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Artist talk: Oriana Julie, Head in the Clouds

Adele Sliuzas ·

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When: Friday, February 14, 5:30-6:30pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

  • 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.

Join Oriana Julie and The Mill's Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas for a chat about Oriana’s new solo exhibition Head in the Clouds, showing in Gallery II.

About the exhibition

We are excited to present Head in The Clouds, a new exhibition by Oriana Julie developed through our Visual Arts Studio Residency presented with support from donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin.

Head in The Clouds is an exploration of creative play, embracing spontaneous method making in order to form a hybrid, affective sanctuary. Oriana uses foraged objects - discarded furniture, vintage glassware, beads, synthetic fibers, and organic matter - turning everyday items into objects of divine contemplation.

  • Situated on Kaurna Land in Adelaide, Oriana pioneers a visual language rooted in Afro-surrealism, leveraging imagination to embrace empowering diasporic narratives. She blends bold visual and performance artistry to spark dialogue on time, identity, and culture, transforming personal narratives into spaces of sublime escape informed by personal mythos. Her work is characterized by a fusion of African American and Italian heritage, shaped by her upbringing on an Air Force base in Woomera and the lush landscapes of the Adelaide Hills. These diverse influences create a unique exploration of cultural identity.

    Oriana’s creative process is deeply connected to the sensory experiences of the body. Utilizing various mediums such as oil paint, beads, and resins, she creates immersive environments that translate embodied sensations into material expression. Inspired by Rococo, Surrealist, and Neoclassical aesthetics, her work blends symbols and motifs into a harmonious chaos.Through her innovative approach, Oriana contributes significantly to the academic and artistic discourse on Afro-surrealism and its relevance in contemporary art culture

    In 2022, Oriana graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art from Adelaide Central School of Art, earning an invitation to pursue Honours. Over the past few years, she has secured various commissions and residencies. In 2021, she participated in the Nexus Arts Studio residency, held her first solo exhibition, and engaged in a mentorship with Faye Blanche of the Unbound Collective, which enriched her artistic perspective and earned her a nomination for the Don Dunstan Foundation Award. In 2024, she was awarded the Mill Visual Arts Residency, with a solo show planned for 2025, and participated in the Post Ofiice Project’s Studio residency. She was also invited to partake in the Post Office Projects Performance Program, supported by the Creative Industries Grant from the City of PAE and the Kick Start Graduate Grant from Adelaide Central School of Art.

    Oriana continues to push the boundaries of Afro-surrealism, contributing to its discourse and evolution within the contemporary art world. Her work not only reflects her unique cultural heritage and personal experiences but also serves as a powerful commentary on the complexities of identity and the human condition.

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The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency is presented with support from donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin.

 

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Workshop: Beading with Oriana Julie

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Oriana Julie

Workshop

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When: Saturday March 1, 12pm-2pm

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

Cost: $45 (+ booking fee)

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

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

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

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

Join artist Oriana Julie for a beading workshop where you’ll learn about Oriana’s approach to art-making while creating a unique beaded object.

This workshop is presented as part of Oriana's solo exhibition Head in the Clouds, currently showing in Gallery II, presented with support from donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin.

What to expect:

Seated within Oriana's exhibition, guests will spend two hours learning basic techniques and creating their own small-scale beaded fruit object. All materials provided, participants can take their fruit home on the day.

Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be available.

  • Situated on Kaurna Land in Adelaide, Oriana pioneers a visual language rooted in Afro-surrealism, leveraging imagination to embrace empowering diasporic narratives. She blends bold visual and performance artistry to spark dialogue on time, identity, and culture, transforming personal narratives into spaces of sublime escape informed by personal mythos. Her work is characterized by a fusion of African American and Italian heritage, shaped by her upbringing on an Air Force base in Woomera and the lush landscapes of the Adelaide Hills. These diverse influences create a unique exploration of cultural identity.

    Oriana’s creative process is deeply connected to the sensory experiences of the body. Utilizing various mediums such as oil paint, beads, and resins, she creates immersive environments that translate embodied sensations into material expression. Inspired by Rococo, Surrealist, and Neoclassical aesthetics, her work blends symbols and motifs into a harmonious chaos.Through her innovative approach, Oriana contributes significantly to the academic and artistic discourse on Afro-surrealism and its relevance in contemporary art culture

    In 2022, Oriana graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art from Adelaide Central School of Art, earning an invitation to pursue Honours. Over the past few years, she has secured various commissions and residencies. In 2021, she participated in the Nexus Arts Studio residency, held her first solo exhibition, and engaged in a mentorship with Faye Blanche of the Unbound Collective, which enriched her artistic perspective and earned her a nomination for the Don Dunstan Foundation Award. In 2024, she was awarded the Mill Visual Arts Residency, with a solo show planned for 2025, and participated in the Post Ofiice Project’s Studio residency. She was also invited to partake in the Post Office Projects Performance Program, supported by the Creative Industries Grant from the City of PAE and the Kick Start Graduate Grant from Adelaide Central School of Art.

    Oriana continues to push the boundaries of Afro-surrealism, contributing to its discourse and evolution within the contemporary art world. Her work not only reflects her unique cultural heritage and personal experiences but also serves as a powerful commentary on the complexities of identity and the human condition.

  • Informed by my childhood experience of always "having my head in the clouds" and being "off with the fairies," this body of work seeks to reframe this personal narrative into a space of sublime escape through spontaneous method-making, depicting a personal mythos.These moments of sublime escape explore the function of fantasy as an intrinsic tool for imagination, deeply connected to embodied feelings. In this realm of sublime escapism, I grant myself permission to delve into the depths of my being and emotions. The works can be viewed as an internal dialogue, manifesting in tactile forms.

    The exhibition unfolds as an internal conversation, guided by personal mythos and translated into the tactile and material expression of embodied sensation. The sensory processes of the body are integrated into the art-making, forming an intrinsically connected environment through various mediums. In this space, distinctions between worlds and categories dissolve. Soft hues articulate a union between the characters and the spaces they inhabit. During these moments of sublime escape, the characters find solace in transcending societal constraints, becoming unapologetically empowered.

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Exhibition: HELD, Youth Inc. SALA exhibition

Adele Sliuzas ·

August 30 - September 19, 2024

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find HELD in The Mill’s Exhibition Spaces,
    located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    Open Monday to Friday, 10am-4pm.

The Mill is pleased to host HELD, an exhibition of artworks by Youth Inc. students. Inspired by Maira Kalman’s book Women Holding Things, this exhibition features artworks and creative writing that explore the things we hold physically and metaphorically.

  • Holding a specific thing

    is a very nice thing to do.

    You are standing there

    and you hold

                     an enormous cabbage.

                      Or a violin.                  

                      Or a bright balloon.

    That is a job in and of itself.

    The simple act of doing one thing.

                                     —Maira Kalman, Women Holding Things

  • Youth Inc. is a new learning alternative designed for young people aged 17-24 who are looking for something different.

    Our School is specifically designed for young people who want to change their world, to dare to dream and discover who they are; their unique gifts, talents and strengths. To figure out what a meaningful, fulfilling and joyful life is to them.

    Youth Inc. is a vibrant, inclusive and affirming learning community that welcomes young people of all identities and lived experiences. We work hard to co-create a space where everyone belongs, where everyone in our  community feels seen, heard and valued for who they are and how they identify.

    Exploring and expressing who you are and/or who you want to be is our "pounding heart". We make space for you to explore your values, strengths, passions, experiences, so you can be your true and full self. 

  • 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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LIMITLESS: The Mill Fundraiser Exhibition

Adele Sliuzas ·

October 4-11, 2024

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Exhibition event: Friday, October 11, 5:30-8pm

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The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

Please note we are not open on Monday, October 7, due to the public holiday.

  • You can find LIMITLESS 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 excited to be hosting LIMITLESS, a fundraising exhibition shining a light on over 100 local artists.

This fundraiser exhibition will raise funds for our multi-arts hub while celebrating the abundance of artistic talent within the South Australian visual arts community, including work by established artists, visual arts students and graduates, local artist studio collectives, The Mill resident artists and The Mill alumni artists.

The exhibition invites audiences to find their favourite piece to add to their collection. All A5 artworks are priced at $100, with artists working in diverse mediums and styles. The exhibition features emerging alongside established artists, with all artists’ names kept anonymous in the exhibition. Artist’s names and details will be revealed when the buyer takes the work home. 

Sales from this fundraising exhibition support the artist and The Mill, helping us to achieve our vision for a thriving and prosperous arts culture in South Australia.

  • Sales from this exhibition will support the artist, and The Mill, fullfilling our mission to provide affordable creative studios, a community hub, professional development and presentation opportunities for artists.

  • We're excited to have submissions from:

    Carmen Alcedo, Mel Au, Sophia Bedford, Mia Behrens, Isabella Bianchini, Blakesby, Yolanda Boag, Sara Boni, Tom Borgas, Chloe Bower, Crista Bradshaw, Juliane Brandt, Jingwei Bu, Louis Bullock, Alicia Butt, Seb Calabretto, Asha Camacho, Jack Casper, Evie Catt, Madeleine Coates, Anastasia Comelli, Kate Cuthbert, Lettee Dametto, Andrew Dearman, Stephanie Doddridge, Lottie Emma, Tash Evele, Leon Ferrante, Lynette Fisher, Peter Francisco, Timothy Gambell, Oliver Gerhard, Jen Gibson-Smith, Anna Goodhind, Pj Graber, Rob Gutteridge, Bri Hammond, Evie Hassiotis, Nicole Haynes, Katherine Hoffman, John Hopkinson, Alice Hu, Romina Ienco, Malinda Jenner, Joanna Juers, Olivia Kathigitis, Lauren Kathleen, Keirart,Brent Leideritz, Jordanah Liston, Amelia Luke, Amanda Lundbäck, Meg Mader, Melody Marshall, Sascha Millard, Bridgette Minuzzo, Sienna Montgomery-Pittaway, Evy Moschakis, Tahneisha Mottishaw, Swapna Namboodiri, Stu Nankivell, Tori Nguyen, Larnce O’Flaherty, Liliana Pasalic, David Peace, Gough Pitawat, August Porter, Alyssa Powell-Ascura, Mary Pulford, Erin Renfrey, Alix Rogerson, Kelly Rowe, Vern Schulz, Scout, Morgan Sette, Adele Sliuzas, Lucky Smith, Jadranka Sunde, Nicole Szymanczyk, Jen Trantor, Tracey Vale, Martine Whalley, Rebecca Whittemore, Socorro Wickens, Bob Window, yeahdope, Rebecca Zanker and more to come!

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Finissage: A Resting State and Halo-halo

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Alyssa Powell-Ascura, Kain Tayo, 2023-24, photo: Louis Bullock

August 23, 2024

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Finissage: Friday August 23, 4:30-6:30pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Halo-halo and A Resting State in The Mill’s Gallery I and II, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

    The Mill's Galleries 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.

Please join us for the closing event for The Mill's SALA exhibitions, A Resting State and Halo-halo.

A Resting State is a group exhibition curated by resident artist Hamish Fleming, featuring work by Hamish Fleming, George Gilles, Anthea Jones, Robert Viner Jones and Billy Oakley.

Halo-halo is a solo exhibition by Alyssa Powell-Ascura developed through the Delima Residency in Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, and at The Mill, in cooperation with the Mahmood Martin Foundation.

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Artist talk: Hamish Fleming, A Resting State

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: Morgan Sette.

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When: Friday, August 9, 5:30-6:30pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

  • 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.

Join Hamish Fleming and The Mill's Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas for a chat about his group exhibition A Resting State, showing in Gallery I at The Mill as part of SALA Festival.

About the exhibition

The Mill is excited to present A Resting State, a new exhibition curated by resident artist Hamish Fleming, featuring work by Hamish Fleming, George Gilles, Anthea Jones, Robert Viner Jones and Billy Oakley. In A Resting State artists have used the medium of painting as a device to create mood and atmosphere within everyday environments. Self-taught artist and now emerging curator, Hamish, has worked closely with the artists to develop an exhibition environment that is rich with feeling through the use of lighting, texture and colour.

  • H. Fleming is a contemporary realist painter currently based in Adelaide (Kaurna Country), South Australia. Fleming is a self-taught artist, working closely both with and against the long-standing traditions of realism. He works solely from life, without the use of any reference photos, to convey the subtler elements of the human experience through frequently mundane subject matter. Fleming’s practice draws upon many influences, ranging from the classical masters and post-modernism, to gothic and dirty realism literature. In 2023 Hamish has been a finalist in the Bluethumb Art Prize, Centre for Creative Health Art Prize, and Smallacombe Prize, and winner of the Young Artist Category, Adelaide Parklands Art Prize.

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Artist talk: Alyssa Powell-Ascura, Halo-halo

Adele Sliuzas ·

Alyssa Powell-Ascura in her studio as part of the Delima Residency, presented in cooperation with the Mahmood Martin Foundation. Photo: Daniel Marks.

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When: Friday, July 26, 5:30-6:30pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

  • 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.

Join Alyssa Powell-Ascura and The Mill's Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas for a chat about her exhibition Halo-halo, showing in Gallery II at The Mill as part of SALA Festival.

About the exhibition

The Mill is excited to present Halo-halo, a new exhibition by Alyssa Powell-Ascura developed through the Delima Residency in Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia and at The Mill. Alyssa explores her Filipino heritage and her experience of undertaking the residency in Malaysia through video, installation, photography and personal essays. Her work touches on multi-sensory experiences, bringing audiences into the act of kamayan - a traditional Filipino method of eating with bare hands. She invites audiences to immerse and participate within her installation environment. Photographs evoke the lush, humid environment at Rimbun Dahan and create a conversation between Alyssa’s experience in Malaysia, her ancestral home in Pilipinas (The Philippines) and growing up here in ‘Australia’

Halo-halo is presented in cooperation with the Mahmood Martin Foundation.

  • A self titled “slashie”, Alyssa Powell-Ascura is a multi-hyphenated creative. Proud to have grown up in Bundjalung country in a Filipino-Italian-Australian household, she has a background that has given her an interesting, layered perspective on the world.

    Alyssa works across a variety of artistic mediums including: writing, conceptual art, immersive installation, traditional and mixed digital media, just to name a few.

    Her personal belief in the interconnected relationship of humans to nature drives her to pursue advocating better care of ourselves and our Earth. A finalist of the inaugural SA Environment Awards 2023, she is nominated for her environmental advocacy and using her platform as an emerging creative to promote sustainability and inspire young people.

    Motivated to bridge a deeper understanding and connection of Indigenous Philippines and pre colonial Indigenous Australia, Alyssa aims to be actively involved in the intersections she is a part of.

    Her creative work has been featured in a variety of local and international publications such as: Local Brown Baby (US), Kindling and Sage magazine (AU), Blank Street Press (AU) and The Philippine Times (AU). She has been published in The Entree.Pinays' anthology "The Calamansi Story: Filipino Migrants in Australia".

    If she’s not talking to the local Aunties and writing about food and culture, she can be found by the beach patting puppies who stop by to say hello.

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This project has support from

 
 
 

The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency is presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation

 
 
 

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Workshop: Kain Tayo [let's eat] with Alyssa Powell-Ascura

Adele Sliuzas ·

Artwork: Sari Sari Store, Alyssa Powell-Ascura. Photo: Daniel Marks.

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When: Sunday, July 21, 12-3pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $45 (+booking fee)

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

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

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

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

Join artist Alyssa Powell-Ascura for a relaxed lunch gathering where you’ll learn about Alyssa’s approach to art-making through the lens of food, family and culture.

Experience making your own halo-halo, learning about Filipino food through the act of kamayan (eating with hands) and feast through a curated menu featuring iconic Filipino food favourites.

This workshop is presented as part of Alyssa's solo exhibition Halo-halo, currently showing at The Mill in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation.

What to expect:

Seated within Alyssa's exhibition, guests will be served traditional Filipino dishes and learn about Kamayan (eating with hands). All food provided, and the bar will be available to purchase wines from Hither & Yon and take home a complimentary Mama Sita’s package to recreate Filipino dishes at home.

Dietary note:

Vegan options available.

  • A self titled “slashie”, Alyssa Powell-Ascura is a multi-hyphenated creative. Proud to have grown up in Bundjalung country in a Filipino-Italian-Australian household, she has a background that has given her an interesting, layered perspective on the world.

    Alyssa works across a variety of artistic mediums including: writing, conceptual art, immersive installation, traditional and mixed digital media, just to name a few.

    Her personal belief in the interconnected relationship of humans to nature drives her to pursue advocating better care of ourselves and our Earth. A finalist of the inaugural SA Environment Awards 2023, she is nominated for her environmental advocacy and using her platform as an emerging creative to promote sustainability and inspire young people.

    Motivated to bridge a deeper understanding and connection of Indigenous Philippines and pre colonial Indigenous Australia, Alyssa aims to be actively involved in the intersections she is a part of.

    Her creative work has been featured in a variety of local and international publications such as: Local Brown Baby (US), Kindling and Sage magazine (AU), Blank Street Press (AU) and The Philippine Times (AU). She has been published in The Entree.Pinays' anthology "The Calamansi Story: Filipino Migrants in Australia".

    If she’s not talking to the local Aunties and writing about food and culture, she can be found by the beach patting puppies who stop by to say hello.

read more about the exhibition

This project has support from

 
 
 

The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency is presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation

 
 
 

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Exhibition: Alyssa Powell-Ascura, Halo-halo

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Alyssa Powell-Ascura, Kain Tayo, 2023-24, photo: Louis Bullock

June 3 - August 23, 2024

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Finissage: Friday August 23, 4:30-6:30pm

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The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Halo-halo 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 excited to present Halo-halo, a new exhibition by Alyssa Powell-Ascura developed through the Delima Residency in Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, and at The Mill. Alyssa explores her Filipino heritage and her experience of undertaking the residency in Malaysia through video, installation, photography and personal essays. Her work touches on multi-sensory experiences, bringing audiences into the act of kamayan- a traditional Filipino method of eating with bare hands. She invites audiences to immerse and participate within her installation environment. Photographs evoke the lush, humid environment at Rimbun Dahan and create a conversation between Alyssa’s experience in Malaysia, her ancestral home in Pilipinas (The Philippines) and growing up here in ‘Australia’

Halo-halo is presented in cooperation with the Mahmood Martin Foundation and with support from Creative Australia.

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  • Halo-halo (loose translation mix-mix or mixed) is the name of a popular Filipino shaved ice dessert made by layering a concoction of various ingredients. Each layer of different traditional toppings can be eaten one by one, or usually mixed, eventually combining into a sweetened dessert.

    As an emerging multi-hyphenate artist, my first major solo exhibition at The Mill shows my investigation of cultures and the intersections I find myself in as an Asian Australian; a halo-halo of identities, the overarching theme of the exhibition.

    Through the lens of food, family and culture, the audience is welcomed to a seat at the table, weaving together threads of tradition, memory, and contemporary discourse into a rich tapestry of multi-sensory experiences. Much like halo-halo, the exhibition showcases diverse works that are experimental in nature that you can consume on its own — and then all together, creating a mouthful of complementing ideas.

    Some of the works showcased in “Halo-Halo” draw inspiration from living indigenous practices, for example, the act of kamayan seen in the video work Kain Tayo, employ the method of eating food with your hands, where communal feasting becomes a metaphor for shared experiences and collective consideration.

    Central to my artistic vision is the conscious incorporation of repurposed or found items. Everyday items common in Filipino households, such as the ubiquitous kumot or blanket, serve as anchors, becoming symbols of resilience and adaptation; ultimately interrogating the assignment of value of these otherwise ordinary items when shown in a gallery setting.

    During the Malaysian part of my Delima Residency, I engaged directly with community members, witnessed rural rituals, and embarked on a personal journey. This immersive experience deepened my connection to my Filipino lineage, shaping the spiritual dimension of my artistic practice.

    Halo-halo is more than an exhibition — it is a celebration of the fifth largest migrant community in Australia whose ties to Indigenous Australia transcend pre-colonial times. It is an extension of myself, my unapologetic love letter to my Filipino ancestry and Australian upbringing.

  • A self titled “slashie”, Alyssa Powell-Ascura is a multi-hyphenated creative. Proud to have grown up in Bundjalung country in a Filipino-Italian-Australian household, she has a background that has given her an interesting, layered perspective on the world.

    Alyssa works across a variety of artistic mediums including: writing, conceptual art, immersive installation, traditional and mixed digital media, just to name a few.

    Her personal belief in the interconnected relationship of humans to nature drives her to pursue advocating better care of ourselves and our Earth. A finalist of the inaugural SA Environment Awards 2023, she is nominated for her environmental advocacy and using her platform as an emerging creative to promote sustainability and inspire young people.

    Motivated to bridge a deeper understanding and connection of Indigenous Philippines and pre colonial Indigenous Australia, Alyssa aims to be actively involved in the intersections she is a part of.

    Her creative work has been featured in a variety of local and international publications such as: Local Brown Baby (US), Kindling and Sage magazine (AU), Blank Street Press (AU) and The Philippine Times (AU). She has been published in The Entree.Pinays' anthology "The Calamansi Story: Filipino Migrants in Australia".

    If she’s not talking to the local Aunties and writing about food and culture, she can be found by the beach patting puppies who stop by to say hello.

This exhibition has support from

 
 
 

The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency is presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation

 
 
 

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Exhibition: A Resting State, Curated by Hamish Fleming

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Hamish Fleming

June 3 - August 23, 2024

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Artist Talk: Friday August 9, 5:30-6:30pm

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The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find A Resting State 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 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.

Hamish Fleming, George Gilles, Anthea Jones, Robert Viner Jones and Billy Oakley

The Mill is excited to present A Resting State, a new exhibition curated by resident artist Hamish Fleming, featuring work by Hamish Fleming, George Gilles, Anthea Jones, Robert Viner Jones and Billy Oakley. In A Resting State artists have used the medium of painting as a device to create mood and atmosphere within everyday environments. Self-taught artist and now emerging curator, Hamish, has worked closely with the artists to develop an exhibition environment that is rich with feeling through the use of lighting, texture and colour.

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  • A Resting State explores the relationship between the individual and their routine environment. Five artists working across different mediums and traditions have created works from mundane domestic settings. By focusing on what is, at first glance, incredibly simple subject matter, each of these works delve into the subtler elements of image making to take these common surroundings and bring forth their potential to reflect contemporary experience. From more traditional realism to dark, vibrant expressionism and even crisp nonrepresentational works, A Resting State is a visual demonstration of how the mental experience impacts our perception of daily life.

 

About the artists:

  • Artist statement

    Domestic settings and household objects are not uncommon in my work. The visual symptoms of who we are and what we’re like behind closed doors fascinates me. Habits, rituals and vices are intrinsically intimate when addressed rather bluntly. My work is painted solely from life, and I attempt to address my subjects earnestly, often gravitating towards darker, grungier subject matter. These five works address the domestic environment, specifically mine, in two different emotional tones. The works; Sink, Again and Just Don’t Think of it So Much, open with on a darker tone. Despite their more sullen nature, there’s a comfort to be found in each, however; its cold comfort at best. Flat, Exterior, Late depicts my personal residence, observed from the outside in later hours of the night. Possessing both sinister qualities and a strangely inviting allure, the work presents this environment with foreboding welcome. Contrastingly, A Gentle Steep and Off the Clock are imbued with tenderness and a quiet warmth, shifting from the more solemn, gritty nature I typically present my work in. Objects huddled up and tucked closely together present an emotional intimacy, and a sense of comfort in company.

    Biography

    H. Fleming is a contemporary realist painter currently based in Adelaide (Kaurna Country), South Australia. Fleming is a self-taught artist, working closely both with and against the long-standing traditions of realism. He works solely from life, without the use of any reference photos, to convey the subtler elements of the human experience through frequently mundane subject matter. Fleming’s practice draws upon many influences, ranging from the classical masters and post-modernism, to gothic and dirty realism literature. In 2023 Hamish has been a finalist in the Bluethumb Art Prize, Centre for Creative Health Art Prize, and Smallacombe Prize, and winner of the Young Artist Category, Adelaide Parklands Art Prize.

    https://hflemingartist.squarespace.com/

  • Artist statement

    My ongoing body of work is an allegory for the collective human experience of fear instinct, the feeling just before the bad thing happens. My paintings explore the feeling of your stomach dropping just before the smoke screen is lifted. I have developed two series for this exhibition. The first is a departure from my previous larger scale post-modern expressionist works. I wanted to explore how more realistic form rendering and recognisable subject matter affects the audience's ability to relate to the work. Objects appear in and out of a dark background, emphasising the dichotomy between the mundane and uncomfortable. I have worked in many layers over time to achieve a representational, yet grimy atmosphere. The scenes were constructed in a cardboard box and lit by a single candle’s flame. I wanted to communicate the feeling of a precipice, a silent edge hidden within the normal everyday. Fruit is just about to topple and crash out of the composition, glass that could cut you, a glinting out-of-place corkscrew forced into an apple, forks jabbed into sliced lemons contrasted with pretty ribbons and high chroma, complementary colours.

    Building on from the first series, the works in the second series get larger, forcing the audience to stand further back and absorb the more complicated scenes. Dramatic candle light is still used, and the paintings still have sections of intense colour, but are now overall darker, dirtier and less reliant on simpler impressionistic colour-blocking. My rendering techniques shift to deliberate areas of lose, textural brush strokes contrasting against smooth blends, a palette knife was also introduced to diversify mark making. Scenes reflect potential danger: unlit matches next to a wooden doll, a precarious palette knife covered in red paint that looks like blood, perched, teetering glassware, random pins piercing the paintings. Items that could hurt you but usually don’t. The second series also has a personal undercurrent, each painting representing a conflict either with my internal thoughts or external interpersonal interactions. The lined paper within the jar of ‘Love, George x’ is a handwritten letter addressing a disagreement I had with someone. Despite my intentions I never delivered the letter.

    Biography

    George Gilles is a painter and tattoo artist from Adelaide, South Australia. In 2016 she was awarded a state merit for visual art and continued to pursue a career in the industry, winning the Emerging Artist awards from both The Prospect Portrait Prize and Urban Cow Art Prize. Since then she has been part of The Carclew Sharehouse Residency, presented her debut solo exhibition 'The Way Home' and has co-founded Adelaide Arcade’s first tattoo studio, The Gilded Goblin.

    George’s painting practice is driven by her desire to communicate emotional nuance through figurative works as well as inanimate objects and food. Currently, she is creating a body of work that pays homage to the traditional Dutch still life movement whilst also exploring personification and profundity of inanimate objects.

    https://www.instagram.com/georgegilles_tattoo/

  • Artist statement

    As an adult and an artist, where I lived and where I created were often one space, indeterminate of boundary, where did one end and the other begin? However, as a child there was never a doubt, my home was also my studio and gallery - my whole world. Home and the domestic was, and continues to be a constant source of comfort and inspiration. My two main paintings in this exhibition represent my earliest memory of deciding I would be an artist to finishing my art studies many years later!

    From around age 4 or so I would constantly be found playing (hiding) alone behind the couch, in my own little world. Drawing and making: creating whatever I could with all the bits and pieces from around the house. Always engaged, never bored, learning and developing new skills. Nothing has changed - 60 years later I am still doing the same thing, just not behind the couch!

    My painting The artist’s studio aged 6 - they ARE flowers mum! represents my earliest memory, deciding to be an artist. My mum was horrified at the drawing I insisted was flowers and not spiders. It did prompt the purchase of my first set of water paints and maybe started my subsequent lifelong love of colour theory and flora - who knows! It was also my first awareness of the idea that not everyone sees things the same way and I became more interested in representing things with a degree of accuracy.

    My painting The artist’s kitchen aged 60 - anatomy and teacup follows this trajectory through to finishing my art studies. Although I now have a designated studio my art paraphernalia still infiltrates my living space. Whilst studying anatomy there were numerous skulls, skeletons and écorché models casually resting amongst the teacups and the milk jug. As an artist these objects were my normal- their shapes, colours, the shadows they projected and the atmosphere they created mixed in with the detritus of my regular everyday world.

    Biography

    Anthea Jones is a visual artist and inveterate maker. Born in Millicent, now living in Adelaide, her formal qualifications include an Advanced Diploma in Visual and Applied Art, North Adelaide School of Art, a Graduate Diploma in Management (Arts), UniSA and a Graduate Certificate in Art History (Australian Colonial and Modern), University of Adelaide. In 2023, Anthea received the award of a Diploma in Atelier Art, Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism, Adelaide (an accredited atelier with the International Art Renewal Centre).

    Supplementing her formal studies, she has also attended numerous masterclasses at Adelaide Central School, summer school at the London Academy of Realist Art and life painting with acclaimed contemporary artist Shane Wolf in Yorkshire, UK. After the disappointment of a cancelled three months study at the New York Academy in 2020, Anthea was invited to and will be attending, a one-month residency at Chateaux d’Orqueveaux in France in June 2024.

    Anthea has successfully participated in numerous local and interstate art exhibitions and competitions and has had photographs of her works published. While her art training and focus has been on figurative oil painting and drawing, she also enjoys creating with textiles, mixed media, paper and found objects. Anthea is enthralled by the principles, elements and techniques incumbent in developing an artistic piece.

    https://antheajonesartist.com/

  • Artist Statement

    Working in fashion design brought me to painting, it was how I relaxed. I love the precision of painting circles. I've worked with colour all my life and have developed a reasonably sharp eye for hue and will spend hours considering shades etc. The bright colours, the defined shapes - it connects with my love of mid 20th century design, which I reference within my printmaking practice. Plus there is something about multitudes of shapes, a plethora of colour I enjoy - I think of these works as a herd of dots.

    Each colour is defined, there is no bleed between the images and I paint multiple layers to add a depth and intensity. Having come back to painting after practicing as a screen printer, I’ve found that I have wrestled with the texture. I’ve been thinking about how to make it flat, how to get rid of the texture. I’ve remembered how I achieved this years ago and yet now, I have also grown to love the texture and instead, have embraced the brush strokes.

    I am inspired by Joseph Albers and Bauhaus design. I have a book of Josef’s which I have regularly referenced for about 20 years. The blues, the greys and the stone are a nod those Bauhaus colours. I’ve added a pop of red, it's like a ruby. I usually use bright colours, so the curatorial brief for this exhibition has pushed me out of my comfort zone. My second work is a bit brighter, naughtily pushing back against the boundaries of the curatorial rationale.

    Biography

    Robert Viner Jones (AKA Bob Window) is a contemporary printer/painter based in Adelaide (Kaurna Country). Robert’s works offer bold, uncompromising graphics - stark and confident in their nature. Trained in Sydney, obsessed with design and colour, Robert’s works draw heavily on fearlessness of mid 20th century design plus an unbridled willingness to simply paint and print things that make him smile.

    https://bobwindow.com.au/

  • Artist Statement

    My works are representational and figurative explorations of the subconscious. I like to use narratives, people and places sourced from my life. The imagery of naive childish spooky dreams and silly fears rest at the bottom of the subconscious of the artist, here they are brought to the surface to be seen in their curiously cute seriousness and sulky playground dissatisfaction. I use deeply rich, bold and unnatural colours to illuminate solitary figures in their own environments, blurring the line between real and surreal. My work focuses on people and the deep personal mental worlds they create, how they exist within those spaces and the relationship outside reality has with this space.

    Biography

    Billy Oakley is a South Australian Artist exploring the subconscious through narrative imagery, people and place through his oil paintings. 
The imagery of naive childish spooky dreams and silly fears rest at the bottom of the subconscious, and here they are brought to the surface to be seen in their curiously cute sulky seriousness. Billy has exhibited at Floating Goose, Urban Cow, Collective Haunt, Brunswick Street Gallery, Mixed Spice Studios and The Mill.

    https://www.billyoakley.com/

 
 

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Workshop: Storytelling through Photography with Chris Siu

Adele Sliuzas ·

Artwork: Hong Kong Grocery - Adelaide South Australia, Chris Siu, 2022.

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Workshop

When: Saturday, April 20, 12:30pm-3:30pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $33 (+booking fee)

  • This workshop will include walking around Adelaide CBD.

    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.

Join artist Chris Siu for a walking photography workshop. Learn about Chris’s approach to crafting narratives through sequences of photographs, focusing on the development of a visual language rather than individual images. Bring your own digital camera (camera phone, digital camera) and take a walk along Angas Street to the iconic Central Markets, collecting images and building a narrative.

What to expect:

The workshop will start at The Mill on Angas Street with an introduction from Chris and an opportunity to view his exhibition Riot on an Empty Street. Participants will be given the opportunity to devise a ‘mood’ or ‘theme’ for their series before walking with the group along Angas Street to the Central Markets on Gouger Street.

Participants will spend some time taking photos on their own devices, focusing on everyday life and following intuition. We will then return to The Mill for refreshments and to share with the group. The workshop will include an opportunity to chat about the photographs taken and to share the stories and narratives created through the photographic series.

Experience level:

No experience necessary. Participants must bring their own digital camera and must know how to operate it (no technical support will be provided about camera settings etc.) Some walking is required, please get in touch if you have any accessibility questions.

  • Chris Siu is a Hong Kong-born photographic artist living and working on Kaurna Yerta in Tarntanya Adelaide. Informed by the traditions of documentary photography, Chris’s work investigates and chronicles the intricate relationships that lie within his surrounding social landscapes. Chris’s practice is profoundly influenced by the flux of sociopolitical happenings in his homeland Hong Kong and his ever-changing place within it. Through exploring notions of layered histories and geopolitics, Chris’s work seeks to offer a reflection on personal and communal experience, pivoting around representations of civil unrest, diasporic experience, cultural displacement and marginality within contemporary existence.

    Chris has exhibited throughout Australia, beginning with his feature at the 2019 Head On Photo Festival. Subsequently, he has exhibited at venues including Nexus Arts, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, Centre for Contemporary Photography, and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.

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The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency is presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation

 
 
 

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Artist Talk: Chris Siu, Riot on an Empty Street

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photos: Daniel Marks

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Artist Talk

Friday, April 12, 5:30-6:30pm

Gallery I, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Riot on an Empty Street 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 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.

Join Chris Siu and The Mill's Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas for a chat about his new exhibition 'Riot on an Empty Street', now showing in Gallery I at The Mill. 

Chris Siu developed Riot on an Empty Street as part of The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency program presented in cooperation with the Mahmood Martin Foundation.

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Exhibition: Chris Siu, Riot on an Empty Street

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Chris Siu, Tattoo of a Wilting Bauhinia - Adelaide, South Australia, (detail), 2023, from the series Then We Keep Living Vol. 2. Courtesy of the artist.

February 5 - May 17, 2024

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Artist talk: Friday 5 April 5:30-6:30pm

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The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Riot on an Empty Street 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 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 excited to present Riot on an Empty Street, a new exhibition of photographs by Chris Siu derived from his ongoing project Then We Keep Living. Through medium format analogue photography, Chris explores his relationship with his homeland, Hong Kong. The work navigates the experience of mass civil unrest, as experienced in Hong Kong and living in diaspora here in Australia. The powerful images give the viewer a sense of dis-ease and tension, incorporating protest, the body, signifiers of colonial and authoritarian resistance and the political power of the masses contrasted with bone-aching isolation associated with cultural displacement, marginalisation and disconnection. Chris’ approach to image-making is cultural and academic as well as deeply feeling and intuitive. He offers us a very personal entry point into a political situation that many have observed through the cycles of journalism. 

Chris Siu developed Riot on an Empty Street as part of The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency program presented in cooperation with the Mahmood Martin Foundation.

  • My residency at The Mill has been dedicated to developing the long-term photography project titled Then We Keep Living. The project navigates my relationship with Hong Kong through a two-volume narrative presented in medium format analogue photography. This exploration takes place against the backdrop of the 2019 mass civil unrest in Hong Kong, followed by my life in diaspora here in Australia.

    The two respective volumes delve into representations of dispossession and defiance amidst the city’s ongoing socio-political transformation, contrasting with poignant reflections on diasporic experience and its isolating facets associated with cultural displacement, marginalisation, and disconnection. The project stands as a testament to the nuanced interplay of political dilemmas, self-discovery, and the frequently overlooked, profound repercussions of civil unrest.

  • Chris Siu is a Hong Kong-born photographic artist living and working on Kaurna Yerta in Tarntanya Adelaide. Informed by the traditions of documentary photography, Chris’s work investigates and chronicles the intricate relationships that lie within his surrounding social landscapes. Chris’s practice is profoundly influenced by the flux of sociopolitical happenings in his homeland Hong Kong and his ever-changing place within it. Through exploring notions of layered histories and geopolitics, Chris’s work seeks to offer a reflection on personal and communal experience, pivoting around representations of civil unrest, diasporic experience, cultural displacement and marginality within contemporary existence.

    Chris has exhibited throughout Australia, beginning with his feature at the 2019 Head On Photo Festival. Subsequently, he has exhibited at venues including Nexus Arts, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, Centre for Contemporary Photography, and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.

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The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency is presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation

 
 
 

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Exhibition: Liliana Pasalic, Multiverse

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Courtesy of the artist

February 5 - May 17, 2024

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Exhibition opening: Friday, February 9, 5:30-7:30pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Multiverse 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 excited to present Multiverse, a new exhibition by Adelaide-based artist Liliana Pasalic. This exhibition presents a selection of new tapestries in tufted yarn on monk cloth. The work builds on Liliana’s former career in industrial design, as well as her practice in the visual arts, including painting. She skillfully uses the three-dimensional tufting in a way that is suggestive of abstract painting, combining positive and negative space with an adept use of colour and texture. She has also included a large tapestry-and-light-based installation pushing the medium to new and contemporary realms. The work draws on Liliana’s knowledge of contemporary and historical textile and tapestry practices, and imbues seriousness alongside humour in her art. 

  • Multiverse explores the translation of visual cultural material into tapestry. I have collected a lot of photographic source materials of pasted-up posters in the urban environments of the three cities where I have lived: Adelaide, London and Zagreb. Within these photographs I find and extract motifs, formed by the ripped posters, degraded by weather and also remnant graphic elements. This exhibition is a woven visual library, an attempt to alchemize my familiar psychologically mapped home environments into one visual poem. I invite the viewer to observe urban debris in their own immediate environments and hopefully be inspired to use it in their creative projects. This body of work is a continuation of my previous work in broader themes of home and crossing borders between mediums. The exhibition aims to offer a contemporary take on non-traditional/neglected mediums of contemporary tapestry and contemporary painting. For this exhibition I am using only compostable materials of wool, wood and cotton monk cloth, which is in alignment with environmental aspects of The Mill's vision. The exhibition is one possible way of blurring disciplines and mediums and contemplating history of art.

  • Liliana Pasalic has a background and formal education in industrial design, which organically transmuted into a full-time art practice over the last decade. Her practice centers on painting and tapestry while drawing from design recollections and blurring the boundaries between these vaguely intertwined forms. Pasalic’s work delves into art history, identity, the subconscious and relationships. Occupying the realm between abstraction and figuration, it references women’s roles, stereotypical suburban depictions, and iconic symbols infused with her individual outlook, both as creator and observer. Over the last 20 years she has exhibited design and artwork in solo and group shows around the world, including Zagreb, Ljubljana, New York, Bruxelles, Vienna, Adelaide, Jerusalem, Canberra. Pasalic is represented by Studio Gallery in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and The Nada Gallery in Sydney. In 2023 she was a resident in The Mill as well as chosen as a finalist in the National Capital Art Prize in Canberra.

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Finissage: Alice Hu, 柔韧的骨头 (Annealed Bone) and Chantal Henley, Gulayi

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Courtesy of the artist

Finissage

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Friday, January 19, 4:30-6:30pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Gulayi and Annealed Bone in The Mill Exhibition Spaces, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

    Accessibility

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

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

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

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

The Mill invites you to join us for the closing event of Gulayi by Chantal Helnley and Alice Hu's 柔韧的骨头 (Annealed Bone) and join Alice for a chat about her work.

 
 
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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase, Alice Hu, 柔韧的骨头 [Annealed Bone]

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Courtesy of the artist

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December 8, 2023 - January 19, 2024

Exhibition opening: Thursday, December 7, 5-7pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Hamish and Juliane’s work in The Mill Showcase Space, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

    Accessibility

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

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

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

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

The Mill is excited to present 柔韧的骨头 [Annealed Bone], a new Showcase exhibition by previous studio resident Alice Hu. The exhibition features new work in ceramic, glass and metal, some of which have been developed by Alice while she undertook the George Street Studio Residency, supported by Helpmann Academy.

Alice’s multi-disciplinary practice is conceptually and materially rich, exploring themes of immigration, acculturation and complex understandings of self. Sculptural works offer the comfort of familiar materials, smooth ceramic and glistening glass. However, Alice reframes materiality through sometimes strange assemblages, de-and-re-constructions, and a complex aesthetic unique to her practice.

The Mill Showcase is a gallery space dedicated to artists who work in studio spaces at our Angas Street location, exhibiting some of the artworks that have been produced under our roof. The Mill Showcase profiles our artists, so that you can put a face to the name and get to know some of our dedicated makers.

  • Alice Hu is an emerging artist with an Honours of Contemporary Art and Design, living and working on Kaurna Land, Adelaide. They work across mediums including ceramics, glass, painting, tattooing, and installation, drawing from lived experiences to explore concepts of multiculturalism, equality, freedom, life and nature. Her current practice is deeply influenced by her unique background and cultural art-form.

    The use of ceramics stems from an interest in philosophy, childhood stories and mythologies. Alice aims to create art forms with multicultural aesthetics to promote the beauty and necessity of a diverse society while investigating how different cultures interact. Alice has participated in multiple art programs, over-sea experience and workshop across USA, Italy, New Zealand, Japan and China, and have been apart of exhibitions in Adelaide including Bridge (The Main Gallery, 2021), Kaleidoscope (Praxis Art Space, 2021), Pendulum (Nexus Arts, 2022), VASL (Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, 2023) and currently has a studio residency at George Street Studio and was a studio artist at The Mill.

  • In my exhibition at The Mill, recycled metal and broken ceramics have found their second life together. The two distinctly different mediums has a strong character on their own and tells its unique story being together that forms a life and journey. The work has been welded, and the material have been carefully arranged to create an interesting and unique aesthetic. The different shapes, textures and colours of the ceramic and metal pieces interact with each other to create a dialogue between the two materials. The combination of the two materials creates a dynamic composition that is both visually appealing and emotionally evocative, it is very inspiring and a sentimental moment to see your broken, once shattered work to be alive again.

    Through the George street residency I sought to learn more skills that can help me define my concepts and to build artworks that can express my story. For my recent group exhibition, ‘Pendulum’ in Nexus Arts Gallery, I was supported by the Helpmann Academy’s Creative Boost Grant, and created several large ceramic works. As I worked on large ceramic sculptures, over 1 metre in height, I experienced lots of technical issues. It was not only a difficult process to make such large works, but I also encountered a number of problems during the drying and firing processes. One of the most unexpected, but ultimately fortuitous, outcomes was that the two large works exploded in the kiln during the firing process. It was a shocked like no other when I opened the kiln, but I then came to understand the resemblance between the broken work and my immigration experience, the world fell apart on me when I found out I had to move and leave everything I used to know behind. It was devastating, but yet an inseparable part of my life and my experience. The ceramic works were represented in the exhibition at Nexus as shattered pieces, and this process of breaking, rethinking, and “reassembling” became essential to actually ‘finishing’ the work.

    As I continue to develop as an artist and a person with a multicultural background, I have learnt more about the cultural history of both countries I have called home throughout my life, China and Australia. I realised how my unique aesthetics built from my multicultural background is at the core of my practice. As much as I loved this broken work and its strong impact on me, I need to further develop this concept.

    I have re-constructed myself and build works with my complex aesthetics, by combining these seemly irrelevent materials. As much as the shattering and breaking is what made this installation meaningful, it was essential for me to learn how to bring the pieces back together. I created this standing work, which acknowledges that while the pieces are still broken, they have been reassembled in reference to the re-construction of an identity after traumatizing experience or damage.

    These works were created mainly with the support from my George Street Studios Residency (through Helpmann Academy )

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Finissage: The Mill Showcase, Hamish Fleming and Juliane Brandt

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Courtesy of the artist

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Exhibition Finissage

Friday, December 1, 4:30-7pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Hamish and Juliane’s work in The Mill Showcase Space, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

    Accessibility

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

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

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

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

Join us for a drink and to commemorate the closing of Hamish Fleming and Juliane Brandt’s fantastic Showcase exhibition.

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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase, Hamish Fleming and Juliane Brandt

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Courtesy of the artist

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October 20 - December 1, 2023

Exhibition opening: Friday, October 27, 5:30-7:30pm

Finissage: Friday December 1, 4:30-6:30pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

  • You can find Hamish and Juliane’s work in The Mill Showcase Space, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

    Accessibility

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

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

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

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

The Mill is excited to present a new Showcase exhibition featuring work by Hamish Fleming and Juliane Brandt. Hamish’s oil paintings are moody and evocative, capturing narrative elements within his life - studio still life’s, discarded studies on the green velvet chaise lounge, the artist's shoes. Juliane’s sculptural work situates small clay figures and busts as the head of burnt matches, speaking about the power of fire to burn, but also to regenerate.  

The Mill Showcase is a gallery space dedicated to artists who work in studio spaces at our Angas Street location, exhibiting some of the artworks that have been produced under our roof. The Mill Showcase profiles our artists, so that you can put a face to the name and get to know some of our dedicated makers.

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  • Hamish Fleming is a contemporary realist painter currently based in Adelaide (Kaurna Country). Fleming is self-taught, working both with and against the long-standing traditions of realism. In 2023 Hamish has been a finalist in the Bluethumb Art Prize, Centre for Creative Health Art Prize, and Smallacombe Prize, and winner of the Young Artist Category, Adelaide Parklands Art Prize.

    Artist Statement

    My practice draws upon many influences, ranging from the classical masters and post-modernism, to gothic and dirty realism literature. I work solely from life, to convey the subtler elements of the human experience through frequently mundane subject matter.

  • Juliane Brandt is a figurative sculptor, her artworks are an invitation for the viewer to engage and discover intricate facial expressions that visualise an interaction with the surroundings.

    Born in Berlin, Germany, and based in Adelaide since 2022, Juliane´s work evolved from a long process of studies and experiments formed by different influences. Throughout her life, she was able to experiment with many different materials and artistic forms, further developing her skills by gaining extensive practical experience during her Art & Design studies in Berlin and London.

    Juliane has presented her art in various exhibitions across Europe. Her artwork is on permanent display in different venues and also found in private collections. In 2023, she received a People’s Choice Award at the ‘Sculpture in the Garden’ Exhibition at Wollongong Botanic Garden, NSW.

    Artist Statement

    The Enlightened by Nature Series represents the celebration of life and nature through subtle expressions that become evident upon closer inspection.

    My work draws attention to the fragility of nature and the ability to regenerate when given the opportunity and place. Fire management, known as ‘cultural burning’, is part of how First Nations people protect their land, plants and animals. Controlled fires allow the land to rejuvenate and many plants to thrive.

    Symbolised by a simple tool – a matchstick – that becomes truly unique once it is lit, this piece of art celebrates the natural life cycle, the way we exist, interact and adapt to our environment – the foundation for the diversity of nature. They received a People’s Choice Award at the ‘Sculpture in the Garden’ Exhibition at Wollongong Botanic Garden in 2023.

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Exhibition: Chantal Henley, Gulayí [Woven Vessel]

Adele Sliuzas ·

Image: Courtesy of the artist

October 20, 2023 - January 19, 2024

Artist talk tickets

Exhibition opening: Friday, October 27, 5:30-7:30pm

Artist Talk: Friday, December 1, 5:30pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

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

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

    Accessibility

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

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

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

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

The Mill is excited to present Gulayí [Woven Vessel], a new exhibition by Quandamooka and Mununjali artist Chantal Henley as part of Tarnanthi 2023. Working with textiles, Chantal explores body adornment through garments, sculpture, dance and film, embedding her connection to her Grandmother’s country and her own experience as a mother.

 
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  • Gulayí [Woven Vessel] is a gathering of exclusively hand woven, hand printed garments and body adornments that highlight the prominence of retaining and reclaiming language, dance, song and design.

    Embellished in gathered fibers, up cycled fabrics, shells, feathers and clay, Gulayí features custom prints that are a direct tribute to my Quandamooka and Mununjali kinship, paying homage to Country and Water through woven techniques reclaimed through the many Gulayí makers that carry and contain the stories of our Elders.

  • Chantal Henley is an Artist & Designer from the Ngugi and Mununjali clans of the Quandamooka and Yugambeh peoples of South - East Queensland.

    From an early age, Chantal connected to culture through Dance and Song and soon became familiar with textiles through both of her Grandmothers, encouraging her to learn various techniques and explore fabrics and fibres.

    Through a brief stay at design school, she explored western design fundamentals and obtained insight into the production and manufacturing processes within the textile and fashion industry, soon deciding to journey elsewhere with her creativity.

    Henley credits her time with master weavers and their unconditional effort to exchange with her through kinship and storytelling, contributing to her ability to regain and retain those Gulayí songlines.

    Chantal carries her strong message of connection and retaining ancestral skills and techniques through her woven Gulayí (bag, vessel) and hand painted Ungarie (Swamp Reed) prints included in her collections and body of work, paying homage to her Mununjali and Ngugi songlines.

    Her textiles and body adornments have been showcased and exhibited by Artisan, National Gallery of Australia, Redland Art Gallery, Jam Factory, Art Gallery Gold Coast and Cairns Indigenous Arts Fair, including publications such as Peppermint & RUSSH Magazine.

    Henley is currently based in Tarntanyangga (Adelaide) Kaurna Yerta with her partner and children.

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Artist Talk: Chantal Henley, Gulayí [Woven Vessel]

Adele Sliuzas ·

Photo: Courtesy of the artist.

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Artist Talk

December 1, 5:30-6pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free

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

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

    Accessibility

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

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

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

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

Join Quandamooka and Mununjali artist Chantal Henley for an intimate Artist Talk, discussing her exhibition Gulayí [Woven Vessel] as part of Tarnanthi 2023.

  • Gulayí (Woven Vessel) is a gathering of exclusively hand woven, hand printed garments and body adornments that highlight the prominence of retaining and reclaiming language, dance, song and design.

    Embellished in gathered fibers, up cycled fabrics, shells, feathers and clay, Gulayí features custom prints that are a direct tribute to my Quandamooka and Mununjali kinship, paying homage to Country and Water through woven techniques reclaimed through the many Gulayí makers that carry and contain the stories of our Elders.

  • Chantal Henley is an Artist & Designer from the Ngugi and Mununjali clans of the Quandamooka and Yugambeh peoples of South - East Queensland.

    From an early age, Chantal connected to culture through Dance and Song and soon became familiar with textiles through both of her Grandmothers, encouraging her to learn various techniques and explore fabrics and fibres.

    Through a brief stay at design school, she explored western design fundamentals and obtained insight into the production and manufacturing processes within the textile and fashion industry, soon deciding to journey elsewhere with her creativity.

    Henley credits her time with master weavers and their unconditional effort to exchange with her through kinship and storytelling, contributing to her ability to regain and retain those Gulayi songlines.

    Chantal carries her strong message of connection and retaining ancestral skills and techniques through her woven Gulayi (bag, vessel) and hand painted Ungarie (Swamp Reed) prints included in her collections and body of work, paying homage to her Mununjali and Ngugi songlines.

    Her textiles and body adornments have been showcased and exhibited by Artisan, National Gallery of Australia, Redland Art Gallery, Jam Factory, Art Gallery Gold Coast and Cairns Indigenous Arts Fair, including publications such as Peppermint & RUSSH Magazine.

    Henley is currently based in Tarntanyangga (Adelaide) Kaurna Yerta with her partner and children.

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