The Mill is thrilled to announce Renee Miller as the recipient of the City Mag 2022 Writer in Residence January-June residency.
The Writer in Residence program, in partnership with CityMag, supports emerging writers from a variety of disciplines. The program creates a broader audience for writing through leadership, mentorship and publication.
Renee Miller is an emerging queer writer and a lifelong resident of Adelaide. Her focus is on creative writing, but she is passionate about all forms of art and writing.
To grow her writing practice, she studied a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Creative Writing, sub-majoring in Cultural Studies at UniSA.
She went on to complete her honours, combining the knowledge from both of her fields of prior study. She has contributed Writing from Below and UniSA’s Piping Shrike collection.
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The Writer in Residence program is presented in partnership with CityMag
The Mill is thrilled to announce Viray Thach as the recipient of the Sponsored Studio for the January-June 2022 residency. The Mill’s Sponsored Studio is a new initiative supported by the Mahmood Martin Foundation. In 2022 two selected artists will join our community, with each receiving 6-months of studio space and an exhibition outcome as part of The Mill Showcase.
Viray Thach is an emerging digital illustrator and educator. Her style, inspired by pop art, art deco and art nouveau, also sees deep-rooted influences from traditional Kbach ornamental designs that pay homage to her Cambodian roots. Viray’s iPad is the digital sketchbook where all the magic happens. Here, she marries the old and the new, using cybernation to recreate time-honoured textures and techniques into tactile designs that evoke a warm, homely compassion.
Formally educated in graphic design, business management and education, Viray is not only dedicated to her role as an illustrator, but as an educator and mentor, cultivating young minds and passing her multi-creative knowledge on to creative visionaries of the next generation. She remains business-minded and efficient while still delivering work full of the heart and soul.
At the root of it, Viray uses her art to tell a story – whether that is through character-rich portraits, lively illustrations, or bringing her mind’s eye to life through magnificent murals.
The Mill is thrilled to announce Piri Eddy as the recipient of the City Mag 2022 Writer in Residence July-December residency.
The Writer in Residence program, in partnership with CityMag, supports emerging writers from a variety of disciplines. The program creates a broader audience for writing through leadership, mentorship and publication.
A grant from Arts SA supports Piri’s engagement with The Mill.
Piri Eddy is an award-winning playwright, writer, screenwriter, and producer living and working on Kaurna country.
His work has been produced for Radio National and published in such places as Westerly Magazine, Island, and Australian Book Review. Piri won the 2020 Jill Blewett Playwrights Award for his one-act play Forgiveness, which premiered at RUMPUS in 2021.
Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Cost: Free
Duration: 1 hour
Accessibility: Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, there is a ramp into The Breakout and no internal steps. There is also a disability toilet. View our accessibility informationpage.
This new immersive experience looks into transhumanism and post-human sociology, the work dives into a world where we explore how to create performance art in a sci-fi landscape.
For us, this is an exploration into creating an atmospheric world for the audience to be transported into. The conceptual ideologies are merely a vessel for us to explore new methodologies of creating when looking at pushing the boundaries of what ‘dance’ can be.
The full-length work will be presented in Queens Theatre in June 2022, this showing at The Mill will be a sketch, a draft and an exploration into what is possible when creating a cerebral experience through movement and atmosphere.
Thanks to City of Adelaide Quick Response Grant Funding for supporting this residency.
About the artist:
Directing this production is FLESHSOUP, composed of Andrew Barnes and Lily May Potger. We created FLESHSOUP in early 2021 to initiate a community platform for young freelancers in Adelaide to create, share and seek alternative avenues of performing, beyond traditional funding routes. Culminating our experience from training and working in the mainstream and underground dance scenes of London and the freelance industries of both Perth and Adelaide, we have refined our practice and executions as a team. These experiences have brought us to push for more and bring Adelaide an aspect of the wider arts community that is embedded in excellence, youth, experimentalism, and community.
City Mobilities is an intensive temporary public art workshop exploring ideas about the way we access, move, and engage in public spaces. City Mobilities is an ongoing initiative between The Mill and OSCA, supported by the City of Adelaide Strategic Partnership program.
In December 2021, lead artists Paul Gazzola and Tom Borgas will facilitate a follow-up City Mobilities workshop, building on the first workshops in 2020 and 2021. It will be an opportunity for participants to expand and develop their initial ideas into something more developed and considered, explore new ones, and further establish collaborative connections with liked-minded peers and colleagues.
It will take the format of a 3-day workshop at The Mill’s Breakout plus a public showing of outcomes in and around The Mill vicinity. The public showing is an opportunity to gather some broader feedback but also to see how we may develop a range of works for a future event.
When: Friday, November 19, 3.45pm sharp for a 4pm start
Where: The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (enter via The Exhibition Space)
Cost: Free
Duration: 1 hour
Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, there is a ramp into The Breakout and no internal steps. There is also a disability toilet. View our accessibility informationpage.
The Mill’s Centre Stage Residency will progress a new work presented by Paper Mouth Theatre to its next stage of development, including a work-in-progress public showing and culminating in a season at The Mill as part of Adelaide Fringe 2022.
Anchored within the suburban sphere of an outer-space-themed-fourth-birthday-party, this work transcends a cycle of time, spanning the Big Bang to the end of an entropying universe.
Narrated by Samuel’s Mother and Father, this work positions the audience as the unseen (but ever-present) birthday boy, SAMUEL.
Amidst melting ice cream cakes, decimated piñatas, a dying planet, and a rocket ship to Mars, SAMUEL is forced to reckon with the ever-present question: “who do I hold accountable?”
This program is presented with support from Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund.
Due to venue capacity restrictions, we ask you only book a ticket if you are able to attend. All attendees must be aware of our hygiene policy before attending our venue.
Caitlin Ellen Moore (she/they) will be creatively producing YOU’RE ALL INVITED TO MY SON SAMUEL’S FOURTH BIRTHDAY PARTY alongside writer and lead performer Mary Angley (she/they), and performer, composer and projection designer Dan Thorpe (he/him).
Videography: Sunny Side Uploads
The Mill’s Centre Stage Residency is presented with support from the Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund
The Mill is thrilled to announce Hussain Alismail as the recipient of the Sponsored Studio for the July-December residency. The Mill’s Sponsored Studio is a new initiative supported by Drs Geoff and Sorayya Martin, and an anonymous philanthropist beginning in 2021. Two selected artists have joined our community, with each receiving 6-months of studio space and an exhibition outcome as part of The Mill Showcase.
In constant flirting with meaning and medium; Saudi visual artist Hussain Alismail focuses on the pleated part of Saudi society in his work. Coming from the marginal community of Shia in the Eastern providence, he was constrained to examining a rich perspective of social interactions and discourses. Alismail draws inspiration from direct/indirect communications, experiences and history to tell stories about our culture.
He holds BFA in drawing & painting from OCAD U with an emphasis on illustration and social science. He is currently in the final year of visual effects and entertainment design studies (VEED) at Flinders University. Alismail exhibits both nationally and internationally, most recently presenting work in his third solo show Frilly at Argo on the parade in Adelaide. In 2020, he was one of the recipients of Maan grant from Athr gallery and one of the participants of the inaugural Albalad residency by Saudi Arabia Ministry of Culture. He was awarded in many competitions including Alkassbi International Award II (2015) and MCY by Edge of Arabia (2011).
In June-September 2021, The Mill welcomed Yankunytjatjara woman, multidisciplinary artist Lilla Berry to undertake a residency in our studios supported by City of Adelaide. The outcome of this residency was a new exhibition, STNRG WMN, presented in our gallery for Tarnanthi 2021. Lilla has collaborated with strong women, including Pearl Berry, Iteka Ukarla, Carly Tarkari Dodd, Mali Isabel, Amber Ahang, Kirsty Williams and Morgan Sette.
Image: Lilla Berry in the Exhibition Space, Photo Morgan Sette.
Image: Lilla Berry and Mali Isabel in conversation with The Mill’s Adele Sliuzas. Photo Morgan Sette.
Artist statement
The arts have always been embedded into my life. My family is made up of musicians and visual artists, and practicing art was something I just did when I was younger. Although using my body seemed to be one of the things I enjoyed most, whether that was dancing or acrobatics. As I got older and more influenced by others around me, the inherent idea that I was an artist shifted and changed. My practice moved towards a dance focus, as this was what I had the greatest opportunity to practice. However, as I’ve continued to develop as an arts worker, I’ve been able to tap into the other areas of my practice and continue to develop my skills across a range of mediums, and now have the confidence to articulate myself as a multi-disciplinary artist. Even if each discipline doesn’t get the same amount of my attention, they are equally as important and rewarding for me to practice.
STRNG WMN. will explore what it means to be strong Aboriginal women. Including culturally, physically and mentally. I have always been surrounded by strong women growing up. I was raised by a single mother, and as an athlete all of my team mates were strong women, being strong role models. And growing up watching other young Aboriginal woman dancing with Kurruru, I was so inspired by their strength in culture.
Through working with my community, I will take the lived experiences of other women to inform movement to be captured on film, still images and installation. I want to capture the authentic voices of our community, and explore all the ways we as women find strength, as it comes in all different types of forms.
Where: The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Cost:Free
Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, access the pedestrian ramp on the corner of Gunson St. The Mill has concrete flooring throughout and a disability toilet. View more in-depth information on our accessibilitypage.
The Mill welcomes emerging artist Frances Cohen and their new exhibition The Many Faces of Frances, curated by emerging curator Christina Lauren.
Drawing on identity politics, and underpinned by theories of the self, Frances’ portraiture explores what it is to know and to understand the complexity of one’s self. Frances uses found images alongside photographic selfies layered with thick paint and gap filler to create a textural surface where features of the portraits are obscured, slipping and displaced. The works are uncanny, evocative and emotional, conveying a sense of uncertainty and heaviness while also appealing to the empathetic recognition of the viewer, eliciting the question who is this portrait of, could it be me?
Frances and curator Christina Lauren have worked together to present this exhibition which invites audiences to consider conceptual underpinnings alongside Frances’ use of material and process. Within this, they have generously opened a discussion around mental illness, and in particular Borderline Personality Disorder, which Frances speaks about from a personal perspective.
It’s hardly a ground-breaking revelation to say that all of us comprise a pastiche of everyone we’ve ever met. It is a well-known cliché that we are shaped by those around us, moulded through interactions with others that inform our worldview and our tastes. What is generally implied by this notion is that we have one overarching sense of who we are, with certain aspects of our personality being in flux as we move through life and have different experiences. I have always struggled to hold down my sense of self. I feel like I have been many different people to many different people; a different character tailored to each new audience member, worn like a mask. With that said, basic empathy also affords us the knowledge that each of us has their own mask; a face they present to the world that has been forged from a lifetime of hurt feelings and awkward encounters. I just seem to have accumulated a lot of them. Every character I’ve played has their own mask, forged through different lifetimes of impulsivity and self-destruction. Often it feels like I am wearing multiple at once; like I am staring out at the world around me from behind multiple numb layers of cracked plaster. Each of these paintings is a self-portrait. I am at the core of each one, hiding underneath the layers I find easier to heap upon myself, rather than deal with.
'The Many Faces of Frances' unearths a truly vulnerable series of self-portraits created Frances Cohen. The series explores Frances' warped sense of self-image, where each painting seeks to survey the idea of a constructed personality, and complex emotions. Frances' diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder often presents within the work as a construction of different personas, which she says 'alter my outward appearance to try and hide the gaps in my personality'.
Frances’ portraits resonate deeply with the viewer through a balance of familiarity and alienness. The viewer recognises themselves in the self-portraits through universal feelings of sadness, numbness, anger and a sense of being lost. Frances' ability to capture sadness, particularly within the eyes of each portrait, is a stand-out feature. Where most painters use the eyes to promote connection and recognition, Frances paints exclusively around them. This provides a novel view, almost reversing the mirror of the portrait and asking the viewer to look outwards rather than within. What image do they project? What mask do they paint on top, to hide their painful depth?
Portraiture has long provided a relationship between ones-self and the subject, allowing for reassurance of some of our most difficult feelings. In a time of great uncertainty, it is natural to search for what it means to be human and what it means to have human experiences. The Many Faces of Frances seeks to do just this, while also fighting against the stigma of mental health, in particular Borderline Personality Disorder, which remains one of the most misunderstood diagnoses. Frances’ portraits provide insight into the disorder, challenging preconceived perceptions, and giving audiences the opportunity to recognise how emotions felt by those with Borderline Personality Disorder are not so far from their own.
Frances Cohen is a painter living and working on Kaurna Yarta. She attended the University of South Australia, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Contemporary Art in 2020 and completed her honours year in 2021. She has previously exhibited work in Two Factor Authentication (2021), A Quarter Turn Around the Sun (2020), Friends (2019) and has contributed work to UniSA’s annual Art on Campus exhibition. She has also been published in Regurgitate (2021), Non-Compliant Quarterly (2019) and numerous editions of Verse magazine.
Christina Lauren is an emerging curator and currently the Carclew Resident curator, as part of their 2021 Sharehouse program. Graduating a Bachelor of Contemporary Art in 2019, Christina implements her experience and knowledge as a visual artist into her curatorial practices, as well as allowing her passion for arts theory to guide her. She is a multi-media artist, currently working mostly in oil paint, exploring notions of the human condition and mental health. Christina has worked previously as a curator through City of Adelaide’s Emerging Curator program supported by Carclew in 2019, as well as launching a collaborative arts music project with Bad Habits Events in 2019, ‘Blossom Art Space’. Christina began her residency at Carclew in 2020, and has continued through to 2021.
Christina has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including ‘Unwearable’ at Cloister Workrooms, Kaurna Land 2017, ‘Art on Campus’ in the West Oak Hotel, Kaurna Land 2018, 'Inevitable’ in Carclew House Foyer, Kaurna Land 2019, University of South Australia’s ‘Art on Campus’, Kaurna Land, 2019 and Mindshare SA’s ‘Mindshare 2021 Exhibition’, Adelaide City Library, 2021. Christina was awarded the 2021 SALA Contemporary Curator Award for her curatorial role in ‘Refractions’ at Carclew.
Image: Frances Cohen, Core Memory, 2020, mixed media on MDF, 46cm x 60cm Photo: courtesy of the artist
When: Friday, October 29, 5.45pm sharp for a 6pm start
Where:The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility informationpage.
Autoeulogy is an original solo work by Adelaide-based theatre-maker Lucy Haas-Hennessy. An eerily prescient sci-fi tragicomedy about isolation at the end of the world, it was first staged at the Mill in early 2020 among the first ripples of the COVID-19 pandemic. One very long year later, the work will be redeveloped against the fascinating new cultural landscape that the pandemic is leaving in its wake, asking questions about what’s changed about the end of the world - and what hasn’t.
Autoeulogy has been supported by an Arts and Culture grant from City of Adelaide.
Due to venue capacity restrictions, we ask you only book a ticket if you are able to attend. All attendees must be aware of our hygiene policy before attending our venue.
Lucy Haas-Hennessy is an Adelaide-based actor, playwright, dramaturge and theatre-maker, and was the entire creative team behind the first production of Autoeulogy. Lucy’s work is interested in the contemporary significance of the ancient art of live performance - in what makes it continue to make its inimitable impact on audiences and hold its ground even in the high-tech digital age. She is a 2017 graduate of the Adelaide College of the Arts acting program, a 2019 Helpmann Fellow, and a 2021 intern with Brisbane-based theatre company Zen Zen Zo.
Lucy will be joined in this phase of development by Mary Angley (director and dramaturge), an emerging theatre-maker and a recent graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts’ Master of Directing program. In 2019, Mary created Paper Mouth Theatre as a forum for bringing together emerging creatives to work on experimental projects within a Queer, Feminist framework. Mary’s work has received support from The Helpmann Academy, Carclew, Splash Adelaide, Science Gallery, and La Mama.
Where: The Mill Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Cost:$10 with a drink on arrival
Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility informationpage.
The Mill welcomes Yankunytjatjara woman, multi-disciplinary artist Lilla Berry as our second Collaboration & Mentorship artist in resident (CaM-Res), supported by City of Adelaide. Lilla has created this work through development time in The Mill’s Breakout space, mentorship with The Mill’s artistic team and the opportunity to collaborate with photographer Morgan Sette. Lilla’s exhibition celebrates her relationships with her community, through practicing dance, footy, weaving and the act of coming together. She has also collaborated with strong women, including Pearl Berry, Iteka Ukarla, Carly Tarkari Dodd, Mali Isabel, Amber Ahang and Kirsty Williams.
The arts have always been embedded into my life. My family is made up of musicians and visual artists, and practicing art was something I just did when I was younger. Although using my body seemed to be one of the things I enjoyed most, whether that was dancing or acrobatics. As I got older and more influenced by others around me, the inherent idea that I was an artist shifted and changed. My practice moved towards a dance focus, as this was what I had the greatest opportunity to practice. However, as I’ve continued to develop as an arts worker, I’ve been able to tap into the other areas of my practice and continue to develop my skills across a range of mediums, and now have the confidence to articulate myself as a multi-disciplinary artist. Even if each discipline doesn’t get the same amount of my attention, they are equally as important and rewarding for me to practice.
I’m extremely excited for the opportunity to give these mediums more attention through my residency and exhibition. I will be working through painting, weaving, video and photography, as well movement, to explore the themes of the exhibition. My development as a curator will also be explored, as I not only curate my own works, but also those of other artists I will collaborate with.
STRNG WMN. will explore what it means to be strong Aboriginal women. Including culturally, physically and mentally. I have always been surrounded by strong women growing up. I was raised by a single mother, and as an athlete all of my team mates were strong women, being strong role models. And growing up watching other young Aboriginal woman dancing with Kurruru, I was so inspired by their strength in culture.
Through the facilitation of women’s circles, I will take the lived experiences of other women to inform movement to be captured on film, still images and installation. I want to capture the authentic voices of our community, and explore all the ways we as women find strength, as it comes in all different types of forms.
Lilla Berry is a Yankunytjatjara woman, multi-disciplinary artist, arts worker and producer. Lilla began her arts career at Carclew in 2014, and completed a secondment part time role with Country Arts South Australia as the Aboriginal Programs Associate Producer in 2018, and has contributed to a wide range of exciting programming.
In 2017, Lilla formed the Aboriginal cultural contemporary dance company Of Desert and Sea, alongside her fellow dance ensemble members. Of Desert and Sea explores themes relevant to the 5 Aboriginal women who make up the company. They have had
performances and workshops at places such WOMADelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, Dance Rites at the Sydney Opera House, and their debut show Beautiful, presented in Tarnanthi, November 2019. Beautiful’s second season at Adelaide Fringe 2020 also received the Emerging Artist Award. In 2019 she received her first screen credit, producing Sansbury Sisters as part of the Deadly Family Portraits Initiative with South Australian Film Corp and ABC iView.
Lilla’s practice as an artist is multi-disciplinary, as she explores mediums including dance, weaving, painting, video and photography. Her artworks are representation of her own lived experiences, and those of her community.
Yankunytjatjara woman, multi-disciplinary artist Lilla Berry
When: Wednesday 6 October, 3.45pm sharp for a 4pm start
Where:The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: Free
Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility informationpage.
The project is to develop a new immersive and interactive dance theatre production. The work will be performed in The Lab at Light Adelaide and will utilise the latest LED screen technology. The central dramaturgical premise of the work is a contemporary ritual that invites the audience to reconnect with themselves, place, and community in order to release that which holds them back, especially in relation to the experiences of the past year.
Due to venue capacity restrictions, we ask you only book a ticket if you are able to attend. All attendees must be aware of our hygiene policy before attending our venue.
Samuel Hall graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance in 2016 with a Diploma in Dance Performance. In 2017, he created his first professional choreography ‘Subsequent Slavery’ for the NZ Fringe Festival before performing in Strut Dance Inc’s restaging of ‘One Flat Thing, Reproduced' by William Forsythe. He then went on to join Swedish dance company Norrdans for their 17/18 season as an Apprentice. In 2018, he joined the acclaimed production ‘Sleep No More Shanghai’ by immersive theatre company, Punchdrunk. In 2020, he returned home to South Australia where he began working as a freelance dancer. He worked for major Australian company’s Dancenorth and Australian Dance Theatre, before joining the cast of Lewis Major’s Adelaide Festival double bill, S/Words and Unfolding. Samuel has consistently sought choreographic opportunities throughout his performance career, creating works for Light Adelaide, Dance Hub SA, QL2 Youth Dance Company, Norrdans, and his own personal projects.
Where: The Mill Showcase, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Cost: Free
Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility informationpage.
The Mill Showcase is a gallery spacededicated 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 Sixth edition of The Mill Showcase features work by Eleanor Green, Elana Photakis and Lisa Penney AKA Hey Reflect’o
About the artists:
Eleanor Green is an emerging artist based in Adelaide. Her passion for painting started at a young age, inspired by her love of animals and nature. As Illustrations by Eleanor, she creates commissioned portraits of dogs, cats, and horses for clients all over the world. With each new piece, Eleanor works to capture each animal’s unique personality and spirit.
I recently moved into The Mill Studios, and for my first showcase, I wanted to bring together artists from the collective through a common theme. I’m primarily an animal portrait artist, so it was a natural choice to paint the pets of the artists I work alongside.
For my showcase, I wanted to get creative and move outside of my more traditional style. With this collection, I’ve embraced free-flowing brushwork together with vibrant colours. It’s allowed me to let loose and have fun with my art, and I can’t wait to see where it goes.
Eleanor has been working at The Mill since 2021.
Elana – Jo Photakis is a trained seamstress and artist working in clay sculpture, photography and garment design and manufacture. Elana uses art to access other worlds and transport her viewers into a poetic universe. Currently, Elana is starting up her small business Mother of Bones that involves creating ethically made clothing using plant dyes.
My work is inspired by colour and texture in nature, ideas of fantasy, folklore, and mythology. These sculptures were made during a time of personal growth and are a physical manifestation of what a woman requires to reconnect with her inner psyche after being dormant.
Elana has been working at The Mill since 2020
Lisa Penney’s brandHey Reflect’owas created to answer the needs of cyclists for something fashionable, visible, and ethical to wear on the road. Lisa was sick of rolling up to trendy bars in an awesome outfit covered by an oversized tradie vest. She set out to design high visibility reflective vests that not only compliment outfits but also make you feel great. Hey Reflect’o vests are designed by Lisa and made here in Adelaide from sustainable materials.
Hey Reflect’o cycling gear is fashionable, breathable, durable and eye-catching. Adorned with Funky Reflect’o and fluro geometric patterns these vests make you stand out day and night. It’s high visibility meets high fashion.
When: Friday, September 3, 2021, 5.45pm sharp for a 6pm start
Where:The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta
Duration: 1.5 hours, including post-show discussion
Cost: Free
Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility informationpage.
This showing is the culmination of a two-week second development of The Circle Show by Jo Zealand; an interactive performance piece blending music, comedy, clowning, and dance. Jo has been collaborating with theatrical storyteller Suzie Skinner and musician Johnny Siegel to push the boundaries between performance and self-exploration.
As the successful recipient of the 2021 Brink Productions Theatre residency, Jo will be working with Chris Drummond as an artistic provocateur who will give dramaturgical, design and conceptual support to develop and extend this new work.
Due to venue capacity restrictions, we ask you only book a ticket if you are able to attend. All attendees must be aware of our hygiene policy before attending our venue.
A performer for 25 years, Jo Zealand specialises in interactive theatre, comic character and physical theatre with a musical twist and has an Advanced Diploma in Professional Screenwriting from RMIT. Jo’s aim is to use performing arts to bring about connection, awareness and joy. Beginning her training as a founding member of Restless Dance Company and Slack Taxi, Jo has studied with master teachers across Europe, Asia, and Australia. Artistic Director of No Strings Attached 1999-2004, she lead the company on an overseas tour and was nominated for an Innovation Award.
The Centre Stage Residency at The Mill will progress a new work presented by Paper Mouth Theatre to its next stage of development, including a work-in-progress public showing and culminating in a season at The Mill as part of Adelaide Fringe 2022.
Caitlin Ellen Moore (she/they) will be creatively producing YOU’RE ALL INVITED TO MY SON SAMUEL’S FOURTH BIRTHDAY PARTY alongside writer and lead performer Mary Angley (she/they), and performer, composer and projection designer Dan Thorpe (he/him).
This is a cosmic, multimedia performance about climate change, rugged individualism, and decadence.
Anchored within the suburban sphere of an outer-space-themed-fourth-birthday-party, this work transcends a cycle of time, spanning the Big Bang to the end of an entropying universe.
Narrated by Samuel’s Mother and Father, this work positions the audience as the unseen (but ever-present) birthday boy, SAMUEL.
Amidst melting ice cream cakes, decimated piñatas, a dying planet, and a rocket ship to Mars, SAMUEL is forced to reckon with the ever-present question: “who do I hold accountable?”
This residency is presented in collaboration with Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund.
When: Tuesday, September 14 to Thursday, September 16, 2021, from 10am–4pm
Where: The Mill Breakout, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide) (enter via Gunson Street)
Cost: $60
Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility informationpage.
City Mobilities is a three-day intensive exploring ideas about the way we access, move, and engage in public spaces. City Mobilities is an ongoing initiative between The Mill and OSCA, supported by the City of Adelaide Strategic Partnership program.
The workshop is open to artists and non-artists interested in gaining new skills and knowledge in creating site-based art projects. Participants will work with the lead artists Tom Borgas (The Mill resident artist) and Paul Gazzola (OSCA Artistic Director) to explore how we can rethink and reconfigure the city’s infrastructure into other forms and functionalities.
What Participants Can Expect:
This 3 day workshop will explore a variety of visual, design and performance making methods to highlight, question and renegotiate the importance of individual participation in public space. Participants will be invited to research various city sites and public spaces and develop a series of conceptual and physical responses in a collaborative studio-based set up.
The workshop will:
Offer participants a fertile space to share, learn, create, and exchange ideas, skills, and processes
Open-up new ways of thinking, doing, and making in a collaborative and collegial gathering
Stimulate and support the skills development of SA artists seeking new approaches to working within the public domain
Details
What to wear: Participants are requested to dress adequately and bring a hat for the sun as we will be working outside at times.
What materials to bring:
Participants need to bring a sketch pad and pencil/pen
Where: The Mill’s Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Adelaide
Cost: $150 + booking fee
Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility informationpage.
About the masterclass:
Jordan Reynolds welcomes guitar enthusiasts to join him for an intimate afternoon exploring the theory and craft of guitars. Talking through his artisan practice, Jordan will give participants insight into how guitars are constructed. He will also talk about care and maintenance, and the important things to consider when customising your own guitar.
What participants can expect:
Jordan will talk participants through the anatomy of guitars, with hands on examples of guitars built here at The Mill. In the second half he will lead the group through some basic guitar maintenance and speak about customising your set up. There will be lots of opportunities to ask questions, and partake in open discussion with the group.
This masterclass is hands on, and participants will get the opportunity to touch guitar parts, see inside and gain knowledge of tools. However, this is a talk-based masterclass. If you’re interested in a deeper level of practical and process based learning, please see our other masterclass with Jordan!
No skills required, all welcome.
Tea and light refreshments provided.
Jordan is the premier maker of musical instruments in Adelaide, specialising in extended range guitars and basses, handmade to order. He not only makes instruments, but has also serviced the Adelaide guitar scene for over a decade in repair, servicing and customising. Jordan has crafted a unique style bringing modern design and traditional techniques together to make one off instruments designed to last the test of time.
Having studied as a furniture maker whilst completing the first ever Guitar Making Apprenticeship in Australia, Jordan brings a different approach to Instrument construction to other Luthiers. Focusing on instruments that not only look the part, but also sound and feel premium, and most importantly designed to withstand the harsh Australian climate and conditions of working musicians
Valuing the local artisan scene, Jordan also works with other makers and artists every year to create one off instruments combining his own style and construction with other’s aesthetics and medium.
Jordan’s guitars have toured every continent of the world, and won features in multiple makers exhibitions and festivals. He has been a guest speaker at the International Guitar Festival and runs personalised classes on guitar making, with a big belief that education and transparency can only bring more creativity and push makers of all kinds to strive for perfection and innovation.
Each year The Mill presents a series of SALA Masterclasses with prominent South Australian artists. We invite practicing artists and creatives to participate, offering the opportunity to grow their practice through learning new skills, connecting with peers and developing insight into professional artists practice.
The Mill's Masterclass program runs throughout the year as a professional development program for artists, offering workshops with established international and national touring artists in both performance and visual arts. These diverse sessions draw South Australian artists into global conversations around aesthetic, performance and creative practice.
When:Saturday, August 21, 2021, 10am-12:30pm and 1:30-4pm
Where: The Mill’s Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Adelaide
Cost: $150 + booking fee
($125 +bf until Aug 19, use the promo code GLAZED)
Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility informationpage.
About the masterclass:
Join artist Ari Menendez for a ceramic workshop where you will build your own oil burner.
Work with stoneware clay and learn hand building techniques to construct a fully functional oil burner.
Ari will guide participants through the processes which will include a combination of slab building and pinching techniques to construct the oil burner.
Once constructed, Ari will share some of her favourite decorating techniques, such as carving and mark making - so that participants can make their oil burner truely unique to them.
Ari will bisque, glaze and fire all pieces to a final temperature of 1280 degrees. All burners will be ready to be collected within 3 weeks of the workshop.
No experience required - all welcome!
What participants can expect:
Participants will take home their very own hand built, glazed and fired oil burner!
Materials used:
Stoneware clay
Sculpting tools
Ari Menendez began creating with clay in 2016 after a friend gifted her a workshop experience with a well established Adelaide Artist. This day proved to be a transformative experience and clay became the deep connection to the Australian continent that German native Ari, until then, did not realise she was missing. What followed was an ongoing journey of learning and growth through ceramics, always anchored in the profound appreciation of nature and the ancient wisdom of creating with earth.
Ari’s design philosophy is anchored in functional ceramics with a minimalist restrained aesthetic. Her ceramic practice, encompasses both, hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques, often exposing parts of raw clay in her finished wares. Ari has established a small studio space in her home in the Adelaide Hills and continues to dream of it becoming a place for others to experience the healing nature of creating with clay.
Each year The Mill presents a series of SALA Masterclasses with prominent South Australian artists. We invite practicing artists and creatives to participate, offering the opportunity to grow their practice through learning new skills, connecting with peers and developing insight into professional artists practice.
The Mill's Masterclass program runs throughout the year as a professional development program for artists, offering workshops with established international and national touring artists in both performance and visual arts. These diverse sessions draw South Australian artists into global conversations around aesthetic, performance and creative practice.
Where: The Mill’s Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Adelaide
Cost: $375 + booking fee
Places limited to four participants, don’t miss out!
Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility informationpage.
About the masterclass:
Have you dabbled in guitar making, but want to know a bit more? If you know the basics and you’re looking for some in depth knowledge Jordan Reynolds welcomes you to join him for an intimate day long masterclass exploring the craft of guitars.
What participants can expect:
Taking place in his studio at The Mill, Jordan will take participants through the 8 steps of guitar making with hand-on and skills based tutorials throughout the day. Participants will learn about the materials and tools used in the guitar making process, and will have the opportunity to shape the neck of a guitar.
Participants will take home a goody bag including a specialised guitar shaping tool.
This masterclass is hands on, and involves practical and skills based making. However, it is not a masterclass in building a finished guitar. Stay tuned for guitar building courses from Jordan in 2022.
Some basic knowledge required.
Tea and light refreshments provided.
Jordan is the premier maker of musical instruments in Adelaide, specialising in extended range guitars and basses, handmade to order. He not only makes instruments, but has also serviced the Adelaide guitar scene for over a decade in repair, servicing and customising. Jordan has crafted a unique style bringing modern design and traditional techniques together to make one off instruments designed to last the test of time.
Having studied as a furniture maker whilst completing the first ever Guitar Making Apprenticeship in Australia, Jordan brings a different approach to Instrument construction to other Luthiers. Focusing on instruments that not only look the part, but also sound and feel premium, and most importantly designed to withstand the harsh Australian climate and conditions of working musicians
Valuing the local artisan scene, Jordan also works with other makers and artists every year to create one off instruments combining his own style and construction with other’s aesthetics and medium.
Jordan’s guitars have toured every continent of the world, and won features in multiple makers exhibitions and festivals. He has been a guest speaker at the International Guitar Festival and runs personalised classes on guitar making, with a big belief that education and transparency can only bring more creativity and push makers of all kinds to strive for perfection and innovation.
Each year The Mill presents a series of SALA Masterclasses with prominent South Australian artists. We invite practicing artists and creatives to participate, offering the opportunity to grow their practice through learning new skills, connecting with peers and developing insight into professional artists practice.
The Mill's Masterclass program runs throughout the year as a professional development program for artists, offering workshops with established international and national touring artists in both performance and visual arts. These diverse sessions draw South Australian artists into global conversations around aesthetic, performance and creative practice.
In July-August 2021 The Mill welcomed The Centre of Democracy to present Stitch and Resist, an exhibition of contemporary craftivism. Bringing together 140 works by activists from all around the world, this project is an example of the agency of communities working with a shared goal.
This exhibition is the culmination of a year long project of the same name, in which the Centre of Democracy engaged with community organisations and groups, as well as with the general public, to discuss, and create works addressing a range of contemporary issues.
Stitch & Resist showcases craftivist pieces that vary in terms of skill level and artistic merit. Their significance lies less in these values than in the political work they do, the contribution they make to social change. Pieces that appear in the exhibition have been created in English, Arabic, and indigenous languages, and many address diversity, inclusion and equality. As well as functioning as vehicles for addressing contemporary social issues, the works demonstrate the fact that everyone can be involved in craftivism. Over 140 works have been produced by a large number of individuals, community groups, and partner organisations from across South Australia, Australia, and internationally.
The Centre of Democracy is a collaboration between the History Trust of South Australia and the State Library of South Australia. It showcases the people, ideas and movements that have shaped, and continue to shape, democracy in South Australia. Featuring treasures from the state’s collections, the gallery contents challenge visitors to think again about people and power.
