You can find Hamish and Juliane’s work inThe Mill Showcase 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.
Note: Please arrive at 5:45pm arrival for a 6pm sharp start. This event will be 1 hour (including the Q&A).
This showing and Q&A will be held in The Mill Breakout. Please come to the Exhibition Space at 154 Angas Street, the bar will be open to grab a drink before we take you through to The Breakout.
Please arrive at 5:45pm arrival for a 6pm sharp start.
This event will be 1 hour (including the Q&A).
Accessibility
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.
If you have questions or would like to talk to one of The Mill team contact info@themilladelaide.com
Grim Grinning Ghosts is looking to experiment with different combinations of Alix Kuijpers' performance practices to create a unique lived experience. In a one-of-a-kind choreographic séance, the audience will be guided into the afterlife of those living, and deceased.
Alix's queer based cross disciplinary exploration of interactive theatrical elements, sound design and choreographic exploration are the core pillars of this new work. This solo work is asking audiences to come and experience a full spectrum of emotion derived from campy theme park attractions, personal loss and missed connections.
Alix will also be bringing this development to life with the assistance of the talented Alchemy Collective.
The showing will be followed by a short Q&A with Alix, hosted by The Mill CEO / Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff. Audiences will have the opportunity to ask questions about the development and provide feedback about the performance.
Alix Kuijpers is an emerging freelance choreographer and sound designer whose queer based work has garnered a strong reputation for creating contemporary dance in South Australia. Kuijpers’ notable achievements include becoming the first dance honours student at a South Australian institution, receiving first-class honours from Flinders University for his solo work IMMATERIAL.
Alix recently spent time in the USA and Europe participating in major dance festivals such as B12 and Orsolina 28 and working with practitioners such as Jacob Jonas the Company and Thar Be Dragons. His most notable sonic commissions include creating the sound score for Motus Collective’s work The Leftovers in 2022 and again in 2023, he also created the score for METTLE by Circus SA and for Ceremonial by Amelia Watson, which premiered at the ResiDanza di Primavera in Italy.
In 2023, Kuijpers was awarded a Best Dance weekly award for his Adelaide Fringe debut ‘i know the end’ and later in the season received the coveted Emerging Artist Award for Fringe 2023.
Alix is passionate about representing as a South Australian artist and champions the emerging artist voice through his roles and initiatives as Dance Hub SA's 2023 Associate Artist and as one of Carclew’s 2023 Sharehouse Residents.
The Mill’s Writer in Residence program, in partnership with CityMag, supports emerging writers from a variety of disciplines. The program creates a broader audience for writing through leadership, mentorship and publication.
One 12-month residency in The Mill’s CBD studios is offered per year, culminating in four pieces of commissioned writing by the recipient and support from CityMag and The Mill. The program also includes a $1,500 fee plus 11% super for a personal project and aims to assist emerging writers in developing connections and exploring opportunities to collaborate with The Mill’s community.
Work funded under this program may include, but is not limited to, creative essays, creative nonfiction and storytelling, artist profiles and response to art and exhibitions.
The residency for 2024 will run from January to December.
Jim Plouffe is the Chief of Staff at InDaily and CityMag.
His three decades in media has spanned everything from freelancing in Indonesia during the fall of Suharto to being the Editor-in-Chief of Reader’s Digest Asia in Singapore to establishing The Lead South Australia for Solstice Media in Adelaide.
He’s passionate about magazines, and a story well told – no matter the medium.
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
The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta
$30 (+ 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.
Work with actor and mask performer, Jacob Rajan, to discover what it is to act at the level of mask.
What to expect:
Participants will work with Indian Ink’s own mask collection of Balinese Topeng masks to enable them to experience, through exercises, games and improvisation, the truth of the actor’s actions and the essence of theatricality. Participants should wear comfortable clothes they can move in.
Experience level:
Ideal for acting/theatre students and/or professionals wanting to develop mask work skills.
Jacob is a founding partner of Indian Ink and co-wrote all of Indian Ink’s plays as well as performing in many of them.
He is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama school, Otago University (B.Sc Microbiology) and Wellington Teacher’s College. Jacob is an Arts Foundation Laureate and a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to theatre.
Indian Ink is one of New Zealand’s most successful theatre companies. Founded by Justin Lewis and Jacob Rajan (MNZM) over 25 years ago, it has generated 13 national and international awards, critical acclaim, standing ovations and sell out seasons. Since 1997 over 510,000 people have had their lives enriched by their original plays.
Alongside a whānau of multi-talented artists, Indian Ink creates vibrant, fresh, culturally diverse theatre that combines artful storytelling, mischievous wit and theatrical magic in a way that celebrates our differences but connects us through our shared humanity. This truly unique style promotes community and fosters empathy in audiences across cultures.
Led by Kuik Swee Boon, Founder and Artistic Director of T.H.E Dance Company, the workshop will include improvisational prompts and tools to guide participants to arrive at nuanced states of physical and physiological connectedness.
About HollowBody:
HollowBody™️ is the signature methodology and movement philosophy advocated by founding artistic director and main choreographer of Singapore’s T.H.E Dance Company, Kuik Swee Boon; it is the current methodology with which the dance artists at T.H.E train. Neither a mere movement aesthetic nor an existential state of being, it is an experiential process, utilising improvisational tools to guide practitioners towards a heightened physiological awareness that resonates in their movement choice, approach, and expression.
HollowBody™️ is based on the understanding of the body as the foundation of our world. As a vessel for thoughts, emotions and energy, our embodied experiences and knowledge transcend language and logic. The HollowBody™️ methodology seeks to establish in its practitioner a level of trust and access that can surface these deep impulses and needs, and unearth an innate connectivity between mind, heart, and body. With the practitioner’s curiosities, potential, and limitations becoming wholly available to themselves, self-understanding and creative expression unfold.
Today, long-term practice of the HollowBody™️ methodology has fed naturally into T.H.E’s creation and performance voice. We at T.H.E believe that with HollowBody™️, dance and movement can be embraced as a fundamental pillar in life that offers a deep connection to the body, and in turn, the world.
What to expect:
Participants will be given improvisational prompts and tools, guided to listen to their instinct and impulses, and to rediscover movement as a unique expression and identity.
Experience level:
Suitable for professional and semi-professional dance artists, dancers, full-time dance students aged 18 and above, and movement enthusiasts who are comfortable with improvisation.
The Human Expression (T.H.E) Dance Company was founded in 2008 by Artistic Director Kuik Swee Boon. Rooted firmly in Singapore yet universal in its perspective, T.H.E's contemporary dance works reveal the body as a medium for exploring and celebrating the human condition.
Dance artists at T.H.E are immersed in the Company's signature methodology, HollowBody™️, which guides them to access their deeper instincts and impulses through movement. The Company's movement vocabulary is distinct in its intensely personal aesthetics, yet thrilling in its diversity. Driven by a sincere desire to uncover the intricate, complex and oft-times overlooked dimensions of human existence, the Company's incisive observations on the human condition and its original creations are an essential mirror to the issues and rhythms of contemporary life.
As one of Singapore's seminal contemporary dance companies, T.H.E has performed and toured at many major and prestigious festivals in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, India, France, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Latvia, United Arab Emirates, Australia, and New Zealand.
Based on its vision of contemporary dance as a medium for nurturing human potential, T.H.E has also actively initiated numerous platforms to engage young artists and the wider public. Since it was founded, the Company also started its semi-professional wing, T.H.E Second Company, which identifies and mentors dance artists who aspire to reach a professional standard of contemporary dance. In 2010, T.H.E also founded the cont·act Contemporary Dance Festival (previously known as the M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival) – the country's first annual contemporary dance festival to showcase local and international artists. The Company also regularly runs public classes, workshops, and customised programmes for schools and the community.
Kuik Swee Boon Founder and Artistic Director of T.H.E Dance Company (est. 2008) and its annual cont·act Contemporary Dance Festival (est. 2010), Kuik Swee Boon danced in Compañia Nacional de Danza (CND) from 2002—2007, performing in works by renowned choreographers such as Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian, and Ohad Naharin. Prior to CND, he danced in Singapore People’s Association Dance Company and Singapore Dance Theatre. A 2007 Young Artist Award recipient, he was nominated for the Benois De La Danse Award in 2003, and selected for the 2021—2023 Fellowship Programme with the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA).
Under Swee Boon’s direction, T.H.E has become a seminal dance company that trains in his HollowBody™️ methodology, with a repertoire of works that has toured many international festivals. Even when the pandemic hit, his 360° virtual reality adaptation of PheNoumenon (2019), amongst other digital projects, made its rounds to Italy and Israel in 2021. Most recently, he was commissioned by Esplanade’s da:ns festival 2022 to create Infinitely Closer, which also marked the opening of the new Singtel Waterfront Theatre.
Kuik Swee Boon
Founder and Artistic Director of T.H.E Dance Company (est. 2008) and its annual cont·act Contemporary Dance Festival (est. 2010), Kuik Swee Boon danced in Compañia Nacional de Danza (CND) from 2002—2007, performing in works by renowned choreographers such as Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian, and Ohad Naharin. Prior to CND, he danced in Singapore People’s Association Dance Company and Singapore Dance Theatre. A 2007 Young Artist Award recipient, he was nominated for the Benois De La Danse Award in 2003, and selected for the 2021—2023 Fellowship Programme with the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA).
Under Swee Boon’s direction, T.H.E has become a seminal dance company that trains in his HollowBody™️ methodology, with a repertoire of works that has toured many international festivals. Even when the pandemic hit, his 360° virtual reality adaptation of PheNoumenon (2019), amongst other digital projects, made its rounds to Italy and Israel in 2021. Most recently, he was commissioned by Esplanade’s da:ns festival 2022 to create Infinitely Closer, which also marked the opening of the new Singtel Waterfront Theatre.
Exhibition opening: Friday, October 27, 5:30-7:30pm
Finissage: Friday December 1, 4:30-6:30pm
The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Free entry, all welcome
You can find Hamish and Juliane’s work inThe Mill Showcase 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.
The Mill is excited to present a new Showcase exhibition featuring work by Hamish Fleming and Juliane Brandt. Hamish’s oil paintings are moody and evocative, capturing narrative elements within his life - studio still life’s, discarded studies on the green velvet chaise lounge, the artist's shoes. Juliane’s sculptural work situates small clay figures and busts as the head of burnt matches, speaking about the power of fire to burn, but also to regenerate.
The Mill Showcase is a gallery space dedicated to artists who work in studio spaces at our Angas Street location, exhibiting some of the artworks that have been produced under our roof. The Mill Showcase profiles our artists, so that you can put a face to the name and get to know some of our dedicated makers.
Hamish Fleming is a contemporary realist painter currently based in Adelaide (Kaurna Country). Fleming is self-taught, working both with and against the long-standing traditions of realism. 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.
Artist Statement
My practice draws upon many influences, ranging from the classical masters and post-modernism, to gothic and dirty realism literature. I work solely from life, to convey the subtler elements of the human experience through frequently mundane subject matter.
Juliane Brandt is a figurative sculptor, her artworks are an invitation for the viewer to engage and discover intricate facial expressions that visualise an interaction with the surroundings.
Born in Berlin, Germany, and based in Adelaide since 2022, Juliane´s work evolved from a long process of studies and experiments formed by different influences. Throughout her life, she was able to experiment with many different materials and artistic forms, further developing her skills by gaining extensive practical experience during her Art & Design studies in Berlin and London.
Juliane has presented her art in various exhibitions across Europe. Her artwork is on permanent display in different venues and also found in private collections. In 2023, she received a People’s Choice Award at the ‘Sculpture in the Garden’ Exhibition at Wollongong Botanic Garden, NSW.
Artist Statement
The Enlightened by Nature Series represents the celebration of life and nature through subtle expressions that become evident upon closer inspection.
My work draws attention to the fragility of nature and the ability to regenerate when given the opportunity and place. Fire management, known as ‘cultural burning’, is part of how First Nations people protect their land, plants and animals. Controlled fires allow the land to rejuvenate and many plants to thrive.
Symbolised by a simple tool – a matchstick – that becomes truly unique once it is lit, this piece of art celebrates the natural life cycle, the way we exist, interact and adapt to our environment – the foundation for the diversity of nature. They received a People’s Choice Award at the ‘Sculpture in the Garden’ Exhibition at Wollongong Botanic Garden in 2023.
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 inThe 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.
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.
You can find Gulayí inThe 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.
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.
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.
This Virtual Gallery includes exhibition photography and social photography from the opening night and the live stream of Yasemin’s artist talk.
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.
Photo: Daniel Marks
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.
Social photos: Daniel Marks
Yasemin Sabuncu was the recipient of The Mill’s Mahmood Martin Foundation Sponsored Studio for the January-June residency in 2023.
You can find Gulayí inThe 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.
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.
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
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
The Centre Stage Residency at The Mill will progress a new work presented by Alix Kuijpers to its next stage of development, including a work-in-progress public showing and culminating in a season at The Mill as part of Adelaide Fringe 2024.
Alix Kuijpers is an emerging freelance choreographer and sound designer whose queer based work has garnered a strong reputation for creating contemporary dance in South Australia.
Kuijpers’ notable achievements include becoming the first dance honours student at a South Australian institution, receiving first-class honours from Flinders University for his solo work IMMATERIAL. Alix recently spent time in the USA and Europe participating in major dance festivals such as B12 and Orsolina 28 and working with practitioners such as Jacob Jonas the Company and Thar Be Dragons. His most notable sonic commissions include creating the sound score for Motus Collectives’ work The Leftovers in 2022 and again in 2023, he also created the score for METTLE by Circus SA and for Ceremonial by Amelia Watson, which premiered at the ResiDanza di Primavera in Italy.
In 2023, Kuijpers was awarded a Best Dance weekly award for his Adelaide Fringe debut ‘i know the end’ and later in the season received the coveted Emerging Artist Award for Fringe 2023.
Alix is passionate about representing as a South Australian artist and champions the emerging artist voice through his roles and initiatives as Dance Hub SA's 2023 Associate Artist and as one of Carclew’s 2023 Sharehouse Residents.
The Mill is seeking an enthusiastic and skilled Finance Officer to join its small team.
The Finance Officer is a key member of The Mill team. The Finance Officer’s role is accountable to the CEO/Artistic Director, General Manager and The Mill Board, for delivery of financial management and reporting.
This role works in close collaboration with the CEO/Artistic Director, General Manager and The Mill accountants. Key responsibilities for the Finance Officer is to manage; payroll, accounts receivable, reconciliation of accounts, ATO payments, ROCO reporting, financial board reports and updates of organisational budgets through Xero.
Please read the attached Job Description thoroughly before applying.
Applications close: Friday, September 15, 2023, 9:30am
Interviews: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 between 12pm - 4.30pm
Position starts: Week of September 25, September 29 handover day
We require a one-page cover letter and up-to-date CV to be sent to The Mill's CEO/Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff at your earliest convenience: director@themilladelaide.com
Photo: Luke Currie-Richardson and Tjarutja Dance Collective.
The Mill is facilitating a series of professional development workshops at The Mill, Adelaide, with dance industry leaders from BlakDance QLD.
Workshop 1: Intro Yarn, April 21
Getting to know each other, discussing each others practice/creative goals, about BlakDance, the organisations history, programs, how we operate and work with artists.
Workshop 2: Business Basics for Independent Artists, April 28
Business Basics for Independent Artists - the decision to set up as a business, minimum things needed to apply for funding, enter contracts etc, auspicing vs self-managed.
Workshop 3: The First Nations Dance Ecology, July 28, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
A workshop on how new work is funded and developed, overview of the sector, who is making work, where is it being produced, the different business models/structures in which artists are making work e.g. independents, companies and collectives presented. BlakDance will be delivering this workshop online from Brisbane.
Workshop 4: Managing Cultural Protocols, September 8, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Merindah Donnelly (Wiradjuri) Co-CEO & Executive Producer and Kate Eltham Co-CEO & Business Director from BlakDance will be facilitating the workshop and will have guest speaker Olivia Adams (Wulli Wulli) who is Associate Producer and Associate Artist at Blakdance.
Workshop 5: Grant Writing/Producing skills, November 3, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Co-CEO & Business Director Kate Eltham from BlakDance will be leading this workshop about grant writing and producing skills.
Bulareyaung Dance Company dancers will share what they have learned from indigenous Paiwan tribes including ancient daily chants.
What to expect:
Participants will have the chance to explore their physicality while singing and incorporating body movements.
Experience level:
Recommended for 18 yrs and above, no prior experience required.
The Bulareyaung Dance Company was founded in 2015 in Taitung by Bulareyaung Pagarlava, an indigenous choreographer from Taiwan. Creation of dance pieces and dancer training are accomplished by working in the mountains and singing old chants by the waterside. Dancers develop unique body movements and vocabulary by delving into their indigenous heritage and culture through regular field trips.
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
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.
You can find Yasemin Sabuncu’s Alchemical inThe 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.
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.
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.
