Exhibition opening: Friday, February 9, 5:30-7:30pm
The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Free entry, all welcome
You can find Multiverse inThe Mill’s Gallery II, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).
Gallery II is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.
Accessibility
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
The Mill is excited to present Multiverse, a new exhibition by Adelaide-based artist Liliana Pasalic. This exhibition presents a selection of new tapestries in tufted yarn on monk cloth. The work builds on Liliana’s former career in industrial design, as well as her practice in the visual arts, including painting. She skillfully uses the three-dimensional tufting in a way that is suggestive of abstract painting, combining positive and negative space with an adept use of colour and texture. She has also included a large tapestry-and-light-based installation pushing the medium to new and contemporary realms. The work draws on Liliana’s knowledge of contemporary and historical textile and tapestry practices, and imbues seriousness alongside humour in her art.
Multiverse explores the translation of visual cultural material into tapestry. I have collected a lot of photographic source materials of pasted-up posters in the urban environments of the three cities where I have lived: Adelaide, London and Zagreb. Within these photographs I find and extract motifs, formed by the ripped posters, degraded by weather and also remnant graphic elements. This exhibition is a woven visual library, an attempt to alchemize my familiar psychologically mapped home environments into one visual poem. I invite the viewer to observe urban debris in their own immediate environments and hopefully be inspired to use it in their creative projects. This body of work is a continuation of my previous work in broader themes of home and crossing borders between mediums. The exhibition aims to offer a contemporary take on non-traditional/neglected mediums of contemporary tapestry and contemporary painting. For this exhibition I am using only compostable materials of wool, wood and cotton monk cloth, which is in alignment with environmental aspects of The Mill's vision. The exhibition is one possible way of blurring disciplines and mediums and contemplating history of art.
Liliana Pasalic has a background and formal education in industrial design, which organically transmuted into a full-time art practice over the last decade. Her practice centers on painting and tapestry while drawing from design recollections and blurring the boundaries between these vaguely intertwined forms. Pasalic’s work delves into art history, identity, the subconscious and relationships. Occupying the realm between abstraction and figuration, it references women’s roles, stereotypical suburban depictions, and iconic symbols infused with her individual outlook, both as creator and observer. Over the last 20 years she has exhibited design and artwork in solo and group shows around the world, including Zagreb, Ljubljana, New York, Bruxelles, Vienna, Adelaide, Jerusalem, Canberra. Pasalic is represented by Studio Gallery in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and The Nada Gallery in Sydney. In 2023 she was a resident in The Mill as well as chosen as a finalist in the National Capital Art Prize in Canberra.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
You can find Gulayi and Annealed Bone inThe Mill Exhibition Spaces, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).
The Exhibition Space is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.
Accessibility
The Mill has two entrances, the main entrance on the corner of Angas and Gunson Street and an accessible entrance further down Angas Street.
Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.
The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.
The Mill invites you to join us for the closing event of Gulayi by Chantal Helnley and Alice Hu's 柔韧的骨头 (Annealed Bone) and join Alice for a chat about her work.
The Mill, Adelaide, is seeking new volunteer Members to join the Board.
What is The Mill?
Since 2013 The Mill has built a community where artists and audiences connect to generate new ideas, have exciting insights, and develop a broad appreciation of the significant contribution the arts make to the vibrancy and future of South Australia (SA).
In 2023, The Mill achieved the considerable milestone of 10 years in operation, solidifying its reputation as a visionary and inclusive organisation with an artistic program that provides national impact. Each year The Mill supports and presents over 1,000 artists and creatives from diverse backgrounds and at all stages of their careers.
The Mill’s multipurpose venue combines artist studios and creative workspaces, two galleries, a performing arts space, photography studio and tools workshop. In April 2023, The Mill expanded from 39 to 57 studios and is now home to over 60 independent artists, makers and creative businesses. This thriving creative center strengthens the SA arts sector through the sharing of knowledge, skills and networks; and by enabling and encouraging creatives to practice in Adelaide.
Is this for you?
We are seeking individuals who can strengthen the work of The Mill’s Board with their professional skills and experience. You will join a focused Board keen to share their passion for The Mill with you and draw on the guidance you bring in your expertise.
We are specifically seeking people with the following professional experience:
Professional independent practising artists
Arts workers with experience working with government
The Mill actively supports diversity at all levels of the organisation and we encourage applications from First Nations peoples, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, and people with a disability.
For further details contact CEO Katrina Lazaroff on 0406 991 330 or director@themilladelaide.com for a confidential conversation.
To submit an EOI please include a 1 page cover letter outlining why you think you would be interested and suitable for the role and a CV including 3 referees.
The Mill’s vision is for a thriving and prosperous arts culture in South Australia.
Positions Requirements
The board supports the work of The Mill and provide vision-based leadership and strategic governance. While day-to-day operations are led by the paid management team, the board relationship is a partnership, and the appropriate involvement of the Board is both critical and expected. Specific board member responsibilities include:
Leadership, governance, and oversight (all members)
Strategic planning - set and review the short-, medium- and long-term goals of the organisation in consultation with key stakeholders
Financial oversight including:
o Approve budgets; monitor business performance;
Approve large investments and any major financial decisions; and
Ensure there is accurate financial reporting.
Legal compliance - ensure that the organisation complies with all aspects of the law, including legislation covering such areas as ACNC governance, employment, trading, and occupational health and safety.
Risk - ensure major risks are identified and managed.
Organisational performance - monitor management and organisational performance.
Serving as a trusted advisor to the management team as they implement The Mills strategic plan.
Reviewing agenda and supporting materials prior to board and committee meetings.
Being informed of, and meeting all, legal and fiduciary responsibilities.
Assisting the Chair and Company Secretary in identifying and recruiting other Board Members.
Partnering with board members to ensure that board resolutions are carried out.
Serving on committees and taking on assignments.
Review job descriptions and complete self-evaluation on individual and board performance annually.
Fundraising, advocating, and communication (all members)
Stakeholder relations - identify key stakeholders, build relationships, communicate, and seek stakeholder views on strategic direction.
Promote The Mill as positive ambassadors externally and role modelling internally.
Identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major individual donors, grants, corporate, and/ or foundation gifts.
Board terms and participation
The Mill’s board members will serve a three-year term to be eligible for re-appointment for one additional term. Board meetings are held at least four times a year supported by and Annual General Meeting.
Qualifications, Skills and Attributes
This is an extraordinary opportunity for an individual who is passionate about The Mill’s vision and who has a track record of arts leadership. Selected board members will have achieved leadership stature in the arts, business, government, philanthropy, or the non-profit sector.
Ideal candidates will have the following qualifications, skills, and attributes:
Extensive professional experience with leadership experience in the arts, business, government, philanthropy, legal, property, community or the non-profit sector.
A commitment to and understanding of The Mill’s stakeholders, preferably based on experience.
Savvy diplomatic skills and a natural affinity for cultivating relationships and persuading, convening, facilitating, and building consensus among diverse individuals.
• Personal qualities of integrity, judgment, sound decision making, and credibility.
The ability to think strategically, critically, creatively, laterally, and analytically.
Management skills such as financial management, legal, governance and risk management.
A passion for improving the arts in South Australia.
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
Gaslighting, manipulation, cliques, performative activism, lies, rumours and ruining reputations.
How far will we go to get ahead? Do we care about who we destroy along the road to “success”?
She's Evil touches on the pressures that are placed on young people who are breaking their way into the work industry and what they think they have to do to be accepted whether that be shrinking themselves to fit the mould or not speaking up or taking charge because they are afraid of being labeled as a bitch, difficult, a liability or ‘Evil’.
Because that's just the way it is right?
Taylor will be collaborating with an outstanding cast of local creatives - Jamie Hornsby, Felicity Boyd and Max Garcia-Underwood. This project is fueled with passion and with the help of this amazing team they will be able to create something special.
Content warning:
Mental Health, Talk of Suicide and Sexual Assualt/Harassment.
Taylor Nobes is a professionally trained actor, singer & theatre maker based in South Australia and a 2019 graduate from Adelaide College of the Arts. Taylor has a passion for creating innovative art with elements of music, dark comedy and physical theatre, with a strong focus on mental health awareness.
Taylor has worked and collaborated with BRINK Productions on The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2021) and performed in FRANK Theatres’ Chameleon (2020) and then again as part of the SALT Festival in 2021.
Taylor’s original work Does It Please You? debuted as part of the Adelaide Fringe 2021 and was the recipient of the week 4 Best Emerging Artist Award and was the winner of The Holden Street Theatres Award for 2021. The remounted version of Does it Please You? played its latest season as part of the Adelaide Fringe 2022 at Holden Street Theatres.
Taylor’s most recent work MUSIC & YOU - Cabaret’s Not Really My Thing (2023) was a recipient of an Adelaide Fringe Best Cabaret Award.
Taylor was part of Windmill Theatres national tour of Hiccup July - August 2023.
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 柔韧的骨头 [Annealed Bone], a new Showcase exhibition by previous studio resident Alice Hu. The exhibition features new work in ceramic, glass and metal, some of which have been developed by Alice while she undertook the George Street Studio Residency, supported by Helpmann Academy.
Alice’s multi-disciplinary practice is conceptually and materially rich, exploring themes of immigration, acculturation and complex understandings of self. Sculptural works offer the comfort of familiar materials, smooth ceramic and glistening glass. However, Alice reframes materiality through sometimes strange assemblages, de-and-re-constructions, and a complex aesthetic unique to her practice.
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.
Alice Hu is an emerging artist with an Honours of Contemporary Art and Design, living and working on Kaurna Land, Adelaide. They work across mediums including ceramics, glass, painting, tattooing, and installation, drawing from lived experiences to explore concepts of multiculturalism, equality, freedom, life and nature. Her current practice is deeply influenced by her unique background and cultural art-form.
The use of ceramics stems from an interest in philosophy, childhood stories and mythologies. Alice aims to create art forms with multicultural aesthetics to promote the beauty and necessity of a diverse society while investigating how different cultures interact. Alice has participated in multiple art programs, over-sea experience and workshop across USA, Italy, New Zealand, Japan and China, and have been apart of exhibitions in Adelaide including Bridge (The Main Gallery, 2021), Kaleidoscope (Praxis Art Space, 2021), Pendulum (Nexus Arts, 2022), VASL (Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 2023) and currently has a studio residency at George Street Studio and was a studio artist at The Mill.
In my exhibition at The Mill, recycled metal and broken ceramics have found their second life together. The two distinctly different mediums has a strong character on their own and tells its unique story being together that forms a life and journey. The work has been welded, and the material have been carefully arranged to create an interesting and unique aesthetic. The different shapes, textures and colours of the ceramic and metal pieces interact with each other to create a dialogue between the two materials. The combination of the two materials creates a dynamic composition that is both visually appealing and emotionally evocative, it is very inspiring and a sentimental moment to see your broken, once shattered work to be alive again.
Through the George street residency I sought to learn more skills that can help me define my concepts and to build artworks that can express my story. For my recent group exhibition, ‘Pendulum’ in Nexus Arts Gallery, I was supported by the Helpmann Academy’s Creative Boost Grant, and created several large ceramic works. As I worked on large ceramic sculptures, over 1 metre in height, I experienced lots of technical issues. It was not only a difficult process to make such large works, but I also encountered a number of problems during the drying and firing processes. One of the most unexpected, but ultimately fortuitous, outcomes was that the two large works exploded in the kiln during the firing process. It was a shocked like no other when I opened the kiln, but I then came to understand the resemblance between the broken work and my immigration experience, the world fell apart on me when I found out I had to move and leave everything I used to know behind. It was devastating, but yet an inseparable part of my life and my experience. The ceramic works were represented in the exhibition at Nexus as shattered pieces, and this process of breaking, rethinking, and “reassembling” became essential to actually ‘finishing’ the work.
As I continue to develop as an artist and a person with a multicultural background, I have learnt more about the cultural history of both countries I have called home throughout my life, China and Australia. I realised how my unique aesthetics built from my multicultural background is at the core of my practice. As much as I loved this broken work and its strong impact on me, I need to further develop this concept.
I have re-constructed myself and build works with my complex aesthetics, by combining these seemly irrelevent materials. As much as the shattering and breaking is what made this installation meaningful, it was essential for me to learn how to bring the pieces back together. I created this standing work, which acknowledges that while the pieces are still broken, they have been reassembled in reference to the re-construction of an identity after traumatizing experience or damage.
These works were created mainly with the support from my George Street Studios Residency (through Helpmann Academy )
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.
