ADC Annual Report 2021

Object Shop and Retail Events
Object Shop is the Sydney destination to buy hand-made local work by designers
and craftspeople. The volume of work sold and size of the retail footprint have
both increased substantially year on year.
Work sold includes a mix of ceramics, glass, textiles, jewellery, homewares, cards,
kits and publications, including magazines as well as ADC’s own publications. ADC
supports diverse makers, stocking work by Indigenous makers and artists such as
Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Baluk Arts and artists with an intellectual disability through
Studio A. Object Shop also features work sold in collaboration with our ACDC
partners JamFactory and Australian Tapestry Workshop.
During the 2021 lockdown all sale
commissions were waived to support
makers unable to actively sell their
work in this period.
Australian Design Centre and Little
National Hotel Sydney have joined
forces to make a capsule collection
of Australian craft and design objects
from Object Shop available in a curated
cabinet at the hotel in Sydney’s CBD.
This is a great opportunity to make
Australian handmade work available to
travellers and further promote Object
Shop. The extensive lockdown in 2021
will extend this pilot to end 2022.
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