The Art & Design Fair, powered by Squarespace, will return on Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd June 2023 at Carriageworks, Sydney. Curated by Semi Permanent as part of its flagship Festival of Creativity & Design taking place across the same dates, the fair is a celebration of visual design practice and provides a platform for a broad range of creators to showcase their wares to the Australasian creative community. Trading Hours: Thursday 1 June 8:30am—9pm Friday 2 June 9am—3:30pm

Building on the success of last year’s launch, this year’s Semi Permanent Art & Design Fair includes an expanded collection of vendors from across Australia, including independent publishers, large-scale publishing houses and art galleries alongside independent artists, ceramicists, poster designers and digital creators. These include Astrophe Magazine, BTWNLNS, Evi. O Studio, Institute of Modern Art, Journals, MCA Store, Perimeter, Powerhouse Publishing, Soft Stir and Voluptuary Ceramics, among many others. Several new titles and artworks will be launched exclusively at the Semi Permanent Art & Design Fair, including Nothing I Know Belongs To Me, a monograph celebrating ten years of Christopher Doyle & Co, published by Formist; the sophomore edition of food and literature journal Tart Magazine; a series of fine art prints by Sydney-based 3D/VR artist David Porte Beckefeld, spanning 2020-2023; and 20 Years Forward & Back, a major new published work by Semi Permanent that charts, reflects and refracts a broad spectrum of excellence across multiple disciplines in celebration of two decades of the festival. The Semi Permanent Art & Design Fair is powered by Squarespace, the all-in-one website building and ecommerce platform. Squarespace empowers millions of entrepreneurs to create an impactful, stylish and easy-to-manage online presence. “At Squarespace, we help creative people stand out and succeed online,” says James Rollin, Head of Marketing, Australia and New Zealand, at Squarespace. “In a world where creators and entrepreneurs need to build audiences and monetise across multiple channels, both physically and digitally, we’re proud to partner with Semi Permanent to help give such exceptional creative talent a platform at the Art & Design Fair 2023.”