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Founded in 2006, Gaffa Creative Precinct has evolved from it’s origins in Surry Hills to now expanding across two locations—281 Clarence Street and 30 Shirlow Street—Gaffa serves as a catalyst for artistic creation, exhibition and discourse.

Now showing Conductive Light Garden: A Circuit of the SensesExhibition dates: May 22 - June 5, 2026. Featuring,  , 'Hana...
29/05/2026

Now showing
Conductive Light Garden: A Circuit of the Senses
Exhibition dates: May 22 - June 5, 2026.

Featuring, , 'Hana Denki 花電気', 2026, Botanical matter, conductive wiring, playtronica interface, dimensions variable. Sound design by

Drawing on the principles of Japanese ikebana, our installation transforms botanical material into an interactive sensory environment. Each stem, branch and bloom responds to human touch, producing an ever-changing composition shaped collectively by those who encounter it. Inspired by the Japanese Gutai movement's belief in the direct relationship between body and material, we encourage you to explore the space between nature and technology, intention and chance. The result is a poetic meeting of flower, sound and human presence - a work that asks not simply to be viewed, but played.

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Conductive Light Garden: A Circuit of the SensesExhibition dates: May 22 - June 5, 2026. Featuring, Jessica Ticchio, 'EN...
29/05/2026

Conductive Light Garden: A Circuit of the Senses
Exhibition dates: May 22 - June 5, 2026.

Featuring, Jessica Ticchio, 'ENDLESS UNREALITY', 2025, Digital animation loop, projection installation, dimensions variable.

Last Friday, Conductive Light Garden transformed our historic former police station into a temporary field of sensory exchange; where light, sound, scent and touch converged to challenge conventional modes of perception. Across the building, audiences were invited to navigate the threshold between the tangible and the imagined, encountering spaces that unfolded not as fixed environments, but as shifting states of experience.

Artist, Jessica Ticchio's 'Endless Unreality' occupied the atrium as both architectural spine and conceptual portal. Extending vertically through the building's central void, the work activated the former civic infrastructure through a sequence of projected passages that connected floor to ceiling, material to immaterial. Drawing upon a constellation of architectural, cultural and speculative references, Ticchio constructed spatial fictions that oscillated between memory and invention, familiarity and estrangement.

Through continual shifts in scale, perspective and form, 'Endless Unreality' destabilised singular readings of place, inviting reflection on belonging, displacement and the fluid construction of identity. The work transformed the atrium into a site of suspension; a liminal zone where past and future, reality and imagination, coexist. In doing so, Ticchio reoriented 281 Clarence Street beyond its institutional history, positioning the building as a contemporary cultural vessel through which new possibilities for gathering, dreaming and becoming could emerge.

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Introducing  👋🏼Artist, Designer, Creative Director of  ‘Art lets me expand perception, reframe the familiar and create s...
25/05/2026

Introducing 👋🏼
Artist, Designer, Creative Director of

‘Art lets me expand perception, reframe the familiar and create spaces where people can dream beyond what they see.

Through Digital Art and Experiential Design, her creativity exists in the space between digital and physical, exploring how the two realms can exist in harmony. Playing with the line between real and surreal, she is inspired by the dreamstate, distortions of reality, grandious European architecture and sculptural forms seen in nature and everyday life. Her creative explorations transcend a variety of mediums, coming to life through 3D, AI, VR / 3D printed sculptures in her personal art practice, and the design of real-world immersive, experiential spaces as Creative Director of .

Visions of boundless dreamscapes and gravity-defying sculpture, Jessica’s creative practice evokes intrigue and reflection, whilst bending the concept of reality as we know it. She draws on the personal experience of her Australian-Italian heritage to create compositions that blend & fuse a myriad of cultural influence; utopian spaces that feel non-specific to a single place in our recognisable world.

Jessica’s works have been featured across the globe; from the pages of to the gallery walls of , , , the (Shanghai) and Prague’s first NFT art gallery .art in 2023. “Future Of The Past” appeared on two large-scale digital billboards: the Vérone Building Façade in Paris and in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, on a screen spanning 72 metres wide (one of the largest digital billboards in the world). In 2024, Jessica was nominated for the Créateurs Design Award for ‘Excellence in Digital Art’ in Paris, and has collaborated with brands such as , , , and .

Alongside working with clients including (Jess leading creative on 30+ projects), , Bulgari , , , , , , and many more!

Upcoming Exhibition: Conductive Light Garden Opening night: May 22, 5:00 - 10:00 PMRSVP to ensure entry. Link in Bio. ‍ ...
23/04/2026

Upcoming Exhibition: Conductive Light Garden
Opening night: May 22, 5:00 - 10:00 PM
RSVP to ensure entry. Link in Bio. ‍

presents their upcoming exhibition ‘Hana Denki 花電気’, (Electric Flower): a living installation where botanical matter becomes a medium for play across sound, touch and spatial perception.

Arranged within vessels, floral compositions extend beyond traditional ikebana into an expanded field of sensory activation. Through embedded electronic interfaces, organic materials respond to human contact, generated by an evolving sonic environment composed by

Conceptually informed by the Japanese Gutai movement’s emphasis on the direct encounter between body and material, the work dissolves distinctions between the natural and technological, the composed and the emergent. You are invited to engage physically with the installation, activating sound through gesture and proximity, transforming passive viewing into embodied participation.‍ By positioning flora as both instrument and ecosystem, ‘Hana Denki’ proposes a contemporary reimagining of Japanese spatial practice - one that situates botanical composition within circuits of energy, frequency and collective experience.

Introducing  👋🏼Artist, Designer, Creative Director of  ‘Art lets me expand perception, reframe the familiar and create s...
23/04/2026

Introducing 👋🏼
Artist, Designer, Creative Director of

‘Art lets me expand perception, reframe the familiar and create spaces where people can dream beyond what they see.

Through Digital Art and Experiential Design, her creativity exists in the space between digital and physical, exploring how the two realms can exist in harmony. Playing with the line between real and surreal, she is inspired by the dreamstate, distortions of reality, grandious European architecture and sculptural forms seen in nature and everyday life. Her creative explorations transcend a variety of mediums, coming to life through 3D, AI, VR / 3D printed sculptures in her personal art practice, and the design of real-world immersive, experiential spaces as Creative Director of .

Visions of boundless dreamscapes and gravity-defying sculpture, Jessica’s creative practice evokes intrigue and reflection, whilst bending the concept of reality as we know it. She draws on the personal experience of her Australian-Italian heritage to create compositions that blend & fuse a myriad of cultural influence; utopian spaces that feel non-specific to a single place in our recognisable world.

Jessica’s works have been featured across the globe; from the pages of to the gallery walls of , , , the (Shanghai) and Prague’s first NFT art gallery .art in 2023. “Future Of The Past” appeared on two large-scale digital billboards: the Vérone Building Façade in Paris and in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, on a screen spanning 72 metres wide (one of the largest digital billboards in the world). In 2024, Jessica was nominated for the Créateurs Design Award for ‘Excellence in Digital Art’ in Paris, and has collaborated with brands such as , , , and .

Alongside working with clients including (Jess leading creative on 30+ projects), , Bulgari , , , , , , and many more!

22/04/2026

We’re back! 💡

Conductive Light Garden: A Circuit of the Senses
22.5.2026 - 6.6.2026. RSVP now - link in bio.

Suspended between seasons, ‘Waiting for Summer’ pulses with quiet anticipation, a moment just before becoming.

Led by artist , whose practice moves fluidly between virtual and physical realms, the work unfolds as a living cycle of transformation.

VR-sculpted forms emerge into physical space, 3D-printed, then reanimated into digital sequences a continuous loop where nothing is fixed, and everything is in flux.

Step inside Conductive Light Garden as the ground floor comes alive. A charged, multi-sensory circuit of light, sound, scent and touch. Move through it. Activate it. Feel the shift between what is real, remembered and imagined.

Jessica Ticchio, ‘Waiting For Spring’, 2025, Triptych; VR sculpture, digital animation loop; projection with reflective sphere installation and ambient soundscape by Marli.

Sound by .dj

This is not just an exhibition, it’s an experience in motion.

Read the full article, link in bio. Our latest Crafted Stories edition features Sue Beardman’s  Sue Beardman deep sensit...
11/04/2026

Read the full article, link in bio.

Our latest Crafted Stories edition features Sue Beardman’s Sue Beardman deep sensitivity to process, material and time as contemporary jeweller.

Beyond Beardman’s affinity for texture - emery, files, micromotor attachments and whatever lies within reach to experimentation invites you to explore and reflect upon her story with special acknowledgments to the below;

‘Fractured Landscapes – New Pathways’, a finalist in The Alice Prize 2026, is on display at Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs until 8 June 2026.

Crafted Stories continues → enter the quietly dark world of  Sydney-based jeweller Sally Leung transforms horror, mythol...
18/03/2026

Crafted Stories continues → enter the quietly dark world of

Sydney-based jeweller Sally Leung transforms horror, mythology and nature into sculptural forms brought to life through precision wax carving using Kate Wolf micro carvers and Ferris gold wax, trusted tools available through The Tool Room.

Jewellery as armour, memory and meaning where concept meets craft and the right tools shape the story.

Dear jewellers 🚸A collection of impression dies with matching punches and stamps - designed for use on precious and soft...
18/02/2026

Dear jewellers 🚸

A collection of impression dies with matching punches and stamps - designed for use on precious and soft metals, as well as leather.

These tools come from a personal collection, gathered over years of travel and practice, including a number of handmade stamps sourced in Japan. Each carries its own history, material logic, and way of working.

We’re sharing these to introduce the community to tools we hold and value, and to open a conversation around how they might be used within the studio.
These tools are not for sale, but we’d love to hear if there’s interest in accessing them as part of studio-based making.

Get in touch if you’d like to know more.
Email [email protected]

Back to study or starting fresh? Check out Tool Room. Find the tools you need and message us anytime with questions.    ...
27/01/2026

Back to study or starting fresh? Check out Tool Room.
Find the tools you need and message us anytime with questions.

A fresh year, a refreshed bench. Stock up on burs, drill bits, and everyday essentials. Refresh your jewellery bench for...
20/01/2026

A fresh year, a refreshed bench.
Stock up on burs, drill bits, and everyday essentials.

Refresh your jewellery bench for the year ahead. Shop burs, drill bits, polishing supplies, and everyday essentials for your studio or home setup.

Find professional-quality burs, drill bits, and bench essentials for jewellery making. Perfect for restocking at the start of a new year.

From burs to drill bits, refresh your toolkit with reliable jewellery-making supplies and everyday studio essentials.

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281 Clarence Street
Sydney, NSW
2000

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Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm

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