The Mill is thrilled to announce Oriana Julie Winston as the recipient of the Visual Arts Studio Residency in 2024. Supported by the Mahmood Martin Foundation, Oriana will receive 9-months of studio space and an exhibition outcome in The Mill’s Gallery II.

Call-out: Visual Arts Studio Residency 2024

chloe metcalfe · October 12, 2023

Applications are now open for The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation. One First Nations and/or Culturally Diverse artist will be given the opportunity to join The Mill community, receiving a 9-month studio space in 2024 and an exhibition outcome as part of The Mill Showcase in 2025. The artists will be selected through an open call-out addressing criteria assessed by a panel of The Mill and Mahmood Martin Foundation.

Thanks to Mahmood Martin Foundation, the selected artists will join our community of studio artists with their own private workspace at 154 Angas St, allowing them to develop their practice within a professional environment. Working at The Mill positions artists alongside other professional and emerging artists, providing encouragement, inspiration and facilitating networking and collaboration. This residency encourages collaboration between artists from diverse backgrounds, extending artists' practice and exploring new territories.

In addition, the artists will be given the opportunity to exhibit work created in the studio in The Mill Showcase, providing a public outcome for the program and profiling the artist to a wider audience. The artists will also have access to discounts for Premier Arts Supplies and Central Artist Supplies, as well $550 towards exhibition and workshop production.

Key dates

Applications open: Wednesday, November 1

Applications close: Monday, December 4, 9am

Notified: Week beginning December 18

Studio residency timeframe: May 2024 - January 2025

Eligibility:
This is an identified opportunity, specifically being made available to a First Nations and/or Culturally Diverse artist who are:
-Emerging and/or established
-Committed to making their practice their main hustle
-Seeking space and time to develop a concept/body of work for exhibition
-Looking to connect with a community of professional practitioners
-Based in South Australia
We strongly encourage applications from disabled artists.
-Artists who are students or who work full-time
-Artists who do not identify as First Nations and/or Culturally Diverse
The recipients will be selected by a panel comprising of The Mill and Mahmood Martin Foundation based on the following criteria:
-The artist identifies as First Nations and/or Culturally Diverse
-The artistic merit of artist practice and proposed body of work to be developed
-The need for this opportunity in realising the project, enhancing practice, and/or developing a profile
-A strong desire to connect with the community of multidisciplinary artists at The Mill
-Availability and commitment to utilising the studio space
-9 months access to a dedicated studio space at The Mill (including access to high-speed internet via Gig City, all overheads and outgoings) at no charge
-Access to other shared areas at The Mill including the workshop, meeting space, kitchen and other public areas
-Professional and artistic support from The Mill’s team (including professional development advice, artistic critique and more)
-Introductions to The Mill’s studio community to aid with networking and professional development
-An exhibition in The Mill Showcase, delivered in consultation with The Mill’s Visual Arts Curator
-Profiling via The Mill’s networks, including social media, mailing list and events
-The opportunity to liaise directly with The Mill’s supporters and develop relationships

Read about our 2021 Sponsored Studio recipients Holly Childs and Hussain Alismail, and our 2022 Sponsored Studio recipients Viray Thach and Tikari Rigney, our 2023 recipients Yasemin Sabuncu and Chris Siu and our Delima Residency recipient Alyssa Powell-Ascura.

If you have any questions, or would prefer to apply via phone call or zoom, please email visualarts@themilladelaide.com

submit your application

This Visual Arts Studio Residency is presented in co-operation with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

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Artist Talk: Yasemin Sabuncu, Alchemical

Adele Sliuzas · August 8, 2023

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Artist Talk

Tuesday, August 8, 12-1pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

You can find Yasemin Sabuncu’s Alchemical in The Mill’s Exhibition Space,
located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).
The Exhibition Space is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.

Yasemin Sabuncu will chat with The Mill’s Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas about the works in her solo exhibition Alchemical. This Artist Talk will also be live streamed via The Mill’s YouTube.

This exhibition reclaims the artist's space and power as a creative who has had their career and life effected by late-stage diagnosis of endometriosis and ADHD.

Yasemin Sabuncu is the recipient of the Mahmood Martin Foundation Sponsored Studio for the January-June residency in 2023.

Item description
Yasemin is multidisciplinary creative with a Turkish background who works as a writer, director, actress, artist and comedian. Studying a double major in screen and theatre production at Flinders University, she went on to study Honours specialising in video, digital technology and performance.
She also studied long form improv and sketch comedy at the improv conspiracy in Melbourne, and at Groundlings and UCB in LA.
Yasemin aims to create stories that uplift, engage and promote diversity in innovative ways. Her work explores ideas of belonging, identity, liminality, spirituality, the environment, race, health and being “the other.”
Her work has been shown as part of ActNow Theatre’s digital residency in 2021 and FELTdark program 2022. She has also been a Midsumma Pathways participant,receiving mentorship from Victoria Falconer and Tj Dawe, Canada, for her 2021 Fringe show 'the Illest'.
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 info@themilladelaide.com

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Workshop: Yasemin Sabuncu, Alchemy

Adele Sliuzas · August 8, 2023

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Workshop

Friday, August 11, 2-4pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

$20 (+ booking fee)

You can find Yasemin Sabuncu’s Alchemical in The Mill’s Exhibition Space,
located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).
The Exhibition Space is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.

Join Yasemin for a 2-hour workshop exploring themes from the Alchemical exhibition, viewing the alchemy of chronic illness and art as a process that changes and transforms.

Yasemin invites participants to bring along something that they would like to transform- a situation, a feeling, an illness or diagnosis. Yasemin will guide participants through her process of reclaiming power as a creative, transforming it into something unexpected, new, and uncharted. Not-quite-therapy, but more than just the process of art, the workshop encourages collectivity and community as part of the transformation.

What to expect:

Participants will use pens, pencils, paper, and paint to explore something that they are finding emotionally or physically tricky, and turn it into art.*

Experience level:

Open to all skill levels, 18+

*please note: The Artist and The Mill are not trained Art Therapists. This workshop is about exploring Yasemin’s process as an artist.

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 info@themilladelaide.com

Yasemin Sabuncu is the recipient of the Mahmood Martin Foundation Sponsored Studio for the January-June residency in 2023.

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Exhibition: Yasemin Sabuncu, Alchemical

Adele Sliuzas · August 4, 2023

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August 4 - September 22, 2023

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

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

You can find Yasemin Sabuncu’s Alchemical in The Mill’s 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.

For SALA 2023, The Mill is excited to present Alchemical, a solo exhibition by multimedia artist Yasemin Sabuncu. This exhibition reclaims the artist's space and power as a creative who has had their career and life affected by late-stage diagnosis of endometriosis and ADHD. The works explore how to find safety, rest, home, and love in a body that is often labelled wrong or is causing pain and disability.

Yasemin Sabuncu is the recipient of the Mahmood Martin Foundation Sponsored Studio for the January-June residency in 2023.

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Artist Talk: Yasemin Sabuncu, Alchemical

Workshop: Yasemin Sabuncu, Alchemy

This exhibition explores the transformative power of chronic illness and how it can alchemise you into something unexpected, new, and uncharted. I wanted to show the shadow and light of the process of evolution I experienced trying to find healing, meaning, and answers to why I was feeling so out of sorts and being so sick I couldn’t work.
Through tens of thousands of dollars in medical costs, being bed bound, unable to work, countless hours of appointments, surgeries, invasive tests, waiting up to a year for certain appointments, and evaluations I finally found some answers. It took almost two decades for me to find this diagnosis. I was not alone with the length of diagnosis, Endometriosis which effects 1 in 9 people who were assigned female at birth, takes on average 10 years to diagnose which is not good enough.
The whole process had nearly broken me many times and I had to rely on my inner strength to survive and persevere with the uncertainty and my degrading health. Despite my best efforts I had slipped through the cracks of the medical system, and been living with undiagnosed endometriosis, adenomyosis, chronic fatigue syndrome/ME, and ADHD. It was a relief in some ways to find out what was ‘wrong’ with me, but then I had to let go of who I used to be and create a new life within the limitations of my conditions.
Luckily now with understanding of my body and finding suitable treatments and surgery I have been forever altered and beginning a new life initiated by the alchemical process of living with my conditions. The liminal space I endured birthed into something beautiful, at times terrifying, and ultimately life changing. It made me look deeper into my spirituality, consciousness, and deep investigation of life and the universe. This process is represented through the spectrum of colours, shapes, textures, biological and geological imagery, and various mediums to reflect on some of my experiences through this process.
Yasemin Sabuncu is a multidisciplinary creative with a Turkish background who works as a writer, director, actress, artist and comedian. Studying a double major in screen and theatre production at Flinders University, she went on to study Honours specialising in video, digital technology and performance.
She also studied long-form improv and sketch comedy at the improv conspiracy in Melbourne, and at Groundlings and UCB in LA.
Yasemin aims to create stories that uplift, engage and promote diversity in innovative ways. Her work explores ideas of belonging, identity, liminality, spirituality, the environment, race, health and being “the other.”
Her work has been shown as part of ActNow Theatre’s digital residency in 2021 and FELTdark program 2022. She has also been a Midsumma Pathways participant,receiving mentorship from Victoria Falconer and Tj Dawe, Canada, for her 2021 Fringe show 'the Illest', with support from Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund. Recently, Yasemin created a mural for My Lover Cindi, supported by Adelaide Fringe Fund.

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Photos: Daniel Marks

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MMF Sponsored Studio 2023: Chris Siu

chloe metcalfe · July 11, 2023

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

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

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

Photo: Henry Wolff

Outcomes

Events

Workshop: Storytelling through Photography with Chris Siu

Artist Talk: Chris Siu, Riot on an Empty Street

Exhibition: Chris Siu, Riot on an Empty Street

The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in co-operation with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

Delima Residency 2023: Alyssa Powell-Ascura

chloe metcalfe · June 26, 2023

The Mill is thrilled to announce Alyssa Powell-Ascura as the recipient of the Delima Residency in Rimbun Dahan.

From September to December, Alyssa will travel to Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, for a 3-month (residential) residency, in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

This will be followed by a 3-month (non-residential) studio residency at The Mill, and a solo exhibition outcome presented in The Mill Showcase.

Outcomes

Events

Finissage: A Resting State and Halo-halo

Artist talk: Alyssa Powell-Ascura, Halo-halo

Workshop: Kain Tayo [let's eat] with Alyssa Powell-Ascura

Exhibition: Alyssa Powell-Ascura, Halo-halo

The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in co-operation with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

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Information session: Delima Residency

Adele Sliuzas · March 20, 2023

info session tickets

Information Session: Friday April 14, 4-5pm 2023

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide)

livestream video

Free entry, all welcome

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

Applications are now open for the Delima Residency at Rimbun Dahan 2023

Join us at The Mill for an Information Session about the residency and application process, and hear from artist Rob Gutteridge about his experience at Rimbun Dahan.

In 2023, The Mill will be offering one South Australian artist the opportunity to travel to Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, for a 3-month (residential) residency, October-December 2023, in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation. This will be followed by a 3-month (non-residential) studio residency at The Mill, and a solo exhibition outcome presented in The Mill Showcase.

The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

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MMF Sponsored Studio 2023: Yasemin Sabuncu

chloe metcalfe · January 30, 2023

The Mill is thrilled to announce Yasemin Sabuncu as the recipient of the Sponsored Studio for the January-June 2023 residency. The Mill’s Sponsored Studio is a new initiative supported by the Mahmood Martin Foundation. In 2023 two selected artists will join our community, with each receiving 6-months of studio space and an exhibition outcome as part of The Mill Showcase.

Yasemin is a multidisciplinary creative with a Turkish background who works as a writer, director, actress, artist and comedian. Studying a double major in screen and theatre production at Flinders University, she went on to study Honours specialising in video, digital technology and performance.
She also studied long form improv and sketch comedy at the improv conspiracy in Melbourne, and at Groundlings and UCB in LA.
Yasemin aims to create stories that uplift, engage and promote diversity in innovative ways. Her work explores ideas of belonging, identity, liminality, spirituality, the environment, race, health and being “the other.”
Her work has been shown as part of FELTSpace’s FELTdark program in 2022 and she has participated in ActNow Theatre’s digital residency in 2021. She has also been a Midsumma Pathways participant,receiving mentorship from Victoria Falconer and Tj Dawe, Canada, for her 2021 Fringe show the Illest.
Yasemin will be presenting her latest work Sick Bitch as part of Adelaide Fringe 2023 at The Mill, supported by the Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund.

Photo: Courtesy of the artist

The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in co-operation with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

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Sanaa Sponsored Studio: LK Artist in Residence 2023 recipient Charlene Komuntale

chloe metcalfe · January 17, 2023

We are thrilled to welcome Charlene Komuntale to The Mill as the recipient of the Sanaa 2023 LK Artist in Residence.

Sanaa is a not-for-profit, multidisciplinary cultural arts collective, facilitating and celebrating the power of art and its capacity to bridge cultural gaps. The Mill’s partnership with Sanaa offers one Sponsored Studio for culturally diverse artists.

Travelling from Uganda, Charlene will join The Mill’s artist community in a Sponsored Studio for 6 weeks. During that time she will present an artist talk and a workshop at The Mill, culminating in a group exhibition at Kerry Packer Civic Gallery at the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, running February to March 2023.

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.

Photo: Courtesy of the artist

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.

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Call-out: Delima Residency at Rimbun Dahan 2023

chloe metcalfe · November 23, 2022

In 2023, The Mill will be offering one South Australian artist the opportunity to travel to Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, for a 3-month (residential) residency, October-December 2023, in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

This will be followed by a 3-month (non-residential) studio residency at The Mill, and a solo exhibition outcome presented in The Mill Showcase.

Pronunciation guide:

The words below are Malay language words where all syllables have equal emphasis and are phonetic.

Delima: De-li-ma

Rimbun Dahan: Rim-bun Da-han

The ‘a’ in Dahan is a short, broad ‘a’ – as in, ‘ask’. The ‘u’ in Rimbun is as in ‘put’. Delima is pronounced Deleema.

Residency information PDF

Info Night tickets

Application process:

Read the Residency Information PDF, send us an email to visualarts@themilladelaide.com if you have any questions
Information Night
Hear from artist Rob Gutteridge about his experiences at Rimun Dahan. The info night is an optional but recommended part of the application process.
Application form
Applicants are required to fill in an application form linked below, which asks a series of questions relating to the selection criteria. If you need help with the form, send an email to visualarts@themilladelaide.com and we can have a chat!
Interview
A short-list of artists will be made by the selection panel. Short-listed artists will be required to attend an interview (in person or via zoom).

Key dates:

Applications open: March 2023

Applications close: May 8, 11:59pm, 2023

Short-list notified: May 16, 2023

Rimun Dahan residency timeframe: October - December 2023

The Mill studio timeframe: January - March 2024

The Mill exhibition: April 2024

applications closed

Read about our 2021 Sponsored Studio recipients Holly Childs and Hussain Alismail, and our 2022 Sponsored Studio recipients Viray Thach and Tikari Rigney.

rob gutteridge information session livestream

The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in partnership with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

Call-out: The Mill Mahmood Martin Foundation Sponsored Studio 2023

chloe metcalfe · November 14, 2022

In 2023 The Mill will be offering two First Nations and/or Culturally Diverse artists the opportunity to join The Mill community, each receiving 6-months of studio space and an exhibition outcome as part of The Mill Showcase in 2023/24. The artists will be selected through an open call-out addressing criteria assessed by a panel of The Mill and Mahmood Martin Foundation.

Thanks to Mahmood Martin Foundation, the selected artists will join our community of studio artists with their own private workspace at 154 Angas St, allowing them to develop their practice within a professional environment. Working at The Mill positions artists alongside other professional and emerging artists, providing encouragement, inspiration and facilitating networking and collaboration. It encourages collaboration between artists from diverse backgrounds, extending artists' practice and exploring new territories.

In addition, the artists will be given the opportunity to exhibit work created in the studio in The Mill Showcase, providing a public outcome for the program and profiling the artist to a wider audience. The artists will also have access to discounts for Premier Arts Supplies and Central Artist Supplies, as well $550 towards exhibition and workshop production.

The artists will work with The Mill’s team to deliver the exhibition, with potential to develop other public programming such as workshops, artist talks, podcasts and more.

Eligibility:

This is an identified opportunity, specifically being made available to a First Nations and/or Culturally Diverse artist who are:

Emerging and/or established
Committed to making their practice their main hustle
Seeking space and time to develop a concept/body of work for exhibition
Looking to connect with a community of professional practitioners
Based in South Australia

Who is not eligible:

Artists who are full-time students or who work full-time
Artists who do not identify as First Nations and/or Culturally Diverse

We strongly encourage applications from disabled artists.

Selection criteria:

The recipients will be selected by a panel comprising of The Mill and Mahmood Martin Foundation based on the following criteria:

The artist identifies as First Nations and/or Culturally Diverse
The artistic merit of artist practice and proposed body of work to be developed
The need for this opportunity in realising the project, enhancing practice, and/or developing a profile
A strong desire to connect with the community of multidisciplinary artists at The Mill
Availability and commitment to utilising the studio space

What you get:

6 months access to a dedicated studio space at The Mill (including access to high-speed internet via Gig City, all overheads and outgoings) at no charge
Access to other shared areas at The Mill including the workshop, meeting space, kitchen and other public areas
Professional and artistic support from The Mill’s team (including professional development advice, artistic critique and more)
Introductions to The Mill’s studio community to aid with networking and professional development
A 2 month exhibition in The Mill Showcase, delivered in consultation with The Mill’s Visual Arts Curator
An exhibition opening event, delivered by The Mill and open to VIPs, guests and the general public
Profiling via The Mill’s networks, including social media, mailing list and events
The opportunity to liaise directly with The Mill’s supporters and develop relationships

Read about our 2021 Sponsored Studio recipients Holly Childs and Hussain Alismail, and our 2022 Sponsored Studio recipients Viray Thach and Tikari Rigney.

Key dates:

Applications open: Wednesday, 16 November, 2022

Applications close: Wednesday, 14 December, 2022, 11:50pm

Notified: Wednesday, 21 December, 2022

Studio residency timeframe: January-June 2023 or July-December 2023

If you have any questions, or would prefer to apply via phone call or zoom, please email visualarts@themilladelaide.com

submit your application

The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in co-operation with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

Sanaa Sponsored Studio: LK Artist in Residence call-out

chloe metcalfe · August 3, 2022

Sanaa is a not-for-profit, multidisciplinary cultural arts collective, facilitating and celebrating the power of art and its capacity to bridge cultural gaps. The Mill’s partnership with Sanaa offers one Sponsored Studio for culturally diverse artists.

An African artist will join The Mill’s studio community for 6-weeks, also presenting an artist talk and workshop with support from The Mill and Sanaa. The residency will culminate in a group exhibition at Kerry Packer Civic Gallery at the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, February-March 2023.

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MMF Sponsored Studio 2022: Tikari Rigney

chloe metcalfe · June 6, 2022

The Mill is thrilled to announce Tikari Rigney as the recipient of the Sponsored Studio for the July-December 2022 residency. The Mill’s Sponsored Studio is a new initiative supported by the Mahmood Martin Foundation. In 2022 two selected artists will join our community, with each receiving 6-months of studio space and an exhibition outcome as part of The Mill Showcase.

Tikari Rigney is a non-binary (they/them) Kaurna, Narrunga and Ngarrindjeri visual artist and poet. Working in a range of mediums from performance, illustration sculpture to writing. Their practice references their queer bodily experience, Aboriginality and the complexities of human connection. Exploring themes of humor, rebirth and emotional vulnerability.
Rigney is a First Nations Curator at ACE Open. Rigney participated in the inaugural Zine and Held fair for disabled and people of colour artists at POP gallery. They have exhibited in over five group exhibitions in South Australia. They curated the largest student exhibition at Adelaide Central School of Art during their studies, with over 22 artists and is completing a Bachelor in Visual Arts.
Rigney has connections to Carclew through their Creative Consultant program and has completed a culturally diverse illustration commission for Shine SA.

The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in co-operation with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

The Mill MMF Sponsored Studio call-out 2022

chloe metcalfe · April 6, 2022

In 2022 The Mill will be offering two selected BIPOC artists the opportunity to join The Mill community, receiving 6-months of studio space and an exhibition outcome as part of The Mill Showcase. The artists will be selected through an open call-out addressing criteria assessed by a panel of The Mill and Mahmood Martin Foundation.

Thanks to Mahmood Martin Foundation, the selected artists will join our community of studio artists with their own private workspace at 154 Angas St, allowing them to develop their practice within a professional environment. Working at The Mill positions artists alongside other professional and emerging artists, providing encouragement, inspiration and facilitating networking and collaboration. It encourages collaboration between artists from diverse backgrounds, extending artists' practice and exploring new territories.

In addition, the artists will be given the opportunity to exhibit work created in the studio in The Mill Showcase, providing a public outcome for the program and profiling the artist to a wider audience. The artists will also have access to discounts for Premier Arts Supplies and Central Artist Supplies, as well $550 towards exhibition and workshop production.

The artists will work with The Mill’s team to deliver the exhibition, with potential to develop other public programming such as workshops, artist talks, podcasts and more.

Selection criteria:

This opportunity is specifically being made available to a Black, Indigenous and POC artists who are:

Emerging and/or established
Committed to making their practice their main hustle
Seeking space and time to develop a concept/body of work for exhibition
Looking to connect with a community of professional practitioners

Who is not eligible:

Artists who are full-time students or who work full-time
Non BIPOC artists

We strongly encourage applications from artists from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and artists living with disability.

What you get:

6 months access to a dedicated studio space at The Mill (including access to high-speed internet via Gig City, all overheads and outgoings) at no charge
Access to other shared areas at The Mill including the workshop, meeting space, kitchen and other public areas
Professional and artistic support from The Mill’s team (including professional development advice, artistic critique and more)
Introductions to The Mill’s studio community to aid with networking and professional development
A 2 month exhibition in The Mill Showcase, delivered in consultation with The Mill’s Visual Arts Curator
An exhibition opening event, delivered by The Mill and open to VIPs, guests and the general public
Profiling via The Mill’s networks, including social media, mailing list and events
The opportunity to liaise directly with The Mill’s supporters and develop relationships

Read about our 2021 Sponsored Studio recipients Holly Childs and Hussain Alismail, and our 2022 Sponsored Studio recipient Viray Thach.

Key dates:

Applications open: April 4, 2022

Applications close: 11:59pm, May 9, 2022

Notified: May 17, 2022

Studio residency timeframe: July-December 2022

submit your application

The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in partnership with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

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MMF Sponsored Studio 2022: Viray Thach

chloe metcalfe · December 8, 2021

The Mill is thrilled to announce Viray Thach as the recipient of the Sponsored Studio for the January-June 2022 residency. The Mill’s Sponsored Studio is a new initiative supported by the Mahmood Martin Foundation. In 2022 two selected artists will join our community, with each receiving 6-months of studio space and an exhibition outcome as part of The Mill Showcase.

Digital painting of a woman with patterns in the background. — Viray Thach, ‘Essence of Apsara’ digital painting, image courtesy of the artist

Exhibition: Resilience, Viray Thach
July 18 - September 16, 2022

Opening event: Friday, July 29, 6-8pm

Opening hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm

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

Cost: Free

Accessibility: Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance. The Mill has concrete flooring throughout and a disability toilet. View more on our accessibility page.

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During SALA 2022 The Mill's Showcase space hosts Resilience, a solo exhibition by illustrator and educator Viray Thach. The exhibition elevates the voices of sexual assault survivors and opens conversations of the commonly misunderstood topic. Viray showcases her skills as a digital illustrator, as well as exploring new techniques developed through her six month studio residency at The Mill. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue essay written by The Mill's Writer in Residence Renee Miller.

About the artist:

Viray stands in front of plants, she wears a leopard print top and black dress, and glasses. — Viray Thach

Viray Thach is an emerging digital illustrator and educator. Her style, inspired by pop art, art deco and art nouveau, also sees deep-rooted influences from traditional Kbach ornamental designs that pay homage to her Cambodian roots. Viray’s iPad is the digital sketchbook where all the magic happens. Here, she marries the old and the new, using cybernation to recreate time-honoured textures and techniques into tactile designs that evoke a warm, homely compassion.
Formally educated in graphic design, business management and education, Viray is not only dedicated to her role as an illustrator, but as an educator and mentor, cultivating young minds and passing her multi-creative knowledge on to creative visionaries of the next generation. She remains business-minded and efficient while still delivering work full of the heart and soul.
At the root of it, Viray uses her art to tell a story – whether that is through character-rich portraits, lively illustrations, or bringing her mind’s eye to life through magnificent murals.

SALA Workshop: Illustration and lino printing with Viray Thach

When: Sunday August 22 and , 12-4pm

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

Cost: early bird $30 +bf (limited places)

full price $40+bf

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If you're looking for an opportunity to be creative, join Viray for an illustration and lino print workshop. This beginners workshop will introduce skills in preparing a design, carving lino and printing, and all participants will take home finished artworks.

Held in The Mill’s exhibition space alongside Viray’s solo exhibition Resilience, the workshop will be intimate and casual and is open to complete beginners.

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August 4 - September 22, 2023

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