OzAsia Masterclass: Seeing and Being Seen with Sue Healey

All images: Wendell Teodoro.

Masterclass

When: Monday, October 17, 5:30-7pm

Where: AC Arts, Rehearsal Studio, Level 3, 23 Light Square, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $30 (+ booking fee)

Studio open at 5:15pm, please arrive then to check in and warm up.

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The Mill in partnership with OzAsia Festival present a masterclass with Sue Healey that explores the Dancer and the Camera through visual awareness, the frame and movement within it.

Sue Healey is touring to Adelaide to perform in The Long Walk as part of 2022 Oz Asia Festival.

About the masterclass:

The class will open up visual and kinaesthetic awareness through a series of exercises and improvisations that relate to the works Healey is showing in the festival. Participants will move and observe, experimenting with the frame and dynamic nature of a moving camera.

Experience level:

All ages and disciplines are welcome – Open to everyone, though the workshop setting is best suited for artists, filmmakers, cinematographers, choreographers, dancers, performance and media artists. No dance experience required. All movement exercises will be accessible for all abilities.

Requirements:

Participants must bring a smart phone with a camera.

• About the artist

  Sue Healey is a Sydney-based choreographer, film-maker and installation artist with 40 years experience in Australia and internationally. She is the recipient of the Australia Council Award for Dance for 2021.

  Experimenting with form and perception, Healey creates performance and film for diverse spaces and contexts: galleries, theatres and screens. She tours internationally and has shown her work in many iconic venues, including the Sydney Opera House; Victorian Arts Centre; Lincoln Centre, New York; Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama, West Kowloon Cultural Precinct, Hong Kong and Aichi Arts Centre, Nagoya Japan. 

  Sue has created highly acclaimed, large scale projects, in Australia, New Zealand and Asia; including Live Action Relay for Liveworks Festival 2020, City as Portrait Gallery (B.E. Exhibition, Customshouse Sydney 2018), En Route (Wynscreen 2017), On View: Hong Kong - 5 channel installation for West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong (2017), On View: Japan - 5 channel installation Red Brick Warehouse Yokohama 2019, On View: Panorama live performance and film installations that toured Kinosaki, Yokohama and Nagoya, Japan 2020.

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This program has support from

Brand X Residency: Olenka Toroshenko showing, 'i am root'

Photo: Lauren Connelly (LALA Photography)

Public showing

When: Friday, September 2, and Saturday, September 3, 8pm

Where: The Flying Nun by Brand X, 34-40 Burton St, Darlinghurst

Cost: $25

Accessibility: If you have access requirements for attending the show, please tick the access requirements box during the booking process. This includes booking companion card tickets. A Brand X team member will then be in touch to ensure we understand your requirements.

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As part of the Spotlight / Brand X Residency, 2022 recipient Olenka Toroshenko flew to Sydney to further develop and perform her work i am root as part of Brand X’s Flying Nun Program.

The aim of this residency is to develop national pathways for artists to further develop and present their work interstate along with networking opportunities provided in partnership with Brand X in Sydney.

The residency began at The Mill for 2 weeks earlier in the year, followed by a 1-week residency and performance season at Brand X’s The Flying Nun program. Olenka’s performances will occur on September 2 and 3.

We look forward to reporting on the outcomes from this wonderful development presentation and touring opportunity that is built to empower and support South Australian makers!

• About the artist

  Olenka Natalia Toroshenko is a Ukrainian Canadian artist, writer and producer whose life is in service to a saner, meaningful existence. She is a multidisciplinary performer whose mediums include spoken word poetry, dance, clowning, song, storytelling and ritual performance art. 

  She is a Katonah yoga teacher, student of The Orphan Wisdom School and lover of coniferous forests. She has worked in news broadcasting and politics which helped shape her understanding of the current cultural paradigm. She was the co-producer of “wild”, “Shakti Showcase” and “Shakti Rising” multi-artist/disciplinary productions and has toured 4 different continents as a singer, poet and dancer.

  She enjoys producing video projects, Burning Man theme camps, and multidisciplinary shows. She is inspired by collaborating with other artists.

  Olenka currently resides in South Australia.

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This program has support from

Adelaide Fringe 2023: Expressions of Interest

Expressions of interest have closed for The Mill’s Adelaide Fringe 2023 season.

The Mill welcomes artists working in all areas of performance - from live music to theatre, dance, comedy and more. Our venue is a great space for risk-taking, trying out new ideas or presenting fully-realised works.

The Breakout is a 50-seater black-box theatre space adjacent to The Mill’s 35 artist studios and exhibition spaces. Located a 15 minute walk from Rundle Street, our theatre is perfect for intimate artist-audience interactions.

While the EOI is closed, we encourage those interested in joining our waitlist to contact The Mill Associate Producer Louie Dempsey.

Before you send an EOI, complete the following steps:

• Read the Venue Information Pack to familiarise yourself with our venue.

• Collate as much information about your show as you can (about you/your show, technical specifications, marketing plans, etc).

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Key Dates

Tuesday, August 23: EOIs Open

Sunday, September 18: EOIs Close

September 23 - October 7: Offers sent out

Thursday, October 20: Adelaide Fringe printed program deadline

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Any questions please email The Mill Associate Producer Louie Dempsey.

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Exhibition: The World Needs Us, We Need the World: Political poster art for climate action

Image: Australian Youth Climate Coalition ‘Climate Justice Bootcamp’ poster illustration.

October 7 - November 18, 2022

Opening event: Friday, October 14, 6-8pm

School Holiday workshop: Tuesday October 11, 1pm

Opening hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm

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

Cost: Free

• Accessibility

  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 accessibility page.

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For Nature Festival 2022, The Mill presents a new 6-week exhibition that celebrates the role of art as activism in the context of climate crisis and various political issues. The exhibition features poster art from the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC), historical works from the FUMA collection, alongside contributions from local activists.

We invite the general public, young people, artists and creatives to contribute to a community poster wall as part of the exhibition. A poster making station with materials will be a permanent feature of the exhibition, with audiences invited to create a poster and add it to the wall. Contributing artists can respond to the theme ‘The World Needs Us, We Need the World’. 

A free school holidays workshop (Tuesday, October 11) will invite young people and their families to create and contribute to the exhibition.

Call-out for contributions:

We invite you to contribute a poster to the exhibition to be included in the community poster wall. Flex your creative muscles and design something meaningful and authentic that responds to the theme of the exhibition ‘The World Needs Us, We Need the World’. See examples from AYCC below!

Artworks must be:

• A3 or smaller

• Able to be pinned to the wall

• Welcoming, inclusive and appropriate for all ages (keep it clean folks!)

• include your name, email and phone number on the reverse

Delivered to The Mill by September 30, 2022

Att. Adele Sliuzas, The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide, 5000

Artworks can be collected from November 21, or include a return self addressed envelope

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This exhibition has support from

OzAsia Masterclass: The Craft of Fight Choreography with Maria Tran

All images: Anna Kucera.

Masterclass

When: Tuesday, October 25, 4-6pm

Where: AC Arts, Rehearsal Studio, Level 3, 23 Light Square, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $30 (+ booking fee)

Studio open at 3:45pm, please arrive then to check in and warm up.

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The Mill in partnership with OzAsia Festival present a masterclass with Maria Tran exploring action fight choreography and stage combat.

Maria Tran is touring to Adelaide to perform in ACTION STAR as part of 2022 Oz Asia Festival.

About the masterclass:

The central focus is to give opportunities for artists to explore themselves performatively through the format of action fight choreography and stage combat. Creatives will unpack leadership skills, courage, kindness, and what being strong and taking action means. Skills include improvisation, voice and movement devising, acting, and creating group work scenes.

Experience level:

16+, any level or experience welcome.

• About the artist

  Maria has a Bachelor in Psychology, Western Sydney University and a Certificate IV in Workplace Training & Assessment. She has conducted over a dozen workshop classes in leadership, digital media, creativity, business and entrepreneurship, public speaking and presenting, and acting and performance training for individuals, groups, face-to-face and online, particularly amongst culturally diverse communities.

  Her role as Youth Digital Cultures Coordinator with Information & Cultural Exchange (ICE) 2007-2009 led to the activation amongst young people of colour through digital art activism & performance. Since then, she’s designed, implemented, and ran over 100 workshops in Western Sydney and across Australia. Her workshops centre on creativity, psychology, stage combat and fight choreography, acting and performance, self-care, exploring passions, public speaking and presentation, project management, communication, community and cultural development practices, life as an artist, and many more. She currently co-facilitates at Acting For Mindfulness, a training program tailored for artists from culturally diverse backgrounds and descent navigating the acting & performative industries.

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This program has support from

Sanaa Sponsored Studio: LK Artist in Residence call-out

Sanaa is a not-for-profit, multidisciplinary cultural arts collective, facilitating and celebrating the power of art and its capacity to bridge cultural gaps. The Mill’s partnership with Sanaa offers one Sponsored Studio for culturally diverse artists.

An African artist will join The Mill’s studio community for 6-weeks, also presenting an artist talk and workshop with support from The Mill and Sanaa. The residency will culminate in a group exhibition at Kerry Packer Civic Gallery at the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, February-March 2023.

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Workshop: Yarning Circle with Marika Davies and Natalie Austin

Image: Marika Davies with Natalie Austin’s Opal Painting.

Workshop

This is a special event for folks who identify as non-binary or women.

When: Saturday, July 30, 11am-12pm

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

Cost: $15 (+ booking fee)

• 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 invites you to join us for an intimate yarning circle with exhibiting Antikjrita artist Natalie Austin and Wangkangurru woman and independent curator Marika Davies.

Natalie will have a chat about her work and Marika will keep our hands busy with some weaving while chatting about her role as exhibition curator. We'll also have some tea and biccies!

About the exhibition:

Memory of Water by Antikjrita woman Natalie Austin speaks of the artists connection to Country as motif within her life. Natalie traces her life from child, teen, mother and now grandmother and the meaningful role that water has in her understanding of self, Country and community. Natalie has worked with Wangkangurru woman and independent curator Marika Davies to develop this exhibition, an inaugural collaboration between The Mill and regional South Australian Aboriginal artists. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue essay written by Yankunytjatjara / Kokatha woman and well-known poet Ali Cobby Eckermann.

Memory of Water is presented in partnership with Ku Arts, Ripple Effect/HumanKind and City of Adelaide.

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Exhibition: Viray Thach, Resilience

All images: Ivy Lee, @ivyleecreative

July 18 - September 16, 2022

Opening event: Friday, July 29, 6-8pm

Opening hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm

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

Cost: Free

• Visiting the exhibition

  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 accessibility page.

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This SALA The Mill's Showcase space hosts Resilience, a solo exhibition by illustrator and educator Viray Thach.

The exhibition elevates the voices of sexual assault survivors and opens conversations of the commonly misunderstood topic. Viray showcases her skills as a digital illustrator, as well as exploring new techniques developed through her six month studio residency at The Mill. She is the recipient of the 2022 Sponsored Studio a new initiative in co-operation with Mahmood Martin Foundation. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue essay written by The Mill's Writer in Residence Renee Miller.

Presented with support from Mahmood Martin Foundation and Arts SA.

Content warning: This exhibition includes sensitive topics around sexual assault. Please be mindful before attending.

• Artist Statement

  Resilience creates a safe space for healing. It’s important to create safe spaces for survivors to be able to talk about their experience, without judgement or fear. And to be able to support them. Loved ones can also step into this space and learn how to empathise and learn how to support. It can be hard to know how to support a friend who has been through something, and it’s hard to speak about something that is considered taboo.

  While developing the exhibition I’ve been able to have some open conversations. I’ve been at parties and friends have asked me about my exhibition and that has opened up a conversation about sexual assault that might not have otherwise happened. Education is an important aspect of why I am doing this, through the exhibition I am able to provide knowledge of lived experience.

  Creating the works has been part of my own healing process. It has been daunting but cathartic and has helped to release some of the shame I was feeling. Part of this has also been the conversation with other survivors, who responded to me with generosity, openness and detail. Survivors shared their stories via an online survey, which meant they could do it at their own pace. Sharing my own story helped to develop trust, I’m glad that I established a relationship with each of them that they felt safe to share. It is a privilege to be able to speak to someone I barely know about something that is sometimes a deep dark secret. It’s an honour to hold that space for them.  

  The portraits are challenging to do, a lot of my heart and soul goes into the process. But once they’re done it feels like such a service to the survivors. I hope when the subjects see their portraits that they will feel a sense of strength, hope and light, despite the heaviness of the subject. I want to reflect something that they might not see within themselves- the light and positivity, alongside the darkness.

  The lino prints were inspired by poetry and metaphor. Symbolism is something that I use a lot in my practice which has grown from training in graphic design and visual communication. The colour palette is simple but effective. Throughout the works I have used black to represent the darkness, contrasted with the shining golden light, which represents beauty despite pain. The works take you on a poetic journey to another world, a peaceful welcoming space.

  I want audiences to understand that the survivors have gone through so much, but have been able to overcome obstacles and hurdles, and as a result I want to show their strength. It is a painful type of beauty, but within this exhibition I hold space for both of these things to sit alongside each other.

• Artist Biography

  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.

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This exhibition has support from

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

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Virtual Gallery: Tarsha Cameron and Tailor Oriana-Julie Winston, One

In May-July 2022, The Mill continued our focus on Visual Arts collaborations, presenting One, a new exhibition by emerging multidisciplinary artists Tarsha Cameron and Tailor Oriana-Julie Winston. With an interest in developing relational connections and shared stories, Tarsha and Tailor developed a unique, evolving installation in the gallery. During the first ‘soft opening’ week audiences were invited to visit and witness the work in progress, share their responses and also contribute. With sculptural, installation, sound, photography, video, painting and textiles, One is an exploration of collaboration and connectivity.

Image: Tarsha and Tailor in the Exhibition Space, Photo Morgan Sette.

Artist statement

The threads of connection

Stay

Forever present

In our genes

Across space and time

And

In our bodies; flesh and ethereal 

Life is an entangled whole

Connectivity surrounds us. It is more than just between you and I, but also between the moon and the stars, the trees and the sea; all living beings living in symbiosis with one another. Close your eyes and notice for a moment. Breathe. Feel it in the air. Feel it in you.

One attempts to creatively explore and materialise the more complex and subtle forms of collaboration that occur in everyday life, yet remain hidden to our visual and auditory perception. We are in constant developmental flux with ourselves, nature, our immediate and distant surroundings; reciprocally invoking the law of cause-and-effect that expands across time, space and place.

The process leads us into a philosophical investigation where everything co-exists, akin to an ecosystem with many differing identities that inform, inspire, and rely on the other. It is a continuous collaborative exploration as we respond to and negotiate nature, each other,  and our close and more remote environmental, historical and ancestral storylines. 

Situated on Kaurna Yarta, One culminates as a work that is both fluid and organic, still, yet full of life. A reflection of the interconnectedness of existence.

Social photos: Daniel Marks / All other photos: Morgan Sette.

Exhibition: Natalie Austin, Memory of Water, curated by Marika Davies

Artwork: Camping Along the Creek, Natalie Austin

July 18 - September 16, 2022

Opening event: Friday, July 29, 6-8pm

Opening hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm

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

Cost: Free

• Accessibility

  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 accessibility page.

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This SALA The Mill presents a new solo exhibition, Memory of Water, by Antikjrita woman Natalie Austin, supported by Wangkangurru woman and independent curator Marika Davies. Natalie speaks of the artists connection and relationship to Country as motif within her life. Natalie traces her life from child, teen, mother and now grandmother and the meaningful role that Country has in her understanding of self and community. She says ‘painting is my passion and gives me peace.’ Natalie has worked with curator Marika Davies to develop this exhibition, an inaugural collaboration between The Mill and regional South Australian Aboriginal artists.

Memory of Water is presented in partnership with Ku Arts, City of Adelaide and Human Kind Studios. The exhibition has also had generous support from Ursula Halpin at Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery.

• Artist Statement

  The exhibition is mostly about Coober Pedy, where I come from and where I grew up. I usually do my artwork with the white dirt, the brown dirt and the colours of the opal. These paintings also have the wildflower colours that come out after a big rain, it’s very pretty.

  The first painting is about water, about the creek. But the group of paintings are about connection to the country.

  My inspiration is my mother, she was with the Coober Pedy kupa piti kungka Tjuta who protested the nuclear waste dump in the 90’s. She’s been painting most her life and she’s 89 now. She taught me to paint, and it is something that I share with my daughter and my niece. They sit and watch me paint and do their own thing.  

  Marika Davies is a great help, she’s given me the opportunity to exhibit including in Malka [arts prize at Yarta Purtli, Pt Augusta]. She is a lovely person to work with. It helps to have someone to push me in the right direction. I paint and she organises things to get my paintings out into the word.

  I’m excited to be able to show the works in Adelaide. I’m happy to have the works shown and share about my country and the colours and the stories.

• Curatorial Statement

  Natalie Austin’s ‘Memory of Water’ is an important exhibition. The paintings are about being on Country and being with family. She shows the opal fields and the desert, as well as the desert flowers that bloom after rain. You can see the white throughout all the paintings, which is the colour of the stone layer that holds the opal in the earth. The colours that Natalie has used are the colours in the veins of the white stone, the glistening of the opal. This is part of Natalie’s Country, her family’s Country. Connection to Country is not just what is on top, its also what is underneath. People think of Opal as being about making money, but it is so much more than that. Digging the holes to make mines disrupts Country.

  Natalie’s mum is 89 this year, and has been a major influence on Natalie. I would love to see her be able to come and see Natalie’s exhibition, and see what Natalie learned from her on a wall in a gallery space, and the sense of pride that both Natalie and her mum would have. Natalie took on the skill of painting from her mum and has been painting for close to 30 years. That’s how kids learn, from their elders and parents. Your parents are your first teachers. Natalie is a grandparent now and for her children and grandchildren to be able to see her first solo show could inspire the next generation of Natalie’s family.

  As a curator it is important to be able to showcase our region, Port Augusta and the mid North. Natalie has been painting for a very long time and she is really happy to have a solo. Audiences can come in to The Mill from anywhere and realise that this artist is just a 3 or 4 hour drive up the road from Adelaide. You can see the painting, the colours and the shapes in the gallery, and you can visit the landscape and see the story of the Country.

  It’s really important to see First Nations Artists share their work. There are brilliant artists out there that should be recognised. After contacting Natalie to invite her to exhibit, the first issue was getting materials to her. It’s a low socio-economic region and artists can’t just go into the shop and buy quality materials. Ursula Halpin at Port Pirie Regional Gallery helped with some materials and Ku arts came with more. Access to materials is an issue throughout the region, there are artists that have artworks that they’re ready to make, but they don’t have access. And often what they can get are cheap canvases that easy break, which really devalues the artworks. This region produces world class artworks, and It’s such a great thing to work as an independent Curator with artists, and collaborate with a gallery like The Mill, and with support from Ursula and Ku Arts to create opportunities to upskill and make the incredible works they are ready to make.

  I knew of Natalie when I was 16 and just starting out. Then I connected with her last year, I am now 42 and I finally get to work with her- it was just meant to happen!

• About the artist

  Artist Natalie Austin was born in Port Augusta, South Australia, in 1964 and grew up in Coober Pedy. She is a descendant of the Antikirinya, Southern Kokatha and Yankunytjatjara peoples. Austin was taught to paint by her mother and has been painting for nearly thirty years. Her work was featured in the Malka Art Prize at Yarta Purtli in 2022 and 2020. She has contributed to the Tarnanthi Art fair at Tandanya from 2017-2019. Other exhibitions include 'Our Mob’ at the Adelaide Festival Centre and the 2008 'Ripples in the Sand’ exhibition at the Port Augusta Cultural Centre, ‘Coast to Coast’ at Fischer Jeffries for SALA, and the Sydney International Art Fair 2019.

• About the curator

  Curator Marika Davies is a proud Wangkangurru woman of the Simpson Desert, Birdsville area. She is an emerging artist and independent curator currently living and working in Port Augusta, South Australia. Her interest in pursuing a career in the art industry developed organically through her love and passion for art and its history, and wanting to give back to her community in Port Augusta who nurtured her passion and cultural growth. She is intent on a curatorial career continuing her history of work within the community.

  Marika is a talented storyteller, finding new ways to tell stories through curating, painting, jewellery making, photography, radio and film. Currently Marika is undertaking a mentorship with Tarnanthi Festival Director Nici Cumpston OAM and Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery Director Ursula Halpin. 

  In 2018 and 2019, Marika undertook a curatorial internship for VIETNAM: ONE IN, ALL IN, where she actively assisted throughout project development, gaining experience that helped to springboard her career as an emerging curator.

  In 2019, Marika attended the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair as part of the Aboriginal Curators Program and Symposium. 

  Marika attended the Port Augusta Emerging Film Development Program workshop and was co-director / co-writer for Mulka Man, which was screened at Nunga Screen, 2020. She co-wrote Dusty Feet Mob: This Story's True and filmed Full Circle | Marika Davies | indigiTUBE.

  More recently Marika undertook a Podcasting for Beginners Workshop an initiative of the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), Country Arts SA and Riverland Youth Theatre, delivered by experienced First Nations mentor Raymond Zada. In September 2021, Marika’s podcast was aired on the ABC radio. Fresh new podcasts by South Australian First Nations storytellers | indigiTUBE

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This exhibition has support from

Masterclasses and Workshops: SALA 2022 at The Mill

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.

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Photo: Morgan Sette

Masterclass: Lost Wax Cast Jewellery with Nativis

When: Saturday, August 13 or 20, 12-3:30pm

Where: The Mill’s Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St,

Cost: $250 (+bf)

All materials and light refreshments provided.

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Learn to carve jewellers wax to create your own ring using the lost wax casting method. We'll carve with files, pick with tools and melt with flame until you've made yourself a masterpiece. Jewellers wax is a medium like no other; easy to get lost in and can take on so very many forms. We will explore different shapes, textures and techniques (please note, this workshop does not include working with stones). No two rings are ever the same, just uniquely yours!

At the end of the session, Nativis, aka Elly, will collect all your finished wax moulds. They're then cast in solid silver, after which Elly tackle the processing for you, and return to you your shiny, finished piece. Making jewellery is wonderful but sharing the experience is more-so, this is my way to get people involved and bring them closer to a slow and conscious way of creating.

About the artist:

Elly Pepper is a predominantly self-taught jeweller; creating one-off pieces from recycled solid silver and gold, and ethically sourced stones. Her works range from simple studs to future heirloom pieces, as she enjoys continuing to build her skillset and experimenting with new techniques.

As a trained horticulturalist, her work is continuously inspired by nature, the earth, and the beautiful stones she holds, particularly Australian opal. Elly began offering wax workshops mid-2021, hoping to bring to life the opportunity to make a gift instead of buying it, an experience for you and your loved ones to create treasures you will hold forever, made by your own two hands. Her dream of bringing people together over food and drink to create is well and truly alive within these workshops!

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Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Masterclass: Process-based Approaches & Resolutions with Ruby Chew

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Join Ruby Chew for a two day process based workshop at The Mill. Ruby will guide participants through techniques in abstraction and alternative making techniques building towards creating an abstract painting on wood board.

This workshop is suitable for beginners through to established artists, with a focus on experimentation, play, exploration, and composition. Ruby is a generous teacher with many years experience teaching and as a practicing artist.

Students will need to provide some basic materials (scissors, glue stick, wood board etc. list will be provided with ticket), and The Mill will provide other materials for the group to share.

About the artist:

Ruby Chew is a painter who employs process-based making techniques to create open dialogues with her viewers whilst exploring the fluidity of pictorial space. Completing a BA Visual Arts Hons. at Adelaide Central School of Art (2010), along with further study at Central Saint Martins, London and the Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Ruby’s practice is deeply rooted in traditional painting techniques, which are the foundation of her practice. 

Ruby is a Ruth Tuck Scholarship recipient (2015) and has exhibited, taught and held residency positions interstate and overseas. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, notably Portraits at Magazine Gallery (2011), Spitting Image at Hill Smith Gallery (2012) and The Difference Between Things at Floating Goose Studios (2021). 

Her artworks are in public and private collections across Australia, Canada, Malaysia and London. She currently lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Image: Viray Thach

Workshop: Beginners lino printing with Viray Thach

When: Sunday, August 21, or Saturday, September 10, 12-4pm

Where: The Mill’s Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St

Cost: $40 (+bf)

Materials and light refreshments provided

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If you're looking for an opportunity to be creative, join Sponsored Studio artist Viray Thach for an illustration and lino print workshop. This beginners workshop will introduce skills in preparing a design, carving lino and printing, and all participants will take home finished artworks.

Held in The Mill’s exhibition space alongside Viray’s solo exhibition Resilience, the workshop will be intimate and casual and is open to complete beginners.

About the artist:

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.

MMF Sponsored Studio 2022: Tikari Rigney

The Mill is thrilled to announce Tikari Rigney as the recipient of the Sponsored Studio for the July-December 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 Gallery II.

• About the artist

  Tikari Rigney is a non-binary (they/them) Kaurna, Narrunga and Ngarrindjeri visual artist and poet. Working in a range of mediums from performance, illustration sculpture to writing. Their practice references their queer bodily experience, Aboriginality and the complexities of human connection. Exploring themes of humor, rebirth and emotional vulnerability.

  Rigney is a First Nations Curator at ACE Open. Rigney participated in the inaugural Zine and Held fair for disabled and people of colour artists at POP gallery. They have exhibited in over five group exhibitions in South Australia. They curated the largest student exhibition at Adelaide Central School of Art during their studies, with over 22 artists and is completing a Bachelor in Visual Arts.

  Rigney has connections to Carclew through their Creative Consultant program and has completed a culturally diverse illustration commission for Shine SA.

Photo: Johnny von Einem

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

Brink Residency: Samuel Lau, Q&A 'Walk of the Ancestors'

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Photo: Lok.

Public Q&A

When: Friday, July 8, 6pm

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

Duration: 1 hour

Cost: Free

• Accessibility

  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 accessibility page.

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The Mill will be hosting a work-in-progress Q&A for Samuel Lau’s Walk of the Ancestors, with mentorship from Brink Productions director Chris Drummond.

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Walk of the Ancestors is a project that explores how Eastern philosophy and values, such as filial piety and ancestor veneration have manifested and directed Samuel Lau’s life as a second-generation Chinese- Australian.

This development opportunity has provided a mentorship with Director Chris Drummond to explore further into the writings of the play.

The Q&A will be between Samuel and Chris, supported by The Mill Associate Producer Louie Dempsey.

• About the artist

  Samuel Lau is an Adelaide-based actor and musician. With cultural roots in Hong-Kong, Sam is a second- generation Chinese-Australian. A 2019 graduate of the Adelaide College of Arts Acting program, he has since worked in a variety of mediums such as ABC’s TV series Aftertaste, Anifex studio’s animation film The Better Angels and Too Dumb Blonde’s productions of Does it Please You? which was the recipient of the 2021 Holden Street Theatre Award. Sam often explores themes of diaspora in his works, such as through his 2021 MakeSpace Artist Residency where he dove into the cultural identity of being in-between cultures; investigating his lifelong navigation of liminal spaces both culturally and spiritually. 

• About the mentor

  Chris Drummond is Artistic Director of Brink Productions. His productions have been presented by most major theatre companies and arts festivals in Australia. Credits include The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Memorial, Long Tan, The Aspirations of Daise Morrow, Babyteeth, Thursday, The Hypochondriac, When the Rain Stops Falling and Night Letters. He was nominated for a 2009 Helpmann Best Director Award for The Flying Dutchman (SOSA) and his productions have won Ruby, Adelaide Critics Circle, Green Room (Vic) and Sydney Theatre awards. Chris was Associate Director of State Theatre Company of South Australia from 2001 to 2004. 

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This residency has support from

Expand: Projection Techniques and Technologies facilitated by Margie Medlin

In 2023, six artists (visual artists, performers, dancers film and media artists) will participate in a collaborative intensive facilitated by Margie Medlin with support from award-winning creative producers and multimedia specialists Illuminart.

PTT combines rapid skills development in emerging technologies in art and exhibition outcomes to support the exploration of interdisciplinary, site-specific and audience-focused new work.

This program follows Expand’s 2021 program Cinematic Experiments, a 10-day laboratory facilitated by Medlin, The Mill and Mercury CX, in response to creatives pushing further into exploring hybrid / digital platforms. The six artists for PTT will be selected from those who attended Cinematic Experiments, to continue this learning.

PTT participants will experience four, high-level professional development masterclasses in The Breakout at The Mill, and dedicate time to experimenting with projection technologies within their practice. The work created will culminate in Make|Shift, a 6 week immersive group exhibition in The Mill’s Exhibition Space, including an artist forum and access tours to engage audiences in the process of creation.

ilDance Professional Development Audition

The ilDance Professional Development program provides the opportunity for an emerging South Australian based dancer within five years of graduating from a tertiary institution, to work with ilDance’s project-based junior company, ilYoung, in the creation process and tour of a new dance work throughout Sweden.

This program is presented in partnership between The Mill, Adelaide, and ilDance, Sweden.

The opportunity will provide valuable mentorship from ilDance company’s founders and choreographers Lee Brummer and Israel Aloni, as well as experience working and touring with a professional dance company.

ilDance is an international and independent contemporary dance company that initiates and operates several pioneer projects. The company was founded in 2012 by its current Artistic Directors, Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer, and it is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The total value of The ilDance Professional Development opportunity, going directly to the artist and presented in partnership between The Mill and ilDance, Sweden, is approximately $17,000.

Important information

This is comprised of both cash and in-kind support provided to the successful recipient: 

• $4,000 cash from The Mill toward travel, travel insurance, any necessary visas and accomodation

• $13,000 value from ilDance, a significant in-kind contribution to the dancer’s participation in ilYoung. This will cover costs associated with the creation process, travel and accommodation during the creative development and performance tour, artistic mentorship, workshops and creator fees.

• $35,000 SEK accommodation

• $7,000 SEK travels (creation + tour)

• $50,000 SEK mentorship, workshops & classes with guests

• Total: $92,000 SEK ($13,000 AUD)

Residency and Tour Dates: Late June/early July - September 2023 (exact dates TBA).

Eligible dancers: 

• Final year students or graduates from AC Arts or other SA-based dancers from other institutions within 5 years of graduation (and between the ages of 18-27 at the time of the audition)

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Audition details

When: Sunday, December 11, 2022, 10am-5pm (studio available from 9am, audition will include a warm-up class)

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

Dancers are required to bring: 

• A printed version of your CV including a recognisable photo of yourself on the day of the audition

• A bottle of water and a small lunch with them for the audition day
  
  

Following the audition, applicants will be shortlisted. These applicants will progress to the next round of the audition process and will be asked to complete a more detailed written application and/or interview. The successful applicant will be notified by the end of January 2023.

Applicants are required to read the information sheet about ilDance and the program before registering.

You must register to attend the audition:

• Register via Eventbrite

• Email leebrummer@ildance.se with the following information:

  • Your CV (including DOB, Tertiary Institution/Graduation date)

  • A link to a 1-2 minute video of yourself answering the following question; "What interests you about this opportunity and how will it benefit you?”

• Deadline for registration: December 4, 11:59pm

For more information about this audition contact The Mill CEO/Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff.

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Past Events

Breakout Residencies: Olenka Toroshenko showing, 'I am Root'

Photo: Lauren Connelly (LALA Photography).

Public showing

When: Friday, June 10, 6pm

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

Duration: 1 hour (including casual Q&A)

Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)

• Accessibility

  Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility information page.

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You are invited to the work-in-progress showing of I am Root, a ritual performance piece by Olenka Toroshenko.

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Most of us are transplants. Uprooted from one country and resettled, making home in another's. Do you remember where you came from? What happens when culture, language and ancestry are left behind?

Seed. Water. Root. Grow. Harvest. Eat. Die. Decompose. Repeat.

Told from the perspective of a Ukrainian Canadian living in Australia, this ritual performance piece wonders how one might question, create and nourish culture in a globalised, colonised world. Olenka enlists her mother tongue (Ukrainian) and the mediums of song, dance, folk traditions and recipes, story, poetry and prayer to enliven the depths of the unspoken, mysterious places where spirit lives...if we're willing to cultivate it.

We are future roots.

The showing with be followed by a short Q&A with Olenka, presented by The Mill CEO / Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff & Associate Producer Louie Dempsey. Audiences will have the opportunity to ask questions about the development and provide feedback about the performance.

• About the artist

  Olenka Natalia Toroshenko is a Ukrainian Canadian artist, writer and producer whose life is in service to a saner, meaningful existence. She is a multidisciplinary performer whose mediums include spoken word poetry, dance, clowning, song, storytelling and ritual performance art. 

  She is a Katonah yoga teacher, student of The Orphan Wisdom School and lover of coniferous forests. She has worked in news broadcasting and politics which helped shape her understanding of the current cultural paradigm. She was the co-producer of “wild”, “Shakti Showcase” and “Shakti Rising” multi-artist/disciplinary productions and has toured 4 different continents as a singer, poet and dancer.

  She enjoys producing video projects, Burning Man theme camps, and multidisciplinary shows. She is inspired by collaborating with other artists.

  Olenka currently resides in South Australia.

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This residency has support from

Virtual Gallery: Dance Launchpad 2022

Presented by The Mill and supported by venue partner Australian Dance Theatre (ADT), Dance Launchpad is a professional development program designed to support emerging dancers to build experience in the professional industry, by working with local South Australian choreographers.

The program nurtures the ecology of dance in SA by commissioning established SA choreographers to make new work, and share their industry knowledge with emerging SA dance artists.

In 2022 the outcome was the creation of two choreographic works, Loom by Amanda Phillips and Semblance by Tobiah Booth-Remmers. These works were performed by emerging dancers Jess Minas, Amelia Watson, Isobel Stolinski and Amelia Walmsley, presented as a double-bill performance at ADT’s Odeon Theatre.

This program resulted in professionally filmed showreels for the four dancers, which you can watch below.

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Full length performances

Composer: Alexander Waite Mitchell

Videographer: Peter Drew

Lighting designer: Aaron Herczeg

Videographer: Peter Drew

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Amelia Walmsley

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Amelia Watson

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Isobel Stolinski

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Jess Minas

Breakout Residencies: Daniel Jaber showing, 'Putrid Piggy'

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Photo: Supplied by artist.

Public showing

When: TBC

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

Duration: 1 hour

Cost: Free

• Accessibility

  Disability access is available via our Angas St entrance, and a disability toilet is also available. View our accessibility information page.

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You are invited to the work-in-progress showing of Putrid Piggy, a new performance by Daniel Jaber supported by Arts South Australia and The Mill. 

Jaber's new work-in-development takes provocation from the infamous narrative of Lorena and John Bobbitt, interwoven with reference to the work of radical author Valerie Solanas (SCUM Manifesto) - to create a maximalist theatrical experience charged with satirical sexual energy, confronting thematic exploration and unique choreographic investigations.  

Witness the beginnings of this work’s manifestation, performed by a powerhouse trio of dancers and hear about the key-creatives’ concepts surrounding their collaborative contributions.  

This work contains adult themes and sexual references. Recommended for mature audiences. 

• About the artist

  Daniel Jaber was born in Nairne, in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. He is of Lebanese and Maori cultural heritage. Daniel’s dance training began in Adelaide with Christine Underdown (Dancecraft Studios) and Barbara Komazec (Barbie Jayne Dance Centre). He further pursued his training through the Queensland University of Technology, Queensland Ballet Company Professional Year and the Adelaide College of the Arts before joining Australian Dance Theatre as a trainee dancer, under the direction of Garry Stewart, at the age of 17. 

  As a company member of ADT (2004-2021), Jaber has toured the world extensively and participated in the creation of new works as well as touring repertoire. 

  Jaber has created work for ADT, Expressions Dance Company (now Australasian Dance Collective), Houston Ballet 2, Qantas Australian Tourism Awards, Dance Moms, Dubai Festival, Architanz Tokyo and was the Creative Director of LW Dance Hub (now Dance Hub SA) in 2015. He has choreographed new works on many tertiary institutions, universities and colleges throughout Australasia and the US, including QUT, Adelaide College of the Arts, California State University (LA & Fullerton), Transit Dance and the New Zealand School of Dance.

• About the collaborators

  Rowan Rossi is an Adelaide-born dancer who started his full-time dance training in 2014 at the New Zealand School of Dance (NZSD), majoring in Contemporary Dance. Rowan went on to do two years at the school, graduating at the end of 2015. 

  In 2016, Rowan worked with Limitless Dance Company in Sydney for the premiere season of their show Both Sides. In 2017, Rowan was given the opportunity to work with Samuel Hall and Holly Newsome for the inaugural Toi Poneke Dance Residency on a double bill as part of the 2017 Wellington Fringe Festival. Rowan then re-joined Limitless Dance Company, for their second season as part of their new show Se7en. 

  Rowan joined Australian Dance Theatre in 2018. His debut with the company was in The Beginning of Nature by Garry Stewart at Canberra Theatre, followed by a national tour across SA, NT, WA, NSW and TAS. In late 2018 he performed in The Beginning of Nature international tour throughout Europe and the US. In 2019, Rowan appeared in the World Premiere Season of ADT’s North/South, choreographed by Garry Stewart and Norwegian choreographer Ina Christel Johannessen and in 2021 has performed Supernature, Objekt and G. 

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  Ally Clarke trained at the Australian Ballet School and the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School. She then went on to complete a 2 year certificate in Dance Performance at the New Zealand School of Dance. 

  In 2017, Ally performed in Movement Decor’s Decorating Commentary at Strawberry Fields Festival, and was a dancer in the short film Behind Barres. The following year Ally joined Dantzaz Konpainia based in San-Sebastian, Spain for their Atalak project, performing works by Blanca Arrieta and Edu Muruamendiaraz. 

  Ally joined Dantzaz Konpainia’s full time ensemble in 2019, performing across Spain, France, Belgium and Germany. During her time with the company, she danced Itzik Galili’s Things I Told Nobody and Prelude to a Wasted Tear, Janis Claxton’s Une, Daniele Ninarello’s Lead, Wubkje Kuindersma’s Youth, Jacek Przybylowicz’s Few Brief Sequences, Martin Harriague’s Esclavos Feliz, Josu Mujika’s Basoa and Louise Bédard’s Appeler L’instant où le Paysage Apparaît. 

  After returning home to Australia, Ally joined the ADT ensemble in mid-2020 for the creative developments of Garry Stewart’s Objekt and Supernature. She joined the company full time in 2021, commencing the year with the world premiere of Supernature at the 2021 Adelaide Festival.

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  Sophie Stuut (nee Carter) was born and raised in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales. She began her full-time dance studies in 2015 at Brent Street Studios, where she received her Certificate IV in Dance, majoring in Classical/Contemporary. She continued her training, receiving a full scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet School in New York, where she worked with various world-renowned choreographers and was selected to work closely with choreographer Mia Michaels, performing her work on the Symphony Space stage in NYC. 

  In 2016, Sophie joined Sydney based contemporary company Danza del Arte performing in La Choreografia. Soon after, she joined DUTI Dance Company performing in UNDERMINDS. She was also featured in a number of official music videos from Australian artists, including Lisa Mitchell’s Warriors, Emma Louise’s Illuminate and West End Kids and Nick de la Hoyde’s Love Takes Time. 

  In 2017, Sophie began working with immersive contemporary dance company Twisted Element. She performed in their work Opus as a part of the Sydney Fringe Festival and additional seasons in Wollongong and Wyong. In 2020-2021, Sophie was part of the Australian Dance Theatre’s professional ensemble. 

Virtual Gallery: Jingwei Bu, ‘Life Maps’

The Mill is excited to present Life Maps, an exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Jingwei Bu. This series of drawings have been created through performative action, using stylized gestures as a record of movement. Jingwei’s process of intuitive action uses techniques of focus and meditation to translate emotion and memory onto the paper.

Photos: Morgan Sette

Image: Jingwei Bu in front of works from Life Maps series (photo: Morgan Sette).

Each mark has its character to me, together they are telling complex stories. This exhibition shows the old Life Maps from the previous years and the recent ones since my mother’s passing two years ago. The making of new life maps has helped me get through the grieving and to gradually heal.

⏤ Jingwei Bu

Artist statement

My Life Maps drawings are a performative movement of the hands. The marks, numbers and lines carry the intuitive motion performed on the paper. The endurance of the movement uses the paper as a stage and as a boundary for action. The results of the performances are either purely intuitive or an action for a reflection on a life event. The repetition of motion is like meditation and ritual. The repetition is never the same.

The freedom of movement is paralleled by the process of creating space among lines, forms, and marks that resonate the actions of navigating distance and space among people. The longer the movement, the deeper I can go into the subconscious of emotion and memory accumulated in the life journey. To reach, to fix, to answer the questions locked.

Image: Jingwei Bu performing Life Map Trap, 2021(Photo: Vision Studio).

Photos: Ying He

Exhibition: The Mill Showcase, Kirsty Martinsen, 'Bodiness: Call and Response'

Artwork: Kirsty Martinsen.

May 2 - July 1, 2022

Kirsty Martinsen and Erin Fowler

Opening event: Friday May 13, 6-8pm

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

Cost: Free

• Accessibility

  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 accessibility page.

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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 Eighth edition of The Mill Showcase, Bodiness: call and response is a collaboration between painter Kirsty Martinsen and dancer Erin Fowler. The exhibition further develops ideas begun in 2016 when Kirsty collaborated with NY-based theatre maker Erwin Maas creating a work based on the experience of ‘otherness’ as a disabled woman.

The exhibition is part retrospective, including works spanning a 21 year period, alongside new works and works in progress. This significant exhibition follows the evolution of Kirsty’s practice, from large format drawings and paintings through to recent smaller scale works and a new work to be created in situ with Kirsty using her wheelchair as a tool to draw across a working surface on the floor.

We also welcome award winning theatre-maker, dancer and singer Erin Fowler to collaborate with Kirsty in a ‘Call and Response’ performance that extends the relationship between the body, movement and gesture as explored through Kirsty’s ourve. Erin was a Co-Founder of The Mill, she and Kirsty have had a long term creative relationship since connecting here back in 2014.

• Artist Statement

  “That tangle of limited surrender/ Is the human mire. We’re sodden in bodiness.” - Rumi, The Ground’s Generosity

  People say to me ‘you are so much more than your body!’ What does that even mean, nay look like? Living with MS has taken an emotional & psychological toll, but all people see is the physical, the body. I feel like I’ve lost who I am in a chasm of loss and grief and bureaucracy. I have had to fight to keep my spirit alive. We are all much more than our flesh. My work seeks to explore the ways in which difference is a site for connection, the body is a site for potential, and process is a site for emotional/psychological/spiritual exploration.

  My work invites audiences to consider process, gesture, scale, materiality, movement, and collaboration. Through this exploration myself and Erin will be responding to these aspects in each other’s work and locating intersections of commonality. Erin’s rich spiritual practice contributes to a dialogue about body, spirit and notions of ‘self’ which echo my exploration of Bodiness.

• About the artists

  Kirsty Martinsen has had a studio at The Mill since 2014. Her 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, and is the recipient of awards from Richard Llewellyn Arts and Disability Trust, Arts SA, AGNSW and NY Studio School. Her short film, Breathe, won the Mercedes Matter/Ambassador Middendorf Award at X Marks The Spot: Women of The NY Studio School, the 2018 Alumni show. She teaches drawing and enjoys watching clouds.

  View short film documentary about Kirsty’s practice via SBS On Demand: Limited Surrender

  Erin Fowler is an award-winning Australian artist and producer working across dance, music, film, cabaret and theatre. As a performer, Erin blends together an eclectic mix of contemporary dance, feminine movement, clowning, cabaret and martial arts. Erin’s choreographic work includes solo works EGG (2021, Weekly Best Dance Award, Best Dance Hollywood Fringe, 2022 NZ Tour Ready Award), and FEMME, (2019 Adelaide Fringe - Best Dance Award, 2020 Adelaide Fringe – Made in Adelaide award). Other works include Gen-y (2018) commissioned for the Adelaide Dance Festival; Epoch (2016) created on Australian Dance Theatre for their Ignition season; and the acclaimed environmental dance film, Gaia (2014, 'Best Experimental' London Film Awards and Byron Bay Film Festival). Erin is a certified teacher of Qoya - a holistic movement practice for women, and is also the Co-Founder and previous Artistic Director of Adelaide arts organisation and studio, The Mill. Erin is also the founder of The Gaia Movement - a non-for-profit platform for people around the world to collectively make lasting, positive impact for the planet and climate change, through global schools’programs, tree planting, and arts projects.