Carriageworks, Contemporary arts center in Redfern, Australia

Carriageworks occupies part of the former Eveleigh Carriage Workshops in Redfern, a 51-hectare rail complex built between 1880 and 1889. The adapted industrial bays now hold large open halls used for contemporary art, theatre, dance and film, plus Bays 22-24, additional spaces managed by Carriageworks Ltd for hire. It is Australia's largest multi-arts centre.

The site began as the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, built between 1880 and 1889 to maintain and repair trains for the rail network. After the workshops closed, the buildings were transformed into an arts center in 2007, giving the industrial complex a cultural purpose.

The name comes from the Eveleigh Carriage Workshops, where Sydney's train carriages were built and repaired from 1880 to 1988. Eight theatre, dance and film companies are based on site, among them Performance Space, Sydney Chamber Opera and Moogahlin Performing Arts. A weekly farmers' market has run in the former workshop bays for many years.

Carriageworks occupies part of the former Eveleigh Carriage Workshops, a 51-hectare rail complex; the site is owned by the NSW government and Carriageworks Ltd is a short-term tenant, also managing Bays 22-24 as hireable spaces. The centre presents up to 100 projects a year, so check what is on before travelling.

The Eveleigh workshops built the carriage made for the Governor-General, also used by visiting royalty, along with Australia's first electric carriage and first air-conditioned train. Carriageworks opened there in 2007 after the workshops closed in 1988, and in 2008 Tonkin Zulaikha Greer won AIA awards for the adaptive reuse and heritage work.