What’s On

EXHIBITIONS

From the collection of Mary Jose, Fabric of Life

Fabric & the Conservation of Cultures

From the collection of Mary Jose, Fabric of Life

06/06/2025 – 20/07/2025

Julia Robinson_Dressed In Weeds (detail)_textile and found components SQ

FABRIK X ACSA

Alycia Bennett, Tony Busch, Lucia Dohrmann, Chelsea Farquhar, Yana Lehey, Khanh Mai, Julia Robinson, Sera Waters

01/08/2025 – 14/09/2025

SALA and ACSA_Logo
Image: Ervin’s Village (detail). Image Belinda Broughton.

Ervin’s Village

Ervin Janek

01/08/2025 – 14/09/2025

SALA long

FABRIK WORKSHOPS

Leanne Garnder Little House

Little House Workshop

26/07/2025

Upcycled Basket Weaving

Upcycled Basket Weaving

3 Part Workshop
06/09/2025
27/09/2025
11/10/2025

Mary Heath darning socks

Mending Workshop with Mary Heath

13/09/2025

Image by Macella Meneguello group dolls, Adelaide SQ

Self-Doll Workshop – a journey of self-reflection through doll making

26/10/2025

FABRIK HERITAGE WORKSHOPS

As part of our commitment to supporting a diversity of textile and related craft practices in our community, FABRIK presents a series of skills development workshops that reflect the many cultures and traditions that contribute to our rich heritage.

To find out about the stories behind our Heritage Workshop hosts click here.

Heritage Logo Tradition and Culture Through Creativity
Sashiko Workshop detail Heritage

Sashiko Stitching

16/08/2025

Eda Tevrizci Ebru Fabric Marbling

Introduction to Ebru Fabric Marbling

16/08/2025

Recent Heritage Workshop

Tapita Applique Workshop image SQ

Tapita Applique

29/06/2025

Tatreez Workshop

Tatreez Workshop

29/06/2025

Choonri SQ

Pakistani Chunri Textile Dyeing

14/06/2025

WINTER WORDS 2025 @ FABRIK

Winter Words 2025 Fleeced

Fleeced – a Winter Words in conversation event

13/08/2025

More Winter Words Events

I Am with David Chapple

27/07/2025  9:30am – 12:30pm 

Stop Making Sense with David Chapple

27/07/2025  1:30– 4:30pm

Enduring Embroidered Words with Fiona Connel

02/08/2025  1-4pm

OUR COMMUNITY @ FABRIK

Community Craft Groups

January to July 2025 Schedule

Shirley Ober weaving a blanket on the Sulzer loom_early 1990s

Mill Community Catch-up

OTHER WORKSHOPS

Supporting Artists Venue Hire Workshops

A list of Workshops Hosted by Artists Hiring FABRIK Spaces

Recent Exhibitions, Workshops, Events & Associated Activities @ FABRIK

Create Tonal Etchings & Print on Fabric

The Etched Line – Printing on Fabric

06/07/2025

Mary Jose Textile Conservationist

Textile Conservation

21/06/2025

Fabrik Calm Dusty Pink crochet mandala

Calm

Fringe Exhibition coinciding with Hooked

14/02/2025 – 08/06/2025

Eco_earrings with Sue Garrard

Eco Earrings Workshop

07/06/2025

VERWEBAN Flossie Peitsch

VERWEBAN

(fur-veé-bonn): Germanic Interweaving

11/04/2025 – 25/05/2025

SAHR BASHIR Paper J WS

Paper Jewellery Workshop

25/05/2025

Flower Pounding Hummingpea

Flower Pounding and Embroidery Workshop

26/04/2025

Colourful_Earrings_With_Sue_Garrard

Colour Pop Earrings Workshop

10/05/2025

Rosina Possingham

Bestowed 

An OSCA PROJECT
by Cynthia Schwertsik
As part of Projects of the Everyday

 

23/03/2025

Fabrik Hooked Exhibition K Phillips

Hooked

Fringe Exhibition

14/02/2025 – 30/03/2025

Learn to Crochet Coasters

Learn to Crochet at Fabrik

08/03/2025

Crochet a Beanie

Design @ Crochet a beanie at Fabrik

15/03/2025

100 Treasured Textiles Colleen Morrow

100 Treasured Textiles

20/12/2024 – 02/02/2025

Fabrik Anne Griffiths Workshop

Making Felted Vessels

01/02/2025

Donna Gordge Print and Stitch Cyanotypes

Print and Stitch Cyanotypes

02/02/2025

Fabrik Afternoon with Colleen Morrow Square

The Passion of Collecting

An afternoon with textile collector Colleen Morrow

30/01/25  2-4pm

Calm crochet clinic

Crochet Clinics at Fabrik

Wed 15 Jan 2025, 2-4 pm
Wed 29 Jan 2025, 2-4 pm
*EXTRA Clinic added Wed 15 Jan, 10am – 12pm

Fabrik Calm Participation Call Out

Calm – Participation Call-out

Fringe Exhibition

Registrations Close 13/01/25

Fabrik Handmade Xmas Market 2024

Handmade Christmas Market

Saturday 21/12/24

Diane Firth, Evening

Australia Wide Nine

08/11/24 – 08/12/24

Handmade fabric wrens

Stitch a Wren with Rosi Gates

A Handmade Christmas at Fabrik event

16/11/24

Five Honeyeater Journals Jess Boyle Rustic Wren

Create Your Own Leather Journal

A Handmade Christmas at Fabrik event

17/11/24

Yellow and red screen printed flowers

Screen-printing with Simone Tippett

A Handmade Christmas at Fabrik event

01/12/24

Present: Project by India Flint

20/9/24 – 27/10/24

Tragic Aloneness Redispersed back to earth, Sera Waters, 2024. Photo Grant Hancock

All Things are Connected

20/9/24 – 27/10/24

Connect + Create with Mindfulness and Botanically Inspired Watercolour

27/10/24

Make your own Wearable Art with Cheryl Hutchens

Make your own Wearable Art with Cheryl Hutchens @ the Lobethal Community Forum

19/10/24

Doors Open

20/09/24

Curator Talk: Kay Lawrence, All Things are Connected Curator

20/9/24

Commemorative Signature Cloth Signing

21/9/24 + 22/9/24

Threads of Connection: Embroider the history of Fabrik

21/9/24 + 22/9/24

Blockprinting on Fabric Workshop: Facilitated by Lottie Emma

21/9/24

Artist talks: All Things are Connected Exhibition

22/9/24

Stitching Together: Facilitated by Sera Waters

22/9/24

Fleece: Endurance Knitting Performance by Deborah Prior

22/9/24

Past Exhibitions, Workshops & Events @ Fabrik

The Understory: Postcards to Bushland Park

16/4/23

Mill Stories: museum planning afternoon

18/5/22

Fringe in the hills logo

Fringe in the Hills

15/4/22 – 24/4/22

Image shows a hand holding a paintbrush painting a yellow flower on a white page. To the right are some dried flowers and gum leaves. To the left is a paint pallet and a jar of water.

Connect + Create with Nature

2/4/22

Image shows colourful illustrations of birds against a purple and green background.

Flocking Together

11/12/21 – 23/12/21

Twilight Christmas Market

18/12/21 – 19/12/21

Mill Square Music + Flocking Together launch night

11/12/21

Close up of vibrant red and gold material

Textile Conservation advice day at Fabrik with Mary Jose

20/11/21

Introduction to Fabric Marbling with Eda Tevrizci

31/3/23

Creative Recovery after Bushfire Workshops

Creative Community Crafting Sessions

Feb, March & April 2023

Cyanotype workshop with Donna Gordge

3/2/23

Spring Mending Circle with Mary Heath

27/10/22

Create your own Yunomi cup with Aurélie from Studio Panoply

1/6/22

Upcycled Art Journal Making with textile artist Barbara Millward

2/6/22

Ngarrindjeri Weaving and Culture with Cedric Varcoe

4/6/22

Black and white collage.

Stories of Lobethal Bushland Park

Outdoor exhibition

New Art for New Walls

1/8/22 – 21/8/22

Image shows a close up of fingers stitching on beige material

Retelling

20/2/22 – 6/3/22

Hidden Treasures

19/5/21 – 29/5/21

Close up of artwork

Embedded Landscape

1/8/20 – 31/8/20

Trees.

Solastalgia

15/2/20 – 15/3/20

Close up of red stitching.

Borderline: Sampling the Edge

9/8/19 – 1/9/19

Swatch

9/8/19 – 1/9/19

Image shows artwork against a black background.

_this breath is not mine to keep

7/11/20 – 6/12/20

Image shows an artwork with two faces in an arch shape frame.

Domestic Arts

26/9/20 – 1/11/20

Artwork with green leaves and the word "lentils" in red.

The Museum of Domestic Botany

26/9/20 – 1/11/20

Image with text. Image shows rainbow light. Text reads "What I Hold Dear"

What I Hold Dear

1/8/20 – 31/8/20

About a Wall

9/8/19 – 1/9/19

Artwork.

Soft Vessels

9/8/19 – 1/9/19

Image of an Onkaparinga blanket project onto a brick wall.

Weaving Stories

3/5/19 – 25/5/19

Close up of an embroidered tea towel. The words "uncertainty", "physical distancing", "lock down", "stay safe stay home", "wear face masks in public", "healthcare heroes, "panic buying" and "anxiety" are stitched onto it.

Quiet Conversations

19/2/21 – 14/3/21

Close up of handwritten letters. One has colourful stitiching.

Portrayals of a Pandemic

19/2/21 – 14/3/21

Image with text. Image shows a landscape scene of vineyards in the Adelaide Hills. Text says "Welcome to Cards of Kindness - Adelaide Hills council library service - glad you could join us"

Cards of Kindness

19/2/21 – 14/3/21

Image shows a close up of an artwork showing houses. Green fields are in the background.

Regenerate

11/12/20 – 20/12/20