Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Showing and Q&A
When: Friday, August 28, 6-7pm
Where: The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)
Note: Please arrive 15 minutes early to grab a drink. This event will be 1 hour (including a Q&A).
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This showing and Q&A will be held in The Breakout. Please come to The Mill 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 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.
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
Good Mourning is a physical theatre work exploring grief through the relationship between the body and objects of support, examining how adornment and material forms become physical and symbolic appendages that bear the weight of the grieving body.
In unveiling the relationship to these sculptural supports, this work-in-development will also trace the body’s bond to an absent object, and how the physical experience of being supported, restricted, or transformed can leave an embodied residue.
The showing will be followed by a short Q&A with Marcus and their collaborative team, 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.
About the artists:
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Marcus Louend is a dancer, performance artist, and choreographer seeking to decentralise their movement and art practice through collective organisation. Using equitable social models, their ambition is to help educate individuals seeking deeper connection and understanding to movement and its radical potential physically, emotionally, and socially.
Marcus currently works as a tutor and guest performer with Restless Dance Theatre, Australia's leading company working with neurodiverse and disabled artists. This partnership continuously offers the opportunity to inclusively work with the broader community—artists and non-artists—making movement accessible to everyone, and diversifying future practices.
As a mentor, creator, and performer, their work seeks to innovatively dismantle personal, social, structural, and systemic barriers, in order to recalibrate somatic experiences into a sustainable practice.
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Nat Penney (b.1991) is an artist based in Tarntanya (Adelaide). Combining processes from timber furniture making and metal fabrication with found and formed objects, she considers the sensory desires in things, looking for subconscious object impulses. She’s driven by an obsession and confusion over psychological and emotional states and their reciprocal exchange with our relationships, environments, and the objects we engage with.
Recent works are drawing from experiences of loneliness and how they are shaped not only by absence, but by conditional presence. Looking into the atmosphere of familial domesticity she searches for pleasing points of interconnectedness between the familiar and the eerie; for absurdist moments that engage themselves through futile motion and maybe make you smirk.
Her practice often incorporates materials weighted heavily in nostalgia, such as tiles from her renovated childhood bathroom or her parents’ wooden tennis racquets, embedding personal histories into sculptural objects. These materials act as communicators and carriers of memory, yet memory and nostalgia themselves are malleable, untrustworthy, and sometimes irresponsible, reshaping perception and altering what we take to be truth.
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Paige Neis-Beer (she/her) is an artist and stylist with over seven years of experience in the fashion industry, across London and Kaurna Land. Her practice spans styling, costume-making and product design.
Working between fashion and wearable art, and more recently with silicone as a core medium, her practice draws on the surreal and the strange, fusing the grotesque with the beautiful. Paige has an ongoing fascination with visceral materials and explores unconventional approaches to making. Her work often explores themes of identity, whether as the observer or the observed.
In February 2025, Paige undertook a 2.5 month residency at Household Gallery, where she collaborated with tattoo artist Hasini Wisna and developed a collection of wearable art pieces that mimic flesh-like forms and second skins.
The residency marked a turning point in Paige’s practice, introducing new materials and sculptural processes that now sit at the centre of her work.
Paige is continuously interested and passionate about collaboratively working with artists across different disciplines, to create space for conversation, exchange and connection.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
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