Adelaide Fringe 2026: Yoz Mensch, 'My Grandpa Doesn't Follow Me On Instagram'

Photo: Daniel Marks.

Adelaide Fringe 2026

When: February 19 - March 7

Where: The Breakout, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: From $30-35

Duration: 60 minutes

• Getting to the show

  My Grandpa Doesn’t Follow Me On Instagram will be held in The Breakoutwill be held in The Breakout at The Mill. Please come to the foyer at 154 Angas Street, the bar will be open to grab a drink before we take you through to The Breakout.

  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

They drove from Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands – one grandparent, one grandchild, one unspoken truth.

Multi-award-winning storyteller, Yoz Mensch, weaves a darkly funny and haunting solo show about dingy hotel rooms, dog-eared maps, and the strained intimacy of travel.

Drawn from hundreds of real Instagram Stories posted during the trip, Yoz revisits what they shared with their grandpa – and the secrets they didn’t. 

Blending clowning, found footage, and intimate confession, 'My Grandpa Doesn’t Follow Me On Instagram' unravels what it means to hide yourself from the people you love.

★★★★★ “Mesmerising” Mindshare

★★★★★ “Utterly genius” Binge Fringe

★★★★★ “Masterful” The List

• About the artists

  Yoz Mensch (they/she) is a multi-award-winning clown, comedian, writer, and performer living and working on Kaurna Yerta. Their primary arts focus is storytelling that engages through humour and offers thoughtful catharsis.

  In 2024 they trained in Clowning, Le Jeu and Buffon at L’Ecole Philippe Gaulier 2024, toured No Babies In The Sauna to Perth, Adelaide, Prague, and Edinburgh Fringes, and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, picking up the Best Comedy Award at Prague Fringe, and the House of Oz Purse Prize at Adelaide Fringe.

  YOU’RE ALL INVITED TO MY SON SAMUELS FOURTH BIRTHDAY PARTY received the Melbourne Fringe Tour Ready Award at Adelaide Fringe 2022, and picked up the Spirit of The Fringe Award at Melbourne Fringe 2022. They co-wrote, directed and performed in the ambitious sketch-sci-fi ensemble The End is High-Concept - which garnered positive reviews and pioneered live motion-capture for animated on-stage characters. They also co-produced, co-wrote and co-presented HUGE NEWS for Radio Adelaide, a satirical news sketch programme turned live podcast for Edinburgh Fringe 2018.

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Adelaide Fringe 2026: The CRAM Collective, 'Meteors'

Photo: Daniel Marks.

Adelaide Fringe 2026

When: February 19 - March 7

Where: The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: From $18-28

Duration: 60 minutes

• Getting to the show

  Meteors will be held in The Breakout at The Mill. Please come to the foyer at 154 Angas Street, the bar will be open to grab a drink before we take you through to The Breakout.

  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

Grief isn’t part of the conversation. Especially not as a young person. No one knows what to say, so it’s simply left unsaid.

This premiere work from The CRAM Collective explores the complex impact of the immediate and lingering effects of grief on young people. Melissa tells the story of the death of her mother, too many lasagnes brought over by neighbours and the continual search for something or someone out in the sky.

This show was developed through our Centre Stage Residency, in partnership with Adelaide Fringe.

• About the artists

  Melissa Pullinger is an Australian/ English theatre and film actor and is a 2020 Honours graduate of Flinders University Drama Centre. Growing up in England, Melissa appeared in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of The Sound of Music (2008) at the London Palladium, where she played Brigitta Von Trapp for six months. Upon emigrating to Adelaide, Melissa performed in Border Project’s Disappearance (2008) and then Windmill Theatre and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Granpa (2008).

  Along with specialising in devising and physical theatre, Melissa is a co-founder of independent theatre collective, The CRAM Collective.Since graduating, Melissa has toured with Perform! Education in their Book Week Tour, Bigger, Better, Brighter! (2021) and Story Quest (2022). Since co-founding CRAM, Melissa has produced and starred in the sold-out world premieres of New World Coming, Something Big, The Future is You and EDGE. In 2022, Melissa travelled to England after being selected to train at Frantic Assembly’s International Summer School.

  Melissa began working as a puppeteer for Slingsby’s collaboration with A Blanck Canvas, for Illuminate Adelaide. She then joined the USA & Canada tour of Bluey’s Big Play puppeteering both Bluey and Bingo and touring through 2023 & 2024. She then joined the UK & Northern Ireland tour of Bluey’s Big Play, puppeteering Bingo. In April, Melissa toured across New Zealand with Bluey’s Big Play, puppeteering Bluey.

  Connor Reidy is a South Australian director and theatre maker. He graduated with first class Honours in Directing at the Flinders University Drama Centre. His directing credits include pool (no water), BC, Control, Iphigenia in Orem, The Seagull, and Lungs (Flinders DC).

  In 2021, Connor co-founded The CRAM Collective, a South Australian independent theatre company. His credits for CRAM include NEW WORLD COMING, Anna Barnes’ Something Big and THE FUTURE IS YOU. CRAM is the proud recipient of the 2022 Helpmann Academy Creative Innovator seed funding. 

  Connor’s professional assistant directing credits include Circle Mirror Transformation (Sydney Theatre Company), Lines and The Bleeding Tree (Theatre Republic), Oleanna (Flying Penguin Productions), and The Normal Heart and Hibernation (STCSA). Connor recently directed Emily Steel’s The Worst (Theatre Republic) AND Proud (Famous Last Words).

  Ren Williams is an Australian film & theatre actor, having trained with Honours at the Flinders University Drama Centre. Also specialising in directing and writing, Ren is a co-founder of independent theatre company CRAM Collective. After graduating in 2020, Ren has performed in theatre shows such as Kinetik Collective's STCSA StateSide show Kill Climate Deniers (Dir. Clara Solly-Slade), the North American Tour of Bluey’s Big Play as Bluey (Dir. Rosemary Myers), the one-woman show at DreamBIG Guthrak (Dir. Matthew Briggs), Hits at the AFC (Dir. Rebecca Meston), CRAM Collective's world premiere Something Big (Dir. Connor Reidy) and Slingsby Theatre Company’s trilogy A Concise Compendium of Wonder (Dir. Andy Packer) premiering in the 2026 Adelaide Festival. With a screen-acting diploma from Actors Studio UK at the prestigious Pinewood Studios, Ren has appeared in a number of short films such as The Hitcher which premiered at the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival (Dir. Henry Reimer-Meaney, With Love, Lottie premiering at the 2025 Sydney Film Festival (Dir. Lily Drummond), and ABC’s Beep & Mort Season 2 as an additional puppeteer. Ren’s latest directorial short This is Fine. won Best Directing and Best Film at the 2024 Adelaide 48HFP, sending it to the Filmapalooza Seattle wining 3rd Best Film; where it will now go to the 2025 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner

  Connor Pullinger graduated Flinders Drama Centre with a First Class Honours degree in Acting.

  Key roles include the AACTA award winning SBS mini-series The Hunting as OLIVER. In 2024 he starred in SAPOL’s Stop Flirting With Death TVC State-Wide campaign. Connor led BULLDOG, which was officially selected at 5 Film Festivals across Australia. Connor plays the titular role in The Hitcher, which premiered at AFF2024. Connor has seven shorts and one indie feature awaiting release/festivals this year. 

  These projects collaborated with Closer Productions, Heesom Casting, Proetic Productions, Stepney Studios & Showpony Advertising. 

  Extending beyond screens, Connor starred in The CRAM Collective’s sold out 5-Star theatre production FAG/STAG, as well as the encore season -  continuing the critical and commercial success. In 2024 he led Deus Ex Femina’s 5-Star award-winning Fringe show Dirty Energy and WHORE for Flinders University. 

  This year he was chosen to be an actor for the BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated Sophie Hyde in her LAUNCH LAB Directors Workshop.

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Finissage: Hasta La Raíz, Kosh-Chenar, The House of a Thousand Faces

Photo: Daniel Marks.

March 20, 2026

Finissage: Friday, March 20, 4:30-6:30pm

Artist Spotlight with Carmen Alcedo: 4:30pm

Galleries, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  Accessibility

  The Mill’s entrance has a small step into the building. We have a ramp available, please ring the doorbell and our friendly team will assist you.

  During gallery hours, our entrance will be unlocked. If the door is closed, please ring the doorbell to alert our team.

  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.

We invite you to join us for the closing event for Hasta La Raíz, Kosh-Chenar, and The House of a Thousand Faces, and an Artist Spotlight from exhibiting artist Carmen Alcedo.

Hasta La Raíz has been developed through our Photographer in Residence program by artist Carmen Alcedo, presented with support from the Ana and Christopher Koch Foundation and Black and White Photographic. Through layered digital and analogue collage, Carmen creates atmospheric images referencing her personal experience of migration from Spain to Australia.

Kosh-Chenar has been developed through our Visual Arts Studio Residency program by artist Nadera Rasulova, presented with support from Drs Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin. Nadera draws on the cultural lineage of handwoven ikat, its motifs, colours, and tribal symbolism while reflecting both Australian and Central Asian landscapes.

The House of a Thousand Faces is a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Christian Best. The first instalment in his series of photographic portraits, Christian introduces us to 36 of his planned 1000 portraits; each joyful personality captured is a contact or connection from Chris’ life and travels.

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These exhibitions have support from

Studio Tours

Photo: Bri Hammond.

January - November, 2026

Fortnightly tours alternating Tuesdays, 11am, and Fridays, 4:30pm

The Mill Foyer, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

45 minutes duration

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting us

  The Mill’s monthly Studio Tours will begin in the Foyer at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta.

  Accessibility

  The Mill’s entrance has a small step into the building. We have a ramp available, please ring the doorbell and our friendly team will assist you.

  During gallery hours, our entrance will be unlocked. If the door is closed, please ring the doorbell to alert our team.

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

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

Discover your next favourite artist or maker at The Mill. See behind the scenes of our 70+ studio on a free, fortnightly studio tour.

We open our doors for tours on alternating Tuesdays and Fridays; inviting audiences to explore our studios and engage with our community.

Whether you're an art lover, a curious wanderer, or just keen to see creativity in motion, these tours promise inspiration and new connections at every turn.

Social clubs, community organisations and groups of 6+ can register for private tours by emailing info@themilladelaide.com.

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Exhibition: Toni Hassan, The Sea is Talking

Image: Toni Hassan, Behold, the Rainbow Cale (Heteroscarus acroptilus), detail, 2025, courtesy of the artist

March 27 - May 15, 2026

Opening event: Friday, March 27, 5:30-7:30pm

Gallery I, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find Toni’s exhibition in The Mill’s Gallery I, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

  Accessibility

  The Mill’s entrance has a small step into the building. We have a ramp available, please ring the doorbell and our friendly team will assist you.

  During gallery hours, our entrance will be unlocked. If the door is closed, please ring the doorbell to alert our team.

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

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

We are excited to present The Sea is Talking, a new exhibition by Toni Hassan. In this exhibition Toni works across multiple modalities to honour the lives of the countless marine creatures, some of which she witnessed dead, or struggling, as the South Australian coastline became impacted by the harmful algal bloom. Her regular walks along the city’s shoreline have revealed the incredible biodiversity of our local waters, sparking curiosity as well as sadness.

Through large scale coloured pencil drawings, video, and mixed media installation, Toni creates a feeling within the gallery akin to the emotional response she has had on the beach. We feel the physicality of the experience: a sense of awe, coupled with grief. We get a sense of the tide as it often was, washing in with creamy foam, and we observe an eel in a gripping dance, fighting for breath. Toni ponders our current environmental realities, positioning the algal bloom as a barometer for our world, asking, 'If the sea is talking, who's listening?' Further, 'What does it mean to truly listen?'

• About the artist

  Toni Hassan is an award-winning visual artist and writer. She is committed, in her multidisciplinary practice, to being a witness, seeking to express interconnections and inspire care. In her drawing, painting, digital and installation work she investigates contemporary events, patterns of human relating and nature (including non-human centric perspectives).

  This is Toni’s third solo show since she graduated from the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University in 2021. Her artwork is held in public and private collections.

• Artist Statement

  These works respond to what I encountered on walks along the beaches of Adelaide’s Gulf of St Vincent and south, along the Fleurieu Peninsula in 2025. I felt the sea was talking. Countless marine creatures appeared, like secrets of the sea. Their appearance provoked both pathos and surprising awe and delight.

  All life forms have intrinsic value, independent of their utility to us. Environmental events challenge us at many levels, as planet Earth talks. With the harmful algal bloom, I began to wonder, again, ‘What is mine to do?’ I was provoked to consider the role of ecological ethics that can be expressed through art. As Ashlee Cunsolo and Karen Landman argue in their introduction to Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief (2017), it is vital to "disrupt the dominance of humans and expand the circle of the grievable beyond the human.”

  Drawing allowed for a meditation on nature’s beauty and abundance, and our interconnectedness and dependence on nature. While hearing nature groan, there was something about noticing contour and shape, colour and texture, that helped open up space to move from disenchantment to enchantment. Material collected along the seashore inspired other work that allowed for play, helping process my sense of loss and to express hope of renewal.

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Exhibition: Anthea Tsigros Jones, Think Differently

Image: Anthea Tsigros Jones, The snail and the unicorn (detail), 2026, courtesy of the artist

March 27 - May 15, 2026

Opening event: Friday, March 27, 5:30-7:30pm

Gallery II, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find Toni’s exhibition in The Mill’s Gallery I, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

  Accessibility

  The Mill’s entrance has a small step into the building. We have a ramp available, please ring the doorbell and our friendly team will assist you.

  During gallery hours, our entrance will be unlocked. If the door is closed, please ring the doorbell to alert our team.

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

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

We are excited to present Think Differently, a new exhibition by Anthea Tsigros Jones. In Think Differently Anthea explores personal narratives through a series of fantastical, embellished and slightly surreal paintings, collages and sculptures. Reimagining childhood scenarios, Anthea places versions of herself amongst world filled with strange dolls and unsettling horizons.

In these works, she utilises her training in classical realism, slipping seamlessly between crisp renditions and loose, painterly backgrounds that conceal more than they reveal. In Hot Chicks she references the Three Graces of greek mythology, with blonde and blue eyed nude barbie dolls bringing to light Anthea’s experience of misogyny and patriarchy.

Alongside her paintings, she presents new sculptural installations - dioramas of a life imagined through playfulness. Anthea’s Think Differently- the 3 (dis)graces) places three nude barbies (as seen in the previously mentioned painting) inside a two story gallery and studio, complete with holographic wallpaper, disco lights and an eternally spinning circular platform. We see their blank faces and abject sections of their bodies reflected back at us from the mirror, while outside the walls of the doll house are plastered graffiti style with misogynistic slurs.

Layered paper collages form the third and significant part of this exhibition, showcase Anthea’s unique process. Through these works, she shares the playful, open and responsive process that she uses to develop compositions for her paintings. Artworks in their own right, these multimedia works mirror the themes of the exhibition, speaking about childhood desires, awkward social interactions, and time spent alone engrossed in her own world.

Through Think Differently, Anthea speaks to the pressures of women of her generation - the expectations of her parents, the role she took on as a wife and mother, and now the freedom of expression she experiences as an artist. Alongside the dark and surreal elements, we are also offered joy and play; Anthea’s pleasure is palpable in The pavilion of dreams, a circus tent complete with carousel of unicorns and twinkling fairy lights, made spontaneously with complete submission to her inner child- an absolute delight!

• About the artist

  Anthea is a visual artist born in Millicent, now residing in Adelaide.

  Deriving new found pleasure from creating with mixed media, she has fused textiles, paper and found objects to create this body of work, Think Differently, expanding her ouvre beyond self-imposed strictures that limited her exhibited arts practice to drawing and painting.

  Think Differently is Anthea’s first solo exhibition since completing formal studies in 2023 and two self-directed residencies in France in 2024/25. Her formal qualifications include an Advanced Diploma in Visual and Applied Art, a Graduate Diploma in Management (Arts), a Graduate Certificate in Art History and a Diploma in Atelier Arts.

  Anthea’s formal studies have been supplemented by a summer school at the London Academy of Realist Art and a week of life painting with the acclaimed Shane Wolf in the UK.

  Anthea has exhibited in numerous shows and her work is held in private collections in Adelaide, Melbourne, Washington, New York and The Diderot Collection at Château d’Orquevaux.

  If there was one word Anthea would use to describe her arts practice it would be meraki, a Greek word meaning the act of doing something with soul, creativity or love, putting “something of yourself” into the work. It signifies leaving a piece of your essence in what you do and describes a total devotion to a project.

• Artist Statement

  Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high,
  There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby, Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue,
  And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true..’

  This song has always resonated with me. I love rainbows. They are truly beautiful. No one can ever own one. To create a magnificent rainbow we need the rain and the sunshine and to truly appreciate the visual experience one must be fully present in the moment it occurs. Serendipity, synchronicity and magic all come to mind when I think of rainbows and I’m always transported to far away places when I encounter one during an ordinary day.

  Think Differently began, earnestly, in 2024 as purely a painting project. This singular mission took a compelling turn when due to personal development work I found myself questioning my life experiences in general and how I used them in the context of self expression, particularly in my art practice. It felt imperative that I address this yearning to invoke my authentic artistic voice, in whatever capacity it was available to me.

  Think Differently evolved, organically when I became engrossed in my creative ‘side hustles’ away from the easel and I realised this was where the joy was hiding. By reinventing old art works and creating new narratives I found history in the layers and textures of these works, both conceptually as well as physically.

  Thus, it would be fair to say that my authentic practice is structured, academic traditional painting and drawing techniques fused with mixed media collage, sewing and construction.

  Reflecting my childhood practice of making do, my aesthetic is Greek Village Chic - start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. Without exception, every piece in the exhibition started life as something else and I relish the challenge of turning trash into treasure.

  “Everything begins with a story” - Joseph Campbell

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