Visitors can explore accessible galleries and working artist studios, offering an engaging experience of contemporary art and craft. Meet resident artists, browse exhibitions, or get hands-on with workshops and community-led projects.
The newly built pavilion houses a thoughtfully curated store, featuring South Australian-made homewares, jewellery, textiles, art, and accessories. FABRIK also pays tribute to its textile roots with museum displays that share the rich history of the former mill and its role in the region’s industrial past.
Currently showing as part of SALA, FABRIK x ACSA is curated by Andrew Purvis and showcases the work of staff and students from Adelaide Central School of Art. A longstanding South Australian institution, Adelaide Central School of Art has spent the past seven years recognised as the state’s top art school for student experience, according to the national QILT survey. With leading textile artists such as Julia Robinson and Sera Waters on its teaching faculty, the School has nurtured a dynamic and diverse community of emerging practitioners.
This exhibition brings their work together, offering a striking snapshot of the skill, imagination, and variety that defines contemporary textile practice today.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Alycia Bennett, Tony Busch, Lucia Dohrmann, Chelsea Farquhar, Yana Lehey, Khanh Mai, Julia Robinson, Sera Waters
FABRIK X ACSA is now showing until 14 September. Open Wednesday through to Sunday, 11am to 4pm at FABRIK, LOBETHAL WOOLLEN MILL (1 Lobethal Road, Lobethal).
Image: Julia Robinson, Dressed In Weeds [detail], textile and found components. Image courtesy of the artist and Hugo Michell Gallery. Photo by Sam Roberts
