Workshop: meditative art-making with Dai Trang Nguyen

Details

When: Saturday, November 8, 2025, 1-3pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide

Cost: $45 (+ booking fee)

Join artist Dai Trang Nguyen for a mindful, meditative art-making workshop exploring oneself and oneness.

This workshop offers a space to connect with yourself, others and the more-than-human world, while embracing intuition and the unfolding of the present moment. Immersed in Dai Trang’s way of making, participants will transform 120 minutes of time, space and life’s conditions into tactile artworks with textiles and mixed media.

A selection of materials will be provided. Participants are welcome to bring their own, particularly textile-based, to weave into their creations.

What to expect:

Seated within Dai Trang's exhibition, guests will spend two hours creating mindful textile artworks, reflecting on Dai Trang’s artistic ethos and process. A selection materials provided, participants can take their creation home on the day.

Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be available.

About the exhibition

For OzAsia 2025, we are excited to present alONEness - một, a new exhibition of sculptures and installations by Vietnamese artist Dai Trang Nguyen.

Developed through our Kayangan Residency, with support from donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin, the exhibition explores identity, connection, and the spaces between, using mindfulness as a compass. một, meaning “one” in Vietnamese, reflects Dai Trang’s journey through aloneness, loneliness, and oneness.  The work flows from a place of authenticity and vulnerability, where the tension between solitude and connection becomes visible.

Through large-scale textile-based sculptures, she transforms the gallery into a multifaceted environment. The installation embodies the solidity of being alone, the struggles of isolation and the universal longing for connection. It invites viewers to reflect on their own experiences of being alone and together, offering a quiet moment of shared understanding amidst life’s chaos. 

About our venue

The Mill brings together artists, creatives and businesses to collaborate, create, and inspire one another - all while being supported through expert guidance and artistic programming.

We are an accessible space. Disability access is available via Angas Street, and a disability toilet is also available. More access information is available on our website. If you have any questions or need to get in touch, please contact us at info@themilladelaide.com

Image: Dai Trang Nguyen, Threads of Life (detail), 2025, yarns, repurposed fabric and wire, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist