Yaamanga (around here)
2023-09-16 00:00 - 2030-12-31 23:59 (Australia/Sydney)
Natalya Hughes: The Interior Tufting Workshop

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Yaamanga (around here) installation view

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Natalya Hughes: The Interior Tufting Workshop
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7 Feb 20261:30 pm – 3:30 pm

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Yaamanga (around here) is an ongoing exhibition exploring the history and identity of the Coffs Coast through themes of place, community and belonging, with Gumbaynggirr culture at its heart. This interactive exhibition features hundreds of objects, photographs, artworks and films from the Yarrila Arts and Museum collection. A key highlight of Yaamanga (around here) is the short film, Daalga Nginundi Wajaarr (Sing Your Country), which is informed by Yuludarla’s (Gumbaynggirr Creator) journey from north to south exploring miirlarl (sacred places), culture and history through song and cinema. The piece is a celebration of language and its revival and is an invitation for all people to learn the story of this place. It explores untold histories of Country; its triumphs and its sorrow and the dialogue Gumbaynggirr people have every day with her.Daalga Nginundi Wajaarr (Sing Your Country) was created by Alison Page and Nik Lachajczak of ZAKPAGE. The score is a reworking of a medley of traditional songs by Gumbaynggirr artist, Birrugan Dunn-Velasco, with the inclusion of post-modern instrumentation and sounds from Country.This artwork is dedicated to the Gumbaynggirr people; it is their ancestral lands upon which we live and work; they who are so generous with their cultural knowledge and lore in the making of this film.

A still image captured from Daalga Nginundi Wajaarr Sing Your Country

Find out more about Daalga Nginundi Wajarr Sing your Country

John Tuckwell: A Survey
2025-02-08 00:00 - 2025-05-11 23:59
Natalya Hughes: The Interior Tufting Workshop

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John Tuckwell, The birds are out, 2022, porcelain. Photography by Gloria Malone. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Natalya Hughes: The Interior Tufting Workshop
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7 Feb 20261:30 pm – 3:30 pm

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John Tuckwell: A Survey celebrates the thoughtfully crafted porcelain vessels of Bellingen-based artist and respected potter John Tuckwell. John’s work captures the interplay of light, colour, and texture, drawing inspiration from local landscapes, abstract forms, and the materiality of porcelain itself.The painterly surfaces and translucent porcelain reflect both the natural world and John’s personal experiences. From elegant early works to more layered, constructed forms created after a life-changing stroke, this exhibition showcases the evolution of a practice shaped by place, adaptation and innovation.

Jodie Whalen: We already know how to build a time machine
2025-02-15 00:00 - 2025-03-30 23:59
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Jodie Whalen, We already know how to build a time machine, 2023, video still, HD video, with sound, 16:9, 4:58 min. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Natalya Hughes: The Interior Tufting Workshop
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7 Feb 20261:30 pm – 3:30 pm

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We already know how to build a time machine – proposition offers viewers a site to contemplate belief and transformation. Driven by a desire to give physical form to the intangibility of fraught emotional states such as grief, anger, fear, love and hopefulness, the artist uses repetition, replication and degradation of imagery, sounds and motifs to explore how meaning moves through, and translates between forms. This ongoing project includes the new components Mutable XLI/I and Mutable XLI/II, which are site specific to the Mid North Coast, a landscape of great importance to the artist’s personal history and her current video and sound installations.

SIXTY
2025-02-15 00:00 - 2025-03-30 23:59
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Glenn Barkley, thatisnocountry4oldmen (sailing2byzantium) (detail), 2022. Photography by Greg Piper, courtesy Australian Design Centre.

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Natalya Hughes: The Interior Tufting Workshop
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7 Feb 20261:30 pm – 3:30 pm

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The Journal of Australian Ceramics has been documenting the rich history of ceramics in Australia for sixty continuous years. To celebrate this milestone, the Australian Design Centre, in partnership with The Australian Ceramics Association, presents SIXTY: The Journal of Australian Ceramics 60th Anniversary 1962–2022.

Contemporary ceramics practice is witnessing a pivotal moment, marked by a surge of interest in ceramic art. The Journal of Australian Ceramics and its contributors have played an essential role in this revival, and this exhibition celebrates and showcases the achievements of Australia’s ceramic artists and potters.

Exhibiting artists:Glenn Barkley | Alison Milyika Carroll | Kirsten Coelho | Greg Daly | Pippin Drysdale | Dan Elborne | Penny Evans | Honor Freeman | Susan Frost | Shannon Garson | Patsy Hely | Jeffery Mincham | Damon Moon | David Ray | Ben Richardson | Tania Rollond | Owen Rye | Jane Sawyer | Yul Scarf | Vipoo Srivilasa | Kenji Uranishi | Gerry Wedd

Curated by Anna Grigson and Australian Design Centre’s Lisa Cahill with design by Studio Garbett.

SIXTY The Journal of Australian Ceramics 60th Anniversary 1962-2022 is an Australian Design Centre (ADC On Tour) national touring exhibition, presented with assistance from the Australian Government Visions of Australia program. The Visions of Australia regional exhibition touring program supports audience access to Australian arts and cultural material, with a particular focus on tours to regional and remote Australia.

Australian Design Centre is assisted by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. Australian Design Centre is assisted by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW, and the Australian government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Material World
2025-02-15 00:00 - 2025-06-01 23:59
Natalya Hughes: The Interior Tufting Workshop

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Troy Emery, Extravagant Wallaby, 2023. Photography by Jonathan Cohen, courtesy Michael Reid Galleries.

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Natalya Hughes: The Interior Tufting Workshop
When

7 Feb 20261:30 pm – 3:30 pm

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Material World brings together a diverse group of Australian artists exploring the role of textiles in contemporary practice. Challenging traditional views of fabric and thread, the artists engage with themes of identity and environment through a vibrant mix of colour, texture, and creativity.The exhibition blends traditional and modern techniques, sparking dialogue between past and present, personal and collective, organic and synthetic, while celebrating the materiality and cultural significance of textiles.

Exhibiting artists:Yarrenyty Arltere Artists | Liam Benson | Troy Emery | Julia Gutman | Shivanjani Lal | Hiromi Tango | Henry Jock Walker | Peggy Zephyr
