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Exhibition: HELD, Youth Inc. SALA exhibition

Adele Sliuzas ·

August 30 - September 19, 2024

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find HELD in The Mill’s Exhibition Spaces,
    located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    Open Monday to Friday, 10am-4pm.

The Mill is pleased to host HELD, an exhibition of artworks by Youth Inc. students. Inspired by Maira Kalman’s book Women Holding Things, this exhibition features artworks and creative writing that explore the things we hold physically and metaphorically.

  • Holding a specific thing

    is a very nice thing to do.

    You are standing there

    and you hold

                     an enormous cabbage.

                      Or a violin.                  

                      Or a bright balloon.

    That is a job in and of itself.

    The simple act of doing one thing.

                                     —Maira Kalman, Women Holding Things

  • Youth Inc. is a new learning alternative designed for young people aged 17-24 who are looking for something different.

    Our School is specifically designed for young people who want to change their world, to dare to dream and discover who they are; their unique gifts, talents and strengths. To figure out what a meaningful, fulfilling and joyful life is to them.

    Youth Inc. is a vibrant, inclusive and affirming learning community that welcomes young people of all identities and lived experiences. We work hard to co-create a space where everyone belongs, where everyone in our  community feels seen, heard and valued for who they are and how they identify.

    Exploring and expressing who you are and/or who you want to be is our "pounding heart". We make space for you to explore your values, strengths, passions, experiences, so you can be your true and full self. 

  • Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, access the pedestrian ramp on the corner of Gunson St to get to our front door, which will be open.

    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.

    If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact info@themilladelaide.com

 
 

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LIMITLESS: The Mill Fundraiser Exhibition

Adele Sliuzas ·

October 4-11, 2024

Exhibition event: Friday, October 11, 5:30-8pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

Please note we are not open on Monday, October 7, due to the public holiday.

  • You can find LIMITLESS in The Mill’s Gallery II, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    Gallery II 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 be hosting LIMITLESS, a fundraising exhibition shining a light on over 100 local artists.

This fundraiser exhibition will raise funds for our multi-arts hub while celebrating the abundance of artistic talent within the South Australian visual arts community, including work by established artists, visual arts students and graduates, local artist studio collectives, The Mill resident artists and The Mill alumni artists.

The exhibition invites audiences to find their favourite piece to add to their collection. All A5 artworks are priced at $100, with artists working in diverse mediums and styles. The exhibition features emerging alongside established artists, with all artists’ names kept anonymous in the exhibition. Artist’s names and details will be revealed when the buyer takes the work home. 

Sales from this fundraising exhibition support the artist and The Mill, helping us to achieve our vision for a thriving and prosperous arts culture in South Australia.

  • Sales from this exhibition will support the artist, and The Mill, fullfilling our mission to provide affordable creative studios, a community hub, professional development and presentation opportunities for artists.

  • We're excited to have submissions from:

    Carmen Alcedo, Mel Au, Sophia Bedford, Mia Behrens, Isabella Bianchini, Blakesby, Yolanda Boag, Sara Boni, Tom Borgas, Chloe Bower, Crista Bradshaw, Juliane Brandt, Jingwei Bu, Louis Bullock, Alicia Butt, Seb Calabretto, Asha Camacho, Jack Casper, Evie Catt, Madeleine Coates, Anastasia Comelli, Kate Cuthbert, Lettee Dametto, Andrew Dearman, Stephanie Doddridge, Lottie Emma, Tash Evele, Leon Ferrante, Lynette Fisher, Peter Francisco, Timothy Gambell, Oliver Gerhard, Jen Gibson-Smith, Anna Goodhind, Pj Graber, Rob Gutteridge, Bri Hammond, Evie Hassiotis, Nicole Haynes, Katherine Hoffman, John Hopkinson, Alice Hu, Romina Ienco, Malinda Jenner, Joanna Juers, Olivia Kathigitis, Lauren Kathleen, Keirart,Brent Leideritz, Jordanah Liston, Amelia Luke, Amanda Lundbäck, Meg Mader, Melody Marshall, Sascha Millard, Bridgette Minuzzo, Sienna Montgomery-Pittaway, Evy Moschakis, Tahneisha Mottishaw, Swapna Namboodiri, Stu Nankivell, Tori Nguyen, Larnce O’Flaherty, Liliana Pasalic, David Peace, Gough Pitawat, August Porter, Alyssa Powell-Ascura, Mary Pulford, Erin Renfrey, Alix Rogerson, Kelly Rowe, Vern Schulz, Scout, Morgan Sette, Adele Sliuzas, Lucky Smith, Jadranka Sunde, Nicole Szymanczyk, Jen Trantor, Tracey Vale, Martine Whalley, Rebecca Whittemore, Socorro Wickens, Bob Window, yeahdope, Rebecca Zanker and more to come!

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Exhibition: Glister in the Sun

Adele Sliuzas ·

Belinda Wilson, Teaching lakun (weaving), detail, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 45cm

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

  • You can find Glister in the Sun in The Mill’s Gallery II, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    Gallery II 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 Glister in the Sun, a new group exhibition featuring Emiko Artemis, Michael Carney, Chelsea Farquhar and Belinda Wilson, curated by Adele Sliuzas. The exhibition explores the role of the artist within the creation of folklore through visual art, written text and photography. Their work shows that folklore is still alive today, popping up in the stories we tell, songs we sing, and the way we remember and share these traditions. This captivating exhibition encourages viewers to reflect on their connection to tradition, exploring how customs shape personal identity and create a sense of belonging.

  • Glister in the Sun is a new exhibition of works by South Australian artists exploring dialogue with time, history and cultural lore. Featuring new works by Emiko Artemis, Michael Carney, Chelsea Farquhar and Belinda Wilson. The exhibition considers the role of the artist within the creation of folklore; that artistry, style, creation and alteration influence the construction of cultural ideology. The artists represented all explore deep relationships with time through archival research, material flux, exchange, and representation of cultural stories. 

    Let me go on

    Like I glister in the sun

    Let me go on

    Big hands, I know you're the one. 

    Glister in the Sun is an exhibition about the way that ‘art’ and ‘life’ are deeply entwined. Curating an exhibition is kind of like telling a story, pulling together gestures, colours and moods to create a feeling within the gallery space. This story speaks about rituals and journeys, and about the way that art can affect the body of the maker, wearer, viewer, listener. I wanted to bring together artists whose work shows the ways that folklore and folkloric traditions continue within contemporary contexts and exist beyond the written archive- folklore thrives in oral stories, songs, and artifacts, performance, movement and memory. While the cultural study of folklore has taken a western approach to categorising and delineating, I also want to acknowledge that folklores exist outside of the colonial lens- they are oral, flexible and spiritual in ways that resist.

    Excerpt from Curator Essay by Adele Sliuzas, full text available above

  • Artist Statement

    The images presented for the group show, Glister in the Sun, are centered around the ongoing theme of Haunting that I have been exploring for the last two years. First enacted during a residency in Oatlands, Tasmania, i have continued to use the metaphor of  haunting to grapple with ideas around histories that will not sleep until they are resolved. As someone who has personal histories needing resolution, and someone who is also a child of migrants from Sweden who were escaping their own grief and trauma, I have a close understanding of the way history rises up through time to reassert itself in the present until it is addressed. The images were created at Kulkyne/Mildura, on the lands of the Latji Latji peoples. They were created near an historic pumphouse on the river and they ask, what happens to history when it is not addressed? What happens to the people of the past whose stories are not heard? History, as we know, is written by the victors but history never stops speaking. There is always a time to look back and tell the stories of the past. The people of the past are still there, waiting to speak. 

    Biography

    Emiko Artemis graduated with a PhD in 2012 and was awarded the University medal for their honors year. They were a Hatched Graduate exhibitor at PICA in their undergraduate year. They have also completed a master of Design at The University of South Australia. Since graduating Emiko has been a finalist in art prizes and won awards such as category winner in the Manning Valley art prize .Before relocating to South Australia, Emiko was president of IAVA in NSW and was showcased in Wollongong regional gallery’s Local Current show. 

    In 2020 they were selected as a grantee to attend Meeting Place, Arts Access Australia’s annual arts gathering. In 2021 they were artist in residence at Saubier House. Emiko was awarded first prize in the Waverly Woollahra Printmaking Digital Prize. Their work has appeared in publications including CODE magazine and Open Doors Collective. They have been profiled by the Illawarra times and interviewed by Radio Adelaide and Regional Arts Australia about their practice. Alongside their Visual arts practice, Emiko has also run a number of successful community arts projects and has presented work in seminars and online platforms as well as in traditional exhibition format. Recently, Emiko was asked to create temporary sculpture to be exhibited outside of the prestige Adelaide arts venue, The MOD (the Museum of Design) and has successfully completed an innovative sculpture ready for installation.Emiko has also been selected for a scholarship funded arts residence and exhibition at The RoyalSouth Australian Arts Society in 2022/23, presented their talk” Queering the World “ at BetterTogether 2023 and has been awarded funding through Country Arts SA to attend an arts residency atOatlands, Tasmania in 2023. Emiko presented their research and performance work At the Performance of the Real conference in Dunedin New Zealand, with funding through Country Arts South Australia. Emiko’s performance practice has been recognized through invitations to present their performance work at both Burrinja Arts Center in Melbourne in 2023 and Neoetric, part of the Adelaide Festival in South Australia in 2024 as well as HillsceneLive2024. Emiko’s professionalism in their practice has also been recognized through invitations to assess grant applications with Creative Australia and to represent regional South Australia during Regional Arts Australia’s symposium, Artlands 2023. Emiko currently works from their studio space at Fleurieu Arthouse in Maclaren Vale, South Australia. 

  • Artist Statement

    My paintings explore storytelling at its most fractured and fluid, engaging with vignettes and storyboard techniques that deliberately distort and elude traditional narrative structures. Much like folklore, which evolves and shifts over time, my work presents fragmented stories open to the viewer's interpretation, encouraging them to piece together their own meaning from the imagery.

    In Echoe, dual landscapes offer two perspectives, allowing the canvas to be rotated for a compositionally similar, skewed perspective. The horizon lines and illuminated central hillside are compositionally identical in both landscapes, yet the elements making up this composition have shifted and changed. This speaks to how stories over time shift and adapt, much like folklore evolving through oral traditions.

    A Quiet Pursuit, featuring two large figures walking with a melancholic yet purposeful energy, embodies a similar ambiguity. The figures, veiled in white light, suggest a dreamlike quality, obscuring their narrative and allowing for emotional flux. This vagueness encourages the viewer to bring their own energy and interpretation to the work, becoming an active participant in the narrative process.

    The interplay of these works reflects the fluid relationship between myth, memory, and the present, inviting personal connections that ripple through both time and story

    Biography

    Michael Carney is an interdisciplinary artist found most often working with paint, clay, digital and virtual reality mediums.

    His practice began in 2009 as a painting undergraduate at the University of South Australia where he was introduced to ceramics as his minor. By 2016 he had completed a Masters by Research (Visual Arts) where both ceramics and painting became the predominant processes in his exhibition practice.

    Both ceramics and paintings blend contemporary and antiquated aesthetics to present work that plays with notions of time in flux. Works that are rendered or figurative are often shattered with a gestural flourish forcing the viewer to continue to explore the pictorial plane for a familiar foothold. His work stops short of overt explanation, whilst ontological themes and philosophies are presented, he prefers to activate the viewer’s own contemplation within the broader theme.

  • Chelsea is an emerging artist who utilises her artistic practice as a place of observation and contemplation. She is process driven and explorative in her use of mediums from sculpture, performance, and video. Play, testing and examination, are important elements of her practice for blacksmithing, led lighting and costuming. Time is an important contextual element to her work: time it takes to explore materials; make and sculptural works being a marker of time.

    Collaboration with visual artists, musicians and other creatives has pushed her practice to evolve and expand upon the visual language of memories. The fluidity of mediums and flexibility of collaboration has allowed Chelsea to deeply explore her sculptural practice and push concepts of process and product.

    Farquhar graduated with First Class Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2020. She was awarded a West Space Window award and exhibited 2021; in 2018 received a Carclew Fellowship assisting her to complete a Scottish Sculpture Workshop and a New York residency. This year Chelsea will be developing her practice further with a residency at Watch This Space gallery in Alice Springs NT. 

  • Belinda Wilson is a Ngarrindjeri woman, and a painter, weaver and sculptor. She was born on Raukkan mission in 1956, she grew up there until she was four years old. Her father and mother moved to Kingston for work on the waterworks. They stayed in Kingston for a year and then her father got permanent work on the railways in Kalangadoo. She lived there with her three brothers and her sister until she was 16 and then left SA to go to Victoria with her partner.  

    Belinda started painting right there in Kalangadoo, she started drawing at home and then in school. She was always creative and loved to make using things from nature. Her family would go out hunting for kangaroo, swan eggs. Belinda has a daughter and a son who are also very creative. Belinda lives with her daughter on the south coast and collects materials from nature to create her weaving and to make jewellery as well as using recycled and found materials. 

    Her paintings are inspired by nature. There is connection through her work to nature through repetition. Everything is connected, she explores these themes, there is layers and hidden meaning that speaks to people differently.

 

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

 

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LIMITLESS: The Mill Fundraiser Online Sale

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: Bri Hammond.

2024

Artwork purchases can be made in-person at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta or via phone 0451 892 815.

The Mill is excited to be hosting an online sale for a curated selection of works from LIMITLESS, a fundraising exhibition that shone a light on over 100 local artists.

50% of sales will go to artists and 50% to The Mill, raising funds for our multi-arts hub while celebrating the abundance of artistic talent within the South Australian visual arts community.

All artworks are priced at $100, with artists working in diverse mediums and styles.

Sales from this fundraising exhibition support the artist and The Mill, helping us to achieve our vision for a thriving and prosperous arts culture in South Australia.

  • Sales from this exhibition will support the artist, and The Mill, fullfilling our mission to provide affordable creative studios, a community hub, professional development and presentation opportunities for artists.

  • We're excited to have works from:

    Adele Sliuzas, Amanda Barns, Amanda Lundbäck, Anastasia Comelli, Andrew Dearman, Bri Hammond, Carmen Alcedo, Evie Hassiotis, Jadranka Sunde, Jen Trantor, Jen Gibson-Smith, Jess harrison, Kat Ordway, Malinda Jenner, Oriana Julie, Peter Francisco, Romina Ienco, Tahneisha Mottishaw, Therese Williams, Vern Schulz and Yana Lehey.

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Artist talk: Hamish Fleming, A Resting State

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: Morgan Sette.

Artist Talk

When: Friday, August 9, 5:30-6:30pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

  • 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.

Join Hamish Fleming and The Mill's Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas for a chat about his group exhibition A Resting State, showing in Gallery I at The Mill as part of SALA Festival.

About the exhibition

The Mill is excited to present A Resting State, a new exhibition curated by resident artist Hamish Fleming, featuring work by Hamish Fleming, George Gilles, Anthea Jones, Robert Viner Jones and Billy Oakley. In A Resting State artists have used the medium of painting as a device to create mood and atmosphere within everyday environments. Self-taught artist and now emerging curator, Hamish, has worked closely with the artists to develop an exhibition environment that is rich with feeling through the use of lighting, texture and colour.

  • H. Fleming is a contemporary realist painter currently based in Adelaide (Kaurna Country), South Australia. Fleming is a self-taught artist, working closely both with and against the long-standing traditions of realism. He works solely from life, without the use of any reference photos, to convey the subtler elements of the human experience through frequently mundane subject matter. Fleming’s practice draws upon many influences, ranging from the classical masters and post-modernism, to gothic and dirty realism literature. In 2023 Hamish has been a finalist in the Bluethumb Art Prize, Centre for Creative Health Art Prize, and Smallacombe Prize, and winner of the Young Artist Category, Adelaide Parklands Art Prize.

    https://hflemingartist.squarespace.com/

 

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

This project is supported by City of Adelaide.

 

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Exhibition: A Resting State, Curated by Hamish Fleming

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Hamish Fleming

June 3 - August 23, 2024

Artist Talk: Friday August 9, 5:30-6:30pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find A Resting State in The Mill’s Gallery I, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    Gallery I 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.

Hamish Fleming, George Gilles, Anthea Jones, Robert Viner Jones and Billy Oakley

The Mill is excited to present A Resting State, a new exhibition curated by resident artist Hamish Fleming, featuring work by Hamish Fleming, George Gilles, Anthea Jones, Robert Viner Jones and Billy Oakley. In A Resting State artists have used the medium of painting as a device to create mood and atmosphere within everyday environments. Self-taught artist and now emerging curator, Hamish, has worked closely with the artists to develop an exhibition environment that is rich with feeling through the use of lighting, texture and colour.

  • A Resting State explores the relationship between the individual and their routine environment. Five artists working across different mediums and traditions have created works from mundane domestic settings. By focusing on what is, at first glance, incredibly simple subject matter, each of these works delve into the subtler elements of image making to take these common surroundings and bring forth their potential to reflect contemporary experience. From more traditional realism to dark, vibrant expressionism and even crisp nonrepresentational works, A Resting State is a visual demonstration of how the mental experience impacts our perception of daily life.

 

About the artists:

  • Artist statement

    Domestic settings and household objects are not uncommon in my work. The visual symptoms of who we are and what we’re like behind closed doors fascinates me. Habits, rituals and vices are intrinsically intimate when addressed rather bluntly. My work is painted solely from life, and I attempt to address my subjects earnestly, often gravitating towards darker, grungier subject matter. These five works address the domestic environment, specifically mine, in two different emotional tones. The works; Sink, Again and Just Don’t Think of it So Much, open with on a darker tone. Despite their more sullen nature, there’s a comfort to be found in each, however; its cold comfort at best. Flat, Exterior, Late depicts my personal residence, observed from the outside in later hours of the night. Possessing both sinister qualities and a strangely inviting allure, the work presents this environment with foreboding welcome. Contrastingly, A Gentle Steep and Off the Clock are imbued with tenderness and a quiet warmth, shifting from the more solemn, gritty nature I typically present my work in. Objects huddled up and tucked closely together present an emotional intimacy, and a sense of comfort in company.

    Biography

    H. Fleming is a contemporary realist painter currently based in Adelaide (Kaurna Country), South Australia. Fleming is a self-taught artist, working closely both with and against the long-standing traditions of realism. He works solely from life, without the use of any reference photos, to convey the subtler elements of the human experience through frequently mundane subject matter. Fleming’s practice draws upon many influences, ranging from the classical masters and post-modernism, to gothic and dirty realism literature. In 2023 Hamish has been a finalist in the Bluethumb Art Prize, Centre for Creative Health Art Prize, and Smallacombe Prize, and winner of the Young Artist Category, Adelaide Parklands Art Prize.

    https://hflemingartist.squarespace.com/

  • Artist statement

    My ongoing body of work is an allegory for the collective human experience of fear instinct, the feeling just before the bad thing happens. My paintings explore the feeling of your stomach dropping just before the smoke screen is lifted. I have developed two series for this exhibition. The first is a departure from my previous larger scale post-modern expressionist works. I wanted to explore how more realistic form rendering and recognisable subject matter affects the audience's ability to relate to the work. Objects appear in and out of a dark background, emphasising the dichotomy between the mundane and uncomfortable. I have worked in many layers over time to achieve a representational, yet grimy atmosphere. The scenes were constructed in a cardboard box and lit by a single candle’s flame. I wanted to communicate the feeling of a precipice, a silent edge hidden within the normal everyday. Fruit is just about to topple and crash out of the composition, glass that could cut you, a glinting out-of-place corkscrew forced into an apple, forks jabbed into sliced lemons contrasted with pretty ribbons and high chroma, complementary colours.

    Building on from the first series, the works in the second series get larger, forcing the audience to stand further back and absorb the more complicated scenes. Dramatic candle light is still used, and the paintings still have sections of intense colour, but are now overall darker, dirtier and less reliant on simpler impressionistic colour-blocking. My rendering techniques shift to deliberate areas of lose, textural brush strokes contrasting against smooth blends, a palette knife was also introduced to diversify mark making. Scenes reflect potential danger: unlit matches next to a wooden doll, a precarious palette knife covered in red paint that looks like blood, perched, teetering glassware, random pins piercing the paintings. Items that could hurt you but usually don’t. The second series also has a personal undercurrent, each painting representing a conflict either with my internal thoughts or external interpersonal interactions. The lined paper within the jar of ‘Love, George x’ is a handwritten letter addressing a disagreement I had with someone. Despite my intentions I never delivered the letter.

    Biography

    George Gilles is a painter and tattoo artist from Adelaide, South Australia. In 2016 she was awarded a state merit for visual art and continued to pursue a career in the industry, winning the Emerging Artist awards from both The Prospect Portrait Prize and Urban Cow Art Prize. Since then she has been part of The Carclew Sharehouse Residency, presented her debut solo exhibition 'The Way Home' and has co-founded Adelaide Arcade’s first tattoo studio, The Gilded Goblin.

    George’s painting practice is driven by her desire to communicate emotional nuance through figurative works as well as inanimate objects and food. Currently, she is creating a body of work that pays homage to the traditional Dutch still life movement whilst also exploring personification and profundity of inanimate objects.

    https://www.instagram.com/georgegilles_tattoo/

  • Artist statement

    As an adult and an artist, where I lived and where I created were often one space, indeterminate of boundary, where did one end and the other begin? However, as a child there was never a doubt, my home was also my studio and gallery - my whole world. Home and the domestic was, and continues to be a constant source of comfort and inspiration. My two main paintings in this exhibition represent my earliest memory of deciding I would be an artist to finishing my art studies many years later!

    From around age 4 or so I would constantly be found playing (hiding) alone behind the couch, in my own little world. Drawing and making: creating whatever I could with all the bits and pieces from around the house. Always engaged, never bored, learning and developing new skills. Nothing has changed - 60 years later I am still doing the same thing, just not behind the couch!

    My painting The artist’s studio aged 6 - they ARE flowers mum! represents my earliest memory, deciding to be an artist. My mum was horrified at the drawing I insisted was flowers and not spiders. It did prompt the purchase of my first set of water paints and maybe started my subsequent lifelong love of colour theory and flora - who knows! It was also my first awareness of the idea that not everyone sees things the same way and I became more interested in representing things with a degree of accuracy.

    My painting The artist’s kitchen aged 60 - anatomy and teacup follows this trajectory through to finishing my art studies. Although I now have a designated studio my art paraphernalia still infiltrates my living space. Whilst studying anatomy there were numerous skulls, skeletons and écorché models casually resting amongst the teacups and the milk jug. As an artist these objects were my normal- their shapes, colours, the shadows they projected and the atmosphere they created mixed in with the detritus of my regular everyday world.

    Biography

    Anthea Jones is a visual artist and inveterate maker. Born in Millicent, now living in Adelaide, her formal qualifications include an Advanced Diploma in Visual and Applied Art, North Adelaide School of Art, a Graduate Diploma in Management (Arts), UniSA and a Graduate Certificate in Art History (Australian Colonial and Modern), University of Adelaide. In 2023, Anthea received the award of a Diploma in Atelier Art, Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism, Adelaide (an accredited atelier with the International Art Renewal Centre).

    Supplementing her formal studies, she has also attended numerous masterclasses at Adelaide Central School, summer school at the London Academy of Realist Art and life painting with acclaimed contemporary artist Shane Wolf in Yorkshire, UK. After the disappointment of a cancelled three months study at the New York Academy in 2020, Anthea was invited to and will be attending, a one-month residency at Chateaux d’Orqueveaux in France in June 2024.

    Anthea has successfully participated in numerous local and interstate art exhibitions and competitions and has had photographs of her works published. While her art training and focus has been on figurative oil painting and drawing, she also enjoys creating with textiles, mixed media, paper and found objects. Anthea is enthralled by the principles, elements and techniques incumbent in developing an artistic piece.

    https://antheajonesartist.com/

  • Artist Statement

    Working in fashion design brought me to painting, it was how I relaxed. I love the precision of painting circles. I've worked with colour all my life and have developed a reasonably sharp eye for hue and will spend hours considering shades etc. The bright colours, the defined shapes - it connects with my love of mid 20th century design, which I reference within my printmaking practice. Plus there is something about multitudes of shapes, a plethora of colour I enjoy - I think of these works as a herd of dots.

    Each colour is defined, there is no bleed between the images and I paint multiple layers to add a depth and intensity. Having come back to painting after practicing as a screen printer, I’ve found that I have wrestled with the texture. I’ve been thinking about how to make it flat, how to get rid of the texture. I’ve remembered how I achieved this years ago and yet now, I have also grown to love the texture and instead, have embraced the brush strokes.

    I am inspired by Joseph Albers and Bauhaus design. I have a book of Josef’s which I have regularly referenced for about 20 years. The blues, the greys and the stone are a nod those Bauhaus colours. I’ve added a pop of red, it's like a ruby. I usually use bright colours, so the curatorial brief for this exhibition has pushed me out of my comfort zone. My second work is a bit brighter, naughtily pushing back against the boundaries of the curatorial rationale.

    Biography

    Robert Viner Jones (AKA Bob Window) is a contemporary printer/painter based in Adelaide (Kaurna Country). Robert’s works offer bold, uncompromising graphics - stark and confident in their nature. Trained in Sydney, obsessed with design and colour, Robert’s works draw heavily on fearlessness of mid 20th century design plus an unbridled willingness to simply paint and print things that make him smile.

    https://bobwindow.com.au/

  • Artist Statement

    My works are representational and figurative explorations of the subconscious. I like to use narratives, people and places sourced from my life. The imagery of naive childish spooky dreams and silly fears rest at the bottom of the subconscious of the artist, here they are brought to the surface to be seen in their curiously cute seriousness and sulky playground dissatisfaction. I use deeply rich, bold and unnatural colours to illuminate solitary figures in their own environments, blurring the line between real and surreal. My work focuses on people and the deep personal mental worlds they create, how they exist within those spaces and the relationship outside reality has with this space.

    Biography

    Billy Oakley is a South Australian Artist exploring the subconscious through narrative imagery, people and place through his oil paintings. 
The imagery of naive childish spooky dreams and silly fears rest at the bottom of the subconscious, and here they are brought to the surface to be seen in their curiously cute sulky seriousness. Billy has exhibited at Floating Goose, Urban Cow, Collective Haunt, Brunswick Street Gallery, Mixed Spice Studios and The Mill.

    https://www.billyoakley.com/

 
 
 

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

This project is supported by City of Adelaide.

 

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Workshop: Storytelling through Photography with Chris Siu

Adele Sliuzas ·

Artwork: Hong Kong Grocery - Adelaide South Australia, Chris Siu, 2022.

Workshop

When: Saturday, April 20, 12:30pm-3:30pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $33 (+booking fee)

  • This workshop will include walking around Adelaide CBD.

    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.

Join artist Chris Siu for a walking photography workshop. Learn about Chris’s approach to crafting narratives through sequences of photographs, focusing on the development of a visual language rather than individual images. Bring your own digital camera (camera phone, digital camera) and take a walk along Angas Street to the iconic Central Markets, collecting images and building a narrative.

What to expect:

The workshop will start at The Mill on Angas Street with an introduction from Chris and an opportunity to view his exhibition Riot on an Empty Street. Participants will be given the opportunity to devise a ‘mood’ or ‘theme’ for their series before walking with the group along Angas Street to the Central Markets on Gouger Street.

Participants will spend some time taking photos on their own devices, focusing on everyday life and following intuition. We will then return to The Mill for refreshments and to share with the group. The workshop will include an opportunity to chat about the photographs taken and to share the stories and narratives created through the photographic series.

Experience level:

No experience necessary. Participants must bring their own digital camera and must know how to operate it (no technical support will be provided about camera settings etc.) Some walking is required, please get in touch if you have any accessibility questions.

  • Chris Siu is a Hong Kong-born photographic artist living and working on Kaurna Yerta in Tarntanya Adelaide. Informed by the traditions of documentary photography, Chris’s work investigates and chronicles the intricate relationships that lie within his surrounding social landscapes. Chris’s practice is profoundly influenced by the flux of sociopolitical happenings in his 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.

    Chris has exhibited throughout Australia, beginning with his feature at the 2019 Head On Photo Festival. Subsequently, he has exhibited at venues including Nexus Arts, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, Centre for Contemporary Photography, and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.

 

The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency is presented in co-operation with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

 
 

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

This project is supported by City of Adelaide.

 

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Artist Talk: Chris Siu, Riot on an Empty Street

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photos: Daniel Marks

Artist Talk

Friday, April 12, 5:30-6:30pm

Gallery I, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Riot on an Empty Street in The Mill’s Gallery I, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    Gallery I 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.

Join Chris Siu and The Mill's Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas for a chat about his new exhibition 'Riot on an Empty Street', now showing in Gallery I at The Mill. 

Chris Siu developed Riot on an Empty Street as part of The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency program presented in cooperation with the Mahmood Martin Foundation.

 

The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency is presented in co-operation with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

 
 

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

This project is supported by City of Adelaide.

 

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Exhibition: Chris Siu, Riot on an Empty Street

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Chris Siu, Tattoo of a Wilting Bauhinia - Adelaide, South Australia, (detail), 2023, from the series Then We Keep Living Vol. 2. Courtesy of the artist.

February 5 - May 17, 2024

Artist talk: Friday 5 April 5:30-6:30pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Riot on an Empty Street in The Mill’s Gallery I, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    Gallery I 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 Riot on an Empty Street, a new exhibition of photographs by Chris Siu derived from his ongoing project Then We Keep Living. Through medium format analogue photography, Chris explores his relationship with his homeland, Hong Kong. The work navigates the experience of mass civil unrest, as experienced in Hong Kong and living in diaspora here in Australia. The powerful images give the viewer a sense of dis-ease and tension, incorporating protest, the body, signifiers of colonial and authoritarian resistance and the political power of the masses contrasted with bone-aching isolation associated with cultural displacement, marginalisation and disconnection. Chris’ approach to image-making is cultural and academic as well as deeply feeling and intuitive. He offers us a very personal entry point into a political situation that many have observed through the cycles of journalism. 

Chris Siu developed Riot on an Empty Street as part of The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency program presented in cooperation with the Mahmood Martin Foundation.

  • My residency at The Mill has been dedicated to developing the long-term photography project titled Then We Keep Living. The project navigates my relationship with Hong Kong through a two-volume narrative presented in medium format analogue photography. This exploration takes place against the backdrop of the 2019 mass civil unrest in Hong Kong, followed by my life in diaspora here in Australia.

    The two respective volumes delve into representations of dispossession and defiance amidst the city’s ongoing socio-political transformation, contrasting with poignant reflections on diasporic experience and its isolating facets associated with cultural displacement, marginalisation, and disconnection. The project stands as a testament to the nuanced interplay of political dilemmas, self-discovery, and the frequently overlooked, profound repercussions of civil unrest.

  • Chris Siu is a Hong Kong-born photographic artist living and working on Kaurna Yerta in Tarntanya Adelaide. Informed by the traditions of documentary photography, Chris’s work investigates and chronicles the intricate relationships that lie within his surrounding social landscapes. Chris’s practice is profoundly influenced by the flux of sociopolitical happenings in his 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.

    Chris has exhibited throughout Australia, beginning with his feature at the 2019 Head On Photo Festival. Subsequently, he has exhibited at venues including Nexus Arts, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, Centre for Contemporary Photography, and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.

 

The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency is presented in co-operation with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

 
 

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

This project is supported by City of Adelaide.

 

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Finissage: Alice Hu, 柔韧的骨头 (Annealed Bone) and Chantal Henley, Gulayi

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Courtesy of the artist

Finissage

Friday, January 19, 4:30-6:30pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Gulayi and Annealed Bone in The Mill Exhibition Spaces, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    The Exhibition Space 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 invites you to join us for the closing event of Gulayi by Chantal Helnley and Alice Hu's 柔韧的骨头 (Annealed Bone) and join Alice for a chat about her work.

 
 
 
 

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Exhibition: Chantal Henley, Gulayí [Woven Vessel]

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Courtesy of the artist

October 20, 2023 - January 19, 2024

Exhibition opening: Friday, October 27, 5:30-7:30pm

Artist Talk: Friday, December 1, 5:30pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Gulayí in The Mill Exhibition Space, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    The Exhibition Space 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 Gulayí [Woven Vessel], a new exhibition by Quandamooka and Mununjali artist Chantal Henley as part of Tarnanthi 2023. Working with textiles, Chantal explores body adornment through garments, sculpture, dance and film, embedding her connection to her Grandmother’s country and her own experience as a mother.

 
 

  • Gulayí [Woven Vessel] is a gathering of exclusively hand woven, hand printed garments and body adornments that highlight the prominence of retaining and reclaiming language, dance, song and design.

    Embellished in gathered fibers, up cycled fabrics, shells, feathers and clay, Gulayí features custom prints that are a direct tribute to my Quandamooka and Mununjali kinship, paying homage to Country and Water through woven techniques reclaimed through the many Gulayí makers that carry and contain the stories of our Elders.

  • Chantal Henley is an Artist & Designer from the Ngugi and Mununjali clans of the Quandamooka and Yugambeh peoples of South - East Queensland.

    From an early age, Chantal connected to culture through Dance and Song and soon became familiar with textiles through both of her Grandmothers, encouraging her to learn various techniques and explore fabrics and fibres.

    Through a brief stay at design school, she explored western design fundamentals and obtained insight into the production and manufacturing processes within the textile and fashion industry, soon deciding to journey elsewhere with her creativity.

    Henley credits her time with master weavers and their unconditional effort to exchange with her through kinship and storytelling, contributing to her ability to regain and retain those Gulayí songlines.

    Chantal carries her strong message of connection and retaining ancestral skills and techniques through her woven Gulayí (bag, vessel) and hand painted Ungarie (Swamp Reed) prints included in her collections and body of work, paying homage to her Mununjali and Ngugi songlines.

    Her textiles and body adornments have been showcased and exhibited by Artisan, National Gallery of Australia, Redland Art Gallery, Jam Factory, Art Gallery Gold Coast and Cairns Indigenous Arts Fair, including publications such as Peppermint & RUSSH Magazine.

    Henley is currently based in Tarntanyangga (Adelaide) Kaurna Yerta with her partner and children.

 
 
 
 

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Artist Talk: Chantal Henley, Gulayí [Woven Vessel]

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: Courtesy of the artist.

Artist Talk

December 1, 5:30-6pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free

  • You can find Gulayí in The Mill Exhibition Space, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    The Exhibition Space 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.

Join Quandamooka and Mununjali artist Chantal Henley for an intimate Artist Talk, discussing her exhibition Gulayí [Woven Vessel] as part of Tarnanthi 2023.

  • Gulayí (Woven Vessel) is a gathering of exclusively hand woven, hand printed garments and body adornments that highlight the prominence of retaining and reclaiming language, dance, song and design.

    Embellished in gathered fibers, up cycled fabrics, shells, feathers and clay, Gulayí features custom prints that are a direct tribute to my Quandamooka and Mununjali kinship, paying homage to Country and Water through woven techniques reclaimed through the many Gulayí makers that carry and contain the stories of our Elders.

  • Chantal Henley is an Artist & Designer from the Ngugi and Mununjali clans of the Quandamooka and Yugambeh peoples of South - East Queensland.

    From an early age, Chantal connected to culture through Dance and Song and soon became familiar with textiles through both of her Grandmothers, encouraging her to learn various techniques and explore fabrics and fibres.

    Through a brief stay at design school, she explored western design fundamentals and obtained insight into the production and manufacturing processes within the textile and fashion industry, soon deciding to journey elsewhere with her creativity.

    Henley credits her time with master weavers and their unconditional effort to exchange with her through kinship and storytelling, contributing to her ability to regain and retain those Gulayi songlines.

    Chantal carries her strong message of connection and retaining ancestral skills and techniques through her woven Gulayi (bag, vessel) and hand painted Ungarie (Swamp Reed) prints included in her collections and body of work, paying homage to her Mununjali and Ngugi songlines.

    Her textiles and body adornments have been showcased and exhibited by Artisan, National Gallery of Australia, Redland Art Gallery, Jam Factory, Art Gallery Gold Coast and Cairns Indigenous Arts Fair, including publications such as Peppermint & RUSSH Magazine.

    Henley is currently based in Tarntanyangga (Adelaide) Kaurna Yerta with her partner and children.

 
 
 
 

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Exhibition: CHARTS Community Housing Arts Awards

Adele Sliuzas ·

September 28 - October 12, 2023

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find CHARTS in The Mill’s Exhibition Spaces,
    located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    Open daily, 10am-4pm.

The Mill is pleased to host the second CHARTS Community Housing Arts Awards 2023. The Community Housing Art Awards were created to celebrate and showcase the creative diversity, depth and talent of tenants of community and social housing.

The exhibition features a shortlist of entries from established artists, mid-career and emerging artists who live in community housing across South Australia. From paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture to digital and graphic art, poetry and literature, CHARTS is a celebration of creativity!

We welcome art lovers from the Adelaide community and beyond to join us for this exhibition.

  • Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, access the pedestrian ramp on the corner of Gunson St to get to our front door, which will be open.

    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.

    If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact info@themilladelaide.com

 
 
 

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Visual Arts Program: Open Call Out

Adele Sliuzas ·

The Mill is calling for Expressions of Interest for our gallery program in 2024 and beyond

For the past 12 months we have had a rolling, open call out for artists interested in exhibiting in The Mill's Galleries. But the time has come to hit pause while we prepare our program for 2025.

Our Open Call Out for exhibitions will be closing on November 18, 2024. 

Please ensure your form is submitted by this date. 

The call out will reopen in mid 2025.

We want this process to be more accessible, and to reduce the labour required for artists to express their interest in exhibiting with us. We want to hear about your ideas, and respond to artist and audience interests. 

So, what is the process?

Please fill in the application form with short but concise answers. Introduce yourself, your practice and your exhibition idea. 

We'll get in touch to have a chat if your exhibition idea resonates with our curatorial direction and organisational aims. 

We no longer charge Gallery hire to artists in the Exhibition Space Program. Submitting a proposal is no guarantee of acceptance.

About The Mill’s Galleries

The Mill’s galleries are located on the window frontage of our building at 154 Angas Street. Gallery I has a rectangle footprint with approx 16.4 linear m of hanging wall space, and 38.8 square metres of floor space. Gallery I is oriented prominently at the front of The Mill’s building with a large window facing Angas Street. It sits adjacent gallery II, The Mill's office, Foyer and Creative Industry studios. The Galleries have professional lighting, wall mountable screens, two projectors and a number of plinths are available for artists to use.

We want to make the application process easy to navigate, please get in contact if you have any questions or need assistance. Email The Mill’s Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas: visualarts@themilladelaide.com

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Exhibition: Kat Bell, Threads

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Courtesy of the artist

August 4 - September 22, 2023

Exhibition opening: Friday, August 4, 5:30-7:30pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Kat Bell, Threads in The Mill Exhibition Space, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    The Exhibition Space 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 Threads, a solo exhibition by regional First Nations artist Kat Bell exploring the threads of memories and dreams that are stretched and broken through trauma, and their role in the healing journey.

  • This is a story of life, dreams and memories intertwining, entangling, and unravelling like threads falling from the tail of a wiry old beast.

    The artist has used painting, basketry, crocheting, embroidery, beading, weaving and digital projection, to represent the threads of dreams and memories as a survival of complex trauma, living through PTSD and the healing journey.

    Contrary to the darker, central topic of this exhibition, pieces are made using bright colours, playful imagery, and a childlike presence. The artworks are intended to be a mixture of pleasing, playful, wilful, dreamlike, imaginative, and challenging to the viewer. The viewer may not necessarily feel the immediate impact of the serious topic that is represented in these works, but when looking deeper into the pieces, and through written accompaniments, the somewhat uncomfortable and challenging nature of trauma and PTSD will bare through. This is intentional, as the artist believes that trauma doesn’t always mean that things need to remain dark and uncomfortable.

    Through healing, we can learn, grow, and take hold of these threads of memories and dreams, rethreading them into a new story, a new path, a new future.

    Why threads?

    The use of textiles, fibres, paint, and other mediums seemed like the most apt way to depict how our dreams and memories can be interwoven, or even confused as time goes on and the details become blurred as our minds age and memories slip away into muddled up images of reality and imagination. It also, speaks to the artists relationship with thread-based artforms, such as embroidery, fabric dying, hand stitching, crocheting, knitting, and so on, in their healing journey.

    The broader description

    This exhibition tells the tales of the past and the now, through the artist’s First Nation lens, using storytelling, akin to the dreaming, that looks to the wisdom and guidance of our ancestors to heal her heart, mind, and soul. The wiry beast (trauma) has left an echo of itself (PTSD), which plays a role in her waking thoughts and dreams, visiting her (like the old spirits of our dreaming stories), to remind her of what has been, what she has survived and that despite the past she can find peace, calm, freedom through the healing power of art.

    The artist is interested in how trauma expresses itself in our dreams, memories, and imaginings. How do we conceive and better understand these threads of memories, dreams, and imaginings, with and separate from their trauma beginnings? As each thread is unravelled over the years, how do we distinguish between what are threads of reality and those that are not, those that are the minds internal conjuring’s meant to protect the traumatised mind, those that are the individuals creations (a way of retelling events and seeing things through a different lens, whether intentionally or otherwise) or those that are simply broken, fragmented, damaged imaginings in our minds that are neither real or made-up?

    Somewhat contrary to the darker notion of trauma, the artist has chosen to represent their experiences of trauma in a lighter note, drawing on the idea of dreams as a way of controlling how past trauma can be halted from seeping through into the now.

    For more than 3 decades the artist suffered at the hands of their PTSD, with their trauma flooding through into every aspect of their life. A significant part of that was the way in which their trauma invaded their dreams. A life lived with nightmares, little sleep, a tightly wound nervous system and barely any reprieve from their past trauma, they were captive in what felt like an endless cycle of torture.

    The mind is a powerful tool. Understanding its power and how to take back control of it, was the only way forward. This is where dreams and their role in dealing with trauma became key to the artists own recovery. Through a lengthy process of learning how to regain control of their dreams, mastering the events and their reactions within the dream state and pulling apart these images thread by thread, replacing them with the now (or reality as it is), gave them greater control over their waking experiences. But the artist continues to unravel the threads of their dreams and memories, asking (rationally and logically) always, what is real and what is not.

  • As a First Nation Gudjula and Girramay woman, mother, and autistic person, I am interested in using a range of art forms to create narratives about my life experiences, in particular "surviving complex trauma (e.g. C-PTSD, DV, sexual violence)", and most importantly "what it means for me to be a neuro-diverse Aboriginal woman navigating a neurotypical world". These experiences sit at the core of my artistic practice. I am passionate about continually learning and sharing my Aboriginal cultures and reimagining them in a contemporary context, while also drawing on my experiences living and travelling to other places around the world. I draw on these influences, and my love for country and the colours that lather the Australian landscapes.

 

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Exhibition: Still Self, Crista Bradshaw, Steel Chronis, Hamish Fleming, Honor Freeman and Angelique Joy

Adele Sliuzas ·

Images: (L) Angelique Joy, Earthly Delights & The Spaces In Between (Audrey) ; (M) Crista Bradshaw, Remember 8; (R) Honor Freeman, Pieces of You. Courtesy of the artists.

May 1 - June 16, 2023

Launch event: Friday, May 5, 5:30-7:30pm

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Still Self in The Mill’s Exhbition Space,
    located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    The Exhibition Space is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.

The Mill presents Still Self, a group exhibition featuring work by Crista Bradshaw, Steel Chronis, Hamish Fleming, Honor Freeman and Angelique Joy, curated by Adele Sliuzas. Still Self brings together artworks that explore connection to and disconnection from the self. Each work exists as a glimpse, a moment captured and shared. The artists reveal traces of emotions, spaces, and bodies through different mediums including painting, sculpture, moving images, and installation.

  • Crista Bradshaw is a proud Wangkumaran contemporary artist. Residing in Adelaide, South Australia, Bradshaw grew up without a strong connection to her Wangkumaran heritage. She came to discover that through the process of colonisation and intergenerational trauma, her family had lost its relationship with their language group. It was in her late teens that she began to re-establish this connection. Crista works with forms of expanded painting, sculpture and installation, investigating modes of representation that showcase the ways in which Indigenous and Australian art has evolved.

    Steel Chronis is a South Australian Artist working on Kaurna Land. Mostly working in the medium of oil paint, she likes to focus her attention to the practice of still life painting.

    H. Fleming is a contemporary realist painter based in Adelaide (Kaurna Country), South Australia. Fleming’s practice blends together traditional and contemporary approaches to painting. Fleming works in the preestablished traditions of Still Life and Portraiture, utilizing them as avenues to address the shared experience of contemporary life.

    Honor Freeman is an artist living and working in the Fleurieu Peninsula on Ngarrindjeri land in South Australia, whose practice utilises the mimetic properties of porcelain, crafting objects that belie their materiality and purpose. Freeman completed her studies in 2001 at the South Australian School of Art. Following graduation, Honor took up an Associate position and Tenant residency in the ceramics studio at JamFactory Craft & Design. Her work has been curated into major exhibitions at institutions throughout Australia, including the MCA, Tarrawarra Museum of Art and The PowerHouse Museum. She has undertaken international residencies at Guldagergaard, Denmark’s International Ceramic Museum and in the US at Indiana University’s School of Art & Design.

    Angelique Joy is a Neuroqueer, visual artist working with photography and the expanded nature of the digital image. Angelique’s practice is informed by their Neuroqueer lived experience and through the intersecting frameworks of posthumanism, queer and xenofeminism.

    Their practice has emerged out of a concern with identity, otherness and space. They are interested in the cultural and material spaces we all unfold within. Increasingly their practice is interrogating the digital spaces we populate and how the technologically mediated bodymind is contributing to new worlds.

    They are particularly interested in exploring how each being, both human and non, unfolds, is constructed and performed within the spaces we inhabit, the spaces we claim, and the spaces we are kept from.

    Angelique is currently a PHD candidate at RMIT, School of Art.

  • The still life genre of painting, as an artefact of the western canon of art, can be seen as a public remnant of personal connection to objects; intimate, domestic, and related to our sense of self. The artists in this exhibition use objects within their work to tell stories specific to their experience of life. Tension is drawn between the real and virtual: the plush textile of Angelique’s sculptures and their rematerialised, digital twin; objects echoed in mirrored poses in Steel’s still lifes. Honor’s slip cast ceramic works create a sense of the uncanny, where we recognise the life-like qualities of the objects, but also understand that they are duplicates of the ‘real’. Hamish’s paintings of everyday objects create meaning through presence and absence. Crista invites the audience to witness moments of reconnection, using collage and mixed media to build a faceted journey of her and her family’s reconnection with the Wangkumara Language Group.

    -Adele Sliuzas

  • Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, access the pedestrian ramp on the corner of Gunson St to get to our front door, which will be open.

    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.

    If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact info@themilladelaide.com

 

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Expand: Make|Shift Exhibition

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image credit: Inneke Taal

July 8 - 28, 2023

Immersive opening weekend: Saturday, July 8, 6-8pm, and Sunday, July 9, 12-4pm

Free entry

  • You can find Make|Shift at The Mill Exhibition Space,
    located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    The exhibition will run July 8-28. The Exhibition Space will be open:

    Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm

    Saturday-Sunday July 15-16 and 22-23, 4:30pm-7pm.

The Mill presents Make|Shift, an immersive and experimental exhibition of projection art as part of Illuminate Adelaide. The exhibition features digital image and projection based work by six South Australian multidisciplinary artists; Larrakia man James Alberts, Ray Harris, Sarah Neville, Liam Somerville, Inneke Taal and Tanya Voges, with Margie Medlin as Artistic & Curatorial Facilitator.

Working across dance, performance, visual arts, installation and experimental media the exhibition explores digital and virtual spaces. Make|Shift aims to create a space for the artists to experiment with ways of making and shifting time, place and space. Make|Shift artists are supported by artistic mentorship from illuminart’s Cindi Drennan, and Tim Gruchy.

 
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Expand: Make|Shift Artist Talk
 

  • Make|Shift invited artists to explore their approach to formal notions of screen-media in an art gallery context. We invited each other to provoke the boundaries and traditions of photography, the moving image, sculpture, performance, and interaction within screen technologies. In workshops and practice-led discussions, across the gallery, we explored the interstices and intermeshing of these forms.

    As a group we mapped the gallery space as series of sites and surfaces. Projecting along the right angles, adjacent walls, corridors and crevasse of the galleries the moving images to create encounters that dominate the built environment, like geographers, our survey explores the shifting terrains of space, memory, story, and image. The exhibition asks how can cinematic ephemera interact with/in the gallery.

    -Margie Medlin

  • Spirit Shelf

    On a domestic shelf filled with jars, books and plastic, spirit shelf nods to preserved animals floating in flammable liquid on shelves in museums. But by projecting live animals filmed going about their daily life Spirit shelf speaks to extinction, cruelty, indifference humans have for the other inhabitants of the earth, through our use, abuse, denial, consumption, greed and destruction.

    Much as we are slowly destroying our home, we are rapidly affecting those who innocently live and try to survive and adapt around us. While we treat them with very little regard or relevance, much like the mundane inanimate objects in our pantry or office. Or token special items we hold in higher regard, a much-loved book or pet cat, while others become our endless mass of the unwanted.

    Ray Harris is an Adelaide artist working in video, performance and installation exploring the psychological complexities and struggles of the self. She is also a curator, advocate and initiator of projects and studios. Ray is committed to furthering the SA arts through participation, support, spaces and opportunities. She has a Master’s degree from UNI SA has won several grants and awards and has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally including: the Samstag Museum, AEAF, Adelaide Festival Hugo Michell Gallery, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Casula Powerhouse, Brenda May Gallery, Pirimid Sanat and Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair (Turkey) and SEEAF Art Festival (South Korea). Her work is held in The Borusan Collection and Project 4L- Elgiz Museum Collection, Turkey and private collections in Australia and has featured in publications such as Artlink, Art Collector, Broadsheet, Real time, and ETC magazine Canada. Ray led, curated (2 co-curated) and managed 3 group exhibitions and performance events at Holy Rollers, and Led, initiated, developed and executed Neoteric, a 20 mid-career SA group exhibition with 20 writers in Adelaide Festival, 2022. Ray was a co-director of FELTspace ARI from 2010 to 15, the co-founder of Peer studios, founder and director of Holy Rollers Studios, Prospect and now The Third Level Studios in the Adelaide CBD.

  • T = I/I0 Transmittance

    T = I/I0 Transmittance is a daylight simulator that explores the amount of light energy that glass absorbs, scatters, or reflects. The installation is constructed of glass and light, projecting weather as shadow for personal reflection on winter-time ambience in enclosed spaces. In a speculative future world, where underground/ weatherproof living is normal, identifying the psychological importance of dappled light as light fairies on walls will connect with us with seasonal shifts to enhance quality of life.

    Sarah Neville is an Australian choreographer and scenario designer who devises new media performance, instigates inter-disciplinary practices and invests in multi-platform processes and production outcomes. Sarah has created work for Adelaide Festival and Fringe, Ausdance Choreolab, Dance House, Australian Choreographic Centre, ADT’s Ignition season, Strut Dance, Link Dance Company (WAAPA) Vitalstatistix, MOD UniSA and the Venice Biennale 2019. In 2021 Sarah was awarded an Arts SA Fellowship to create dance for virtual reality experiences. In 2022, Sarah received a PhD from Deakin University/ Coventry University researching embodied participation in immersive digital environments. Sarah was an intern at the research centre for interactive and virtual environments (IVE) at UniSA and has presented at Siggraph, Technart and the 7th MoCo Conference. Sarah is currently an adjunct research fellow at UniSA Creative/ IVE.

  • marine_digital_conservation_SA_2023.exe

    marine_digital_conservation_SA_2023.exe, looks toward the inevitable digital future where we may live on a lifeless, artificial planet with only poor digital representations of the extinct species we have destroyed. Wouldn't it be so much better if we preserved the real thing instead?

    All over the world climate change caused by human hands under western capitalism has already made an enormous impact on the extinction of biodiversity of flora and fauna. If we continue on this path, which we show no meaningful signs of slowing down, soon there will be nothing left other than us humans and the livestock we like to consume. Millions of years of evolution annihilated for the sake of short-term corporate profits.

    As a society we have chosen not to stop our unsustainable consumption practices but to instead poorly digitise these living natural beauties before they are lost forever. Some chilling examples include the last remains of the extinct thylacine - 80 seconds of black and white film footage and a handful of pelts. Or the island digitisation project of Tuvalu, a Pacific Nation which will soon be underwater due to rising sea levels who are creating a virtual replica in a desperate effort to preserve their cultural heritage.

    Liam Somerville is a video artist and cinematographer living and working on unceded Kaurna Country in South Australia. After completing a Bachelor of Digital Media Arts from University of South Australia in 2010 Liam went on to form CAPITAL WASTE PICTURES where he has created and collaborated on music videos, video installations, feature films, documentaries, television commercials, VR games, dome projections and live visual experiences. Their digital works often circulate around inputting the beautiful imperfections of the human experience into the digital space to create cyborg interactions through the use of interactive sensors and motion capture. This can be witnessed in ESCHATECH VR, a post-human VR experience created in Unreal Engine with the assistance of Flinders University's 2021 Assemblage Artist in Residence Program. Other residencies such as with Cinematic Experiments with Margie Medlin at The Mill, Adelaide (2021) and Morphos Digital Dome Artist in Residence (2016) with Denver Arts +Tech Advancement in Denver, CO have all been beneficial for his continual visual exploration of the moving digital image.

    As a cinematographer Liam has credits including feature music doco The Angels: Kickin’ Down the Door (2022) directed by Madeline Parry which opened the 2022 Adelaide Film Festival, Video Nasty: The Making of Ribspreader (2020) directed by Matthew Bate and Liam Somerville and Yer Old Faither (2020) directed by Heather Croall.

  • A series of self-credits (as object; as site; as drama)

    I am considering the cross-over of theatricality behind the gallery (white-cube) and the theatre (black-box) as corresponding spaces at The Mill. Each are make-shift spaces that house processes of rehearsal, editing, experimentation, and production.

    I am moved by the invitation embedded in rehearsal processes. Impulse, improvisation, and the slow reflexive consideration of the space to be dressed for performance or exhibition as what activates a site and makes it responsive. The plurality of these bodily-spatial dialogue holds a state of becoming that I find precious, a series of vital passing moments that gather over time to form a multi-faceted whole.

    I also wish to interrogate the inextricable act of self-crediting that goes into making and viewing art.

    Through multiple modes of deconstruction, the collapsed rolling credits and truss as figures in space; the projection of the infinite gallery architecture reflecting itself and those who pass through in delay; and the illumination of an empty blacked-out performance space, I seek to promote the embodiment of these processes with the act of anticipation and viewing.

    The before the event.

    Inneke Taal’s sculptural practice utilises multi-media installation and performative practices as a way of considering subtle embodied experiences and spatial relationships. Taal has a particular interest in reflecting the making and receiving of artwork as a subject in her work, as well as producing site-responsive works. With a focus on process-based modes of production, Taal seeks to interrupt common modes of presentation, and interrogate linear narrative and logic, using a range of media including found objects, paper, moving image, text, and sound. The role of video and projection have become central mediums in her practice to explore the agency of the body, the lens, and site. Inneke completed a Bachelor of Visual Art Honours in 2019 following a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2018, at Adelaide Central School of Art. She has a background working for performing arts organisations after completing a Bachelor of Arts Double Major in Linguistics and Drama in 2006 at Deakin University, Melbourne. Inneke received an Adelaide Fringe Festival Weekly Award for Art & Design in 2022 for her solo show ‘Site Interrupted’ at Sauerbier House and is a recipient of The Anne and Gordon SAMSTAG International Visual Arts Scholarship 2023 - 2024.

  • With/In

    With/In illustrates the relationship of the body to space, between the bodies of performer and witness and to itself as a kinaesthetic exploration. The interplay of the projected figure within the installation and architecture invites the viewer to consider their own sense of physicality as they are moved with and in the space. The experimental projection techniques show a study of the dance artist’s process informed by movement scores demonstrating elements of contemporary dance linage. Unlike viewing an ephemeral performance With/In offers an interactive glimpse into the ever-evolving practice of the artist’s signature choreographic process and only exists with the presence of the audiences’ movements.

    Interdisciplinary artist Tanya Voges brings her experience in dance, drawing, community engagement and dance film making to make multimedia performance works, live dance pieces and dance for screen. A 2004 graduate of Victorian College of the Arts, Tanya is currently back at the University of Melbourne undertaking a Master’s in Dance Movement Therapy. The cross over between arts and health has been a common theme in the community engagement works Tanya has created in recent years especially as Artist in Residence at Flinders Medical Centre Arts-in-Health (2020 & 2021) where she developed Drawn to Movement and Dance for Tender Times particularly with the patient experience in mind. Other residencies have been through Australian Dance Theatre (2021), The Mill (2020) and Guildhouse/SA Museum Tracing the Anthropocene (2020), Critical Path (2014), BigCI(2014) and Bundanon (2011 & 2013). Recent collaborations with Artist Louise Flaherty and Musician Belinda Gehlert have led to participatory performances in the Parklands (2020), Adelaide Botanic Gardens (2021 Nature Fest), Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens (2022 Fringe) and a new work for Lobethal Bushland Park (April 2023 Fabrik). As an advocate for dance for all ages Tanya facilitates choreography, contemporary dance and improvisation for Adelaide Festival Centre, Tafe SA, Restless Dance Theatre, Flinders Medical Centre and Carclew.

  • James Alberts, aka Jimblah, is a Larrakia Brother who specialises in activating community & using the power of creative space to bring about healing, joy, and play where Community and Country are concerned. James is a music producer, vocalist, photographer & cinematographer, and utilises Song & Story to help uplift and transform Community for the better, and has close to 20 years of experience working within the First Nations sector, in particular youth spaces, all across the Country.

    Artistic & Curatorial Facilitator:

    Margie Medlin’s practice tracks in a linage of expanded cinema, her interdisciplinary projects explore interrelationships between movement, devised spaces, and media technologies. Throughout her practice, she has continued to experiment and forge new ground aesthetically, collaboratively, and technically. Her media artwork has been exhibited extensively including in India, the USA, Cuba, Australia, Germany, the UK, Japan, and Finland. As an educator, Margie was the director of Critical Path, centre for choreographic research in Sydney from 2007-2015.

    Artistic Mentorship and Professional Development:

    Tim Gruchy’s extensive career spans the exploration and composition of immersive and interactive multimedia through installation, music and performance, whilst redefining its role and challenging the delineations between cultural sectors. He has exhibited multimedia works, photography, video, music and performance since the early 1980s on 5 continents as well as his larger expressions in the public art arenas. His installations and performances feature in many international and Australasian institutions, festivals and public spaces including IlluminateADL 2021, Future Intelligence Shanghai 2019, WOMAD (2018/7), Wenzhou Bienalle (2016), Dak’ Art Dakar (2016), Auckland Arts Festival (2015 & 2009), New Zealand Arts Festival (2014), SCOUT Auckland (2012), Biennale of Sydney (2012) (collaboration), Beijing 798 (2011), Shanghai Expo (2010), 2nd Asian Art BIennial Taiwan (2009), Melbourne International Arts Festival (2009), Adelaide Festival (1986-2008), and Sydney Festival (2004). Theatre and opera credits include ‘AIDA’; Sydney Opera House and touring Australia (2009-2013), ‘Ainadamar’, Adelaide Festival (2008);The Leningrad Symphony (2006). His visual designs have featured in works by Opera Australia, OzOpera, Sydney Theatre Company, Australian Dance Theatre, Auckland Philamonia Orchestra and Mau. He is an Adjunct Research Professor at the University of South Australia, and was Art Director and Distinguished Professor of the Digital Art Department, Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts from 2018 – 2021. His research has extended into areas of interactivity, the human computer interface, performative interactives, having established dedicated labs at QUT in Brisbane and SAFA in Shanghai. He is represented by Kronenberg Mais Wright Gallery in Sydney. He has lectured and facilitated workshops in video art and interactive digital design at creative institutions around the world including Shanghai; Future University of Hakodate (Japan); National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney); University of Technology Sydney; Te Papa (New Zealand) and Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane). He has also been extensively involved in museum design and various projects at the intersection of architecture and multimedia. www.grup.tv

    Cindi Drennan/Illuminart is an Australian multimedia artist and artistic director, specialising in projection art, with a passion for community building at the heart of her practice. Cindi is the founder and director of illuminart, bringing a wealth of experience and passion for the artform, and leadership to the projects. Architectural Projection and Projection arts projects directed by Cindi include Luminous Hall for UWA 2013; award winning No Boundaries Project in 2012; award winning Port Inhabited for Port Festival 2011; RED on Sydney Opera House for World Aids Day 2011; Fractured Heart for ARIAS and VIVID 2011-2012; The Ribbon for the Regional Centre of Culture program in Murray Bridge SA 2010, and Landed for the National Regional Arts Conference in Launceston, 2010, and Harts Mill Inhabited and Promise in 2009. Cindi’s multi-disciplinary background encompasses over 25 years experience in filmmaking, illustration, animation, community arts & interactive media. Cindi founded Illuminart in 2007, a South Australian arts company that integrates community consultation and engagement within high quality projection arts, architectural projection and audiovisual storytelling. Prior to this Cindi’s creative leadership roles included Tesseract Research Laboratories 1997-2004, The Electric Canvas 2004-2006, and also team leadership roles at the Institute for Interactive Multimedia (UTS) and Unlimited Energee 1993-1997. Cindi’s accomplishments include contributing projection art for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, DOHA opening ceremony and Singapore National Day; directing several short films and television commercials; directing two experimental AV theatre projects (Alpha Release at p-space, and Sprocket at The Studio Sydney Opera House); pioneering VJing and projection mapping in Australia.

  • Make|Shift is part of The Mill’s Expand program, a responsive process and development program, with interest in challenging artists to explore interdisciplinary, site-specific and audience-focused new work.

    Expand supports artists to explore different modes of collaborating and encourages peer-learning. It enables risk taking, experimentation and freedom of expression in the creation and realisation of new works. Expand invites audiences to not only appreciate, but actively participate in the practice of art-making through artists talks, Q&A’s and public workshops.

    The exhibition has been developed through Expand’s Cinematic Experiments: Projection Techniques and Technologies program.

  • The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.

    Unfortunately, the main entrance is not accessible, as it has a small step from the pavement.

    Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team you would like to come into the building.

    A member of The Mill team sit in the foyer Monday to Friday and can assist you with access to our wheelchair accessible entrance.

    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.

    If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact us via email

 
 
 


Illuminate Adelaide are the presenting partner for Make|Shift.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Make|Shift and Cinematic Experiments: Projection Techniques and Technologies are presented with support from City of Adelaide.

 
 
 

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Exhibition: Surviving the Sunset

Adele Sliuzas ·

A photograph of a river landscape, the sky is orange and the sun is a bright orb close to the horizon. In the foreground, a shadowy person is pulling a fishing net out of the water. Image: Courtesy of the Artist.

April 4 - 15, 2023

Launch event: Tuesday April 4, 4-6pm

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Surviving the Sunset at The Mill Exhibition Space,
    located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    The Exhibition Space is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.

The Mill is pleased to host the Surviving the Sunset fundraising art exhibition, organised by the Australian Myanmar Institute for Democracy, Human Rights and Peace Limited (AMIDHRP) and Amnesty International.

The theme, Surviving the Sunset, refers to the current situation in Myanmar, where the military-led junta known as the Tatmadaw overthrew the democratically elected government. This theme alludes to the need for the people of Myanmar to overcome the "sunset" of democracy in their country and to restore human rights and peace.

We welcome art lovers from the Adelaide community and beyond to join us for this exhibition. The collection features a selection of works from Myanmar and Myanmar-Australian artists, curated by LuLu Htet, founder of iLearnBurmese and Director of AMIDHRP.

In addition, the exhibition includes artwork donations from local Australian artists Kingsley Wilson-Head, Director-Secretary of AMIDHRP, Andrew Wilson-Head, Peter Westerhoff, as well as some framed photographs from Anne Wilson.

Contact the registered charities of AMIDHRP and Amnesty International to find out more about their programs and how to donate to their charitable aid causes.

  • Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, access the pedestrian ramp on the corner of Gunson St to get to our front door, which will be open.

    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.

    If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact info@themilladelaide.com

 

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Artist + Curator Talk: Museum of Old Money, THE GOOD NEW$ BANK, Steph Cibich

Adele Sliuzas ·

Friday, March 24, 2023, 12-1pm

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free to attend

Join us on the final day of Museum of Old Money for a lunchtime Artist and Curator Talk with THE GOOD NEW$ BANK's Nick Hanisch and Cassie Thring, and curator Steph Cibich.

The talk will discuss themes explored in the exhibition, playfully touching on the ideas surrounding ‘currency’, ‘value’ and ‘worth’ under consumer-capitalism.

  • The Mill is excited to present a new exhibition Museum of Old Money by THE GOOD NEW$ BANK curated by Steph Cibich. THE GOOD NEW$ BANK is the collaborative moniker for artist duo Nicholas Hanisch and Cassie Thring, who have been working closely with Cibich to develop a body of work that playfully comments on the ideas surrounding ‘currency’, ‘value’ and ‘worth’ under consumer-capitalism. What is art worth? What value does the artist play within our society? How do we understand the exchange value of creative work? How do you put a price on the way that works of art make us feel?  

    With the current ‘cozzie livs’ (cost of living crisis), we are all making daily choices to determine how we can make our money stretch. Art can be seen as a luxury item, but at what cost? We know from our times in pandemic lockdown that art and creativity are central to our sense of self, and sense of community. Featuring Art Vending Machine Australia’s (AVMA) ‘Adelaide Art Vending Machine’, in which Curator Steph Cibich seeks to democratise the process of buying artwork, without undermining the work of the artist.

    The vending machine will sit alongside other works, developed through a collaborative relationship between curator and artists, offering unique moments for audience participation. Artworks will be available for purchase giving audiences an accessible option for becoming collectors of contemporary art.

  • Steph Cibich is a Kaurna Country (Adelaide) based curator and arts writer. Since 2019, she has worked as the Assistant Curator/Program Officer at the Centre for Creative Health and has built a strong independent curatorial practice. She is the founding force behind Art Vending Machines Australia (AVMA) and received the inaugural City of Onkaparinga Contemporary Curator Award (SALA 2019). In 2020, Steph was simultaneously appointed FELTspace Emerging Curator and the inaugural ART WORKS Emerging Curator, presented by Guildhouse and the City of Adelaide. Recently, Steph was appointed Co-chair of the Art History & Curatorship Alumni Network (AHCAN) and was a writer for ‘Neoteric’, an exhibition presented as part of the Adelaide Festival (2022). Steph’s curatorial approach centres on collaborating with and championing the work of contemporary artists. Through democratic and meaningful art projects, Steph seeks to bring people and ideas together by fostering connections between artists, art and audiences.

    @steph_cibich

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    Nicholas Hanisch is a sculptural installation artist graduating as a scholarship recipient at Adelaide Central School of Art. Hanisch’s ongoing practice has involved a diverse and continual exploration of mediums, conceptual themes, and collaborations. His recent body of work investigates creation narratives within the field of figurative sculpture. Hanisch’s sculptural forms are informed by the history of figurative sculpture, whilst celebrating the humour, the horror, the happenstance, and the sheer endeavour of creation. Previously Hanisch has attended the New York Studio School, practiced, and exhibited in Berlin, participated in residencies across India, and exhibited as part of The Art Gallery of South Australia collection.

    @nicholashanisch

    www.nicholashanisch.com

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    Cassie Thring is a multidisciplinary artist working from Floating Goose Studios on Kaurna land, Adelaide, SA. A passionate advocate for accessible community art programs, her work reflects an interest in the riches and sorrows of life, often through an apparently humorous lens. A graduate of Adelaide Central School of Art, Thring has participated in local and international residencies. Her work A Gazillion was exhibited as part of The Art Gallery of South Australia and is now in their permanent collection. Thring’s work is also held in the National Museum of Canberra and private collections, both in Australia and internationally.

    @cmthring

    www.cassiethring.com 

  • The Mill is an accessible space. Disability access is available via Angas St, and a disability toilet is also available on-site.

    You can find more detailed information on our accessibility page.

    If you have any questions or additional accessibility requirements, please contact us at info@themilladelaide.com

 

Museum of Old Money is presented with support from City of Adelaide.

 

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Workshop: Portraiture, Identity and Symbolism with Charlene Komuntale

Adele Sliuzas ·

Artwork: Charlene Komuntale, Aqua Dresses, 2022

Workshop

When: Tuesday, February 14, 1-3pm

Where: The Exhibition Space, The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $25 (+ booking fee), all materials included

  • 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.

Join Ugandan artist Charlene Komuntale for a workshop exploring her portraiture practice. Charlene Komuntale is a digital artist and illustrator based in Kampala, Uganda. She is the current LK Artist in Residence, she will be spending 6 weeks living in Adelaide and working from a studio at The Mill supported by Sanaa. Charlene uses digital mediums to create stunning portraits of Black African women that centre empowerment, liberation and confidence.

What to expect:

Participants will hear from Charlene about her digital and conceptual process, and how she creates her work. The group will then work with her to develop their own symbolic self-portrait in Charlene's style. Portraits will be created using paper, collage, texta and acrylic paint and can be taken home on the day.

  • Charlene Komuntale is a digital artist and illustrator based in Kampala, Uganda. She holds a BA in Animation from Limkokwing University, Malaysia. In her recent series “Not Fragile”, Komuntale portrays women - mostly black African women.

    The subject matter is personal yet presented in a relatable way as inspiration is drawn from her own experiences but also informed by the experiences of other women around her.

    The heads of the women she portrays are covered by different elements, which create poetic yet striking narratives around a broadly relatable figure. At first sight, the works evoke a dreamy, peaceful, and quiet atmosphere, whereas at a closer look powerful, empowering and unapologetic messages come to the fore. Dominant, male-centered perspectives on women’s roles and supposedly nature-given capabilities and constraints attached to female bodies are being evaluated and re-examined. The juxtaposition of different elements creates an interesting asymmetry between awareness of self and the (male-centered) gaze of others. Intimacy, tenderness, vulnerability, and female beauty do not suggest fragility. Instead, it is related to strength and unapologetic confidence. Komuntale’s digital paintings deconstruct patriarchal narratives as shaped by culture, religion, and politics and provide a ground for inquiry and interrogation, and for visions of different futures.

    Her compositional choices create a space at the edges of reality – moments frozen in time and filled with surreal elements and metaphorical and symbolical references.

 

The LK Artist in Residence Sponsored Studio is presented in partnership with Sanaa.

Sanaa aims to facilitate intercultural understanding by providing a platform to artists from culturally diverse backgrounds, with past exhibitions featuring international artists from many other cultures around the world, alongside Australian based artists from Aboriginal, African, Middle Eastern and South American backgrounds.

The LK Artist in Residence is supported by Principal Partner LK Law.