Image: Erin Daniell
October 25, 2024 - January 17, 2025
Opening: Friday October 25, 5:30-7:30pm
The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Free entry, all welcome
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You can find Fragments in The Mill’s Foyer, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).
The Mill is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.
Accessibility
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.
The Mill is excited to present Fragments, a new Showcase exhibition featuring The Mill studio resident, jeweller Erin Daniell. The exhibition features wearable sculptures inspired by the natural South Australian landscape, in particular the Fleurieu Peninsula.
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‘Fragments’ is a small collection of wearable sculptures that are inspired by the eroded coastline of the Fleurieu Peninsula. Each metal form has been hand sculpted in wax to mimic the striations and undulations of sedimentary rock and weathered flora found along the coast. Broken and irregular, these pieces are like broken shells and flotsam and jetsam that washes up along the sand. The intuitive process of moulding is what creates the organic texture found on the surface of the pieces and the uncontrollable nature of the wax material is what informs the final result.
In contrast the expectation mass production set by fast fashion, the making process of this work is slow and mindful. Craft and preservation workmanship is a central part of the artistic practice, and each piece is one of a kind. Driving the work is a love of beauty and the human connection to objects, as they act as reminders of places, people or history.
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Erin Daniell is a jewellery designer and visual artist based in Tarntanya/Adelaide. She completed a bachelor’s degree in Creative Arts at Flinders University in 2021, and she was selected for the Peter Walker/Helpmann Advancement award in 2020. In 2022, Daniell participated in the JamFactory Associate Training Program in the Jewellery and Metal Studio.
Daniell's design philosophy reflects an exploration of growth and beauty, taking inspiration from natural forms. She builds organic shapes to create small scale sculptures and jewellery collections. Employing her own take on ancient cire perdue techniques, she manipulates liquid wax by pulling and twisting to create fragile forms that are each as unique as a fingerprint. This process infuses her designs with natural textures that carry an elemental aesthetic, reminiscent of mollusc spiral growth patterns and coastal erosion striations.
Daniell has exhibited in galleries such as Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, CRAFT ACT, Canberra and Zu Design, Adelaide and she was selected as finalist in the Parklands Prize in 2023. Her works are currently stocked in KIN Gallery, Canberra and JamFactory, Adelaide. She has received grants from Helpmann Academy and Australia Council for the Arts and has undertaken an Artist in Residence program in the Mornington Peninsula.
