & Balls Crochet Club Belinda Newick Benconservato Ben Edols Ben Styles Benja Harney Benjamin Jay Shand Bianca Papadopoulos Bic Tieu Blue Mountains Cultural Centre BoConcept Boya Yu Bradley Fleming Bradley Pike Bridget Bodenham Bridget Kennedy British Council BOKOR Brodie Neill Burnie Regional Art Gallery BVN Byrnt Ceramics
Cheree Edwards Chris Meredith Christian Hall Christina McLean Christopher de la Motte City of Sydney Clare Hooper Clare Mazitelli ClassBento Cleonie Quayle CODA Colin Hopkins and Ilona Topolcsanyi Collins & Turner COMMUNE Corban and Blair Corr Blimey (Louisa de Smet and Steven Wright) COX Architecture Cracknell & Lonergan Craft Council UK Craft NSW Craft Victoria Craig Donarski Craig Hiron Creative Jive Curious Tales
Calum Hurley Carlo Giannasca Carola Akindele-Obe Catherine Large CATO Logistics Catia Single Cathy Cao Central Coast Council Chauvel Cinema Chelsea Lemon
Dale Hardiman Dan Lorimer Daniel Emma (Daniel To Emma Aiston) Daniela Walder Danielle Barrie Danielle Lo Danni Xu David Beck David Mennie
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The Deaf Society Denise McDonald DesignByThem Diane Connal Dianne Beevers Digital Press Dinosaur Designs Dennis Golding DM Pottery Doodad and Fandango Dora Ferenczi Dylan Martorell E.Lulu Handmade Eden Gardens Eggpicnic Ella Williams Elbowrkshp (Elliat Rich and James B. Young) Ellie Tessa Godworth Elisa Bartels Elise Cakebread Elizabeth Curry elph store Embroiderers’ Guild NSW Emma Sulzer Emi Ceramics Emil and Nomel Emily Besser Emily Copp Emily MuCulloch Childs Emily Valentine Bullock Emma Field Emma Greenwood End2End Events Erin Keys Evangeline-Lulu Ropert FBi Radio Felix Gill Finnoula MarcoolynLindsay Fiona Meller Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens Fourtynine Studio Forough Najarbehbahani Franchesca Cubillo
Francisca Rendic Gabriella Bisetto Gaffa Creative Precinct Gary Warner Geoff Nees George Shvili Gill Brooks Gillian Hodes Girl Nomad Ceramics Glasshouse Port Macquarie Grace Cochran Green Fix Gretal Ferguson Gunybi Ganambarr Guy Keulemans Halie Rubenis Hamilton Gallery Hannah Rother Hannaneh Qiumarsi Haozhe Wang Harriet Schwarzrock Hayden Youlley Design Hazelhurst Arts Centre Heidi McKenzie Helen Chen Helen Earl Helen Wyatt Hendrik Forster Henry Wilson Herbert and Friends Hilary Green Honor Freeman Hum Design Studio Husque Ian Bromley Ian Robertson Incinerator Art Space IndesignMediaAsiaPacific Inhnen Atelier Jewellery Irene Barberis Isabel Avendano Hazbun Isabella Lowe Isabelle Aileen Toland JamFactory
Jane Bowden Jane Reynolds Jane Theau Janine Combes Janos Korban The Japan Foundation, Sydney Jason Wing Jeanie Mulligan Jeff McCann Jennifer Newton Ceramics Jennifer Robertson Jess Dare Jess Scully Jessika Dawnn Jessthechen Jewels on Queen Jude Love Judi Singleton Julie Paterson JMGA-NSW John Dicks Journal of Australian Ceramics Julie Pennington Jon Cattapan Jon Goulder Jordan Fleming Jordan Leeflang Karin Huchatz Karmme Dr Kate Dunn Kate Rohde Kate Sale Kate Swinson Kath Inglis Katherine Hubble Katherine Mahoney Kathleen Prentice Keiko Matsui Kenan Wang Kenji Uranishi Kenny Son Kensuke Todo Kerrie Lowe Gallery Kevin Murray Kieran Cato
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Kil.n.t experimental ceramics studio Kim Morrell Kirralee & Co Kirsten Junor Knitters Guild NSW inc Korban/ Flaubert Korean Cultural Centre Kristi Pupo & Anna Battersby Kristina Neumann Kylie Walsh Kyoko Hashimoto Larah Nott Laura McCusker Lauren Simeoni Laurie Aznavoorian Leanne Gibson Leo and Ramona Monk Leonie Simpson Liam Mugavin Linda Blair Lisa Holzl Lisa Scott Lise Anderson Lismore Regional Gallery Little Rowan Redhead Liv Boyle Liz Williamson Liza Bahamodes Liza Feeney Little Rowan Redhead Liz Williamson Lizzy Medynskyj Lola Greeno Lorraine Connelly-Northey Louise Weaver Love and West Lucy Morton Lucy Simpson Luke Abbot Luna & Co Designs Ly Dinu Lyn Balzer and Tony Perkins Macquarie Hills Potters Made By Me Workshop Mamma Creatives
Manning Regional Art Gallery Manon van Kouswijk Marcia Swaby Margaret Hancock Davis Margot Design Margot Warre Mari Funaki Marika Strohschnieder Marika Svikis Marissa Ziesing Mark Elliot Glass Matthew Degen Matthew Harding Maunsell Wickes Gallery Maureen Faye-Chauhan Megan Turton Melanie Ihnen Melinda McMahon Melinda Young Milly Dent Milly Formby Min-Jung Kim Michael Hoppe Michaela Pegum Michelle Cangiano Michelle Stemm Minji Han Mio Kuhnen Misho+Associates Mitchell Mooney modernmurri Modfab Monique Van Nieuwland Monster Mouse Studios Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Nadya van Ewyk Naomi Taplin Nardi Simpson Natalie Rosin Native Swinson Nellie Peoples NeshmART Ceramic Gallery & Studio Neville French The New Artisans Gallery
Nicholas Tay Meng-Kiat Nicky Hepburn Nicola Coady Nicolas Locane Nicole Robins Nicolette Aureli Niklavs Rubenis North Sydney Community Centre Northern Beaches Council Nuts n Bolts Design Odee OFFICE & the Culpra Milli Aboriginal Corporation Olaf Sialkowski Oliver Smith Outer Island Paula do Prado Pennie Jagiello Dr Peter Emmett Peter Lonergan Peter McCarthy Phillipa Cowdrey Pia Larsen Pierre Cavalan Pittwater Artists Trail Province of Brittany Prue Venables Public Holiday Qiaoyi Zhang QuiltNSW Radiant Pavillion Raymond Scott Reanne Chidiac Rebecca Hinwood Rebecca Moulton Regina Krawets Rhett D’Costa Richard Whiteley Richilde Flavell Rita Orsini Rohan Nicol Rokoco Romana Toson
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Roshani Chanani Rosie Gunzburg Rowena Chalton Rui Kikuchi Rumpus Rhys Cooper Ruby Clarke Sabbia Gallery Sabine Pagan Saint Cloche Sairi Yoshizawa Samuel Farmer Sarah Barlow Sarah Clark Sarah Tracton Sari Tredinnick Dr Sasha Alexander Sassy Park School of Design, UTS Scoops Design Scott Mitchell Sean O’Connell Seaton McKeon Seed Stitch Collective Sew Make Create Shala Namvar Shan Shan Mok Shana Danon Signwave Newtown Sim Luttin Simon Cottrell Simply Native Japan Skein Sisters Sky Carter Colour SMaRT@UNSW Sophia Emmett Sophie Cooper Squarepeg Studios Stanley Street Gallery STEAMpop Stephanie Flaubert Stephen Goddard Studio A Studio Enti Studio Onethirty Stylecraft/Stylecraft HOME Studio Woodworkers
Australia The Sydney Connection Sue Lorraine Susannah Bourke Suzanne McRae svikis Sydney Design Festival Sydney East Art Walk Sylvia Riley Designs S.Rush TACA Taerim Claire Jeon Tamworth Regional Gallery Tania Rollond Tapestry Girl Tara Lofhelm Terence Bogue The Raconteur The Rum Club Thought Collider (Mike Thompson and Susana Cámara Leret) Tim Ross Timna Taylor Tjanpi Desert Weavers Tjunkaya Tapaya Tom Furneaux Tony Hobba Architects Torunn Higgins TRADE the MARK Trent Jansen
Museum Workshop 85 Ximena Natanya Briceno Xue Lun Yeong Yi Jen Chu Yiqing Pei YO.DAN Yutaka Ohtaki Zara Collins Zoë Pollitt Zoe Veness Zuku Jewellery
Ulrica Trulsson UNSW Art & Design UTS Vanessa Ion Vianney Hunter Vicki Mason Vipoo Srivilasa Virginia Sprague Waverley Makers Craft + Design Program Wildfibres Woodfolk The Workshops Rail
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2019 in Review
STEEL: art design architecture 1 February – 3 April
Island Welcome 11 April – 5 June
The Teapot Project 11 April – 5 June
Gadigal Mural Opening 30 May
WORKSHOPPED19 14 June – 24 July
Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables 1 August – 25 September
GIANTS: Isabel Avendano Hazbun 1 August – 25 September
PROFILE 2019: Contemporary Jewellery Award 3 October – 13 November
Response: Small Tapestries by Australian Tapestry Workshop 3 October – 13 November
Sydney Craft Week 11 October – 20 October
Designing Bright Futures 21 November – 22 January
ADC On Tour
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2019 Key Activities
January
April
Exhibition: Designing Bright Futures 2019
Exhibitions: Island Welcome and The Teapot Project Event: Garland Sydney magazine launch
February Exhibition: STEEL: art design architecture
May
Workshops: Korean Cultural Centre
Event: Gadigal Mural Project officially launched by Lord Mayor Clover Moore Australia Council for the Arts grant awarded to ADC On Tour Event: Woodworkers Australia two day Event: Street Signage, Design and Lived Behaviour for VIVID Ideas
March Accessible tours of STEEL: Deaf and HON Tours, AUSLAN interpreted as part of Sydney Design Festival Event: ADC Makers Market as part of Sydney Design Festival Event: Studio A’s Lisa Scott launch
June Exhibition: WORKSHOPPED 19 ADC awarded Australia Council for the Arts grant to produce and tour new exhibition – Made/ Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery. Event: ADC Friends & Supporters Function
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2019 Key Activities
July Workshops: Gadigal Artefact 3D Printing workshops during NAIDOC Exhibition: Object Space Gadigal Mural display as part of NAIDOC week celebrations Event: My Job in 2030: Speculating on the Future of Work
October
August
Exhibitions: PROFILE 19: Contemporary Australian Jewellery and Response: Small Tapestries by Australian Tapestry Workshop
Exhibition: Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft\ Prue Venables opened by Adrian Collette CEO Australia Council for the Arts Exhibition: GIANTS Isabel Avandeno Hazbun ADC hosts pop up studio as part of Australian Ceramics Open Studios Event: ADC hosted JamFactory Fuse Glass Prize 2020 preview
Event: Sydney Craft Week third annual festival launched Event: ADC Makers Market
November Workshops: Korean Cultural Centre Partnership: Yeomsaek Cloth Dyeing & Jogakbo Exhibition: Designing Bright Futures 2019
September Event: ADC presents Reel to Real: The Craft Film Festival
December
ADC awarded NSW Government’s My Community Project funding for Indigenous Edible Garden
2020 Program Launch Event: Christmas at Object Shop
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STEEL: art design architecture 1 February – 3 April 2019 Gallery I, Gallery II and Object Space Artists: Dan Lorrimer | Geoff Nees | Gunybi Ganambarr | Kensuke Todo | Korban/ Flaubert | Lorraine Connelly-Northey | Mari Funaki | Matthew Harding | Sean O’Connell | Oliver Smith Designers: Alison Jackson | Barry Gardner | Brodie Neill | Christian Hall | Craig Hiron | DesignBy Them | Maureen Faye-Chauhan | Sabine Pagan | Seaton McKeon | Simon Cottrell | Sue Lorraine | Trent Janson Architects: Anthill Construction | BVN | CODA | Collins and Turner | COX Architecture | Misho + Associates | Tony Hobba Architects
STEEL: art design architecture was a popular exhibition, demonstrating the benefits of ADC’s ongoing relationship with JamFactory in Adelaide, hosting exhibitions and partnering in the national network of Australian Craft and Design Centres (ACDC). Showcasing a range of work across art, design and architecture, from fine, hand-crafted jewellery to high-tech research facilities, this exhibition illustrates the strength of contemporary practice in Australia through the 29 exhibitors. This includes outstanding work by First Nations artists including Gunybi Ganambarr, whose etched steel work Ngalkan was exhibited in Object Space during the exhibition. ADC partnered with StylecraftHome to present a selection of works from the exhibition in the Stylecraft showroom, which is located directly opposite the Centre. STEEL: art design architecture is a major JamFactory touring exhibition.
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Island Welcome 11 April – 5 June Gallery I Artists: Jane Bowden | Liv Boyle | Michelle Cangiano | Jess Dare | Anna Davern | Nicky Hepburn | Kath Inglis | Pennie Jagiello | Manon van Kouswijk | Sim Luttin | Vicki Mason | Belinda Newick | Lauren Simeoni | Lucy Simpson | Alice Whish | Melinda Young Highlighting the power of art to address significant social issues in society, Island Welcome addresses Australia’s response to refugees and migrant groups through contemporary jewellery. Inspired by the welcome garlands of many traditional island cultures, these contemporary jewellers each made a neckpiece, lei or garland for this exhibition, facilitating a quiet contemplative experience of adornment as a vehicle for political discourse, empathy and shared humanity. The exhibition was first shown at Radiant Pavilion: Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial in 2017 and then Craft Victoria in 2018. Additional artists were included and made new pieces for this iteration of the exhibition.
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The Teapot Project: Hendrik Forster and Kenny Son 11 April – 5 June Gallery II Artists: Hendrik Forster | Kenny Yong-soo Son Showcasing excellence in design and making, The Teapot Project is a unique collaboration between master gold and silversmith Hendrik Forster and object maker and designer Kenny Yong-soo Son. The exhibition consists of a series of 30 teapots displayed alongside documentation of the production process. Three of the exhibition works were acquired by Powerhouse Museum for the state collection. The project encapsulates what Australian Design Centre is about – a collision of craft and design; and the innovation and industry that is created when collaboration is central to the process. Hendrik Forster and Kenny Son fuse craftsmanship, engineering, ingenuity and creativity to create a ubiquitous domestic item that is at once functional, beautiful and completely unique. Running through the human relationships created out of this collaboration is a sense of community and a commitment to craft and cultural custodianship. This project raises the importance and value of craft. Craft reminds us to consider what is really important and to value humanity, intimacy and quality.
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WORKSHOPPED 19 14 June – 24 July 2019 Gallery I Designers: Alexander Ghent | Alisa Newey | Angus Easthope | Arthur Koutoulas | Benjamin Jay Shand & Nicolas Locane | Ben Styles | Bianca Papadopoulos | Cathy Cao & Nicholas Tay Meng-Kiat | Calum Hurley | David Beck | David Mennie | Dora Ferenczi | Elisa Bartels | Ella Williams | Forough Najarbehbahani | George Shvili | Helen Chen | Ian Bromley | Isabella Lowe | Jeanie Mulligan | Jordan Fleming | Jordan Leeflang | Kate Swinson | Kathleen Prentice | Kenan Wang | Michael Hoppe | Mitchell Mooney | OFFICE & the Culpra Milli Aboriginal Corporation | Rhys Cooper | Ruby Clarke | Sarah Tracton | Sari Tredinnick | Seaton McKeon | Xue Lun Yeong | Yiqing Pei
This was the second year that ADC partnered with Sydney design firm Workshopped to present this outstanding annual showcase of contemporary Australian furniture, lighting and object design, again elevating the platform to bring national exposure to exhibiting designers. WORKSHOPPED19 presented 37 works that answered the brief ‘fit for purpose’, and displayed a strong focus on reduced living spaces, collaborative environments, sustainability and new technologies. This project represents ADC’s commitment to Australian furniture, object and lighting design. All pieces were prototypes designed for manufacture, and to fostering new talent, with many of the designers exhibited practising for five years or less.
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Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables 1 August – 25 September 2019 Gallery I Artist: Prue Venables Living Treasures is a series of solo exhibitions honouring eminent Australian craftspeople, celebrating their mastery of skill, their achievements and the unique place they occupy in the national design culture. Acclaimed ceramicist Prue Venables is the ninth artist in the Australian Design Centre’s series Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft. Prue Venables’ sculptural artworks possess clarity, luminosity and a quiet beauty. The works in this exhibition explore the significance of everyday objects through multiple sequences of forms in porcelain, with additional elements in metal and wood. The forms are simple and elegant, with a minimal colour palette and create a distinctive visual language.
Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables is an ADC On Tour national touring exhibition opening at fifteen locations across Australia from 2019 to 2022, accompanied by a film made by Angus Lee Forbes. An education kit was produced for this exhibition by Melinda Young. A full-length book was designed by Ian Robertson and included essays by Prue Venables, Alison Britton OBE and Neville French, supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation. Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft\ Prue Venables was researched, developed and curated by ADC under a Visions of Australia research grant and is ADC’s major national touring exhibition for 2019-2022 with the tour also supported by the Federal Government’s Visions of Australia program.
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GIANTS: Isabel Avendano Hazbun 1 August - 25 September Gallery II Artist: Isabel Avendano Hazbun
GIANTS was an exhibition focused on a feminist exploration of dress and adornment, created by textile designer, furniture and object maker Isabel Avendano Hazbun. GIANTS suggested dress as a universal, non-verbal and accessible language that can be used as a tool to subvert gender conditioning. The diversity of these hand-made wearables and sculptures related to the multiplicity and complexity of womankind and were made from an assortment of readily available materials such as fibre, wire, recycled tyre inner tubes, yoga-mats and timber.
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PROFILE 19: Contemporary Jewellery Award 3 October – 13 November 2019 Gallery I Emerging designers: Boya Yu | Bradley Pike | Catia Single | Daniela Walder | Ellie Tessa | Evangeline-Lulu Ropert | Finnoula Marcoolyn-Lindsay | Hannaneh Qiumarsj | Haozhe Wang | Katherine Hubble | Kim Morrell | Kirsten Junor | Kristina Neumann | Marissa Ziesing | Michaela Pegum | Nellie Peoples | Qiaoyi Zhang | Reanne Chidiac | Regina Krawets | Rosie Gunzburg | Sarah Barlow | Yi Jen Chu | Zoë Pollitt Established designers: Alice Whish | Angela Porritt | Aphra Cheesman | Bic Tieu | Bridget Kennedy | Catherine Large |Cheree Edwards | Clare Hooper | Danielle Barrie | Danielle Lo | Danni Xu |Diane Connal | Dianne Beevers | Elizabeth Curry | Emily Copp | Emily Valentine Bullock | Emma Field | Felix Gill | Fiona Meller | Francisca Rendic | Gretal Ferguson | Halie Rubenis | Helen Wyatt | Jane Reynolds | Janine Combes | Jesika Dawnn | Kyoko Hashimoto | Larah Nott | Linda Blair | Lucy Morton | Luke Abbot | Marcia Swaby | Marika Strohschnieder | Marika Svikis | Megan Turton | Melinda McMahon | Melinda Young | Michelle Stemm | Minji Han | Mio Kuhnen | Nadya van Ewyk | Pierre Cavalan | Rebecca Hinwood | Romana Toson | Rowena Chalton | Rui Kikuchi | Sabine Pagan | Samuel Farmer | Sean O’Connell | Shan Shan Mok | Virginia Sprague | Ximena Natanya Briceño | Zara Collins | Zoe Veness
Profile ’19: Contemporary Jewellery Award is the result of a strategic partnership between ADC and the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia NSW Chapter Inc (JMGA-NSW). In presenting this jewellery, object and metalsmithing exhibition, with the work of 77 artists, all of whom are members of JMGA-NSW. Awards were presented for both emerging and established artists and the project also included Floor Talks and Jewellery Bench Demonstrations by exhibiting artists coinciding with Sydney Craft Week.
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Response: Small Tapestries 3 October – 13 November Gallery II Artists: Arlene Textaqueen | Rhett D’Costa | Irene Barberis | Andrew Cooks| Judi Singleton | Jon Cattapan. Weavers: Emma Sulzer | John Dicks | Rebecca Moulton | Milly Formby | Hilary Green | Hannah Rother. Response: Small Tapestries, an exhibition project from the Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW), showcased a diverse range and depth of interpretive responses by ATW studio weavers to designs by contemporary Australian artists. This active collaboration between ATW and ADC helps to ensure this traditional art form is kept alive and thriving in Australia. ADC and ATW are both members of the national network of Australian Craft and Design Centres (ACDC).
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Designing Bright Futures 2019 21 November – 22 January Gallery I
This is the fourth year of ADC’s collaboration with UNSW Art & Design presenting the best work from graduating Bachelor of Design and Masters of Design students. An important launching pad for students transitioning from university into the design industry, this exhibition encompassed a range of different media, from graphics to furniture, spatial design to objects. The exhibition is compiled from work submitted to ADC after a call for entries each year, with selected works chosen by a panel of experts – in 2019 this is Alice Springs-based designer Elliat Rich, Stephen Goddard (UNSW Art & Design) and Lisa Cahill (ADC). Awards are presented for outstanding work helping students to demonstrate design excellence in their graduating work for use in their future careers.
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Indigenous Programs Gadigal Mural The City of Sydney’s Art & About Sydney program partnered with ADC to produce a new public artwork, the Gadigal Mural, which was launched by Lord Mayor Clover Moore on Thursday 30 May 2019. The Mural was designed by Sydney artist Jason Wing, with First Nations Creative Producers Dennis Golding and Lucy Simpson for Australian Design Centre (ADC). It features curved and circular lines referencing the geographical formations of Sydney lands and waters as well as the paths formed by Gadigal people before European Settlement. The word ‘bangawarra’ incorporated into the mural means ‘make’ or ‘do’ in Gadigal language. The Gadigal people are the original Aboriginal inhabitants of the City of Sydney local area – Aboriginal people have always lived in Sydney. In 1925, a stone axe was found more than five metres below the surface during construction work at the corner of William and Riley Streets in East Sydney. Almost eighty years later in 2003 the remains of an Aboriginal campsite were uncovered around the same location during archaeological excavations before the construction of an apartment building. Subsequently archaeologists working with the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, excavated an area of over 60 square metres of soil by hand in 1m x 1m squares to obtain as much information about the site as possible. Together with the initial excavations, they found around 400 stone artefacts. This project was made possible with the support of Cracknell & Lonergan Architects, a multi-disciplinary architecture and design practice with directors Peter Lonergan and Julie Cracknell. Their mural painting team for this project included Tom Furneaux (Lead Painter) with Christopher de la Motte and Nicolette Aureli. The Gadigal Mural project was produced in consultation with the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council. This project was curated by ADC’s First Nations Creative Producers Lucy Simpson and Dennis Golding. The First Nations Creative Producer role was supported by Create NSW.
Red Ochre Award Living Treasure Master of Australian Craft Lola Greeno was honoured with the prestigious Red Ochre Award, for outstanding lifetime achievement at the 12th National Indigenous Art Awards presented by the Australia Council for the Arts at the Sydney Opera House in May.
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Indigenous Jewellery Project Walgett In October, ADC ran workshops for the Gamilaraay and Yuwaalaraay communities of Walgett in collaboration with Indigenous Jewellery Project (IJP) and in association with Dharriwaa Elders Group and Walgett Community College. Through the exploration of local stories, sites and traditions of making over time, the workshops incorporated elements of technique, materiality and narrative to produce and document made objects and wearable forms. ADC First Nations Creative Producer Lucy Simpson and Yuwaalaraay cultural consultant Nardi Simpson worked closely with community members and organisations to develop and implement the program.
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Object Space Up to 80,000 people walk, drive or cycle past ADC’s William Street location every day. This window gallery space, located in the window of the ADC Offices on William Street and accessible to view 24-hours a day, captures this audience, presenting a rotating series of exhibitions throughout the year.
Hip Hip Decay: Suzanne McRae 11 April – 26 May 2019 Suzanne McRae’s strange and awkward creatures are immersed in sentimentality and the haunting nature of memory.
Ngalkan: Gunybi Ganambarr 1 Feb – 3 April 2019 This Object Space exhibition was part of the exhibition to STEEL: Art Design Architecture. Ngalkan (2013) is a work by Gunybi Ganambarr. In recycling the steel of a water tank and incising it with the designs of his heartlands, Gunybi makes a strong statement about caring for environment while at the same time carrying the art traditions of the Yolngu into the future.
Welcome: Stephen Goddard 28 May – 26 June 2019 Welcome. by Stephen Goddard references a scene in Thomas Wirthensohn’s documentary Homme Less (2014), where a sign’s lack of punctuation leads to an ambiguous meaning in the wording. With this work, Goddard looks for optimism where it may not otherwise exist. This was presented as part of Vivid Sydney 2019 and included a Vivid Ideas talk Street Signage, Design and Lived Behaviour.
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Intergradation: Taerim Claire Jeon 3 October – 13 November
Just shopping, always shopping: Jane Theau 1 August – 25 September 2019
Intergradation was an exhibition of the Jogakbo (traditional Korean patchwork) work by Sydney based artist Taerim Claire Jeon who strongly identifies with her Korean heritage. It was presented in partnership with the Korean Cultural Centre Australia during Sydney Craft Week.
Just shopping, always shopping is one of a series of large-scale lace drawings by Jane Théau depicting people in unexceptional, everyday moments. Jane was the Australian Design Centre Award winner of the Seed Stitch Contemporary Textile Awards 2018.
Bright Start 21 November - 22 January
Gadigal Mural Exhibition 2 July – 13 August 2019 Celebrating NAIDOC 2019 and the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Language, this display about the Gadigal Mural coincided with the display of Gadigal Mural banner poles along William St from Hyde Park corner to Kings Cross.
Bright Start featured the work of current first year students of the Bachelor of Design degree at UNSW Art & Design. The works exhibited are creative responses to briefs from three selected disciplinary specialisations within the design program. Bright Start is part of the Designing Bright Futures exhibition pro gram produced by Australian Design Centre in partnership with UNSW Art & Design.
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Sydney Craft Week Festival 11 October - 20 October
Sydney Craft Week 2019 had a mission to recognise the exceptional quality of local craft, while also unlocking our sense of joy in making with the theme “Play”. This year marks the third year of the Festival, which is now cemented in Sydney’s annual calendar each October. The festival’s continuing success within the craft community and beyond to a general audience is evidenced through growing audience numbers and financial support from partners including government partner City of Sydney, premium partners ClassBento and Skein Sisters, print partner Digital Press, signage partner Signwave Newtown, and media partners ArtsHub and FBi Radio. The festival featured 156 events this year: 37 exhibitions, 6 talks, 57 workshops, 13 markets and retail events, 30 open studios and 13 live demonstrations. In addition to the website and print program, this year’s festival expanded with advertising online and through posters distributed in cafes, bars and other relevant locations. Our digital reach for Sydney Craft Week was 764,400 people via website and social media. This community-led program is the only festival in Sydney dedicated to making by hand.
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Sydney Craft Week 2019 Achievements
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participating venues events each year online audience new works made by local artists cultural workers employed events accessible suburbs
Sydney Craft Week 2019 Communications
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copies of an 84 page print guide postcards news stories and listicles on the SCW website events on the SCW website events reposted as SCW Facebook Events media articles live radio broadcasts (Eastside Radio and ABC) events posted on City of Sydney ‘Whats On’ custome instagram tiles/gifs website page views eDM subscribers Sydney Craft Week social media followers
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International Focus
Globally ADC focussed on our digital channels in 2019. Ensuring that the content we produce was well placed to receive international attention. Exhibition programs received reviews and essays were republished in international art media and online. As part of the Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft project we invited acclaimed UK potter and writer Alison Britton to Sydney to speak in our program of events and give a series of lectures. We also welcomed a delegation from Design Singapore and from the National Hangeul Museum in Seoul during the year. In August we presented an event in partnership with the Australian Graphic Design Association with special guest Erik Brandt, Chair of the Design Department and Professor of Graphic Design at Minneapolis College of Graphic Design. Internationally acclaimed UK gold embroiderer Hanny Newton visited Sydney for Sydney Craft Week delivering a series of workshops. The Korean Cultural Centre collaborated with us on an Object Space window exhibition of the work of Taerim Claire Jeon along with workshops led by Claire on jogakbo patchwork and traditional Korean yeomsaek cloth dyeing. Our collaborations continued with the Korean Cultural Centre delivering traditional craft workshops in the Centre to accompany the exhibition A Scholar’s Feast: Old and New. This exhibition provided an opportunity to understand Korean culture by introducing artworks related to food and crafts, based on the culture of Cheongju, and the spirit of Confucian Scholars (Seonbi) and craftsmanship.
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Object Shop and Retail Events
Object Shop is increasingly seen as a destination to buy hand-made local work by designers and craftspeople. The volume of work sold and size of the retail footprint have both increased substantially year on year. Work sold includes a mix of ceramics, glass, textiles, jewellery, homewares, cards, kits and publications, including magazines such as Artist Profile and journals such as The Journal of Australian Ceramics, as well as ADC’s own publications. ADC supports a diversity of makers, stocking work by Indigenous makers and artists through the Tjanpi Desert Weavers and Baluk Arts, and stocking work by artists with an intellectual disability through Studio A. Object Shop also features work sold in collaboration with our ACDC partners JamFactory and Australian Tapestry Workshop. Object Shop now works both as bricks-and-mortar retail space and as a digital marketplace, with those who visit the shop in person more likely to visit the website, and likewise, those who discover the Online Shop more likely to visit the retail space and gallery. In addition to its rolling stock, which sells the work of nearly 100 Australian makers, Object Shop is also the site for events and activities, such as the Lyn and Tony Retail Installation during Sydney Craft Week, and Meet the Makers events and Makers Workshops, which give audiences a chance to meet Object Shop makers. Object Shop’s marketing and communications now includes dedicated marketing campaigns around key gift-buying times of the year, such as Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Christmas. In 2019, we decorated the Object Shop window with a Christmas display in collaboration with Studio A and held a special VIP Christmas shopping night for ADC Friends and Donors in December. In particular, ADC has seen a substantial increase in tourists and visitors buying Australian handmade work to take home overseas.
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Makers Market ADC holds two dedicated markets for makers each year in Palmer Street and has seen strong attendance numbers for both the March and October events in 2019. The number of stallholders has increased from 20 to 27, creating more opportunity for local makers to sell their work. Feedback from stallholders reports good sales for both events compared to other markets in Sydney. In October’s Makers Market, ADC also sponsored a stall for a refugee maker and a stall for emerging makers (students at UNSW Art & Design). Several of our Makers Market stallholders also sell their work in Object Shop, with the market providing additional opportunity. Both Object Shop and the Makers Markets are important vehicles creating opportunities for artists to sell their work to audiences and opportunities to sell in the shop and have a stall are increasingly in demand from makers.
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ADC On Tour Touring exhibitions have been a central part of ADC for over 50 years and continue to be a vital part of our activity and success. Since the 1970s, ADC has toured our shows nationally and been at the forefront of providing regional audiences in Australia with access to cutting-edge work and ideas. ADC On Tour presented the work of 53 artists across four exhibitions touring to twelve venues across Australia in 2019. Over 69,931 people visited the exhibitions with 2,997 people attending 84 public programs, workshops, tours and community events. In 2019, Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft - Lola Greeno: Cultural Jewels finished its successful four-year tour and we continued the hugely successful series with our ninth Living Treasure ceramicist Prue Venables. Opening at ADC in August and continuing on to two venues, with a further twelve venues still to come over the next two years. Also on tour in 2019 was Obsessed: Compelled to make, which continues its successful fourteen venue tour with eight venues still to go between 2020 and 2022. Exploring the act of making through the framework of obsession, the exhibition includes a suite of public programs that each venue modifies, with Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie recently hosting an Obsessed Festival featuring talks with three of the artists, children’s programs and a Makers Market. Also finishing its three-year tour is Object Therapy. Object Therapy toured to eight venues across regional Australia and showcased innovative design solutions while exploring the attachments we form with objects. As a project and exhibition, it encouraged us to rethink our habits of material consumption while exploring and celebrating the role and creative possibilities of repair in society. ADC is constantly looking to improve our touring program, working closely with venues to provide the best audience experience. We keep in touch with venues regularly through communications and a tour newsletter and welcome feedback from our venues to help us refine and improve outcomes.
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Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft | Lola Greeno: Cultural Jewels Artist: Lolo Greeno Burnie Regional Art Gallery, TAS 20 December 2018 – 3 February 2019
Object Therapy Designers: Andrea Bandoni | Corr Blimey (Louisa de Smet and Steven Wright) | Susannah Bourke | Elise Cakebread | Thought Collider (Mike Thompson and Susana Cámara Leret) | Daniel Emma (Daniel To, Emma Aiston) | Franchesca Cubillo | Dale Hardiman | Benja Harney | Kyoko Hashimoto | Alison Jackson | Elbowrkshp (Elliat Rich and James B. Young) | Trent Jansen | Guy Keulemans | Dylan Martorell | Scott Mitchell | Liam Mugavin | Rohan Nicol | Monique Van Nieuwland | Yutaka Ohtaki | Halie Rubenis | Niklavs Rubenis | SMaRT@UNSW | Naomi Taplin | Henry Wilson | Richard Whiteley Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD 2 December 2017 – 21 January 2018 South Australian School of Art, SA 15 February – 23 March 2018 Design Tasmania, TAS 6 July – 19 September 2018 Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery, WA 30 November 2018 – 13 January 2019
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Obsessed: Compelled to make Artists: Gabriella Bisetto | Lorraine Connelly-Northey | Honor Freeman | Jon Goulder | Kath Inglis | Laura McCusker | Elliat Rich and James B Young (Elbowrkshp) | Kate Rohde | Oliver Smith | Vipoo Srivilasa | Tjunkaya Tapaya | Louise Weaver | Liz Williamson Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW 8 December 2018 - 3 February 2019 Artspace Mackay, QLD 23 February - 19 May 2019 The Workshops Rail Museum, QLD 30 May - 4 August 2019 Glasshouse Port Macquarie, NSW 28 September - 24 November 2019 Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW 7 December 2019 - 19 January 2020
Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft\ Prue Venables Artist: Prue Venables Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC 18 October - 1 December 2019 Hamilton Gallery, VIC 16 December 2019 - 9 February 2020
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Events and Learning Festivals, events and public programs present opportunities for audience engagement. Throughout the year we held over 200 events in Sydney and many others across Australia aligned with our touring program. In addition many school groups from across Sydney and regional NSW visited the Centre to learn about the work we do in contemporary craft and design.
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Object Platform
A digital space to test ideas, Object Platform published 21 articles and 12 films in 2019. This program is part of Australian Design Centre’s ongoing research – a place to experiment, prototype new thinking, spark physical provocations and commission new content. In April, ADC hosted the launch of Garland #14 Safe Harbour, the Sydney issue of this online craft magazine. As part of the event, Kevin Murray, editor of Garland presented contributors with a garland made by Indigenous weaver Annette Houston. My Job in 2030: Mapping the World of Work was a special Object Platform project that included a Think Tank session, articles and a panel discussion. The project explored how shifts in technology, society and the environment are impacting the jobs of the future. It invited the next generation to imagine their place in a future world of work where automation, AI and robots are part of everyday life. What jobs will we have in 2030 and how will they be different to the jobs of today? Each of the members contributed a short essay to Object Platform: • Sasha Alexander, University of Western Sydney • Laurie Aznavoorian, BVN Architecture • Penny Craswell, Australian Design Centre • Kate Dunn, UNSW • Natalie Parker, undergraduate student • Jess Scully, curator, writer, elected councillor • Melissa Silk, educator • Balder Tol, WeWork Australia and New Zealand Issues explored in Object Platform in 2019 also include: ceramics, mixed media art, contemporary jewellery, sustainable approaches to materials, migration and cultural identity, experimental communications design, design-led repair, hybrid production/ handmade design, diversity and the experiences of BIPOC in craft practice, Sydney as a crafted city, installation design, and steel in art, design and architecture.
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Digital Programs Australian Design Centre uses digital programs to extend beyond its four walls by developing and delivering a range of digital activities in 2019.
Websites ADC’s two main websites are australiandesigncentre.com and sydneycraftweek.com, both of which are vital tools in digital content sharing information, ideas and storytelling as an integral part of our program, digitally amplifying our physical content in our exhibitions and programs.
Films In 2019, we produced a film to accompany the major ADC On Tour exhibition Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables. The film was made by Angus Lee Forbes with music by Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin through ABC Music. The film is included as part of the exhibition tour package and available on ADC’s vimeo link and the exhibition website. As part of the Art & About collaboration for the Gadigal Mural the City of Sydney produced a short film about the mural along with ABC Arts Online.
Object Shop Online Object Shop Online, now in its second year continues to sell the work of local makers and designers, acting as a digital sister to the physical Object Shop located in the gallery. As Object Shop, physical shop, gains in popularity, we are finding its being used digitally – the digital shop is bringing people into the shop, and people who come into the shop are also able to shop online remotely.
Sydney Craft Week For the third year of Sydney Craft Week, ADC partnered with ClassBento to provide SCW participants a free events booking system and potential for extended audience reach through the partnership. For SCW 2019, more than 90 individual events were listed on the ADC website as well as 26 news stories reaching an online audience of over 142,000 people. 28 events were listed under the Sydney Craft Week Festival banner on City of Sydney “What’s On” website.
Social Media ADC’s social media outreach grew across the year, ADC’s Instagram curated account reach our goal of over 13,000 followers. Facebook events across the year reached 362,900 people. Twitter remained steady with 7500+ followers.
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Award Winners Congratulations to the following designers who were winners of ADC Awards in 2019:
Profile: Contemporary Jewellery Award
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JMGA-NSW Established Contemporary Jewellery Award $2000 General Category Winner: Larah Nott Highly Commended: Gretal Ferguson, Samuel Farmer, Virginia Sprague
Workshopped19 Award Jordan Leeflang, Sunday Stool, 2019
JMGA-NSW Emerging Contemporary Jewellery Award $1000 Emerging Category Winner: Sarah Barlow Highly Commended: Rebecca Hinwood, Rosie Gunzburg, Boya Yu Australian Design Centre Award Winner: Dianne Beevers Designing Bright Futures 19 Australian Design Centre Mentorship Award 2019 Yanting Zhan
Workshopped19 Award Michael Hoppe, UFO, 2019 UTS Award for Sustainable Design Jordan Fleming, Exhausted, 2019 Workshopped19 Mentorship Award for Production Xue Lun Yeong, Kyto, 2018 UTS Award for Sustainable Design Jordan Fleming, Exhausted, 2019 Workshopped19 Mentorship Award for Production Xue Lun Yeong, Kyto, 2018
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Research and Development Our rolling program of research and development delivered two major touring grants for exhibitions commencing national tours in 2019-20 as part of our ADC On Tour program. A $160,000 Visions of Australia grant for Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft\Prue Venables and a $188,000 grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to produce and tour a new exhibition Made/ Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery. This exhibition will launch at ADC in April 2020 with a multi-state tour to follow. In late 2019 we also received a Visions of Australia development grant to enable us to start work on the 10th iteration of the Living Treasures program with Northern Territory artist Mavis Ganambarr. In 2019 we also completed work on a strategic plan and forward creative program which fed into applications for multi-year forward funding and new exhibition development projects.
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Creative Program 2020
In 2020 we present 15 exhibitions and 100+ events in Sydney, 16 ADC on Tour exhibition openings across Australia and 150+ festival events happening citywide for Sydney Craft Week. This year, our program features Indigenous practice, contemporary jewellery, object and product design, textiles, fashion, architecture, contemporary art, glass art, ceramics, student work, craft and research projects. Exhibitions are curated by the ADC team and in collaboration with one or more organisations, individual artists, makers and/or designers. In March, we will be showing the work of 22 contemporary jewellery artists from around Australia with MADE/ WORN: Australian Contemporary Jewellery, a touring exhibition that explores what jewellery means and how jewellery practice is changing. The project includes a documentary film and exhibition design by Garbett Design and includes a tour to 10 venues in NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. We will also present design and craft through Object Shop, our digital publishing and communications channels including Object Platform, through our learning activities and engagement, and through Sydney Craft Week, a city-wide festival of making that returns in October.
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CONCRETE: ar t design architecture 31 January – 18 March An exhibition that exlores the innovative and extraordinary ways concrete is being used in Australia today. This is a JamFactory touring exhibition.
MADE/ WORN: Australian Contemporary Jewellery 26 March - 27 May Our new ADC On Tour exhibition of outstanding work by 22 contemporary jewellery artists, explores the act of making and the creation of meaning for the wearer.
Endangered + Extinct: Natalie Rosin 26 March – 27 May Architectural ceramic sculptures depict buildings that have either been demolished or are under threat of demolition despite human protest.
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Open House: Tamwor th Textile Triennale 4 June – 29 July Celebrating the open-ended, porous nature of textiles practice, Open House, curated by Glenn Barkley, introduces a group of artists linked to a sense of broader engagement with the world outside of themselves and their studios.
WORKSHOPPED20 6 August - 30 September WORKSHOPPED20 is an annual exhibition of new work by 40 object, lighting and furniture designers. Included this year is a special salon of stellar Australian designers marking the 20th anniversary.
FUSE Glass Prize 9 October - 18 November Reflecting the importance of glass art to Australian craft and design, FUSE Glass Prize 2020 is a non-acquisitive biennial prize for outstanding Australian and New Zealand glass artists.
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Sydney Craft Week 9 October – 18 October Sydney’s only festival dedicated to the handmade, Sydney Craft Week returns with the theme “Change Makers”. Galleries, shops, cultural centres and individual makers host events from large sale exhibitions to on-off workshops encompassing the breadthe and power of craft.
Seed Stitch Contemporary Textile Awards2020 9 October - 18 November Seed Stitch Contemporary Textile Awards is a biannual exhibition featuring the work of NSW contemporary textile and fibre artists.
Designing Bright Futures 2020 26 November 2020 – January 2021 In 2021 Australian Design Centre celebrates five years of Designing Bright Futures, an exhibition of work by graduates from UNSW Art & Design’s Bachelor and Masters of Design programs.
Object Space
A variety of objects and installations will be shown in our window gallery, Object Space, William Street in Darlinghurst. The 2020 program includes work by: Julie Paterson, Dianne Beevers, and more to be announced.
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ADC on Tour ADC on Tour is our national exhibition touring program. In 2020, we have four exhibitions touring to 15 locations around NSW and Australia. • MADE/ WORN: Australian Contemporary Jewellery • Clay Intersections • Obsessed: Compelled to make • Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables
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Partners and Donors We are grateful to all our partners for their generous support of Australian innovation and creativity. Whether it’s government support, or the continued patronage of our valued donors, gifts of all sizes help us to continue to deliver a diverse program that connects audiences to creative practice through showcasing the best contemporary craft and design while providing opportunities to Australian makers. ADC Friends celebrates a community of people who support makers and designers through the work of the Australian Design Centre. Australian Design Centre is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments, the New South Wales Government through Create NSW, the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the City of Sydney. Australian Design Centre is a member of Australian Craft and Design Centre (ACDC) network and the Sydney Culture Network.
Government Par tners NSW Government through Create NSW City of Sydney Visions of Australia Australia Council for the Arts
Trusts and Foundations Gordon Darling Foundation
Major Par tners Signwave Newtown IAS Fine Art Logistics
Event Par tner Tyrrell’s Wines
Festival Par ticipation Art Month Australian Ceramics Triennale DENFAIR Design Canberra Festival NAIDOC Real to Reel: The Craft Film Festival MAAS/Sydney Design Festival Sydney East Art Walk Sydney Living Museums/Sydney Open VIVID Sydney
Sydney Craft Week Festival Par tners City of Sydney Digital Press ArtsHub Signwave Newtown Skein Sisters ClassBento FBi Radio
Project Par tners Art & About Sydney ASPECT Studios Asylum Seekers Resource Centre (ASRC) Australian Tapestry Workshop BoConcept Cracknell & Lonergan Architects Craft ACT Crafts Magazine
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Craft Victoria Crafts UK Hotel Hotel Indigenous Jewellery Project Indesign Media Asia Pacific IndigiGrow – Australian Bushfoods JamFactory JMGA - NSW Korean Cultural Centre Australia Maker & Smith Mama Creatives ModFab 3D Printing Molonglo Group My Community Project – NSW Government STEAMpop Studio A Studio Woodworkers Association Stylecraft The Australian Ceramics Association (TACA) The Journal of Australian Ceramics UNSW Art & Design University of Technology, Sydney WORKSHOPPED
Individual Donors Anonymous Carola Akindele-Obe (Maker & Smith) Lisa Cahill Kate Caicedo Taner Can Alexander Cheek Katie Choy Mark Clark Janine Combes Robert Costa (South House Architecture) Carol Crawford Credit Suisse Diana D’Ambra Gregory Dean Helen Earl David Ellis Alix Fiveash Alexander Ghent Cameron Giblin
Kylie Gould Jenny Green Rebecca Hinwood Colin Hopkin and Ilona Topolcsanyi (Cone 11 Ceramics and Design) Meghan Hay Kevin Hetebry Frank Howarth and Associates Pty Ltd Yuri Kawanabe Bridget Kennedy and Luke Torrevillas (Ecomlocations) Leo Kennedy Guy Keulemans Robert and Rosemary King Regina Krawets Michael Leung Brendan Lonergan Rosemary Lucas (Rosemary Lucas Interior Design) Kate McDonell Frances Mahoney Robert Middleton Lesley Parker Bradley Pike Emily Pow (Seasonal Supplies) Steven Pozel Stuart Read Alan Rose Sophie Robertson Marc Schamburg [Schamburg + Alvisse Design Pty Ltd] Olaf Sialkowski Andrew Simpson (Vert Design) Merryn Spencer Maisy Stapleton Bic Tieu Designs Marilyn Valli Liz Williamson Helen Wyatt (F Tanner Baker) Melinda Young Hezhong Yu Ziqi Yu Brian Zulaikha
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Images and credits Front Cover Prue Venables, Installation view from ADC exhibition, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley CEO’s Message p.5 Launch of Gadigal Mural, L-R: Lucy Simpson, Jason Wing, Lisa Cahill, Lord Mayor Clover Moore and Dennis Golding, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of City of Sydney / Art and About.
Obsessed: Compelled to Make installed at The Workshops Rail Museum, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Queensland Museum Network. Key Activities p.20 - 21 Installation view of STEEL: art design architecture at ADC, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley. Gretal Ferguson, Stitched, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Chair’s Message p.8
STEEL: art design architecture p.22
Opening night of Island Welcome, 2019. Photo: Jodie Barker.
Installation view of STEEL: art design architecture at ADC, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley.
Board and Committees p.12
Island Welcome p.23
ADC gallery view 2020. Photo: Sabrina Luo.
Installation view of Island Welcome, 2019. Photo: Jodie Barker.
Creative Collaborators p.14 ADC Makers Market, March 2019. Photo: Jodie Barker.
The Teapot Project p.24
2019 in Review p.19
Installation view of The Teapot Project, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley.
Installation view of STEEL: art design architecture, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley.
Hendrik Forster and Kenny Son at launch of The Teapot Project, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley.
Pennie Jagiello, Welcome warning promise of the beauty and the beast (detail) installation view, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley.
WORKSHOPPED19 p.25
Hendrik Forster and Kenny Son, installation view of The Teapot Project, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley.
Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables p.26 - 27
Dennis Golding and Jason Wing, Gadigal Mural, 2019. Photo: Mark Metcalf, courtesy of City of Sydney WORKSHOPPED19 installation view, 2019. Photo: Boaz Nothman. Installation view of exhibition Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables at ADC 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley. Installation view of exhibition GIANTS: Isabel Avendano Hazbun, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley. Finnoula Marcoolyn-Lindsay, Seasoned Affinity (detail) installation view, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley. Untitled, 2005. Designed Irene Barberis. Woven Emma Sulzer. Photo: Courtesy of Australian Tapestry Workshop. Sydney Craft Week event, SteamPOP Workshop, 2019. Photo: Hana Hoogedeure. Designing Bright Futures opening night, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley.
Opening night event of WORKSHOPPED19, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley.
Prue Venables, Betty’s Kitchen, 2017. Image: Terence Bogue Prue Venables at opening night event ADC, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley. GIANTS: Isabel Avendano Hazbun p.28 Isabel Avendano Hazbun, Goddex, installation view, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley. Profile 19: Contemporary Jewellery Award p.29 Opening night event Profile 19: Contemporary Jewellery Award, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley. Centre Fold Gadigal Mural launch and smoking ceremony, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of City of Sydney / Art and About. Response: Small Tapestries p.32 Blue Figures Red Outline, 2006. Designed Jon Cattapan, woven John Dicks. Photo: Courtesy of Australian Tapestry Workshop.
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Red Figure, 2006. Designed Jon Cattapan, woven John Dicks. Photo: Courtesy of Australian Tapestry Workshop.
pedestal bowl, 2019. Photos: Terence Bogue.
Designing Bright Futures p.33
Gadigal Artefact 3D Printing Workshop, 2019. Photo: Hana Hoogedeure
Installation view of Designing Bright Futures, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley. Indigenous Programs p.35 Indigenous Jewellery Project at Walgett, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the Indigenous Jewellery Project. Object Space p.36 – 37 Gunybi Ganambarr, Ngalkan, 2013. Photo: Tom Bonthorne.
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Object Platform p.49 Helen Vo, Small World Reminiscence, 2015. Image: courtesy of the artist. Award Winners p.51 Opening night of Profile19: Contemporary Jewellery Award, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley. Research and Development p.52-53
Installation view of Hip Hip Decay: Suzanne McRae, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley.
Opening night of Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley.
Stephen Goddard, Installation view of Welcome. 2019, Photo: Boaz Nothman.
Mavis Warrngilna Ganambarr, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Koskela.
Jane ThĂŠau, Just shopping, always shopping, 2017 Photo: Rhiannon Hopley.
Creative Program 2020 p.54-58
Gadigal Mural banners, 2019. Photo: ADC
Jess Dare, From the series Making Time (detail), 2019. Photo: Marcus Ramsey.
Taerim Claire Jeon, The Flash Spectrum of Light, 2018 Photo: Rhiannon Hopley.
Sanne Mestrom, Untitled (Self Portrait, Known), 2018. Photo: COTA and Sullivan+Strumpf
Installation view of Bright Start, featuring Tess Angel, Cast model for Esquisses of Experience, Experience 1 Design Project, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley.
Liam Benson, Coat of Arms, 2009, C Type print, 61 x 91cm, edition of 5. Photo: Liam Benson
Sydney Craft Week p.38
Meredith Woolnough, The New Neighbours (detail), 2017. Photo: Meredith Woolnough
Sydney Craft Week event, SteamPOP Workshop, 2019. Photo: Hana Hoogedeure. International Focus p.40-41 Taerim Claire Jeon, The Flash Spectrum of Light, 2018 Photo: Rhiannon Hopley. Adventures in Goldwork: Hanny Newton Workshop, 2019. Photo: Hana Hoogedeure. Object Shop and Retail Events p.42 - 43 Object Shop installation view, 2019. Photo: Sabrina Luo. ADC Makers Market, 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley. ADC On Tour p.44-47 Kate Rohde, Phoenix and Rabbit, 2017 as part of Obsessed: Compelled to Make installed at The Workshops Rail Museum, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Queensland Museum Network. Lola Greeno, Warener Necklace (detail), 2014. Photo: John Leeming Prue Venables, Black triangulated form and Black
Natalie Rosin, Pyrmont Incinerator (detail), 2020 Photo: Courtesy of the Artist
We are MAD Clare Belfrage, Into the Deep, 2016. Photo: Pippy Mount Julie Paterson, Imperfect Manifesto (detail). Photo: ADC Yanting Zhan, Shanghai Nostalgia, 2019, installation view, Designing Bright Futures 2019. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley. Julie Paterson, Sweet Spot, 2019, Photo: Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of Obsessed: Compelled to Make at Glasshouse Regional Gallery. Photo: Courtesy of Glasshouse Regional Gallery. ADC volunteers Amy and Rachel at opening of Profile 19: Contemporary Jewellery Award. Photo: Rhiannon Hopley. Back Cover Jason Wing, Dennis Golding and Lucy Simpson, Gadigal Mural, 2019 (detail). Photos: Jodie Barker
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IGNITING CREATIVE IDEAS Exhibitions Showcasing the best work by Australian creators.
Touring Bringing the power of making and design to new audiences across Australia.
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