ADC On Tour: an update for our touring partners.
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Dear Touring Venue Partners
We hope that you are well during this unsettling time. All our thoughts are with those in Victoria as we all continue do our best to respond to the public health crisis and keep our staff, collaborators and visitors safe.
The support and commitment coming from all parts of the country to keep our touring programs open and on track has been so appreciated. In particular, I would like to acknowledge and thank Bridget Purtill, and the team at Glasshouse Port Macquarie, for being first cab off the rank with our new ADC On Tour exhibition Made/Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery. We were unable to test launch the exhibition as planned in March here at ADC due to the Covid-19 closure. There were lots of issues, that would normally have been ironed out before the first tour venue, that Bridget and her team handled so professionally launching the exhibition earlier this month.
We are looking forward to launching Obsessed: Compelled to make at Cowra Regional Art Gallery this weekend and Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables at Canberra Potters in August.
Achieving development funding this year for two new exhibitions was a fantastic result and we look forward to being in touch with you individually about these future projects.
We are always keen to talk to you about any ideas you have on how we can provide you with the best ADC On Tour experience so please don’t hesitate to contact me, Fiona Pulford or any member of the ADC team at any time.
Stay well and safe and all my thoughts are with you as you navigate this challenging time.
Lisa Cahill
CEO and Artistic Director
Made/ Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery
Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
30 June – 16 August
From intimate pieces to large scale works, the contemporary jewellery in Made / Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery explores the act of making and how jewellery is worn on the body, telling stories that start with the artist and continue through the life of the object worn or experienced, creating new resonances with owners into the future.
Celebrating diversity and inclusivity, the exhibition includes the work of 22 artists working in contemporary jewellery in Australia today. You may be surprised by some of the things in this exhibition – they do not all immediately occur as jewellery – but rest assured the definition of contemporary jewellery is broad and encompasses many things that evoke a sense of the personal and the memorable along with the melange of human emotions swirling within all of us.
Artists featured: Liam Benson | Julie Byfield | Helena Bogucki | Zoe Brand | Maree Clarke | Jess Dare | Anna Davern | Bin Dixon-Ward | Sian Edwards | Emma Fielden | Lola Greeno | Pennie Jagiello | Bridget Kennedy | Inari Kiuru | Grace Lillian Lee | Vicki Mason | Claire McArdle | Tiffany Parbs | Blanche Tilden | Catherine Truman | Manon van Kouswijk | Zoë Veness |
Obsessed: Compelled to make
Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra
1 August – 13 September
Obsessed: Compelled to make presents 14 artists, delving into why they make, what drives them to make and how they craft their lives around making.
Artists featured: 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.
A local Cowra artist with an international reputation, ceramicist, Greg Daly's work has been included in the Obsessed: Compelled to make exhibition at Cowra Regional Art Gallery.
A key feature of the Obsessed project is to include a local component at each stop on the tour and Cowra Regional Art Gallery chose to incorporate a local artist in the exhibition. The film accompanying Greg’s work in the exhibition was made by his son John Daly. Find out more here.
Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables
Canberra Potters Society, Watson Arts Centre, Canberra
13 August – 11 October
Acclaimed ceramicist Prue Venables is the ninth artist in the Australian Design Centre series Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft, which celebrates the achievements of Australia’s most iconic crafts practitioners.
Prue Venables | Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft is an Australian Design Centre of ADC On Tour exhibition touring to 15 venues across Australia, accompanied by a film and a full-length book.
Explore the Living Treasures series of exhibitions here.
Australian Contemporary Ceramics Touring exhibition
Launching in 2022.
ADC will partner with The Australian Ceramics Association (TACA) to develop an ADC On Tour national touring exhibition of Australian contemporary ceramics.
ADC has received a Federal Government Visions of Australia grant to develop this project. ADC CEO and Artistic Director Lisa Cahill will work with adjunct curator, Sabbia Gallery Director Anna Grigson to curate the exhibition in collaboration with TACA. The exhibition will take as its starting point the 60th anniversary of The Journal of Australian Ceramics.
CLIMATE: Design Art Architecture | Collaborating for Change
Launching in 2022.
CLIMATE: Design Art Architecture | Collaborating for Change relates directly to the climate emergency. The project will examine how creative practitioners in art, design, architecture, landscape architecture and related fields of practice are making sense of global climate emergency in their work. The project will also focus on specific projects that inform, educate and encourage audience participation in practical ways that regenerate our environment.
ADC CEO and Artistic Director Lisa Cahill and adjunct curator Liane Rossler will curate the exhibition.
The Australia Council for the Arts has awarded ADC a $50,000 Contemporary Touring Initiative grant to develop this new ADC On Tour national touring exhibition.
Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft - Mavis Warrngilna Ganambarr
The next artist in the Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft series is Mavis Warrngilna Ganambarr.
This project will develop the tenth exhibition in the series Living Treasures: Masters of Australian
Craft – a major ADC On Tour national exhibition that will travel to multiple venues across Australia from 2022.
We are privileged to be working with Mavis at the Marthkala Homelands and Resource Centre Aboriginal Corporation, adjunct curator Sasha Titchkosky (Koskela) and exhibition designer Stephen Goddard on this exciting new project.
ADC On Tour Publications
ADC produces publications to support our major touring exhibitions. We have the following titles available, all on a sale or return basis.
Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft \ Prue Venables
A full colour exhibition monograph, designed by Ian Robertson including essays by Prue Venables, Alison Britton OBE and Neville French with photography by Terence Bogue. Wholesale discount price of $19.50 (inc GST) RRP $30.00.
We also have titles from our earlier Living Treasures series including:
Jeff Mincham: Ceramics
Klaus Moje: Glass
Liz Williamson: Textiles
Lola Greeno: Cultural Jewels
These are available for $7.00 (inc GST) RRP $10.
Obsessed: Compelled to Make has an accompanying exhibition catalogue. Copies are available at the wholesale discount price of $12.00. RRP $20.00.
To discuss or order publications please contact Fiona Pulford on 02 9361 4555 or email.
ADC On Tour Team
The ADC On Tour team includes Programs Manager Fiona Pulford, Programs Manager Rhadi Bryant and Partnerships and Communications Manager Alix Fiveash. You can contact us on 02 9361 4555 or email.
About Australian Design Centre
Established in 1964, Australian Design Centre (ADC) is one of Australia’s most innovative arts organisations.
ADC is a not-for-profit organisation that creates opportunities for people to engage with design, craft and creativity through dynamic and high-quality touring exhibitions, publishing, digital and educational activities.
ADC’s mission is to ignite creativity through:
Exhibitions – Showcasing the best making and design by Australian creators.
Touring – Bringing the power of making and design to new audiences across Australia.
Learning – Inspiring Australians to use design to transform their future.
Australian Design Centre is supported by the generosity of our partners and donors, 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 Centres network and the Sydney Culture Network.
Australian Design Centre is proud to be a creative place located on Gadigal Land. We acknowledge with respect the traditional owners the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation.
Image credit: Tiffany Parbs, Slope, 2018, (installed at Glasshouse Regional Gallery, 2020.) Photo: Glasshouse Regional Gallery. Pennie Jagiello, What we leave behind: heirlooms of the Anthropocene #4 and What we leave behind: heirlooms of the Anthropocene #5, 2019-20. Photo: Ruby Aitchison. Image editing: Bewley Shaylor. Zoe Brand, You have come to an irrelevant conclusion (detail), 2015. Photo: Zoe Brand. Lorraine Connelly-Northey. Photo: Jules Boag. Greg Daly, Brooding Sky, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist. Prue Venables, Esme's Dressing Table (detail), 2017. Image: Terence Bogue. Pippin DRYSDALE, King Leopold Range Pilbara Series III 2017. Photo: Courtesy of TACA. Demonstration by Dominic Wunderlich from Pixabay. Mavis Warrngilna Ganambarr, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Koskela.
