January 13 - March 5, 2021

Steel Chronis, Evie Hassiotis and Kirsty Martinsen

Opening event:
Friday, January 22, 5:30pm to 7:30pm

The Mill Showcase is a gallery space dedicated to artists who work in our studio spaces at our Angas Street location, exhibiting some of the artworks and products 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.

This fourth edition of The Mill Showcase features work by Kirsty Martinsen, Steel Chronis and Evie Hassiotis.

Artist Biographies:

Steel Chronis is an emerging artist, working and living on Kaurna land, who works across various media in their practice. Their work typically focuses on the mundane and macabre with consideration of the fleeting nature of time. Their work is often a preservation of structures, subjects and moments, highlighting the beauty of the ordinary. Steel has had a studio at The Mill since 2020.

These works are a segment of my investigation into various types of inks and application styles of the medium. The parameters of this exercise were to work with a brush, gesturally and within the compositional limitations of a landscape orientation. The works presented utilise Indian Ink, an ink that can be applied in an diverse manner - either thinned out, layered or painted thickly to achieve a dramatic black. What makes this ink unique is that it is made with a shellac gum binder, giving the ink a unique brilliance and a high level of water resistance.

Evie Hassiotis is an Adelaide based artist who works intuitively with textures and mixed media, photography and improvised dance. Evie believes in the potential of art to emotionally heal the human soul and to promote spiritual growth in the art practitioner and in the viewer. Improvised movement together with her art practice have been an avenue to express spirituality, creativity and art as a healing practice. Evie has had a studio at The Mill since 2019.

These prints were nearly all created in 2020 during the social and physical restrictions enacted in response to Coronavirus. This series reflect on the metaphorical masks most of us wear every day, masks we wear to cover our true selves, whatever our reasons. These works offer an observation of human behaviour and what people choose to reveal and not to reveal to others and themselves.

Kirsty Martinsen’s practice is predominantly drawing and painting, and recently as a Writer/Director of the short documentary, Limited Surrender, with SBS and SA Film Corporation. She has a BA Visual Art from SA School of Art (UniSA) and Dip. Painting from New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, has exhibited in USA, Australia and Amsterdam. Kirsty Martinsen has had a studio at The Mill since 2014.

In the middle of a pandemic I had moved into an apartment on the 11th floor, looking West. During this period of self-isolation, I began doing a daily pastel drawing of the setting sun. Every day the sky is different, sometimes the sun pops out from behind the cloud and looks like it is being born. Seeing the sunsets grouped together you can trace changes in season, and my thinking about light.

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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase

Adele Sliuzas · October 6, 2020

Photo: Amber Cronin, photographer: Ramsay Photography

October 6 - December 18, 2020

Jennifer Eadie, Amber Cronin and Robyn Wood

Showing concurrently with Postcards from Motherhood

Opening event:
Friday, October 30, 5:30pm to 7:30pm

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This third edition of The Mill Showcase features work by Jennifer Eadie, Amber Cronin and Robyn Wood.

Artist Biographies:

Jennifer Eadie is a writer and artist, living and working on Kaurna Yerta in South Australia. She is academic in the Aboriginal Pathway Program at UniSA, a doctoral candidate at Flinders University and a graduate of UNSW Art & Design. Her creative practice is text and installation based; exploring themes such as censorship and connection to place, while her research focuses on ecological rights and approaches to caring for Country.

This work is a response to the censorship carried out by institutions to justify colonialization. The censor exploits language such as ‘development’ and ‘modernization’ - which characterizes and objectifies Country as a resource / property - as opposed to a sentient living being, of which we are a part.

Jennifer is The Mill’s Writer in Residence 2019 and current Scotch College Writer in Residence

Amber Cronin is an emerging cross-disciplinary artist living and working on Kaurna Land. A recent graduate, her visual arts research is rooted in performative and sculptural gestures that engage the audience through the connection of memory, time and space. Amber is also the co-founder and previous co-director of The Mill Adelaide

My work is developed through a vocabulary of processes, forms emerge that reframe everyday actions as sites of ritual activity. Utilising elements of ceramics, textiles, performance, moulding and casting, my studio experiments are gathered and displayed in combinations that facilitate meditations on connection and discovery.

Amber is a Co-Founder and previous Director of The Mill, and continues to work from our studios

Robyn Wood is an Adelaide based designer and maker. Creating furniture, objects and lighting, she works with her clients on custom and small production pieces. Her work is informed by artisan approach, traditional joinery and current manufacturing techniques. She has a Bachelor of Design-Interior Design from the University of South Australia.

Maintaining a connection to nature is an important theme in my designing. Simple sculptural forms; Lines gently curved; The touch and feel of warmer materials; These are things I am drawn to. I aim to connect the end user to nature and to bring warmth and character into the spaces they inhabit.

Robyn has been working at The Mill since 2017

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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase

Adele Sliuzas · February 24, 2020

March 23 - July 29, 2020

Andrew Eden, Blake Canham-Bennett,
Annabel Hume and Mark Mason

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*** Please note that due to the unfolding COVID-19 situation, The Mill’s galleries and studios are closed to the public. If you have any questions, please email our Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas***

This sophomore edition of The Mill Showcase features work by Andrew Eden, Blake Canham-Bennett, Annabel Hume and Mark Mason.

Opening event:

Friday 27 March, cancelled

Due to social distancing measures within the unfolding COVID19 crisis, we have made the decision to cancel this event

Artists Biographies

AG is an Adelaide based design studio led by Andrew Eden. Specialising in furniture, lighting & interiors, the studio's focus is to partner with other local manufacturers, trades and artisans to produce high quality pieces & outcomes that are competitively priced. Andrew Eden is an industrial designer, graduating with honours and a minor stream in furniture design. He undertook the associate program in the furniture studio at JamFactory in 2013-14.

He has worked extensively throughout the design industry with over 15 years commercial experience. A highlight was working on Indigo Slam in Chippendale, Sydney and a private commission with Khai Liew including over 200 bespoke furniture and lighting pieces.

‘AG is a design studio with a philosophy of cadence, functionality & artistry. My designs are approachable, utilitarian products with a knowing handmade reticence. I believe elaboration does not aggrandise beauty–simplicity does.’

Mark Mason works primarily as a tattooer, using handpoke techniques to create new and relevant work. Having a history in fine art, Mark has exhibited in many group exhibitions both home and abroad. Having enjoyed tattooing full-time for over a decade, he has recently been working part-time which has allowed time for the rekindling of his artist practice and new inspirations have come to life.

‘This work is part of an ongoing process concerning both interpretive symbolism and blended techniques. Each work stands alone, while also acting as a stepping stone to the next, where shared aesthetic cues and conceptual links explore themes of masculinity.

Design and pattern have been a strong component of my tattooing practice and serve as the point of departure. The focus shifts between technique, imagery and concepts to produce pieces that that intrigue the viewer, with a nod to the primal nature of tattooing. It is my intention that the viewer can ascribe their own experience to the abstract images and create their own meaningful dialogue.’

Blake “Blakesby” Canham-Bennett is a multi-award winning hatter (he is not a milliner), and one of very few in Australia reviving the traditional artform of men’s hats. His hats have crossed the world, worn in the United States, England, New Zealand, Switzerland, Siberia, Egypt, and many more.

‘I focus largely on traditional and heritage hat design, drawing inspiration from styles upwards of 100 years ago. These are shaped by hand through steam using a range of mostly antique and a few locally made wood hat blocks, in addition to other unique hand tools.

The pieces featured use a range of materials, with the felt bases ranging from the standard rabbit, to the premium beaver and nutria fur felts. These hats are trimmed with a variety of materials, including varied naturally dyed Japanese textiles, and featuring the traditional sashiko technique of decorative reinforcement stitch.’

Annabel Hume is a visual arts graduate from the University of South Australia with a major in sculpture and printmaking. In the last 10 years she has completed further study in metal casting, intaglio printmaking and ceramics at ACArts . For the last three years Annabel has focused on ceramics. She has participated in several group shows in Adelaide and had her first solo exhibition in Melbourne in 2019. She also teaches workshops in textiles, printmaking and sculpture .

‘After travelling to America three years ago I began to really appreciate how delicate, unique, fragile and ancient Australia is and I celebrate our endangered and diminishing fauna in my work . Each piece is unique. I hand build then surface paint using sgraffito before glaze firing.’

black and white image of a man with tattoos and the words 'The Mill Showcase'

black and white image of a person wearing a hat and reading a book

black and white image of a young man smiling

image of a wooden stool in front of a mint coloured background

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Exhibition: The Mill Showcase

Adele Sliuzas · January 6, 2020

Photo: The Mill resident artist Morgan Sette

January 17 - March 15, 2020

Peter Fong, Matea Gluscevic, Morgan Sette, Ozlem Yeni

Opening event:
Friday, January 17, 6-8pm

*** Please note that due to the unfolding COVID-19 situation, The Mill’s galleries and studios are open by appointment only. If you wish to make a time to come and see our exhibitions, please email our Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas***

In 2020 The Mill will be launching a new gallery to sit alongside our remodelled Exhibition Space. Dedicated to artists who are working in our studio spaces, The Mill Showcase is a space to display some of the artworks and products that have been produced under our roof. The Mill Showcase will profile our artists, so that you can put a face to the name and get to know some of our dedicated makers.

The innaugural The Mill Showcase features work by Peter Fong, Matea Gluscevic, Morgan Sette, and Ozlem Yeni alongside The Mill’s limited edition prints by Small Room, Matthew Fortrose, and Naomi Murrell and Nadia Suartika.

Peter Fong is a process driven handcrafted custom furniture designer and maker with a love for all things handmade. He is an illustrator turned woodworker honing in on his skills and eye for detail in a 3d medium.

I specialise in considered one-off pieces that feature proud joinery and wood on wood construction, avoiding the use of nails and screws where possible. My aim is to impart a sense of permanence into our everyday objects through the use of well thought-out construction and materials paired with timeless clean designs that will live through generations.

Each piece is created with the intent of ageing beautifully and being passed down. Preferring to work carefully and slowly, I am a traditional hand-tool enthusiast and will use a hammer and chisel over a power tool when possible. Hand tools connect me to the process, of that I value and enjoy just as much as the final product which I hope permeates through each piece

Matea Gluscevic is an artist and qualified shoemaker. She has completed a Cert IV in Custom Made Footwear, and a Bachelor of Visual Art Specialising in Sculpture and Installation.

“DONE by Matea” is an ethical, slow, and sustainable handmade leather footwear and accessories label. I design and handmake all of my items in my studio at The Mill. I enjoy working with local, recycled, and low impact materials such as; cork, kangaroo leather, vegetable tanned leather and recycled rubber.

Morgan Sette is an Adelaide based photographer, with the past few years spent shooting a mixture of news photojournalism, editorial, product and press shoots. Morgan has varied experience in all things photography, film, events, publicity and marketing that has ultimately come down to one thing; a desire to document and promote the good things.

The images explain what happens when I raise a hunk of metal in between myself and the outside world. When I’m taking a picture, I’m not trying to impact what’s happening inside the frame - I’m trying to document it.

Ozlem Yeni is a Turkish born artist who now lives and works in Adelaide. She studied painting, completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Suleyman Demirel in Turkey. Before becoming a full-time artist, she enjoyed an 18-year academic career as a lecturer in Theatre Stage Design Department at the University of Dokuz Eylul in Turkey, where she attained a Master’s Degree and PhD. She has had a number of solo and group exhibitions in Turkey, Japan, Australia and Albania.

Earthpeople is an interpretation of our evolving relationship with nature that underlines the noteworthy attempt of humankind. The aim is to increase awareness of humankind situations and power in life on earth, relate them to common global goals, so we can make changes to improve the existence for all.