Free-range Residency: Astrid Pill, 'Peter Out the Obsolete'

Informal showing and Q&A

When: Friday, June 9, 6-7pm

Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)

• Getting to the showing

  This informal showing and Q&A will be held in The Mill Breakout. Please come to the Exhibition Space at 154 Angas Street, the bar will be open to grab a drink before we take you through to The Breakout.

  Please arrive at 5:45pm arrival for a 6pm sharp start.

  This event will be 1 hour (including the Q&A).

  Accessibility

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

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

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

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

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Throughout her two-week residency at The Mill, Astrid will be developing this performance work investigating the link between disposable culture, planned obsolescence and the ephemeral nature of human life. 

The starting point to developing this work has been a series of photos she took as a joke present for her son, who kept wheeling home broken office chairs that he’d found on the side of the road. She noticed how many there were, dumped on the street. She has 88 photos of dumped chairs so far!

Something that started out as a joke, has taken on meaning for Astrid. She started to see beauty, loneliness and despair in those chairs; as though they were people with personalities and back stories. The chairs, much like humans, are not designed to last and she started to think about other types of objects that are disposable, the types of people who are ‘disposable’. 

This inspiration and concept is in very early stages of development and this residency will give Astrid the time to explore her thoughts, note making and photo taking.

Please join Astrid Pill and The Mill's CEO/Artistic Director for an informal performative conversation about the process.

• About the artist

  Astrid is a performer/theatre maker who has worked with numerous companies and collaborators since 1996. She worked with Restless Dance Theatre and Patch Theatre Company, both over 10 years periods and has a 20-year collaborative relationship with Ingrid Voorendt and Zoe Barry, with whom she is creating the new work – Widow Weirdo.

  She has worked with Brand X, Yashchin Ensemble, The Border Project, Sarah Neville, Maude Davey and Vitalstatistix, Ingrid Voorendt, Ladykillers, Daisy Brown/Cabaret Festival, Windmill and State Theatre SA/Brink. She sang for The New Pollutants re-score of Metropolis, which toured to major venues and film festivals including The Sydney Opera House and Fed Square.

  Astrid has won many awards including an Adelaide Critics Circle Award for Cake, which she wrote, toured and adapted for ABC’s airplay and an Arts SA Emerging Artist Award, which enabled her to study voice and physical theatre in France and Poland. 

Photo: Courtesy of the artist

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

images: Courtesy of the artist

May 1 - June 16, 2023

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

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

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

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

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

• Artists Statement

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

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

• Artist Biography

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

• 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

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Exhibition: Crista Bradshaw, Steel Chronis, Hamish Fleming, Honor Freeman and Angelique Joy, Still Self

Images: (L) Angelique Joy, Earthly Delights & The Spaces In Between (Audrey) ; (M) Crista Bradshaw, Remember 8; (R) Honor Freeman, Pieces of You. Courtesy of the artists.

May 1 - June 16, 2023

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

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find Still Self in The Mill’s Exhbition Space,
  located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

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The Mill presents Still Self, a group exhibition featuring work by Crista Bradshaw, Steel Chronis, Hamish Fleming, Honor Freeman and Angelique Joy, curated by Adele Sliuzas. Still Self brings together artworks that explore connection to and disconnection from the self. Each work exists as a glimpse, a moment captured and shared. The artists reveal traces of emotions, spaces, and bodies through different mediums including painting, sculpture, moving images, and installation.

• About the Artists

  Crista Bradshaw is a proud Wangkumaran contemporary artist. Residing in Adelaide, South Australia, Bradshaw grew up without a strong connection to her Wangkumaran heritage. She came to discover that through the process of colonisation and intergenerational trauma, her family had lost its relationship with their language group. It was in her late teens that she began to re-establish this connection. Crista works with forms of expanded painting, sculpture and installation, investigating modes of representation that showcase the ways in which Indigenous and Australian art has evolved.

  Steel Chronis is a South Australian Artist working on Kaurna Land. Mostly working in the medium of oil paint, she likes to focus her attention to the practice of still life painting.

  H. Fleming is a contemporary realist painter based in Adelaide (Kaurna Country), South Australia. Fleming’s practice blends together traditional and contemporary approaches to painting. Fleming works in the preestablished traditions of Still Life and Portraiture, utilizing them as avenues to address the shared experience of contemporary life.

  Honor Freeman is an artist living and working in the Fleurieu Peninsula on Ngarrindjeri land in South Australia, whose practice utilises the mimetic properties of porcelain, crafting objects that belie their materiality and purpose. Freeman completed her studies in 2001 at the South Australian School of Art. Following graduation, Honor took up an Associate position and Tenant residency in the ceramics studio at JamFactory Craft & Design. Her work has been curated into major exhibitions at institutions throughout Australia, including the MCA, Tarrawarra Museum of Art and The PowerHouse Museum. She has undertaken international residencies at Guldagergaard, Denmark’s International Ceramic Museum and in the US at Indiana University’s School of Art & Design.

  Angelique Joy is a Neuroqueer, visual artist working with photography and the expanded nature of the digital image. Angelique’s practice is informed by their Neuroqueer lived experience and through the intersecting frameworks of posthumanism, queer and xenofeminism.

  Their practice has emerged out of a concern with identity, otherness and space. They are interested in the cultural and material spaces we all unfold within. Increasingly their practice is interrogating the digital spaces we populate and how the technologically mediated bodymind is contributing to new worlds.

  They are particularly interested in exploring how each being, both human and non, unfolds, is constructed and performed within the spaces we inhabit, the spaces we claim, and the spaces we are kept from.

  Angelique is currently a PHD candidate at RMIT, School of Art.

• Curatorial Statement

  The still life genre of painting, as an artefact of the western canon of art, can be seen as a public remnant of personal connection to objects; intimate, domestic, and related to our sense of self. The artists in this exhibition use objects within their work to tell stories specific to their experience of life. Tension is drawn between the real and virtual: the plush textile of Angelique’s sculptures and their rematerialised, digital twin; objects echoed in mirrored poses in Steel’s still lifes. Honor’s slip cast ceramic works create a sense of the uncanny, where we recognise the life-like qualities of the objects, but also understand that they are duplicates of the ‘real’. Hamish’s paintings of everyday objects create meaning through presence and absence. Crista invites the audience to witness moments of reconnection, using collage and mixed media to build a faceted journey of her and her family’s reconnection with the Wangkumara Language Group.

  -Adele Sliuzas

• 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

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Expand: Make|Shift Access Tours

Image credit: Margie Medlin

July 9, 2023

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

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The Mill invites you to experience Make|Shift via one of two access tours:

11am: Auslan interpreted, guided tour

The Mill invites the Deaf community to join us for an Auslan interpreted, guided tour of the Make|Shift exhibition for Deaf and hearing-impaired audiences. In this tour members of the Make|Shift artistic team will talk about the exhibition and the meaning of the artwork, with Auslan interpreters from DeafConnect translating.

1pm: Audio description tour

The Mill invites audiences who are blind or have low vision to join us for an audio-described guided tour of the Make|Shift exhibition. In this tour members of the Make|Shift artistic team will talk about the exhibition and the meaning of the artwork, and the describers will supply visual descriptions of the work and facilitate any touching of artworks/reference objects. Presented with Access2Arts

Make|Shift is an immersive and experimental exhibition of projection art as part of Illuminate Adelaide. The exhibition features digital image and projection based work by six South Australian multidisciplinary artists; James Alberts, Ray Harris, Sarah Neville, Liam Somerville, Inneke Taal and Tanya Voges, with Margie Medlin as Artistic & Curatorial Facilitator supported by artistic mentorship from illuminart’s Cindi Drennan and Tim Gruchy.

The Make|Shift exhibition will be open for viewing across The Mill’s Exhibition Space and Showcase galleries, The Breakout and outdoor spaces. 

• About the program

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

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

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

• About the artists

  Item description

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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This project has support from

Expand: Make|Shift Forum

Image credit: Margie Medlin

July 9, 3pm

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $15 (+ booking fee)

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The Mill invites you to the Make|Shift Forum where you can hear from the artists about their practice and process. The forum will feature a panel of exhibiting artists and will be chaired by Artistic and Curatorial Facilitator Margie Medlin and The Mill’s CEO/Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff (live captioned and live streamed).

Make|Shift is an immersive and experimental exhibition of projection art as part of Illuminate Adelaide. The exhibition features digital image and projection based work by six South Australian multidisciplinary artists; James Alberts, Ray Harris, Sarah Neville, Liam Somerville, Inneke Taal and Tanya Voges, with Margie Medlin as Artistic & Curatorial Facilitator supported by artistic mentorship from illuminart’s Cindi Drennan and Tim Gruchy.

The Make|Shift exhibition will be open for viewing across The Mill’s Exhibition Space and Showcase galleries, The Breakout and outdoor spaces. 

• About the program

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

  Expand supports artists to explore different modes of collaborating and encourages peer-learning. It enables risk taking, experimentation and freedom of expression in the creation and realisation of new works.

  Expand invites audiences to not only appreciate, but actively participate in the practice of art-making through artists talks, Q&A’s and public workshops.

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

• Forum speakers

  to be announced

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

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

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

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

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

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

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This project has support from

Expand: Make|Shift Exhibition

Image credit: Inneke Taal

July 8 - 28, 2023

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

Free entry

• Visiting the exhibition

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

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

  Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm

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

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

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

• Curatorial Statement

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

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

  -Margie Medlin

• Ray Harris

  Spirit Shelf

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

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

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

• Sarah Neville

  T = I/I0 Transmittance

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

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

• Liam Somerville AKA CAPITAL WASTE

  marine_digital_conservation_SA_2023.exe

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

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

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

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

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

• Inneke Taal

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

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

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

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

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

  The before the event.

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

• Tanya Voges

  With/In

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

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

• About the Creative Team

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

  Artistic & Curatorial Facilitator:

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

  Artistic Mentorship and Professional Development:

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

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

• About the program

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This project has support from

First Nations Dance Program: Supported by Australian Dance Theatre

Photo: Supplied by Tjarutja Dance Collective

As part of The Mill's First Nations Dance program, Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) is offering the following programs including; dance technique classes, choreographic workshops and secondments at ADT.

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ADT Secondment week

Two dancers to join ADT for their upcoming secondment week. Learn ADT’s repertoire, and enhance and refine your dance technique alongside ADT’s First Nations Artistic Director Daniel Riley, Company Artists and both emerging and professional dancers. Level of dance experience required.

Details

When: July 3-7, 9:30am-5:30pm

Where: The Odeon, Australian Dance Theatre, 57A Queen St, Norwood

Ages: 18+

Cost: Free

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TREAD

Tread is ADT’s artist program giving two First Nation dancers exposure to the company’s range and training methods, aiming to further develop their creative dance skills. Artists will be learning alongside other young dancers as part of the program. Tread offers a three-term program of training and performance opportunities to motivated First Nation dancers. Tread artists train at ADT’s home The Odeon and are led by ADT’s teaching artists, alumni and professional dancers to develop and advance their dance technique and skills.

Details

When: July 27 - September 28

Where: The Odeon, Australian Dance Theatre, 57A Queen St, Norwood

Ages: 16-18

Cost: Free

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Tuesday night classes

A 6-week block of contemporary dance classes led by Australian Dance Theatre Artistic Director Daniel Riley and company dancers. Offering the opportunity to learn a wide range of dance skills/technique. All levels of dance experience welcome, an interest in contemporary dance preferable.

Dance class facilitators:

September 5: Daniel Riley

September 12: Adrianne Semmens

September 19: Karra Nam

September 26: Kaine Sultan Babij

October 3: Adrianne Semmens

October 10: Daniel Riley

Details

When: September 5 - October 10, 6:30pm-8pm (dancers can arrive from 6pm to warm up)

Where: The Odeon, Australian Dance Theatre, 57A Queen St, Norwood

Ages: 18+

Cost: Free

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Groundswell

Groundswell is ADT’s First Nations and Diverse Choreographic Development Program. This year we will have a Torres Strait Islander artist in residence at ADT developing new work and sharing their choreographic practise with the ADT Company Artists. This will be a wonderful opportunity for a First Nations dancer/choreographer to be part of their creative process working alongside and observing the company in the development of new work and ideas. The chosen artist would spend a week with ADT within the period September 25-October 20. Dance experience required.

Details

When: September 25 - October 20

Where: The Odeon, Australian Dance Theatre, 57A Queen St, Norwood

Ages: 18+

Cost: Free

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This program has support from

Adelaide Fringe: The Mill 2023 program

Expect everything from theatre to circus, comedy, live music and more. This year, in The Mill’s intimate 50-seat black box theatre, we will be playing host to shows from across Australia. Take a look through our program list below or browse our shows via Adelaide Fringe.

The Mill is an accessible space. Disability access is available via Angas St, and a disability toilet is also available. If you have any questions or additional accessibility requirements, please contact us at info@themilladelaide.com

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Table for Two?
Feb 15 - Mar 11, 2023

Award-winning physical comedy, Table for Two?, is a riot that will whisk you off your feet. Full of good laughs, terrible table service, and a melting pot of characters, this show is an escape into the nonsensical. Mix Monty Python with Mr Bean, cocktails with polony- rustle up your appetite for a night that is sure to be remembered.

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PROTOTYPE
Feb 15 - 26, 2023

Captivating vocal force SASHA MARCH launches her new music. An immersive Electro Art Pop dreamscape, with dark humour and lyrical prowess – this show will hook you in deep. A world torn apart and put back together in alluring song and glitchy visuals.

Come for the Art–Pop–Alypse!

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Presentation is Everything
Feb 15 - 26, 2023

The antidote to every bland lecture and boring work presentation you’ve ever endured. Performed by two of Melbourne’s fastest-rising comedians Sweeney Preston and Ethan Cavanagh, this is an hour of fast-paced stand-up comedy, visually complemented by Microsoft PowerPoint.

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The Late Nite PowerPoint Comedy Showcase
Feb 17 - 26, 2023

A wild late-night showcase with a rotating line-up of 6 comedians, putting the ‘show’ back into show-and-tell! Hosted by Sweeney Preston & Ethan Cavanagh, this cult classic comes to Adelaide after sell-out seasons at Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Sydney Fringe. Past guests include Tom Ballard, Dane Simpson, Emma Holland and more.

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i am root
Feb 15 - Mar 17

Told from the perspective of a Ukrainian Canadian living in Australia, this ritual performance piece is a topical, deep, playful exploration (Akubras & Vegemite rituals involved) of culture, identity and belonging in the land down under. Olenka employs her mother tongue (Ukrainian), song, dance, clown, folk traditions, recipes, storytelling, spoken word poetry and prayer to enliven the depths of the unspoken, mysterious places where spirit lives.

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Sheltered
Feb 16 - March 4, 2023

Come bunker down with Kathryn Hall in this hilariously honest take on the ups and downs of finding adulthood in a youth shelter while learning to manage cerebral palsy.

Blending comedy, drama, puppetry, dance and one very special quilt, Sheltered is an autobiographical rollercoaster that playfully challenges perceptions of disability.

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Be A Doll, Won’t You?
Feb 22 - Mar 5, 2023

Ever felt like a piece of meat? Lulu does! As a woman in the sex industry, the world constantly objectifies her, until she eventually becomes the thing everyone always sees her as - a doll. 'Be A Doll, Won't You?' looks at what it means to have your body constantly commented on, commodified, and packaged for sale. It's the girliest take on Kafka yet.

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Here We Are
Feb 22 - Mar 18, 2023

Here We Are is a live, improvised story telling event by Emma Beech. Every show is utterly unique, the story selection will be made up on the spot, inspired by a conversation with you - the audience - about where you're at and what you what you hear. Directed by Tim Overton, buckle in for a journey that you help create.

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Go, Sports!
Mar 1 - 5

Sports is COOL! Matty Johns, Israel Folau, Wayne Carey: Heroes. It’s the BEST part about Australia, and there’s nothing problematic about it. Award winning clown and theatremaker, Kyle Walmsley, brings this marathon of comedy and sports bullying to the stage. There will be blood (fake), sweat (real), and tears (who knows).

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Vegas Residency
Mar 1 - 5

The Burton Brothers have got their lucky break! Set five years into a decade-long residency at a fictional casino on the Las Vegas Strip, this sketch comedy show is the highest of stakes! After doing a devils deal with the shady casino owner, now each show is a dice roll for life or death!

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Pickled Sink
Mar 8 - 19, 2023

Playschool. Karaoke. Die Hard. With great silliness, Will Tredinnick returns with his off-beat style of home-pickled physical comedy. Come for the laughs (and then also stay for the laughs) brought on by this multi award-winning mind. Leave your troubles at the door and be wrapped in a world that is as nonsensical as it is charming. Yippee-ki-yay.

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Party Girl
Mar 8 - 12, 2023

Fairy Sprinkles is the kids party entertainer of every gross dad’s dreams. This rock n’ roll monologue challenges notions of traditional feminine behaviour, and explores the impact of mental illness on family. A story about love and faith, Party Girl is an intimate, funny, and deeply moving work that speaks (and sings) directly to the audience.

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300 Paintings
Mar 8 - 18, 2023

Winner of Best Comedy and Directors Choice Award at 2022 Sydney Fringe Festival. Is art a joke? Comedian Sam Kissajukian takes you through 300 paintings he made in 5 months of isolation. A comedian’s take on art, the artistic process, mental health and its ties to creativity.

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A Lovely Day To Be Online
Mar 15 - 19, 2023

Singer-songwriter and self-obsessed internet addict Connor Morel fronts a live band in this original gig-theatre show that asks: are we doing the internet right? And would life just be easier without it all?

From the Instagram influencers, to the keyboard warriors: we’re all in the sauce. But is it all going too far? And what would it take for us to realise it is?

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This program has support from

Information session: Delima Residency

A photograph of lush tropical plants.

Information Session: Friday April 14, 4-5pm 2023

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide)

Free entry, all welcome

• 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

Applications are now open for the Delima Residency at Rimbun Dahan 2023

Join us at The Mill for an Information Session about the residency and application process, and hear from artist Rob Gutteridge about his experience at Rimbun Dahan.

In 2023, The Mill will be offering one South Australian artist the opportunity to travel to Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, for a 3-month (residential) residency, October-December 2023, in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation. This will be followed by a 3-month (non-residential) studio residency at The Mill, and a solo exhibition outcome presented in The Mill Showcase.

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The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation

Exhibition: Surviving the Sunset

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

April 4 - 15, 2023

Launch event: Tuesday April 4, 4-6pm

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

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Artist + Curator Talk: Museum of Old Money, THE GOOD NEW$ BANK, Steph Cibich

Friday, March 24, 2023, 12-1pm

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free to attend

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Join us on the final day of Museum of Old Money for a lunchtime Artist and Curator Talk with THE GOOD NEW$ BANK's Nick Hanisch and Cassie Thring, and curator Steph Cibich.

The talk will discuss themes explored in the exhibition, playfully touching on the ideas surrounding ‘currency’, ‘value’ and ‘worth’ under consumer-capitalism.

• About the exhibition

  The Mill is excited to present a new exhibition Museum of Old Money by THE GOOD NEW$ BANK curated by Steph Cibich. THE GOOD NEW$ BANK is the collaborative moniker for artist duo Nicholas Hanisch and Cassie Thring, who have been working closely with Cibich to develop a body of work that playfully comments on the ideas surrounding ‘currency’, ‘value’ and ‘worth’ under consumer-capitalism. What is art worth? What value does the artist play within our society? How do we understand the exchange value of creative work? How do you put a price on the way that works of art make us feel?  

  With the current ‘cozzie livs’ (cost of living crisis), we are all making daily choices to determine how we can make our money stretch. Art can be seen as a luxury item, but at what cost? We know from our times in pandemic lockdown that art and creativity are central to our sense of self, and sense of community. Featuring Art Vending Machine Australia’s (AVMA) ‘Adelaide Art Vending Machine’, in which Curator Steph Cibich seeks to democratise the process of buying artwork, without undermining the work of the artist.

  The vending machine will sit alongside other works, developed through a collaborative relationship between curator and artists, offering unique moments for audience participation. Artworks will be available for purchase giving audiences an accessible option for becoming collectors of contemporary art.

• About the artists

  Steph Cibich is a Kaurna Country (Adelaide) based curator and arts writer. Since 2019, she has worked as the Assistant Curator/Program Officer at the Centre for Creative Health and has built a strong independent curatorial practice. She is the founding force behind Art Vending Machines Australia (AVMA) and received the inaugural City of Onkaparinga Contemporary Curator Award (SALA 2019). In 2020, Steph was simultaneously appointed FELTspace Emerging Curator and the inaugural ART WORKS Emerging Curator, presented by Guildhouse and the City of Adelaide. Recently, Steph was appointed Co-chair of the Art History & Curatorship Alumni Network (AHCAN) and was a writer for ‘Neoteric’, an exhibition presented as part of the Adelaide Festival (2022). Steph’s curatorial approach centres on collaborating with and championing the work of contemporary artists. Through democratic and meaningful art projects, Steph seeks to bring people and ideas together by fostering connections between artists, art and audiences.

  @steph_cibich

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  Nicholas Hanisch is a sculptural installation artist graduating as a scholarship recipient at Adelaide Central School of Art. Hanisch’s ongoing practice has involved a diverse and continual exploration of mediums, conceptual themes, and collaborations. His recent body of work investigates creation narratives within the field of figurative sculpture. Hanisch’s sculptural forms are informed by the history of figurative sculpture, whilst celebrating the humour, the horror, the happenstance, and the sheer endeavour of creation. Previously Hanisch has attended the New York Studio School, practiced, and exhibited in Berlin, participated in residencies across India, and exhibited as part of The Art Gallery of South Australia collection.

  @nicholashanisch

  www.nicholashanisch.com

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  Cassie Thring is a multidisciplinary artist working from Floating Goose Studios on Kaurna land, Adelaide, SA. A passionate advocate for accessible community art programs, her work reflects an interest in the riches and sorrows of life, often through an apparently humorous lens. A graduate of Adelaide Central School of Art, Thring has participated in local and international residencies. Her work A Gazillion was exhibited as part of The Art Gallery of South Australia and is now in their permanent collection. Thring’s work is also held in the National Museum of Canberra and private collections, both in Australia and internationally.

  @cmthring

  www.cassiethring.com 

• Accessibility

  The Mill is an accessible space. Disability access is available via Angas St, and a disability toilet is also available on-site.

  You can find more detailed information on our accessibility page.

  If you have any questions or additional accessibility requirements, please contact us at info@themilladelaide.com

Photographer: Daniel Marks

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This exhibition has support from

Adelaide Festival Masterclass: Freestyle to Choreography with Feras Shaheen

Photo: Jean-Pierre Mattos.

Masterclass

When: Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 10am-12pm (arrive at 9:45am to sign in)

Where: Dance Hub SA, Lion Arts Centre, Cnr Morphett St & North Tce, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $30 (+ booking fees)

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The Mill in partnership with Adelaide Festival are excited to present a masterclass with Feras Shaheen.

Feras will be performing in Marrugeku’s Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] as part of Adelaide Festival 2023.

About the masterclass:

This contemporary / street dance masterclass is about finding your choreographic language through your freestyle. It focusses on practicing and discussing methods to help develop your freestyle skills.  

Understanding the importance of a challenge in a process and finding the playfulness in your process. We will explore how to create for your next door neighbour, as well as your colleagues.

Experience level:

Intermediate to professional dancers.

• About the facilitator

  Feras Shaheen is an artist curious in letting his conceptual interests lead him across a variety of mediums. Using choreography, installations, design, film, performance, digital media, and street dance to communicate his ideas, the core of Feras’ practice is to connect and engage with audiences. Holding a Bachelor of Design from Western Sydney University (2014), Feras often subverts traditional relationships between mediums to challenge audiences' perspectives.

  Born in Dubai to Palestinian parents, and moving to Western Sydney at age 11, Feras’ perception of the world is constantly shifting and changing. Winner of The Australian Ballet’s Telstra Emerging Choreographer (TEC) in 2021, Feras has performed and exhibited at Carriageworks, Venice Biennale, Pari, Kampnagel, Campbelltown Arts Centre, and Théâtre de la Ville.

  Recent works include Cross Cultures, Plastic Bag, ongoing collaboration Klapping, and Forum Q. Cross Cultures, a body of work shown at Pari Gallery Parramatta (2020) and Carriageworks (2021) explored the fluid contemporary identities of ‘Generation Y’ and how street culture is heavily impacted by media culture, specifically where commercial and urban industries intersect and reconcile. Where Plastic Bag a full-length show including performative video installation, directed by Feras, drew from the postmodern concept of hyperreality and premiered at East Sydney Community Arts Centre in 2022. Feras is currently working with Marrugeku, presenting Jurrungu Ngan-ga, a collaborative production that addresses both local and global issues regarding the fear of cultural differences.

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Adelaide Fringe Masterclass: Poetry and Spoken Word with Huda Fadlelmawla

Photo: Supplied by Metro Arts.

Masterclass

When: Monday, February 20, 2023, 1:30pm-3:30pm (arrive at 1:15pm to sign in)

Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (enter via the Exhibition Space)

Cost: $30 (+ booking fees)

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The Mill in partnership with Metro Arts are excited to present a masterclass with writer, performer and champion slam poet Huda Fadlelmawla.

Huda Fadlelmawla will be performing in Betwixt as part of Adelaide Fringe 2023.

About the masterclass:

This masterclass is broken into two parts, beginning by going back to the basics of poetry elements, and how to get your story onto the page in a way that best expresses your own voice. The second part will bring participants to the stage, with specialised tips in performance, public speaking, and the chance of an in-house poetry slam of our own.

Experience level:

All writers and creatives, from amateur to experienced poets and writers, adults 18+.

Materials:

Please bring paper and a pen.

• About the facilitator

  Huda Fadlelmawla (aka Huda The Goddess) is spoken word poet, educator, and community activist. Huda is the current Australia Poetry Slam Champion and two-time QLD champ.

  Huda is a spoken word poet, educator, mental health advocate, dancer and workshop facilitator. She describes poetry as one of her senses that has allowed her to turn her experiences into art and maintain her connection to her people.

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Adelaide Fringe Masterclass: Devising Physical Theatre with Will Tredinnick

Masterclass

When: Monday, February 20, 2023, 10:30am-12:30pm (arrive at 10:15am)

Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (enter via the Exhibition Space)

Cost: $30 (+ booking fees)

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About the masterclass:

Will Tredinnick is a self-proclaimed ‘Professional Idiot’. This workshop is for anyone interested in pursuing anything professionally, be that dance, theatre, comedy, music, masonry, small business, or baking!

This masterclass will focus on developing skills in devising for performance and will start with some light physical activity to get the blood pumping around our performance vessel: the body. From there we will discover how to play, explore some tools to help us make something out of nothing, learn some simple storytelling tricks and then bring it on home with a short display of our new mastery of devising.

The workshop will be physical (but not too physical) so wear something comfortable (there will be a prize for the most comfortable outfit).

Experience level:

Suitable for individuals, duos, trios and larger ensembles - all experience levels are welcome!

Age recommended 15+

• About the facilitator

  Will is a diverse and passionate theatre-maker from Western Sydney.
 With a Bachelor of Communication (Theatre/Media), Will developed his physical theatre, learning skills in circus, dance, and acrobatics. He’s performed at multiple Australian festivals, and led venue teams at international Fringes.

  In 2018, Will developed his first solo work Table for Two?
The show has since won awards and performed to sell-out audiences at Bondi Feast, Sydney and Adelaide Fringe. Since then, he's created his second touring piece, Pickled Sink, receiving multiple 4 and 5 star reviews.

  When not touring, Will performs as a ‘Captain’ for the Starlight Children's Foundation, Front of House Manager at multiple large venues, and teaches, performs, and leads festivals in remote communities across NSW and WA.

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Workshop: Portraiture, Identity and Symbolism with Charlene Komuntale

Artwork: Charlene Komuntale, Aqua Dresses, 2022

Workshop

When: Tuesday, February 14, 1-3pm

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

Cost: $25 (+ booking fee), all materials included

• 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.

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Join Ugandan artist Charlene Komuntale for a workshop exploring her portraiture practice. Charlene Komuntale is a digital artist and illustrator based in Kampala, Uganda. She is the current LK Artist in Residence, she will be spending 6 weeks living in Adelaide and working from a studio at The Mill supported by Sanaa. Charlene uses digital mediums to create stunning portraits of Black African women that centre empowerment, liberation and confidence.

What to expect:

Participants will hear from Charlene about her digital and conceptual process, and how she creates her work. The group will then work with her to develop their own symbolic self-portrait in Charlene's style. Portraits will be created using paper, collage, texta and acrylic paint and can be taken home on the day.

• About the artist

  Charlene Komuntale is a digital artist and illustrator based in Kampala, Uganda. She holds a BA in Animation from Limkokwing University, Malaysia. In her recent series “Not Fragile”, Komuntale portrays women - mostly black African women.

  The subject matter is personal yet presented in a relatable way as inspiration is drawn from her own experiences but also informed by the experiences of other women around her.

  The heads of the women she portrays are covered by different elements, which create poetic yet striking narratives around a broadly relatable figure. At first sight, the works evoke a dreamy, peaceful, and quiet atmosphere, whereas at a closer look powerful, empowering and unapologetic messages come to the fore. Dominant, male-centered perspectives on women’s roles and supposedly nature-given capabilities and constraints attached to female bodies are being evaluated and re-examined. The juxtaposition of different elements creates an interesting asymmetry between awareness of self and the (male-centered) gaze of others. Intimacy, tenderness, vulnerability, and female beauty do not suggest fragility. Instead, it is related to strength and unapologetic confidence. Komuntale’s digital paintings deconstruct patriarchal narratives as shaped by culture, religion, and politics and provide a ground for inquiry and interrogation, and for visions of different futures.

  Her compositional choices create a space at the edges of reality – moments frozen in time and filled with surreal elements and metaphorical and symbolical references.

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This Sponsored Studio has support from

Adelaide Fringe Masterclass: Nailing a Spoken Story with Emma Beech

Photo: Daniel Marks

Masterclass

When: Friday, March 3, 2023, 10:30am-12:30pm (arrive at 10:15am to sign in)

Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (enter via the Exhibition Space)

Cost: $30 (+ booking fees)

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This masterclass is about getting to the heart of what you want to say and nailing the craft behind storytelling.

Stories are an incredible source of material and connective juice between a performer and their audience. This masterclass will help you find the heart, hone in on the point, and tune the delivery, so your story can do what it needs to do - express, connect and delight.

This could be a story that is used as a part of or as the whole basis for a show, told as between set 'banter' or even used to 'pitch' a work. You can take stories from your life, the lives of others or even a story you have heard or read about - all of them can be crafted into telling power. 

After a couple of quick palate-cleansing games to get your minds ready to access, this masterclass will go full steam into your story crafting, from story - selection through to story delivery. Emma writes by improvised speaking, so she will also share her 'dot-point' writing style.

Get ready to work, talk and listen. 

Bring a note-book, a bottle of water and a story.

Experience level:

This masterclass is open to people who practice performance of any kind, who either want to build on a story-telling practice, or incorporate it into their own genre of practice. General public are welcome to attend yet will need to be ready for working within a theatrical environment with performing artists who are familiar with improvisation and responding to unknown creative tasks ie: written, verbal and physical.

• About the facilitator

  I started making shows for my mum in her bedroom when I was six. Since then, I graduated from Flinders Drama Centre, worked in theatre and screen as well as developing an arts practice of making theatre shows from intimate conversations with other humans, from strangers to my dad, drawing from documentary to create my own docu-theatre style.  The best moments of these conversations I collect together to make shows, which exalt the un-exalted in our daily lives, and hone in on our life-changing stories.  My work is often direct address, and montages monologue storytelling, gestures and physical narratives that are collected from interviews, conversations, confessions and observations.

  I work with collaborators that include installation-theatre companies in Demark and Singapore, and various companies / festivals locally including The Rabble, Arts House, DreamBIG festival, Aphids, OSCA, No Strings Attached, STC SA, Brink Productions and Vitalstatistix. Emma has just finished her one-woman show commissioned for the Adelaide Festival, The Photo Box.

Artist Talk: Tikari Rigney and the Solidarity Collective

Artwork: Tikari Rigney. Photo carousel: Daniel Marks.

Artist Talk

When: February 21, 5:30-6:30pm

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

Cost: Free

• 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.

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Join artist Tikari Rigney and members of the Solidarity Collective for an informal artist talk, chatting about themes in their collaborative work as part of Tikari’s exhibition Snug Diaries. The collective have contributed an installation of objects, performance and poetry. The emphasis on peer learning and multidisciplinary collaboration within this project create a profound sense of community and care.

The Mill’s Solidarity Collective (working title) is a new project initiated and facilitated by Kaurna, Narrungga and Ngarrindjeri artist, and 2022 Sponsored Studio recipient Tikari Rigney. The Solidarity Collective is made up of South Australian based artists who identify as First Nations, and/or People of Colour. The collective has held regular meetings in late 2022, creating a community of multi-disciplinary artists who share, create and work collaboratively. Ultimately providing a platform for artists to express themselves and share stories within a safe space, while also making friends and sharing.

• About the artist

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

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

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This project has support from

The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation

The Mill in Conversation: Charlene Komuntale, LK Artist in Residence

Artwork: Charlene Komuntale. Photo gallery: Daniel Marks.

The Mill in Conversation

When: February 10, 6:45pm

Where: The Mill’s Sponsored Studio,154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

• 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.

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Join Ugandan artist Charlene Komuntale for a chat in her studio about work she is developing for the Sanaa exhibition at Kerry Packer Civic Gallery this February. Charlene is the current LK Artist in Residence, she will be spending 6 weeks living in Adelaide and working from a studio at The Mill supported by Sanaa. Charlene uses digital mediums to create stunning portraits of Black African women that centre empowerment, liberation and confidence. During the talk Charlene will chat about her practice, her subjects and use of symbolism in her portraiture.

• About the artist

  Charlene Komuntale is a digital artist and illustrator based in Kampala, Uganda. She holds a BA in Animation from Limkokwing University, Malaysia. In her recent series “Not Fragile”, Komuntale portrays women - mostly black African women.

  The subject matter is personal yet presented in a relatable way as inspiration is drawn from her own experiences but also informed by the experiences of other women around her.

  The heads of the women she portrays are covered by different elements, which create poetic yet striking narratives around a broadly relatable figure. At first sight, the works evoke a dreamy, peaceful, and quiet atmosphere, whereas at a closer look powerful, empowering and unapologetic messages come to the fore. Dominant, male-centered perspectives on women’s roles and supposedly nature-given capabilities and constraints attached to female bodies are being evaluated and re-examined. The juxtaposition of different elements creates an interesting asymmetry between awareness of self and the (male-centered) gaze of others. Intimacy, tenderness, vulnerability, and female beauty do not suggest fragility. Instead, it is related to strength and unapologetic confidence. Komuntale’s digital paintings deconstruct patriarchal narratives as shaped by culture, religion, and politics and provide a ground for inquiry and interrogation, and for visions of different futures.

  Her compositional choices create a space at the edges of reality – moments frozen in time and filled with surreal elements and metaphorical and symbolical references.

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The LK Artist in Residence Sponsored Studio is presented in partnership with Sanaa.

Sanaa aims to facilitate intercultural understanding by providing a platform to artists from culturally diverse backgrounds, with past exhibitions featuring international artists from many other cultures around the world, alongside Australian-based artists from Aboriginal, African, Middle Eastern and South American backgrounds.

The LK Artist in Residence is supported by Principal Partner LK Law.

Exhibition: Snug Diaries, Tikari Rigney

Artwork: Tikari Rigney

February 6 - March 24, 2023

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

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

• Visiting the exhibition

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

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

  Accessibility

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Artist Statement

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Marti Tirntu-irntu Piiparnapira About the Snug Diaries

  Yaintya tunki ngaityu piipa. This cloth is my book.

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

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

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

  Yaintya ngaityu tiyati warra. This is my truth.

• About the artist

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

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

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This exhibition has support from

The Mill’s Sponsored Studio program is presented in cooperation with Mahmood Martin Foundation

Exhibition: Museum of Old Money, THE GOOD NEW$ BANK (Nicholas Hanisch and Cassie Thring), curated by Steph Cibich

February 6 - March 24, 2023

Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm, and extended hours during The Mill’s Adelaide Fringe season

The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

• 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.

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The Mill is excited to present a new exhibition ‘Museum of Old Money’ by THE GOOD NEW$ BANK curated by Steph Cibich. THE GOOD NEW$ BANK is the collaborative moniker for artist duo Nicholas Hanisch and Cassie Thring, who have been working closely with Cibich to develop a body of work that playfully comments on the ideas surrounding ‘currency’, ‘value’ and ‘worth’ under consumer-capitalism. What is art worth? What value does the artist play within our society? How do we understand the exchange value of creative work? How do you put a price on the way that works of art make us feel?  

With the current ‘cozzie livs’ (cost of living crisis), we are all making daily choices to determine how we can make our money stretch. Art can be seen as a luxury item, but at what cost? We know from our times in pandemic lockdown that art and creativity are central to our sense of self, and sense of community. Featuring Art Vending Machine Australia’s (AVMA) ‘Adelaide Art Vending Machine’, in which Curator Steph Cibich seeks to democratise the process of buying artwork, without undermining the work of the artist.

The vending machine will sit alongside other works, developed through a collaborative relationship between curator and artists, offering unique moments for audience participation. Artworks will be available for purchase giving audiences an accessible option for becoming collectors of contemporary art.

• Curatorial Statement

  ‘I’m not in it for the money – just the stuff it buys’ – Unknown.

  Our values change as our world evolves. In 2023, our consumer-driven culture determines what is ‘valuable’ based on how much something is ‘worth’. In other words, how much something costs or can be exchanged for something that is...well...better.

  Due to our contemporary relationship with commercialism, words like ‘value’ and ‘worth’ have lost their meaning. How we associate with people, relationships, places, objects, and experiences is commodified to reflect our globalised existence. In this environment, even trust is overthrown for economic opportunity. We find ourselves competing and comparing through any means necessary; on social media, in business, through our disposable possessions, even with new systems of currency. Yet, as people, we are often pressured by conflicting ‘values’ and seek to identify what (or who) is ‘worthy’, or ‘worthless’. We want to belong, to have someone reaffirm our ‘self-worth’ and to help our loved ones feel ‘valued’. Instead, we feel confused, disconnected, and lost. We’ve come to know the cost of everything but the ‘value’ of nothing.

  Cast against a backdrop of inflation, rising interest rates, a pandemic, the climate crisis, and escalating tensions overseas, The Museum of Old Money explores our evolving relationship with notions of ‘currency’, ‘value’ and ‘worth’. Curated by Steph Cibich and featuring new work by collaborative duo, THE GOOD NEW$ BANK (Cassie Thring and Nick Hanisch) including a unique takeover of Art Vending Machine Australia’s ‘Adelaide Art Vending Machine’, this exhibition offers a timely reminder of the things that really matter and how easy it is to get lost along the way. 

• About the artists

  Steph Cibich is a Kaurna Country (Adelaide) based curator and arts writer. Since 2019, she has worked as the Assistant Curator/Program Officer at the Centre for Creative Health and has built a strong independent curatorial practice. She is the founding force behind Art Vending Machines Australia (AVMA) and received the inaugural City of Onkaparinga Contemporary Curator Award (SALA 2019). In 2020, Steph was simultaneously appointed FELTspace Emerging Curator and the inaugural ART WORKS Emerging Curator, presented by Guildhouse and the City of Adelaide. Recently, Steph was appointed Co-chair of the Art History & Curatorship Alumni Network (AHCAN) and was a writer for ‘Neoteric’, an exhibition presented as part of the Adelaide Festival (2022). Steph’s curatorial approach centres on collaborating with and championing the work of contemporary artists. Through democratic and meaningful art projects, Steph seeks to bring people and ideas together by fostering connections between artists, art and audiences.

  @steph_cibich

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  Nicholas Hanisch is a sculptural installation artist graduating as a scholarship recipient at Adelaide Central School of Art. Hanisch’s ongoing practice has involved a diverse and continual exploration of mediums, conceptual themes, and collaborations. His recent body of work investigates creation narratives within the field of figurative sculpture. Hanisch’s sculptural forms are informed by the history of figurative sculpture, whilst celebrating the humour, the horror, the happenstance, and the sheer endeavour of creation. Previously Hanisch has attended the New York Studio School, practiced, and exhibited in Berlin, participated in residencies across India, and exhibited as part of The Art Gallery of South Australia collection.

  @nicholashanisch

  www.nicholashanisch.com

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  Cassie Thring is a multidisciplinary artist working from Floating Goose Studios on Kaurna land, Adelaide, SA. A passionate advocate for accessible community art programs, her work reflects an interest in the riches and sorrows of life, often through an apparently humorous lens. A graduate of Adelaide Central School of Art, Thring has participated in local and international residencies. Her work A Gazillion was exhibited as part of The Art Gallery of South Australia and is now in their permanent collection. Thring’s work is also held in the National Museum of Canberra and private collections, both in Australia and internationally.

  @cmthring

  www.cassiethring.com 

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This exhibition has support from