ADC Annual Report 2021

Object Space
Up to 80,000 people walk, drive or cycle along William Street every day. This
gallery space, located in the window of the ADC Offices is accessible to view
24-hours a day, presenting a rotating series of exhibitions throughout the year.
In 2021 four exhibitions were shown in Object Space.
Fashion Futures: Joshua
Saacks, Kerry Brack and
Sally Jackson
4 February – 20 March 2021
This exhibition was presented in
partnership with UTS Fashion & Textiles
highlighting graduate’s work. The clothing
focused on sustainable design practices,
featuring diverted waste, natural dyes and
reclaimed materials in their collections.
Three designers were featured in the
William Street window gallery for two weeks
each, enabling connections with designers,
students and audiences with its focus on
fashion and the future. There was strong
engagement with this exhibition and event,
and an ongoing relationship initiated with
the Fashion and Textiles department.
Gingham All You’ve Got:
Eloise Rapp
25 March – 13 May 2021
This exhibition re-imagined the humble
checked work shirt as a textile asset of
multiple uses.
Eloise is a textile designer and educator.
Through her design studio, Push
Pull Textiles, she applies the wisdom
of traditional textile methods and
philosophies to contemporary challenges in
design and manufacturing.
This exhibition was a great opportunity to
focus on sustainable textiles and present a
topical artist talk, with content captured for
an Object Digital article.
Murmuration - A Pliable
Formation: Windowsmiths
20 May – 30 September 2021
Windowsmiths is three artists, Fiona Meller,
Marcia Swaby and Helen Wyatt, who apply the
traditional skills and tools of silversmithing to
their artistic practice. The installation brings
focus to standard tools used by jewellers. It is
also an improvisation on shape and function
reminding us of ordinary technologies driven by
the body and their transformative nature.
Apothecary Now! Sassy Park
18 November 2021 – 25 January 2022
A very timely exhibition inspired by
Renaissance apothecary jars (or albarellos),
Sassy Park’s pots use similar maiolica
glaze techniques and motifs, linking the
current COVID-19 pandemic to history.
The hand painted pots reflect the recent
preoccupation with newly developed
pharmaceutical vaccines, controversial
cures and pandemic messaging.
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