Performing Arts Residencies

The Mill’s Performing Arts Residencies foster the creation of new work by South Australian independent artists. The program supports performing and interdisciplinary artists in developing and presenting new work through exploration, with a series of funded residencies. Artist Call Outs for these programs occur the year before so artists have time to plan and seek additional funding.

The aim of these residencies is to offer place and space as part of a vibrant arts community, for artists to develop and show new or existing work with the view to take that work interstate for further development, presentation and networking opportunities.

The Mill is most interested in genre-pushing, cross-artform work that blends, merges or investigates connectivity across performance / art-making modes and encourages artists to be ambitious with their proposals.

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First Nations Dance Program

In 2022, The Mill undertook a First Nations Dance Community Consultation with SA-based dance artists, to understand their needs and challenges. This consultation has informed the development of a broader extended program to benefit the First Nations dance community as a whole.

In 2023 The Mill created our First Nations Dance Program supported by BlakDance (QLD) and Australian Dance Theatre, coordinated by proud Ngarrindjeri, Narungga and Kaurna woman Caleena Sansbury, supported by The Mill’s CEO/Artistic Director.

In 2024 the program continues with the aim to support First Nations dancers and dance groups who reside in South Australia by offering them the following - as identified needs through the consultation;

• Business development and grant writing skills workshops

• Free rehearsal space at The Mill

• Residencies at The Mill

• Culturally safe dance technique classes at The Mill and Australian Dance Theatre

• Culturally safe choreography and composition classes at The Mill and Australian Dance Theatre

• Secondments at Australian Dance Theatre to learn about the creation of a new work

• Project planning/pitching/producing mentorship from BlakDance

Through this program, artists are supported to explore new ideas, interrogate existing work, explore new collaborative relationships, and/or research their movement practice in connection to Country and kin. They are supported to make new work and explore dance practice to develop new or existing ideas or processes and make space for experimentation and culturally engaged collaboration.

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Past Programs

Visual Arts Program

The Mill’s visual arts program highlights the practice of art-making and aims to make process more available to audiences. The Mill’s galleries are open to the public Monday to Friday, 10am - 4pm.

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Gallery I

The Gallery I program includes a mix of curated exhibitions and exhibitions programmed through call-outs and EOI.

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Gallery II

Gallery II is an ongoing public gallery featuring work created under our own roof by our community of Studio Artists. In 2024, Gallery II will also include exhibitions that are outcomes of our Visual Arts Studio Residency and Delima Residency.

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The Virtual Gallery

The Virtual Gallery was initially launched in 2020 in response to Covid-19, allowing artists to continue exhibiting work and accessing audiences.

Workshops

The Mill's workshops are presented in partnership with major South Australian festivals including Adelaide Festival, OzAsia Festival as well as through our international, national and local partnerships.

This professional development program offers artists workshops with established international, national and local artists in both performing, visual arts, craft and design. These diverse sessions draw South Australian artists into global conversations around aesthetic, performance and creative practice.

The Mill also offers multi-art workshops with our independent network of artists, that are accessible for people without arts experience who are looking to expand their creative practice and knowledge of the arts.

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Fringe Festival Season

The Mill’s Adelaide Fringe Festival season is held in The Breakout, programming everything from theatre to circus, comedy, live music and more. Hosting a broad and lively season, featuring artists Australia-wide.

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Visual Arts Residencies

The Mill’s Visual Arts Residencies support artists with time, space and support to evolve their practice and create new work. Our residencies position artists alongside other professional artists, providing encouragement, inspiration, networking and collaboration. Each residency includes an exhibition and public program, profiling the artist to a wider audience.

Call-outs

2025 Recipients

Past Recipients

Writer in Residence

The Mill’s Writer in Residence program supports writers from a variety of disciplines. The program focuses on developing and supporting emerging writers in the areas of arts, criticism and creative writing. The Writer in Residence program is delivered in partnership with CityMag and Scotch College.

The Mill’s writer in residence program, in partnership with CityMag, supports writers by creating 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 mentorship from CityMag’s Editor and The Mill team. The program also includes fees for a personal project and aims to assist emerging writers develop connections and explore opportunities to collaborate with The Mill’s community. Work funded under this program may include, but is not limited to; creative essays, creative non-fiction and storytelling, artist profiles and response to art and exhibitions.

In partnership with Scotch College, The Mill offers a five-week annual Writer in Residence program within the Scotch College English Faculty. The Mill’s WIR undertakes a paid residency funded by Scotch College with aim of the program to help further develop students’ writing/ communication skills via written/verbal/multi-modal responses to creative themes.The pieces created by the students are collated into an anthology by The Mill’s WIR and used within the English Faculty or further afield. This opportunity gives our writers paid employment and builds a relationship with an educational facility that may lead to future employment. 

Call-outs

2024 Recipient

Past Recipients

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Marina Deller

Marina Deller

Marina Deller

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Aushaf Widisto

Aushaf Widisto

Piri Eddy

Piri Eddy

Piri Eddy

Renee Miller

Renee Miller

Renee Miller

Tanner Muller

Tanner Muller

James Murphy

James Murphy

James Murphy

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Photographer in Residence

The Mill’s Photographer in Residence program is presented in partnership with the Ana and Christopher Koch Foundation Fund. One South Australian-based photographer is given the opportunity to join The Mill community, receiving a 12-month studio space and an exhibition outcome as part of The Mill’s Visual Arts program. The photographer is selected through an open call-out.

Thanks to the Ana and Christopher Koch Foundation Fund, the selected photographer joins 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, and inspiration and facilitating networking and collaboration.

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2024 Recipient

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The Photographer in Residence program is presented in partnership with the Ana and Christopher Koch Foundation Fund.