Events
Upcoming Events
Join us at Balmain Library to craft amazing pictures from portraits of the past.
Balmain Library, 370 Darling St
Balmain Town Hall
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Missed out on making an Ibis Puppet with us at the Summer Hill Social, here's your chance!
at Sweets Workshop
(Shop 4, 58-60 Carlton Cres, Summer Hill)
Drop in Event - No Booking Needed
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Wacky Words - Zine Making Workshop with John D-C
Explore hand drawn lettering and word pictures in our school holiday workshop.
at Sweets Workshop
More info & to book here
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SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOP
Concertina Street - Sketching Workshop with EmmaJane
Create your shopping strip, based on Summer Hill's High Street shopfronts.
Past Events
We're hosting the Creative Village!
Smith & Lackey Streets
Come together to celebrate Summer Hill’s community culture with a day of fine and delicious food, accompanied by grooving tunes.
Over the years, we (John & Emma) have had the amazing opportunity to work with Inner West Council to put together the Creative Village. This year we'll be hosting a FREE chill out colouring and activity zone for kids big and small. We’ll take you through creating your own fabulous Ibis puppet, made with plastic free recyclable materials. We will also have a colouring in / activity celebrating our terrific Summer Hill Village.
More info here
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with EmmaJane Illustration
Sydney Town Hall
The much-loved sydney made market is back on 25th November this year. Expect an exciting line-up featuring 75 sydney-based makers, artists and designers. Topped off with live music and set in the iconic town hall with its beautiful ornate interior.
More info here
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WITH JOHN D-C
25 September 2023
Balmain Library
Balmain Library 370 Darling Street Balmain, NSW 2041
Art and music lovers, sketch and paint a stylized mini portrait of your favourite musician with illustrator John D-C. Learn how to capture their likeness in a sketch before using gouache and coloured pencil to finish the portrait!
Click here to find out more and secure your spot at
Inner West Council Libraries.
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Rozelle NSW
10am - 4pm
EmmaJane Illustration (Sweets Workshop's Emma Simmons) will be taking her illustrations of some Favourite Inner West/Sydney haunts to the Makers & Shakers Market!
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1 Showground Road,
Sydney Olympic Park
Sun: 10am-6pm
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Rozelle NSW
10am - 4pm
EmmaJane Illustration (Sweets Workshop's Emma Simmons) will be taking her illustrations of some Favourite Inner West/Sydney haunts to the Makers & Shakers Market!
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by Emma Simmons
EXHIBITION OPENING: 10am, Sat 26th Nov 2022
A collection of uplifting original artworks celebrating being out & about in Sydney once again. After the last few years of restrictions, this exhibition evokes hope and joy as it celebrates the freedoms that we have missed and those special places that have provided us respite.
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14th -16th February 2020
VS. Gallery - 1 Vere St, Richmond Victoria
Friday 29th November 2019, 6pm – 9pm
Tortuga Studios, 31 Princes Hwy, St Peters
Join John D-C along with a collection of other Indie toy makers at Toymaggedon! A market that explores a toy themed multimedia storm of paintings, sculptures, prints and more.
THIS IS NOT A TOY SCENE
15th -17th November 2019
Mothership Studios 18-22 Sydney St Marrickville
John D-C is one of the 15 artists on show at the first Sydney This is Not a Toy Scene exhibition. John has been busily working in the studio and will be launching a NEW action figure to rival some of your favourite 80's muscle-bound heroes. To keep up with his progress check out his instagram. Over the weekend there will be sculpting, moulding and painting workshops, love music, a BBQ and more.
Creative Trails Damun-Djarrawunang
Saturday 9th November 2019, 10am - 4pm
Sweets Workshop is happy to be included on this years Creative Trail! We have a charming collection of local artists on display and will have a colouring station in the gallery for kids to come, chill out and colour amongst the art. No bookings required, just drop in. Click here to find out more about the Ashfield - Newtown Creative Trail including special events and tours.
ART PRIZE EXHIBTION
Official opening 9th November 2019, 5pm – 7pm
Chrissie Cotter Gallery, 31A Pidcock St, Camperdown
Sweets Workshop's own Emma Simmons is thrilled to have her entry Marrickville Pork Roll selected to exhibit under the theme Small works in the big city at the Chrissie Cotter Gallery. Emma's petite original illustration in ink and watercolour will be on display with 80 other local artists from opening night and on Sunday 10 November, 11am to 4pm, Wednesday 13 November to Saturday 16 November.
Sunday 20 October 2019
Marrickville & Illawarra Roads, Marrickville
Saturday 12 October 2019
Sunday 29 September 2019 - Friday 1 November 2019
Sydney Showground
CREATIVE VILLAGE CURATED BY SWEETS WORKSHOP
Sunday 29 September 2019
Lackey St, Summer Hill
Sunday 15 September 2019
Sweets Workshop shop will be holding a market stall and bringing along some of our favourite local curios! We hope to see you there.
21-23 June 2019
Sydney Showground
Museum of Contemporary Art. The Rocks Sydney
Sunday 15 May 2019
At Sweets Workshop we have an affinity for zines and self produced publications, John D-C will be taking his zines and artwork and tabling a stall at the MCA Zine Fair.
Thursday 18 April 2019
Balmain Town Hall Meeting Room
Saturday 13 April 2019
Marrickville Town Hall
Our very own Emma Simmons will be taking her local landscape illustrations, stationery, homewares and hand-made jewellery along to Marrickville Town Hall for the event.
