Australian Design Centre warmly invites you to join us for the launch of three final exhibitions for 2025.

Second Look Legacy

Second Look Legacy celebrates the material intelligence and creativity of contemporary textile practice, inviting audiences to reflect on how handmade textiles are collected, valued, and loved. This inspiring exhibition showcases innovative ways artists engage with materials—giving new life to fabrics through repair, reuse, and reinvention.

Curated by:
Barbara Rogers, Melinda Young, Cecilia Heffer, and Michelle Eliot 

Opening Night
Thursday, 27 November 2025
6 - 8 pm

Floor Talk
Saturday 29 November,
11:30am - 12:30pm

Australian Design Centre
101 – 115 William Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010

Numbers are limited, bookings essential.

Launching alongside:

landlines/tracelines

landlines/tracelines presents work by Melinda Young.

"These works hold the lines and traces of shore and land, at once part of the stories of the place of before and the place of now, underpinned by the tensions and complexities of contemporary Australia. Stories shared here through the language of making."

Join artist Melinda Young and Lisa Cahill, ADC CEO and Artistic Director for a FREE Floor Talk event discussing the work and creative practice behind landlines/tracelines. 

Saturday 29 November
1pm - 2pm 

Imperial Stockings 
Object Space

Imperial Stockings, presenting the work of Annemaree Dalziel, makes a patchy stocktake of a hundred and fifty years of turmoil and suffering in Gaelic speaking Highland and Island Scotland, by knitting an entangled history of social change into seven pairs of long woollen socks. 

Images:
Stephanie Beaupark, Untitled (Jagun), 2019 - 2025 ongoing. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist., Melinda Young, Sentinels.  Photo: Courtesy of the Artist., Annmaree Dalziel, Year of the Sheep, 2022, Photo: Ian Hobbs Photo: Ian Hobbs.