Image: Dai Trang Nguyen, Threads of Life (detail), 2025, yarns, repurposed fabric and wire, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist
Workshop
When: Saturday, November 8, 2025, 1-3pm
Where: Gallery II, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Cost: $45 (+ booking fee)
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Our entrance on the corner of Angas Street and Gunson Street is accessible by ramp, as it has a small step from the pavement. The doorway is 84.5cm wide.
During gallery hours - Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm - the door is unlocked. There is a doorbell at an accessible height that can be pressed if you need assistance.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
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Join artist Dai Trang Nguyen for a mindful, meditative art-making workshop exploring oneself and oneness.
This workshop offers a space to connect with yourself, others and the more-than-human world, while embracing intuition and the unfolding of the present moment. Immersed in Dai Trang’s way of making, participants will transform 120 minutes of time, space and life’s conditions into tactile artworks with textiles and mixed media.
A selection of materials will be provided. Participants are welcome to bring their own, particularly textile-based, to weave into their creations.
What to expect:
Seated within Dai Trang's exhibition, guests will spend two hours creating mindful textile artworks, reflecting on Dai Trang’s artistic ethos and process. A selection of materials provided, participants can take their creation home on the day.
Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be available.
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Dai Trang Nguyen is a Vietnamese artist and designer based in Kaurna Country, with a creative journey spanning Vietnam, the UK and Australia. Originally trained in graphic design, her practice has evolved from structured precision to a meditative, intuitive approach rooted in mindfulness, presence and the unfolding of each moment.
During the solitude of COVID-19, art became her sanctuary and a guide for self-understanding, leading to her first solo exhibition in Vietnam and inspiring her move to South Australia in 2022 to pursue a Master’s in Contemporary Art. Since then, her practice has deepened through introspection and experimentation, expanding materially from digital illustration into tactile forms.
Living far from home has enriched her connection to her Eastern heritage. Influenced by Zen Buddhist roots and her experience as a migrant, Dai Trang’s process is slow and embodied, embracing making as meditation - each gesture responding to internal and external conditions. Working with textiles, found objects and mixed media, she creates contemplative sculptures, wall pieces and installations that reflect life’s fluidity, impermanence and interconnectedness.
Her Kayangan residency at The Mill Adelaide marked a first step toward relational, community-connected making, opening her process to place, people and the more-than-human world, while remaining grounded in herself through mindfulness.
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