The Mill is thrilled to announce Chris Siu as the recipient of the Sponsored Studio for the July-January 2023 residency. The Mill’s Sponsored Studio is a new initiative supported by the Mahmood Martin Foundation.

In 2023 two selected artists will join our community, with each receiving 6-months of studio space and an exhibition outcome as part of The Mill Showcase.

Chris Siu (b.2001) is a Hong Kong born photographer, currently living and studying on Kaurna Country in Tarntanya Adelaide, South Australia.
Chris works primarily in medium format analogue photography. He is drawn to this photographic process because it is produced and cared for entirely by hand; from capturing and developing, to printing and digitising the analogue images. Inspired by documentary conventions, his work investigates and chronicles the intricate relationships that lie within his surrounding social landscapes. Chris’s practice is informed by the flux of sociopolitical happenings in homeland Hong Kong and his ever-changing place within it. Through exploring notions of layered histories and geopolitics, Chris’s work seeks to offer a reflection on personal and communal experience, pivoting around representations of civil unrest, diasporic experience, cultural displacement and marginality within contemporary existence.
For the past two years, Chris has been developing a body of work titled Then We Keep Living whilst completing a Bachelor of Contemporary Art at the University of South Australia.