After sharing a building with infamous Sydney karaoke den Ding Dong Dang’s for 3 years Gaffa has moved to the big end of town with new 3 story premises at 281 Clarence Street in the CBD.
Gaffa now houses 4 gallery spaces, the largest jewellery studio in Australia, a jewellery store, an industrial design project space and a café. Gaffa director Kelly Robson said she is thrilled by the move and is planning an innovative program for 2010. She says: “Gaffa has always been dedicated to supporting cross-platform collaboration across design and the visual arts and this new significantly larger site will bring more artists not only together but to new and larger audiences.”
Launching 11th Feb 2010 at 6pm:
GROUND FLOOR
THE ARCADE PROJECT: a revolving series of pop-up shops showcasing innovative design.
- Industrial designer Emma Elizabeth
- Product design collective Vert Design
GAFFA JEWELLERY STORE: showcasing unique contemporary jewellery.
- Designers include Enmore Design Institute graduate award winner Sonya Scott, Gaffa resident jeweller Alida Cappelletta & many more. KLINK CAFE: selling organic handmade coffee
LEVEL ONE
GAFFA GALLERY: created to nuture emerging contemporary art and encourage cross-platform collaboration.
Gallery 1, 2 and 3
- Opening exhibition ‘Fidelity’ - Featuring 14 artists, including Ella Barclay, Sumugan Sivanesan, Mark Gerada, Sean O’Connell, Marcelle Robbins, Ben Backhouse, Geoffrey Farquhar-Still, Andrew Lavery, Melinda Young, Zoe Brand and Kath Fries.
LEVEL TWO
GAFFA STUDIOS: Gaffa runs one of the largest communal jewellery + object art workshops and studios in Australia.
- Jewellers Jyoti Peart and Alida Cappelletta will be offering a range of jewellery classes from March 2010.
Gaffa’s directors have object-based backgrounds and believe that Australian object art and design’s unique character, intelligence and vitality will benefit from Gaffa’s new location and exciting exhibition programming. As a result of the expansion, Gaffa is more capable than ever to raising the profile of Australian artists in this area, including glass art, metalwork, plastics, ceramics and more.
Check out Gaffa Gallery
nice site thanks for the link, nice monitor :) great design, well not bad service will take a look closer, well not bad site, not so many programs listed but looks quite great.