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Exhibition: Peter Owen, Flower Punk: Permaculture for Arts'n'Craft

Adele Sliuzas ·

images: Courtesy of the artist

May 1 - June 16, 2023

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

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Peter Owen, Flower Punk: Permaculture for Arts'n'Craft in The Mill’s Showcase Space,
    located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

The Mill is excited to present Flower Punk: Permaculture for Arts'n'Craft, a debut collaborative exhibition by furniture maker and The Mill studio resident Peter Owen. Celebrating the history of repurposed materials, Peter’s work brings us back to the transformative power of the artist’s hand. Peter has collaborated with other Mill studio residents Julianne Brandt, Blake Canham-Bennett, Hamish Fleming, Eleanor Green, Evie Hassiotis, Kate O’Callaghan, Bob Window and Robyn Wood.

  • This exhibition explores art and crafts' relationship to sustainable living. My Flower Punk lamps are a celebration of hand-craft as our greatest source of renewable energy. Beneath the logic of mass production, third world exploitation, and in competition with improperly costed fossil fuels, we have lost sight of the efficiency and beauty in skilled work. The Flower Punk's joy and guiding principle is found in every opportunity to celebrate the maker over the machine.

    My lamp series has developed from an expression of my craft, into an opportunity to collaborat. I have worked with fellow artists to create works, some of which have become the lampshade and others the lamp base. I want to dazzle the audience with the creative possibilities of sustainable culture!

  • After his first love of music and philosophy resulted in a decade of stage-hand work at the Sydney Opera House, Peter realised his creative outlet in the end wasn't the ephemeral arts, but carpentry and craft. What has followed has been an eventful career as a furniture maker, both doing commissions and as workshop manager for The Bower - a Sydney not for profit focused on principles of reuse and repair. Having recently moved to Adelaide, Peter has stationed himself at The Mill to now focus on his flower punk lamps: A series inspired by the permaculture movement, by taking their principles and methodology in the garden and applying it to art and craft. These lamps, made from mostly repurposed materials, will illuminate on the theme of our two great solar powers - greenery (photosynthesis) and human labour. Key to Peter's philosophy is that it will be from the arts that we can find the subtle knowledge necessary to redress our societies in the face of climate change.

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

    The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

    Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

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

 

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Expand: Make|Shift Exhibition

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image credit: Inneke Taal

July 8 - 28, 2023

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

Free entry

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

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

    Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm

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

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

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

 
Featured
Expand: Make|Shift Artist Talk
 

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

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

    -Margie Medlin

  • Spirit Shelf

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

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

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

  • T = I/I0 Transmittance

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

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

  • marine_digital_conservation_SA_2023.exe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    The before the event.

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

  • With/In

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

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

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

    Artistic & Curatorial Facilitator:

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

    Artistic Mentorship and Professional Development:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

    Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

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

 
 
 


Illuminate Adelaide are the presenting partner for Make|Shift.

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

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

 
 
 

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Exhibition: Surviving the Sunset

Adele Sliuzas ·

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

April 4 - 15, 2023

Launch event: Tuesday April 4, 4-6pm

Free entry, all welcome

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

    Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

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

 

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Exhibition: Snug Diaries, Tikari Rigney

Adele Sliuzas ·

Artwork: Tikari Rigney

February 6 - March 24, 2023

Opening event: Friday, February 10, 6-8pm

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

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

    Gallery II is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.

    Accessibility

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

    Both doors are locked from the outside, there is a doorbell on the main door that will alert The Mill team. They will meet you at the accessible entrance to welcome you into the building.

    The Mill has concrete flooring throughout with no internal steps and a disability toilet on site.

    Read more in-depth information on our accessibility web page.

The Mill is thrilled to present a new solo exhibition titled ‘Snug Diaries’ by Tikari Rigney. Kaurna, Narrungga and Ngarrindjeri visual artist and poet Tikari has developed this body of work during their 6-month Sponsored Studio Residency at The Mill in 2022, a new initiative supported by the Mahmood Martin Foundation. Snug Diaries is a sensory and tactile environment that encourages audiences to ponder the complexities of human experience. The exhibition includes soft ‘bodies’, made from textile scraps that have been machine and hand embroidered with Tikari’s poetry. The undulating forms are friendly and inviting to touch, providing a unique sensory experience for audiences. Yet, the words in both English and First Nations languages (Kaurna, Narrungga and Ngarrindjeri) explore Tikari’s experiences and challenges navigating queer, Aboriginal, non-binary identities.

The recently formed Solidarity Collective, facilitated by Tikari, have also contributed to the exhibition, with an installation of objects, performance and poetry. The emphasis on peer learning and multidisciplinary collaboration within this project create a profound sense of community and care.

  • I would like to acknowledge Snug Diaries at The Mill is on Kaurna land, my grandmother’s land. I feel grateful to the Kaurna community for looking after Country, this land for thousands of years and proud that I am part of the oldest living culture in the world. Sovereignty was never ceded, always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

    Snug Diaries is a culmination of works that highlight anti-monolith identities and explores the consistent changing and emotions of navigating identity. 

    I have to acknowledge and thank members of the Solidarity Collective as their sharing helped shape this exhibition and my practice as a whole.

    These poems are like diary entries, thoughts, emotions, bodily challenges documented and try to understand myself. Difficult, sometimes painfully honest insights into my identity yet comforted by the textures of flowing fabric and the hug of soft forms. I encourage you to touch, cuddle with the works, feel solace and familiarity in their fleshy humanoid forms. I hope my writing exploring my daily challenges with my mental health, First Nations culture, queerness and non-binary identity brings solidarity to folks in these communities and learning and empathy to allies.

    Ngathu tampinthi ngaityu nakunakupinya ‘Marti Tirntu-irntu Piiparna’ Tawiwardlingka Kaurna yartangka, ngaityu ngapapiku yartangka. I acknowledge (that) my exhibition Snug Diaries at The Mill is on Kaurna land, the land of my grandmother (father’s mother)

    Yaintya yarta irdinti yarta, pukipukinangku. Yaintya yarta irdinti yarta muinmurningutha tarrkarri-arra. This land is sovereign land, from long ago. This land will continue to be sovereign land into the future.

    Marti Tirntu-irntu Piiparnapira About the Snug Diaries

    Yaintya tunki ngaityu piipa. This cloth is my book.

    Ngaityu pintyapintyanya ngatparnarli tirntu-irntu piipangka. My writings are like entries in a diary.

    Ngathu ngaityu yailtya, ngaityu muiyu, ngaityu nunupira pintyanthi ngaintipira tirkatitya. I am writing my thoughts/beliefs, my emotions (and) about my body in order to understand/learn about myself.

    Ngai muiyu, ngai yitpi, ngai tuwila, ngaityu ngutu, ngaityu mukapa, ngaityu yailtya yaintya tunkingka. My emotions, my soul, my spirit, my knowledge, my memory, my thought is in this cloth. Kurdantu, manmantu, martintu yaintya tunki. Touch, grab, embrace this fabric! Ngaityu pintyapintyanya nintaitya wangkaingku! Let my writings speak to you!

    Yaintya ngaityu tiyati warra. This is my truth.

  • Tikari Rigney is a non-binary (they/them) Kaurna, Narrunga and Ngarrindjeri visual artist and poet living and working on Kaurna land. Their process is centred around their language, identity specifically their family’s First Nations history and informed by personal challenges and experiences. Their interests are in community connection, solidarity and learning. These are explored through a range of mediums however, their practice currently is focused on textiles and fleshy anthropomorphic sculptures. 

    Tikari has been involved with several group shows and will be exhibiting their first solo exhibition at the completion of their residency at The Mill in February 2023. Their next residency is at Nexus towards the end of 2023.

 

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

 

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Exhibition: Viray Thach, Resilience

Adele Sliuzas ·

All images: Ivy Lee, @ivyleecreative

July 18 - September 16, 2022

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

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

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

Cost: Free

  • Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, access the pedestrian ramp on the corner of Gunson St. The Mill has concrete flooring throughout and a disability toilet. View more in-depth information on our accessibility page.

This SALA The Mill's Showcase space hosts Resilience, a solo exhibition by illustrator and educator Viray Thach.

The exhibition elevates the voices of sexual assault survivors and opens conversations of the commonly misunderstood topic. Viray showcases her skills as a digital illustrator, as well as exploring new techniques developed through her six month studio residency at The Mill. She is the recipient of the 2022 Sponsored Studio a new initiative in co-operation with Mahmood Martin Foundation. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue essay written by The Mill's Writer in Residence Renee Miller.

Presented with support from Mahmood Martin Foundation and Arts SA.

Content warning: This exhibition includes sensitive topics around sexual assault. Please be mindful before attending.

  • Resilience creates a safe space for healing. It’s important to create safe spaces for survivors to be able to talk about their experience, without judgement or fear. And to be able to support them. Loved ones can also step into this space and learn how to empathise and learn how to support. It can be hard to know how to support a friend who has been through something, and it’s hard to speak about something that is considered taboo.

    While developing the exhibition I’ve been able to have some open conversations. I’ve been at parties and friends have asked me about my exhibition and that has opened up a conversation about sexual assault that might not have otherwise happened. Education is an important aspect of why I am doing this, through the exhibition I am able to provide knowledge of lived experience.

    Creating the works has been part of my own healing process. It has been daunting but cathartic and has helped to release some of the shame I was feeling. Part of this has also been the conversation with other survivors, who responded to me with generosity, openness and detail. Survivors shared their stories via an online survey, which meant they could do it at their own pace. Sharing my own story helped to develop trust, I’m glad that I established a relationship with each of them that they felt safe to share. It is a privilege to be able to speak to someone I barely know about something that is sometimes a deep dark secret. It’s an honour to hold that space for them.  

    The portraits are challenging to do, a lot of my heart and soul goes into the process. But once they’re done it feels like such a service to the survivors. I hope when the subjects see their portraits that they will feel a sense of strength, hope and light, despite the heaviness of the subject. I want to reflect something that they might not see within themselves- the light and positivity, alongside the darkness.

    The lino prints were inspired by poetry and metaphor. Symbolism is something that I use a lot in my practice which has grown from training in graphic design and visual communication. The colour palette is simple but effective. Throughout the works I have used black to represent the darkness, contrasted with the shining golden light, which represents beauty despite pain. The works take you on a poetic journey to another world, a peaceful welcoming space.

    I want audiences to understand that the survivors have gone through so much, but have been able to overcome obstacles and hurdles, and as a result I want to show their strength. It is a painful type of beauty, but within this exhibition I hold space for both of these things to sit alongside each other.

  • Viray Thach is an emerging digital illustrator and educator. Her style, inspired by pop art, art deco and art nouveau, also sees deep-rooted influences from traditional Kbach ornamental designs that pay homage to her Cambodian roots. Viray’s iPad is the digital sketchbook where all the magic happens. Here, she marries the old and the new, using cybernation to recreate time-honoured textures and techniques into tactile designs that evoke a warm, homely compassion.

    Formally educated in graphic design, business management and education, Viray is not only dedicated to her role as an illustrator, but as an educator and mentor, cultivating young minds and passing her multi-creative knowledge on to creative visionaries of the next generation. She remains business-minded and efficient while still delivering work full of the heart and soul.

    At the root of it, Viray uses her art to tell a story – whether that is through character-rich portraits, lively illustrations, or bringing her mind’s eye to life through magnificent murals.

 
 

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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase, Kirsty Martinsen, 'Bodiness: Call and Response'

Adele Sliuzas ·

Artwork: Kirsty Martinsen.

May 2 - July 1, 2022

Kirsty Martinsen and Erin Fowler

Opening event: Friday May 13, 6-8pm

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

Cost: Free

  • Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, access the pedestrian ramp on the corner of Gunson St. The Mill has concrete flooring throughout and a disability toilet. View more in-depth information on our accessibility page.

The Mill Showcase is a gallery space dedicated to artists who work in our studio spaces at our Angas Street location, exhibiting some of the artworks and products 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.

This Eighth edition of The Mill Showcase, Bodiness: call and response is a collaboration between painter Kirsty Martinsen and dancer Erin Fowler. The exhibition further develops ideas begun in 2016 when Kirsty collaborated with NY-based theatre maker Erwin Maas creating a work based on the experience of ‘otherness’ as a disabled woman.

The exhibition is part retrospective, including works spanning a 21 year period, alongside new works and works in progress. This significant exhibition follows the evolution of Kirsty’s practice, from large format drawings and paintings through to recent smaller scale works and a new work to be created in situ with Kirsty using her wheelchair as a tool to draw across a working surface on the floor.

We also welcome award winning theatre-maker, dancer and singer Erin Fowler to collaborate with Kirsty in a ‘Call and Response’ performance that extends the relationship between the body, movement and gesture as explored through Kirsty’s ourve. Erin was a Co-Founder of The Mill, she and Kirsty have had a long term creative relationship since connecting here back in 2014.

  • “That tangle of limited surrender/ Is the human mire. We’re sodden in bodiness.” - Rumi, The Ground’s Generosity

    People say to me ‘you are so much more than your body!’ What does that even mean, nay look like? Living with MS has taken an emotional & psychological toll, but all people see is the physical, the body. I feel like I’ve lost who I am in a chasm of loss and grief and bureaucracy. I have had to fight to keep my spirit alive. We are all much more than our flesh. My work seeks to explore the ways in which difference is a site for connection, the body is a site for potential, and process is a site for emotional/psychological/spiritual exploration.

    My work invites audiences to consider process, gesture, scale, materiality, movement, and collaboration. Through this exploration myself and Erin will be responding to these aspects in each other’s work and locating intersections of commonality. Erin’s rich spiritual practice contributes to a dialogue about body, spirit and notions of ‘self’ which echo my exploration of Bodiness.

  • Kirsty Martinsen has had a studio at The Mill since 2014. Her practice is predominantly drawing and painting, and recently as a Writer/Director of the short documentary, Limited Surrender, with SBS and SA Film Corporation. She has a BA Visual Art from SA School of Art (UniSA) and Dip. Painting from New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, has exhibited in USA, Australia and Amsterdam, and is the recipient of awards from Richard Llewellyn Arts and Disability Trust, Arts SA, AGNSW and NY Studio School. Her short film, Breathe, won the Mercedes Matter/Ambassador Middendorf Award at X Marks The Spot: Women of The NY Studio School, the 2018 Alumni show. She teaches drawing and enjoys watching clouds.

    View short film documentary about Kirsty’s practice via SBS On Demand: Limited Surrender

    Erin Fowler is an award-winning Australian artist and producer working across dance, music, film, cabaret and theatre. As a performer, Erin blends together an eclectic mix of contemporary dance, feminine movement, clowning, cabaret and martial arts. Erin’s choreographic work includes solo works EGG (2021, Weekly Best Dance Award, Best Dance Hollywood Fringe, 2022 NZ Tour Ready Award), and FEMME, (2019 Adelaide Fringe - Best Dance Award, 2020 Adelaide Fringe – Made in Adelaide award). Other works include Gen-y (2018) commissioned for the Adelaide Dance Festival; Epoch (2016) created on Australian Dance Theatre for their Ignition season; and the acclaimed environmental dance film, Gaia (2014, 'Best Experimental' London Film Awards and Byron Bay Film Festival). Erin is a certified teacher of Qoya - a holistic movement practice for women, and is also the Co-Founder and previous Artistic Director of Adelaide arts organisation and studio, The Mill. Erin is also the founder of The Gaia Movement - a non-for-profit platform for people around the world to collectively make lasting, positive impact for the planet and climate change, through global schools’programs, tree planting, and arts projects.

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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: Supplied.

February 15 - April 14 2022

Mads Cooke, Andrew Dearman, Evie Hassiotis and Abby Potter AKA House of Campbell

Finissage

When: Friday, April 8, 5:30pm-6:30pm

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

Cost: Free

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

The Mill Showcase is a gallery space dedicated to artists who work in our studio spaces at our Angas Street location, exhibiting some of the artworks and products 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.

This Seventh edition of The Mill Showcase features work by Mads Cooke, Evie Hassiotis and Abby Potter AKA House of Campbell.

About the artists:

  • House of Campbell was launched in 2019 by South Australian designer Abby Potter. Heavily influenced by the arts, Abby creates designs that celebrate and complement modern women, allowing them to make a statement and move effortlessly. Abby is committed to sustainable designs and pioneering techniques that allow all women to tell their story. With a background in bridal and costume design as well as production, Abby brings significant experience across design, craftsmanship and styling. Abby has presented locally, including Australian Fashion Week 2021, as well as internationally, most notably her first collection which debuted at New York Fashion Week in 2019.

    House of Campbell celebrates modern femininity. Featuring timeless and sustainable designs, House of Campbell blends couture and traditional tailoring techniques with ready to wear pieces to create something bold, intricate and unforgettable. With a focus on hidden details, our designs are created and draped in-house. These pieces make a statement and are made to last, making them a treasured addition to wardrobes today and into the future. House of Campbell’s Reverie collection features local Australian dyeing houses and is crafted by South Australian seamstresses. Our designs inspire, provoke and embolden. Rather than dictate who they should be, House of Campbell removes the rules and encourages women to be whoever they want to be. 

    Abby has been working at The Mill since 2020.

  • Mads Cooke is an Adelaide based Painter & Illustrator. Raised in the Adelaide Hills, Mads views the natural environment as a primary inspiration for her. Her work is composed of multiple layers of paint and lines to create a depth of foliage.

    Free forming shapes and colours create a soothing experience, reminding her of home and childhood memories. Drawing upon the environment, Mads’s work is commonly inspired by native flora, observed textures, colours & patterns. Natural and neutral colour hues play their part in the subtly of Mads’s work, where she creates a calming and dreamlike perspective of nature. Her practice is introspective work, and aspires the viewer to likewise engage in the meditative mood of these works.

    This body of work was created towards the end of last year, experimenting with both acrylics and ink pens in my observation of nature. The distinct use of flowing lines across these works are comparable to the candidly forming lines in the natural environment. The repetition of lines – reflective of the echoing patterns in nature.

    The lines sit both subtly in the background, or create soft organic shapes own their own. These lines are alike to ripples in water, age rings of trees, or the venation of plants. Individual lines representing little alone, collaboratively building a network, likewise of the natural world.

    I have recently been inspired by the detail of plants and flowers found in vintage botanical/ scientific illustrations. In my paintings I enjoy creating a similar style to these, in which the flora is depicted very flat and straight on, paying close attention on the finer details.

    Mads has been working at The Mill since 2021.

  • Andrew Dearman’s practice has varied over the years, moving from sculpture to painting to photography and back again.

    More recently I’m working on a hybrid art/academic research method that I find meaningful as a form of making. The construction of a conference paper is both a physical and conceptual process of gathering material, of shaping and polishing it into a particular form, which is then performed in front of strangers on the other side of the planet.

    The current work involves the use of the found vernacular photograph within contemporary art. It considers such use problematic and in need of deeper theoretical consideration from positions beyond the discourse of visual art. The fields that seem to be of most use are memory studies, sociology and anthropology.

    Andrew is an Alumni Artist.

  • For the last three years Evie Hassiotis has produced a variety of mixed media artwork while being a resident artist at the Mill. During this time she has held a SALA exhibition called Xenitia (exile) exploring her journey from Greece in the early 1960’s. She has also been attending mainly portrait workshops at ACSA and attending life drawing sessions on a regular basis at Gallery one. She loves to run small workshops in her studio for adults and children where participants can learn the basic skills of using various materials and also tap into creative expression.

    In my practice I am excited to see how art can transform a person and a place. I love art that challenges me and asks questions about the philosophy of life.

    In these latest art works I have experimented with the circular design, which has been a tool to let go of old patterns of behaviour about pleasing others. Working fast allows me to tap into my right brain and allow free flow and spontaneity.

    Evie has been working at The Mill since 2019.

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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase

Adele Sliuzas ·

Eleanor smiles, she wears a long sleeve top and stands against a brick wall. The image is in black and white.

The Mill Showcase: Eleanor Green (photo: supplied)

September 6 – October 29, 2021

Eleanor Green, Elana Photakis and Lisa Penney AKA Hey Reflect’o

Opening event:
Friday September 17, 6-7:30pm

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

The Mill Showcase is a gallery space dedicated to artists who work in our studio spaces at our Angas Street location, exhibiting some of the artworks and products 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.

This Sixth edition of The Mill Showcase features work by Eleanor Green, Elana Photakis and Lisa Penney AKA Hey Reflect’o


Artist Biographies:

Eleanor Green is an emerging artist based in Adelaide. Her passion for painting started at a young age, inspired by her love of animals and nature.  As Illustrations by Eleanor, she creates commissioned portraits of dogs, cats, and horses for clients all over the world. With each new piece, Eleanor works to capture each animal’s unique personality and spirit.

I recently moved into The Mill Studios, and for my first showcase, I wanted to bring together artists from the collective through a common theme. I’m primarily an animal portrait artist, so it was a natural choice to paint the pets of the artists I work alongside.

For my showcase, I wanted to get creative and move outside of my more traditional style. With this collection, I’ve embraced free-flowing brushwork together with vibrant colours. It’s allowed me to let loose and have fun with my art, and I can’t wait to see where it goes.


Eleanor has been working at The Mill since 2021

Elana – Jo Photakis is a trained seamstress and artist working in clay sculpture, photography and garment design and manufacture. Elana uses art to access other worlds and transport her viewers into a poetic universe. Currently, Elana is starting up her small business Mother of Bones that involves creating ethically made clothing using plant dyes.

My work is inspired by colour and texture in nature, ideas of fantasy, folklore, and mythology. These sculptures were made during a time of personal growth and are a physical manifestation of what a woman requires to reconnect with her inner psyche after being dormant. 

Elana has been working at The Mill since 2020

Lisa Penney’s brand Hey Reflect’o was created to answer the needs of cyclists for something fashionable, visible, and ethical to wear on the road. Lisa was sick of rolling up to trendy bars in an awesome outfit covered by an oversized tradie vest. She set out to design high visibility reflective vests that not only compliment outfits but also make you feel great. Hey Reflect’o vests are designed by Lisa and made here in Adelaide from sustainable materials. 

Hey Reflect’o cycling gear is fashionable, breathable, durable and eye-catching. Adorned with Funky Reflect’o and fluro geometric patterns these vests make you stand out day and night. It’s high visibility meets high fashion.


Lisa has been working at The Mill since 2014

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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase at Fleurieu Arthouse

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: Morgan Sette

Photo: Morgan Sette

June 5 – 27, 2021

Blake Canham-Bennett, Steel Chronis, Amber Cronin, Andrew Eden, Matea Gluscevic, Evie Hassiotis, Yana Lehey, Kirsty Martinsen, Kate O’Callaghan, curated by Adele Sliuzas

At Fleurieu Arthouse, Hardys Tintara, Kaurna Yarta, 202 Main Road. McLaren Vale

Opening event: June 20, 2pm

The Mill Showcase is an exhibition series dedicated to artists who work in The Mill’s studio spaces on Angas Street, Adelaide. The exhibition includes artworks and products that have been produced under our roof by incredible artisans. This touring edition of The Mill Showcase brings a selection of our artists to McLaren Vale, so that we can share their practice with you!

This edition of The Mill Showcase features work by Blake Canham-Bennett, Steel Chronis, Amber Cronin, Andrew Eden, Matea Gluscevic, Evie Hassiotis, Yana Lehey, Kirsty Martinsen and Kate O’Callaghan, curated by Adele Sliuzas

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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase

Adele Sliuzas ·

The Mill Showcase: Small Room’s Lachlan and Raf (photo: Dylan Minchenberg)

The Mill Showcase: Small Room’s Lachlan and Raf (photo: Dylan Minchenberg)

March 29 – June 25, 2021

Sandy Kumnick, Kate O’Callaghan, and Small Room

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

The Mill Showcase is a gallery space dedicated to artists who work in our studio spaces at our Angas Street location, exhibiting some of the artworks and products 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.

This fifth edition of The Mill Showcase features work by Sandy Kumnick, Kate O’Callaghan and design studio Small Room


Artist Biographies:

Sandy Kumnick is an experimental multidisciplinary environmental artist. Following Media Studies at Uni SA, Sandy’s Video Art productions were shown at Adelaide Festival Centre and Media Resource Centre. Since completing a Visual Art and Design degree at Adelaide College of the Arts in 2012, Sandy has exhibited paintings, drawings and sculptures at galleries in China, Adelaide, Goolwa, and undertaken an Artist Residency at Sauerbier House, Port Noarlunga.

My work leads me as I create, with no intent of final outcome when choosing colours, making gestural marks or tossing dried kelp onto paper. It is humbling, meditative and enriching. I often incorporate found objects from the natural world as pure aesthetics and for thier significance, such as how Nature’s spiral pattern represents beginnings, resilience and eternity. I pay respect to the First Nation people and their connections with the natural materials used in my exhibits

Kate O’Callaghan graduated with Honours from the National Art School in 2004 majoring in Ceramics, where she won the graduate prize for her unique vessel designs. Her writing about South Korean Ceramics has been published in The Journal of Australian Ceramics. Kate is the Founder and Director of Artful, a company focused on teaching the benefits of clay to people of all ages.  

I am completely drawn to throwing clay on the wheel, along with teaching as many people who are as equally excited by the possibility inherent in working with clay.

Small Room is the ongoing creative project of Lachlan Stewart, Angus Plunkett & Rafal Liszewski. Lachlan, Angus and Rafal have been working together since 2013. Graphic design was a gateway and framework for the creative practice they have developed. Small room has taken many forms since its conception and is currently exploring work through screen printing, illustration, painting, installation, photography, web and graphic design.

We have created an installation which displays work from the past two years. This installation which houses our work is a glimpse into the creative environment Small Room like to operate in. Taking inspiration from many zones and internet holes we get caught in, linked with a hindsight view of our childhoods and working experiences. We use our creativity as a way to express and process the world. Informed by y2k tech aesthetics, metalheart/depthcore, consumer culture, minimalist furniture, international style design and brutalism.

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Sponsored Studio 2021 + Exhibition: Hussain Alismail, 'In search of a good laugh'

chloe metcalfe ·

The Mill is thrilled to announce Hussain Alismail as the recipient of the Sponsored Studio for the July-December residency. The Mill’s Sponsored Studio is a new initiative supported by Drs Geoff and Sorayya Martin, and an anonymous philanthropist beginning in 2021. Two selected artists have joined our community, with each receiving 6-months of studio space and an exhibition outcome as part of The Mill Showcase.

Exhibition: Hussain Alismail, ‘In search of a good laugh’

November 8 - December 17, 2021

Opening event: November 26, 6-8pm

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

Cost: Free

Accessibility: Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, access the pedestrian ramp on the corner of Gunson St. The Mill has concrete flooring throughout and a disability toilet. View more in-depth information on our accessibility page.

Join us for the launch of Hussain’s exhibition In search of a good laugh, the outcome of work produced during his sponsored studio residency at The Mill. In Search of a good laugh opens alongside The Many Faces of Frances on Friday, November 26. Hussain will also present an artist talk in conversation with The Mill’s Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas in November.

Artist statement

As much as identity defines who we are, our culture and morals; it is always a challenge to prevent misconception, misrepresentation and misjudgment. This challenge and other issues like belonging, individualism, autonomy, gender tension make no identity idle. Through In search of a good laugh I explore the possibilities of identity within a Saudi/Middle Eastern and Australian context.

Over the past few years, I have been working with the significant visual elements that represent Arab people, creating an abstract visual catalogue of identity. The artworks suggest the colourful shapes and patterns that speak truly about Arabic diversity and culture.

The title of the exhibition is inspired by an interview I recently watched where visitors to an art exhibition were asked: ‘What you are looking for in this exhibition?’ One visitor answered ‘I don’t know! Maybe a good laugh!’ This answer struck me, and took me back to ten years ago when I worked as a cartoonist at KFUPM newspaper (a university publication in Saudi Arabia), where my art work attempted to generate laughter about the hardest issues faced by students. Since then, my work has shifted to become more abstracted and conceptual, however, I believe laughter is a worthwhile pursuit. This exhibition may not be overtly comedic, but I would like to invite audiences to consider the work through a lens where it can be both serious, conceptual and parodical.

About the artist:

In constant flirting with meaning and medium; Saudi visual artist Hussain Alismail focuses on the pleated part of Saudi society in his work. Coming from the marginal community of Shia in the Eastern providence, he was constrained to examining a rich perspective of social interactions and discourses. Alismail draws inspiration from direct/indirect communications, experiences and history to tell stories about our culture.

He holds BFA in drawing & painting from OCAD U with an emphasis on illustration and social science. He is currently in the final year of visual effects and entertainment design studies (VEED) at Flinders University. Alismail exhibits both nationally and internationally, most recently presenting work in his third solo show Frilly at Argo on the parade in Adelaide. In 2020, he was one of the recipients of Maan grant from Athr gallery and one of the participants of the inaugural Albalad residency by Saudi Arabia Ministry of Culture. He was awarded in many competitions including Alkassbi International Award II (2015) and MCY by Edge of Arabia (2011).

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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase

Adele Sliuzas ·

January 13 - March 5, 2021

Steel Chronis, Evie Hassiotis and Kirsty Martinsen

Opening event:
Friday, January 22, 5:30pm to 7:30pm

The Mill Showcase is a gallery space dedicated to artists who work in our studio spaces at our Angas Street location, exhibiting some of the artworks and products 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.

This fourth edition of The Mill Showcase features work by Kirsty Martinsen, Steel Chronis and Evie Hassiotis.



Artist Biographies:

Steel Chronis is an emerging artist, working and living on Kaurna land, who works across various media in their practice. Their work typically focuses on the mundane and macabre with consideration of the fleeting nature of time. Their work is often a preservation of structures, subjects and moments, highlighting the beauty of the ordinary. Steel has had a studio at The Mill since 2020.

These works are a segment of my investigation into various types of inks and application styles of the medium. The parameters of this exercise were to work with a brush, gesturally and within the compositional limitations of a landscape orientation. The works presented utilise Indian Ink, an ink that can be applied in an diverse manner - either thinned out, layered or painted thickly to achieve a dramatic black. What makes this ink unique is that it is made with a shellac gum binder, giving the ink a unique brilliance and a high level of water resistance. 

Evie Hassiotis is an Adelaide based artist who works intuitively with textures and mixed media, photography and improvised dance. Evie believes in the potential of art to emotionally heal the human soul and to promote spiritual growth in the art practitioner and in the viewer. Improvised movement together with her art practice have been an avenue to express spirituality, creativity and art as a healing practice. Evie has had a studio at The Mill since 2019.

These prints were nearly all created in 2020 during the social and physical restrictions enacted in response to Coronavirus. This series reflect on the metaphorical masks most of us wear every day, masks we wear to cover our true selves, whatever our reasons. These works offer an observation of human behaviour and what people choose to reveal and not to reveal to others and themselves.

Kirsty Martinsen’s practice is predominantly drawing and painting, and recently as a Writer/Director of the short documentary, Limited Surrender, with SBS and SA Film Corporation. She has a BA Visual Art from SA School of Art (UniSA) and Dip. Painting from New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, has exhibited in USA, Australia and Amsterdam. Kirsty Martinsen has had a studio at The Mill since 2014.

In the middle of a pandemic I had moved into an apartment on the 11th floor, looking West. During this period of self-isolation, I began doing a daily pastel drawing of the setting sun. Every day the sky is different, sometimes the sun pops out from behind the cloud and looks like it is being born. Seeing the sunsets grouped together you can trace changes in season, and my thinking about light. 

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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: Amber Cronin, photographer: Ramsay Photography

Photo: Amber Cronin, photographer: Ramsay Photography

October 6 - December 18, 2020

Jennifer Eadie, Amber Cronin and Robyn Wood

Showing concurrently with Postcards from Motherhood

Opening event:
Friday, October 30, 5:30pm to 7:30pm


The Mill Showcase is a gallery space dedicated to artists who work in our studio spaces at our Angas Street location, exhibiting some of the artworks and products 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.

This third edition of The Mill Showcase features work by Jennifer Eadie, Amber Cronin and Robyn Wood.

Artist Biographies:

Jennifer Eadie is a writer and artist, living and working on Kaurna Yerta in South Australia. She is academic in the Aboriginal Pathway Program at UniSA, a doctoral candidate at Flinders University and a graduate of UNSW Art & Design. Her creative practice is text and installation based; exploring themes such as censorship and connection to place, while her research focuses on ecological rights and approaches to caring for Country.

This work is a response to the censorship carried out by institutions to justify colonialization. The censor exploits language such as ‘development’ and ‘modernization’ - which characterizes and objectifies Country as a resource / property - as opposed to a sentient living being, of which we are a part.

Jennifer is The Mill’s Writer in Residence 2019 and current Scotch College Writer in Residence

Amber Cronin is an emerging cross-disciplinary artist living and working on Kaurna Land. A recent graduate, her visual arts research is rooted in performative and sculptural gestures that engage the audience through the connection of memory, time and space. Amber is also the co-founder and previous co-director of The Mill Adelaide

My work is developed through a vocabulary of processes, forms emerge that reframe everyday actions as sites of ritual activity. Utilising elements of ceramics, textiles, performance, moulding and casting, my studio experiments are gathered and displayed in combinations that facilitate meditations on connection and discovery.

Amber is a Co-Founder and previous Director of The Mill, and continues to work from our studios 

Robyn Wood is an Adelaide based designer and maker. Creating furniture, objects and lighting, she works with her clients on custom and small production pieces. Her work is informed by artisan approach, traditional joinery and current manufacturing techniques. She has a Bachelor of Design-Interior Design from the University of South Australia.

Maintaining a connection to nature is an important theme in my designing. Simple sculptural forms; Lines gently curved; The touch and feel of warmer materials; These are things I am drawn to. I aim to connect the end user to nature and to bring warmth and character into the spaces they inhabit. 

Robyn has been working at The Mill since 2017

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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: Andrew Eden, image supplied

Photo: Andrew Eden, image supplied

March 23 - July 29, 2020

Andrew Eden, Blake Canham-Bennett,
Annabel Hume and Mark Mason

*** Please note that due to the unfolding COVID-19 situation, The Mill’s galleries and studios are closed to the public. If you have any questions, please email our Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas***

The Mill Showcase is a gallery space dedicated to artists who work in our studio spaces at our Angas Street location, exhibiting some of the artworks and products 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.

This sophomore edition of The Mill Showcase features work by Andrew Eden, Blake Canham-Bennett, Annabel Hume and Mark Mason.

Opening event:

Friday 27 March, cancelled

Due to social distancing measures within the unfolding COVID19 crisis, we have made the decision to cancel this event

Artists Biographies

AG is an Adelaide based design studio led by Andrew Eden. Specialising in furniture, lighting & interiors, the studio's focus is to partner with other local manufacturers, trades and artisans to produce high quality pieces & outcomes that are competitively priced. Andrew Eden is an industrial designer, graduating with honours and a minor stream in furniture design. He undertook the associate program in the furniture studio at JamFactory in 2013-14.

He has worked extensively throughout the design industry with over 15 years commercial experience. A highlight was working on Indigo Slam in Chippendale, Sydney and a private commission with Khai Liew including over 200 bespoke furniture and lighting pieces.

‘AG is a design studio with a philosophy of cadence, functionality & artistry. My designs are approachable, utilitarian products with a knowing handmade reticence. I believe elaboration does not aggrandise beauty–simplicity does.’

Mark Mason works primarily as a tattooer, using handpoke techniques to create new and relevant work. Having a history in fine art, Mark has exhibited in many group exhibitions both home and abroad. Having enjoyed tattooing full-time for over a decade, he has recently been working part-time which has allowed time for the rekindling of his artist practice and new inspirations have come to life.

‘This work is part of an ongoing process concerning both interpretive symbolism and blended techniques. Each work stands alone, while also acting as a stepping stone to the next, where shared aesthetic cues and conceptual links explore themes of masculinity.

Design and pattern have been a strong component of my tattooing practice and serve as the point of departure. The focus shifts between technique, imagery and concepts to produce pieces that that intrigue the viewer, with a nod to the primal nature of tattooing. It is my intention that the viewer can ascribe their own experience to the abstract images and create their own meaningful dialogue.’

Blake “Blakesby” Canham-Bennett is a multi-award winning hatter (he is not a milliner), and one of very few in Australia reviving the traditional artform of men’s hats. His hats have crossed the world, worn in the United States, England, New Zealand, Switzerland, Siberia, Egypt, and many more.

‘I focus largely on traditional and heritage hat design, drawing inspiration from styles upwards of 100 years ago. These are shaped by hand through steam using a range of mostly antique and a few locally made wood hat blocks, in addition to other unique hand tools.

The pieces featured use a range of materials, with the felt bases ranging from the standard rabbit, to the premium beaver and nutria fur felts. These hats are trimmed with a variety of materials, including varied naturally dyed Japanese textiles, and featuring the traditional sashiko technique of decorative reinforcement stitch.’

Annabel Hume is a visual arts graduate from the University of South Australia with a major in sculpture and printmaking. In the last 10 years she has completed further study in metal casting, intaglio printmaking and ceramics at ACArts . For the last three years Annabel has focused on ceramics. She has participated in several group shows in Adelaide and had her first solo exhibition in Melbourne in 2019.  She also teaches workshops in textiles, printmaking and sculpture . 

‘After travelling to America three years ago I began to really appreciate how delicate, unique, fragile and ancient Australia is and I celebrate our endangered and diminishing fauna in my work .  Each piece is unique. I hand build then surface paint using sgraffito before glaze firing.’

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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: The Mill resident artist Morgan Sette

Photo: The Mill resident artist Morgan Sette

January 17 - March 15, 2020

Peter Fong, Matea Gluscevic, Morgan Sette, Ozlem Yeni

Opening event:
Friday, January 17, 6-8pm

*** Please note that due to the unfolding COVID-19 situation, The Mill’s galleries and studios are open by appointment only. If you wish to make a time to come and see our exhibitions, please email our Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas***

In 2020 The Mill will be launching a new gallery to sit alongside our remodelled Exhibition Space. Dedicated to artists who are working in our studio spaces, The Mill Showcase is a space to display some of the artworks and products that have been produced under our roof. The Mill Showcase will profile our artists, so that you can put a face to the name and get to know some of our dedicated makers.

The innaugural The Mill Showcase features work by Peter Fong, Matea Gluscevic, Morgan Sette, and Ozlem Yeni alongside The Mill’s limited edition prints by Small Room, Matthew Fortrose, and Naomi Murrell and Nadia Suartika.

Peter Fong is a process driven handcrafted custom furniture designer and maker with a love for all things handmade. He is an illustrator turned woodworker honing in on his skills and eye for detail in a 3d medium.

I specialise in considered one-off pieces that feature proud joinery and wood on wood construction, avoiding the use of nails and screws where possible. My aim is to impart a sense of permanence into our everyday objects through the use of well thought-out construction and materials paired with timeless clean designs that will live through generations.

Each piece is created with the intent of ageing beautifully and being passed down. Preferring to work carefully and slowly, I am a traditional hand-tool enthusiast and will use a hammer and chisel over a power tool when possible. Hand tools connect me to the process, of that I value and enjoy just as much as the final product which I hope permeates through each piece

Matea Gluscevic is an artist and qualified shoemaker. She has completed a Cert IV in Custom Made Footwear, and a Bachelor of Visual Art Specialising in Sculpture and Installation.

“DONE by Matea” is an ethical, slow, and sustainable handmade leather footwear and accessories label. I design and handmake all of my items in my studio at The Mill. I enjoy working with local, recycled, and low impact materials such as; cork, kangaroo leather, vegetable tanned leather and recycled rubber. 

Morgan Sette is an Adelaide based photographer, with the past few years spent shooting a mixture of news photojournalism, editorial, product and press shoots. Morgan has varied experience in all things photography, film, events, publicity and marketing that has ultimately come down to one thing; a desire to document and promote the good things. 

The images explain what happens when I raise a hunk of metal in between myself and the outside world. When I’m taking a picture, I’m not trying to impact what’s happening inside the frame - I’m trying to document it.

Ozlem Yeni is a Turkish born artist who now lives and works in Adelaide. She studied painting, completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Suleyman Demirel in Turkey. Before becoming a full-time artist, she enjoyed an 18-year academic career as a lecturer in Theatre Stage Design Department at the University of Dokuz Eylul in Turkey, where she attained a Master’s Degree and PhD. She has had a number of solo and group exhibitions in Turkey, Japan, Australia and Albania.

Earthpeople is an interpretation of our evolving relationship with nature that underlines the noteworthy attempt of humankind. The aim is to increase awareness of humankind situations and power in life on earth, relate them to common global goals, so we can make changes to improve the existence for all.