Join us for a Filipino community day of specialty coffee, durational wheel throwing and handbuilding clay session, screen printing, chess blitz, snacks and casual conversation at ACE.

Featuring artists: Mark Valenzuela, Alvin Tan Teck Heng (clay); Mikoo Cataylo (clay); Edwin Harris-Faull (clay); Florian Cinco (screen printing).

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In Bantay-Salakay, 2025 Porter Street Commission recipient Mark Valenzuela explores the offensive and defensive strategies embedded in our environments, and the role of power in determining whether these strategies represent resistance or oppression.

With a career spanning two decades, Mark Valenzuela is an Adelaide-based artist who works between Australia and the Philippines. Although his practice wilfully resists categorisation, ceramics is an enduring medium for Valenzuela and has functioned as a linchpin to his many-parted installations that combine elements of painting, drawing, sculpture, video, assemblage and street art.

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Feature Image: Mark Valenzuela's studio (2025). Photography by Morgan Sette.