Free Exhibition Tours

Make the most of your trip to Australian Design Centre with a free exhibition tour. The gallery team will introduce you to the current exhibitions and Object Shop.

Find out what's on here

Tour times: Thursdays, 12.30pm

Book here or call on us on 9361 4555 to make a booking or register at the front desk 10 minutes prior to tour time.

Treasures

Australian Design Centre presents Treasures, a special 60th anniversary exhibition. Ten of Australia’s best craft artists have each contributed a work for this celebration and have generously nominated an artist who is producing outstanding work in their field of practice. Together these twenty artists demonstrate incredible skill, talent and artistry of material craft practice in ceramics, glass, textiles, metal and contemporary jewellery.

A New Earth
In response to the Black Summer fires, Margarita Sampson created dramatic textile works that transfigure landscapes into beings, caught between crisis and action. Made using salvaged and handmade textiles, knotted videotape, plastics and beading, these forms evoke the shimmering surfaces left by in the wake of bushfires, the blackened twigs, embers and soot.

Light from Nature
This exhibition at Australian Design Centre, Light from Nature: Kim Dong Wan and Lucy Simpson showcases a cross-cultural collaboration, featuring Kim's glass works incorporating ottchil, and Simpson's representations of dhanggal (mussels) and giba (grinding stones).

Image: Robert Baines, Forget me not Blue, Neckpiece, 2014. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist

FILMING AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Please note: This event will be documented with photography and/or video and the images/footage may be shared online. By attending the event you understand that you may be photographed/videoed and you give permission for the images/footage may be shared online for promotional purposes.

ACCESSIBILITY
There is a ramp at the side entrance of ADC (Palmer St) and wheelchair-accessible toilet on the lower gallery level. Access to the lower level is through the main entrance off William St. Please ask our friendly staff for assistance. A full gallery Access statement is available to download from the ADC website.