Radical Textiles: Opening Night & After Party
Fri 22 Nov 2025
$150 General Admission
The Official Opening of Radical Textiles & Radical Revelry
Celebrate the opening night of the highly anticipated exhibition Radical Textiles at the Art Gallery of South Australia followed by the Radical Revelry After Party.
Radical Textiles celebrates the cutting-edge innovations, enduring traditions and bodies of shared knowledge that have been folded into fabric by artists, designers and change makers over the past 150 years.
Kick on at Observatory 23 for the official after party and enjoy free-flowing drinks and food along with performances by alt-pop duo Plastiq, drag queen royalty Art Simone, and dance-floor favourite DJ Tom Borgas.
Don’t forget to dress in your most radical attire.
Official Opening
5.30pm
Art Gallery of South Australia
North Terrace, Adelaide
Radical Revelry After Party
8.30pm
Observatory 23
23 Hackney Rd, Hackney
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Art Simone
Drag artist, actor, author, and runner-up in Ru Paul's Drag Race, Art Simone has claimed her position at the forefront of the Aussie entertainment industry.
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Plastiq
Bringing forward thinking electro-pop music to the people through thrilling live performance, intricately crafted sonic tapestries and visceral mixed media visuals.
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DJ Tom Borgas
Adelaide-based artist and DJ spinning funky d-floor tunes until late.
1. Photo: Eric Brumfield. 2. Iris van Herpen, born Netherlands 1984, Original runway ‘Alchemy of Light’ dress from the Between the Lines couture collection, 2016-17, Amsterdam, silk tulle, thermoplastic polymer, transparent liquid polyurethane, 100.0 x 110.0 cm; Gift of the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Fashion Fund 2017, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © Iris van Herpen. 3. Kate Just, 1974, I Can’t Believe I Still Have to Protest this Shit, 2021, Melbourne, knitted wool, 86.5 x 56.0 x 5.0 cm; Gift of Shane Le Plastrier through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2022, Art Gallery of South Australia, Courtesy of Kate Just and Hugo Michell Gallery. 4. Paul Yore, 1987, Let us not die from habit, 2018, Gippsland, Victoria, mixed media, appliqued textile, found fabric, cotton thread, synthetic polymer paint, sequins, buttons, beads, 230.0 x 405.0 cm (irreg.); Gift of Stephanie & Julian Grose, Andrew Henderson, Diana & Philippe Jaquillard, Brigitte & Stephen Lane, Rob Lyons, Janie Michell, Thelma Taliangis, Judith & Jono Tolley through the Art Gallery of South Australia Contemporary Collectors 2020, Art Gallery of South Australia, Courtesy of Paul Yore, Hugo Michell Gallery, and STATION. 5. Detail: Sally Smart, artist, born Quorn, South Australia 1960, Studio Sally Smart, Yogyakarta, manufacturer, DGTMB Art Embroidery, Yogyakarta, manufacturer, Performance/Punokawan/Chout (The Choreography of Cutting), 2017, Melbourne , cotton, textiles, synthetic embroidery thread, aluminium, wooden sticks, pins, screenprinted and synthetic polymer paint elements, 300.0 x 1070.0 cm; Gift of John and Jane Ayers, Elma Christopher, Tracey and Michael Whiting through the Art Gallery of South Australia Contemporary Collectors 2017, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © the artist, courtesy of Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert. 6. Pink shorts worn by South Australian Premier Don Dunstan, c.1972, Adelaide, polyester, 30.0 x 48.0 cm, History Trust of South Australia, photo: Mark Eckermann. 8-9, 12. Morgan Sette. 10-11. Saige Prime.