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Workshop: Tufting Tapestries with Liliana Pasalic

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: Daniel Marks.

Workshop

When: Saturday, September 28, 12:30-3:30pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $125 (+booking fee)

  • 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 Liliana Pasalic for a tufting workshop where you’ll learn to make your own tufted tapestry artwork.

You’ll not only experience hand tufting and machine tufting, you’ll also learn about what materials can be used and non-traditional mediums that can engage your creativity.

What to expect:

This 2.5 hour session will combine hand tufting, machine (gun) tufting and painting. You’ll create a stretched, ready-to-hang, mixed-media artwork that you will take home!

Hear from Liliana about the techniques she uses when creating her stunning tapestry artworks. You will learn how to make your own tufting frame from reclaimed materials and gain knowledge about which fabrics can be used for tufting. Participants will talk about the possibilities of combining non-traditional mediums, boosting creativity and the benefits of a regular creative output.

Additionally, participants will contribute to a collaborative machine-tufted piece that will stay in the gallery and be exhibited as part of a future event in the gallery.

All materials included.

  • Liliana Pasalic has lived in Zagreb, London, and now Adelaide, working primarily with painting and tapestry.

    Her practice explores themes of home and identity, frequently referencing archetypal women’s roles and stereotypical suburban depictions.

    Utilizing contemporary and historical textile and tapestry techniques and drawing from her formal background in industrial design, Pasalic pushes the boundaries of her mediums, blurring and combining individual disciplines and newly incorporating LED lighting directly into the works.

    “I have collected a lot of photographic source materials of pasted-up posters in the urban environments of the cities where I have lived, and within these photographs I find and extract motifs and remnant graphic elements. These refer, like a woven visual history, of my familiar psychologically mapped home environments.”

    Pasalic has exhibited in solo and group shows around the world, including in Zagreb, Ljubljana, New York, Brussels, Vienna, Adelaide, Jerusalem, and Canberra. She had a solo exhibition "Multiverse" at The Mill Adelaide at the beginning of 2024.

    Pasalic will be exhibiting with Kolbusz Space gallery in Perth later in 2024 with a solo in 2025. Her solo opens in Our Neon Foe in Sydney in September 2024. She is currently a finalist in the prestigious Woolahra Small Sculpture Prize.

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Workshop: Screen Printing with Bob Window

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: courtesy of the artist

Workshop

When: Saturday, November 9, 12:30-3:30pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $125 (+booking fee)

  • 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 Bob Window for a screen printing workshop where you’ll learn to print on fabric!

This beginner level workshop will explore Bob’s signature styles with shapes, layers and stunning colours.

What to expect:

In this 3 hour session you will learn the basics of screen printing, and learn two different techniques for creating amazing prints! Master screen printer Bob Window will share his expertise, and guide participants through the process of printing using pre-exposed screens, followed by printing with blank screens and butchers paper.

Bob will provide participants with 1m of fabric, but you are welcome to bring along additional fabric, tshirts or totes - natural fibers only please.

This can be a messy process, so please wear covered shoes and studio clothes or an apron.

At the end of the day you will get to take home your amazing screen printed artworks!

  • 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/

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Workshop: Weaving with Chantal Henley

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Courtesy of the artist

Workshop

November 7, 12-3pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $58 (+ booking fee)

  • 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 a weaving fundamentals session at The Mill. Chantal is an incredible textile artist, and this workshop is a fantastic opportunity for participants to learn about techniques and materials, and hear more about Chantal's knowledge of weaving.

What to expect:

Chantal will demonstrate introductory techniques to woven body adornments. Participants will have access to materials and get to try new techniques, and can take home their creations on the day.

All materials provided

About the exhibition:

Gulayí: Woven in the Womb is a new exhibition by 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 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 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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Adelaide Fringe Online Workshop: Telling your own story through clowning with Hew Parham

chloe metcalfe ·

Photo: Trantino Priori

Details

When: Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 10am-12pm 

Where: Live streamed on Zoom for you to participate in from your home

Cost: $15 (+ booking fees)

Any cancellations due to Covid-19, tickets will be refunded

About the workshop:

This workshop will explore the medium of clowning and autobiographical theatre, how to use ideas inspired by your life but use the clown, metaphors and games in order to present these events in a playful and safe way. The workshop will explore the foundations of clown with exercises and play, the participants will be lead through intuitive and stream of consciousness writing exercises to find moments from their lives, we will then workshop playful and inventive ways we could present these events.

Experience level:

Any creative artists, especially focusing on those interested in clowning, theatre, but dance and other approaches very welcome.

  • Hew Parham is a graduate of Flinders University Drama Centre. In 2007 Hew was the recipient of the Neil Curnow Award where he trained at The Hunter Gates Academy of physical theatre in Edmonton Canada and in the Pochinko Clowning Method at The Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance (MCCP) in Ontario, Canada. Hew has also trained with British Physical Comedy troupe Spymonkey in London, England and Italian clown Giovanni Fusetti. 

    Hew has developed several solo shows with his comedic characters such as: Giovanni which played at the New York Clown Theatre Festival, The Wonderland Festival in Brisbane and The Adelaide Fringe Festival; Odyssey Schmodyssey which played at the Sangeunay Arts Festival, Quebec Canada; Rudi’s The Rinse Cycle which played at The Adelaide Cabaret Festival. He also performed in the Kurt Weill dedication performance The Weill File. In 2019 Hew once again performed in The Cabaret Festival with British company Flabberghast Theatre in their show The Swell Mob. He has also created the hyperactive twins The Riddalin Brothers with Callan Fleming which performed at The Adelaide Fringe Festival. 

    Hew has travelled extensively with Melbourne based company Bunk Puppets to tour their show Sticks Stones Broken Bones to countries such as Norway, Germany and China. Other credits includes: Me and My Shadow (Patch Theatre Company); Boo (Windmill Theatre Company); Superheroes (Stone/Castro); Blister by Sarah Peters (Holden Street Theatres); and If you can learn to fake authenticity you have it made by Rebecca Meston, (Feltspace). 

    He has also directed a number of shows including Egg (Erin Fowler, Adelaide Fringe) Chameleon (Frank Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Rumpus); Moof’s Adventures (Backporch Theatre, Adelaide Fringe); Dead Gorgeous (Madness of Two, Adelaide Fringe Festival) and Light Minded (AC Arts). 

    hewparhamcom.wordpress.com 

Hew Parham will be presenting A Not So Trivial Pursuit for The Mill's 2022 Adelaide Fringe program.

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Masterclass: Talking about Guitars with Jordan Reynolds this SALA

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Jordan in the studio

Image: Jordan in the studio

When: Sunday, August 29, 2021

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

Time: 10am-1pm

Cost: $150 + booking fee

Accessibility: Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility information page.

About the Workshop:

Jordan Reynolds welcomes guitar enthusiasts to join him for an intimate afternoon exploring the theory and craft of guitars. Talking through his artisan practice, Jordan will give participants insight into how guitars are constructed. He will also talk about care and maintenance, and the important things to consider when customising your own guitar.

What Participants Can Expect:

Jordan will talk participants through the anatomy of guitars, with hands on examples of guitars built here at The Mill. In the second half he will lead the group through some basic guitar maintenance and speak about customising your set up. There will be lots of opportunities to ask questions, and partake in open discussion with the group.

This masterclass is hands on, and participants will get the opportunity to touch guitar parts, see inside and gain knowledge of tools. However, this is a talk-based masterclass. If you’re interested in a deeper level of practical and process based learning, please see our other masterclass with Jordan!

No skills required, all welcome.

Tea and light refreshments provided.

About the artist:

Jordan is the premier maker of musical instruments in Adelaide, specialising in extended range guitars and basses, handmade to order. He not only makes instruments, but has also serviced the Adelaide guitar scene for over a decade in repair, servicing and customising. Jordan has crafted a unique style bringing modern design and traditional techniques together to make one off instruments designed to last the test of time.

Having studied as a furniture maker whilst completing the first ever Guitar Making Apprenticeship in Australia, Jordan brings a different approach to Instrument construction to other Luthiers.
Focusing on instruments that not only look the part, but also sound and feel premium, and most importantly designed to withstand the harsh Australian climate and conditions of working musicians 

Valuing the local artisan scene, Jordan also works with other makers and artists every year to create one off instruments combining his own style and construction with other’s aesthetics and medium.

Jordan’s guitars have toured every continent of the world, and won features in multiple makers exhibitions and festivals. He has been a guest speaker at the International Guitar Festival and runs personalised classes on guitar making, with a big belief that education and transparency can only bring more creativity and push makers of all kinds to strive for perfection and innovation.

About the Program:

Each year The Mill presents a series of SALA Masterclasses with prominent South Australian artists. We invite practicing artists and creatives to participate, offering the opportunity to grow their practice through learning new skills, connecting with peers and developing insight into professional artists practice.

The Mill's Masterclass program runs throughout the year as a professional development program for artists, offering workshops with established international and national touring artists in both performance and visual arts. These diverse sessions draw South Australian artists into global conversations around aesthetic, performance and creative practice.

Other Masterclasses this SALA:

 
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The Mill is supported by the South Australian government through Arts South Australia

 
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The Mill's 2021 artistic program is proudly supported by BankSA Foundation.

 

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Masterclass: Build your own ceramic oil burner with Ari Menendez this SALA

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Ari in the studio, photo: Chloe Metcalfe

Image: Ari in the studio, photo: Chloe Metcalfe

When: Saturday, August 21, 2021

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

Two session times: 10am-12:30pm and 1:30-4pm

Cost: $150 + booking fee

($125 +bf until Aug 19, use the promo code GLAZED)

Accessibility: Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility information page.

About the Workshop:

Join artist Ari Menendez for a ceramic workshop where you will build your own oil burner.

Work with stoneware clay and learn hand building techniques to construct a fully functional oil burner.

Ari will guide participants through the processes which will include a combination of slab building and pinching techniques to construct the oil burner.

Once constructed, Ari will share some of her favourite decorating techniques, such as carving and mark making - so that participants can make their oil burner truely unique to them.

Ari will bisque, glaze and fire all pieces to a final temperature of 1280 degrees. All burners will be ready to be collected within 3 weeks of the workshop.

No experience required - all welcome!

What Participants Can Expect:

Participants will take home their very own hand built, glazed and fired oil burner!

Materials used:

  • Stoneware clay

  • Sculpting tools

About the artist:

Ari Menendez began creating with clay in 2016 after a friend gifted her a workshop experience with a well established Adelaide Artist. This day proved to be a transformative experience and clay became the deep connection to the Australian continent that German native Ari, until then, did not realise she was missing. What followed was an ongoing journey of learning and growth through ceramics, always anchored in the profound appreciation of nature and the ancient wisdom of creating with earth.

Ari’s design philosophy is anchored in functional ceramics with a minimalist restrained aesthetic. Her ceramic practice, encompasses both, hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques, often exposing parts of raw clay in her finished wares. Ari has established a small studio space in her home in the Adelaide Hills and continues to dream of it becoming a place for others to experience the healing nature of creating with clay.

About the Program:

Each year The Mill presents a series of SALA Masterclasses with prominent South Australian artists. We invite practicing artists and creatives to participate, offering the opportunity to grow their practice through learning new skills, connecting with peers and developing insight into professional artists practice.

The Mill's Masterclass program runs throughout the year as a professional development program for artists, offering workshops with established international and national touring artists in both performance and visual arts. These diverse sessions draw South Australian artists into global conversations around aesthetic, performance and creative practice.

Other Masterclasses this SALA:

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The Mill is supported by the South Australian government through Arts South Australia

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The Mill's 2021 artistic program is proudly supported by BankSA Foundation

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Masterclass: Crafting Guitars with Jordan Reynolds this SALA

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Jordan in the studio, photo:

Image: Jordan in the studio, photo:

When: Saturday, August 21, 2021

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

Time: 10:30am-3:30pm

Cost: $375 + booking fee

Places limited to four participants, don’t miss out!

Accessibility: Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility information page.

About the Workshop:

Have you dabbled in guitar making, but want to know a bit more? If you know the basics and you’re looking for some in depth knowledge Jordan Reynolds welcomes you to join him for an intimate day long masterclass exploring the craft of guitars.

What Participants Can Expect:

Taking place in his studio at The Mill, Jordan will take participants through the 8 steps of guitar making with hand-on and skills based tutorials throughout the day. Participants will learn about the materials and tools used in the guitar making process, and will have the opportunity to shape the neck of a guitar.

Participants will take home a goody bag including a specialised guitar shaping tool.

This masterclass is hands on, and involves practical and skills based making. However, it is not a masterclass in building a finished guitar. Stay tuned for guitar building courses from Jordan in 2022.

Some basic knowledge required.

Tea and light refreshments provided.

About the artist:

Jordan is the premier maker of musical instruments in Adelaide, specialising in extended range guitars and basses, handmade to order. He not only makes instruments, but has also serviced the Adelaide guitar scene for over a decade in repair, servicing and customising. Jordan has crafted a unique style bringing modern design and traditional techniques together to make one off instruments designed to last the test of time.

Having studied as a furniture maker whilst completing the first ever Guitar Making Apprenticeship in Australia, Jordan brings a different approach to Instrument construction to other Luthiers.
Focusing on instruments that not only look the part, but also sound and feel premium, and most importantly designed to withstand the harsh Australian climate and conditions of working musicians 

Valuing the local artisan scene, Jordan also works with other makers and artists every year to create one off instruments combining his own style and construction with other’s aesthetics and medium.

Jordan’s guitars have toured every continent of the world, and won features in multiple makers exhibitions and festivals. He has been a guest speaker at the International Guitar Festival and runs personalised classes on guitar making, with a big belief that education and transparency can only bring more creativity and push makers of all kinds to strive for perfection and innovation.

About the Program:

Each year The Mill presents a series of SALA Masterclasses with prominent South Australian artists. We invite practicing artists and creatives to participate, offering the opportunity to grow their practice through learning new skills, connecting with peers and developing insight into professional artists practice.

The Mill's Masterclass program runs throughout the year as a professional development program for artists, offering workshops with established international and national touring artists in both performance and visual arts. These diverse sessions draw South Australian artists into global conversations around aesthetic, performance and creative practice.

Other Masterclasses this SALA:

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The Mill is supported by the South Australian government through Arts South Australia

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The Mill's 2021 artistic program is proudly supported by BankSA Foundation.

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SALA Workshop: Evie Hassiotis, ‘Explore Your Creative Spirit’

chloe metcalfe ·

Painting: Venus Liberated by Evie Hassiotis

Painting: Venus Liberated by Evie Hassiotis

Workshop

When: Saturday, August 15 and Sunday, August 16, 2020, 1-4pm

Where: Exhibition Space, The Mill

Cost: $150, materials provided

Presented by The Mill, in partnership with SALA Festival 2020.

About The Workshop:

Participants will be guided through a process of letting go of certain ideas about what art practice is and through a series of increments will explore their own creativity. No experience required, all welcome!

The workshop will give participants the opportunity to use various mediums and become comfortable with them and to explore techniques to create texture on their art work using various materials such as silicone, sand, tissue paper, card board etc.

Evie will give people the choice to paint what they see in the physical world or to express their inner landscape. Individual processes and ideas will be encouraged through the workshop.

What Participants Can Expect:

On the first day they will explore working with:

  • Colour mixing (water colour paint)

  • Working with pastels and ink

  • Still life exercise using pastels and water colour

  • Experimenting with texture

On the second day they will have the opportunity to become familiar with acrylic on paper and canvas, and to explore its versatility and further explore techniques working with texture. Participants will take home at least one piece of art created that they will feel proud of.

Materials provided:

  • A3 paper

  • A1 cartridge paper 

  • Watercolour paper

  • Oil pastels   

  • Chalky pastels

  • Watercolour

  • Inks 

  • Acrylics 

  • Small canvas

  • Silicone, tissue paper, sand, cardboard etc - textures

Artist Biography:

Evie Hassiotis is an Adelaide based artist who works intuitively with textures and mixed media, photography and improvised dance. Evie believes in the potential of art to emotionally heal the human soul and to promote spiritual growth in the art practitioner and in the viewer. Improvised movement together with her art practice have been an avenue to express spirituality, creativity and art as a healing practice.

Evie began her art studies while living in Sydney in 1995 at the Bondi Road Art School. These classes ignited her enthusiasm for the visual arts and she is indebted to her inspiring tutors at Bondi for guiding her into the world of art. In 2019 she undertook Life Drawing classes at Central School of Art. She joined The Mill as a studio artist in February 2019 and has continued her develop her art practice there, including hosting regular open studio events as well as conducting art workshops for beginners and those people who want to tap into their latent creativity.

Evie has worked as a facilitator of art workshops for adults, including those living with dementia and has experience working with people in residential and community care. In her workshops she creates a space for participants to express themselves without fear of judgment and encourages participants to reveal their inner landscape using a variety of media. She currently works in a primary school with 5-9 year old students with learning challenges

Evie is currently working on an exhibition Xenitia, to be shown at The Mill during SALA 2020. Xenitia, meaning exile, explores the theme of migration of children and their families and centres around Evie’s experience of migrating to Australia from Greece in 1964 when she was 6 years old. The exhibition will include installation of handmade dolls, film and mixed media artworks.

Evie has exhibited as part of the Mitcham Art Prize, Victor Harbor Art Show, Walkerville Art Exhibition, SALA 2019 at Gallery One and at The Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre as well as hosting exhibitions from her home studio and her studio at The Mill.