Adelaide Fringe 2025: Praise Mangena, 'Art is the Medium'

Photo: Morgan Sette.

Adelaide Fringe 2025

When: February 28 - March 16

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

Cost: From $20-30

Duration: 60 minutes

• Getting to the show

  Art is the Medium will be held in The Breakout at The Mill. Please come to the foyer at 154 Angas Street, the bar will be open to grab a drink before we take you through to The Breakout.

  Accessibility

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

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

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

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

"Dear Lover", she begins to speak, unseen, her disembodied consciousness extending an invite into a world of creation.

The music plays, each string and key carefully woven as the words are truthfully spoken: "No longer just an incarnation, I am the threads in words that spell out the birth of Nubian Queen."

Curious? Come and see Praise Mangena in a collaborative project of music, movement and spoken word poetry. 

“Such a wonderful and intimate performance which will leave you so impressed! Definitely a must see!” Adelaide Fringe Audience Feed, Hidden Gem

“Every Fringe there is at least one show I absolutely fall in love with, and this year it's Art is the Medium, a spectacular masterpiece of music, spoken word, and physical performance. With beautiful poetry about love, dreams, and time, performer Praise Mangena takes us to bewitching, relatable places from our past and our fantasies. Every line she speaks has a captivating sense of gravitas which, when combined with her slow and deliberate body movements, is simply hypnotising.” Adelaide Adventurer

This show was developed through The Mill’s Centre Stage Residency, in partnership with Adelaide Fringe.

• About the artist

  Praise Mangena is a multidisciplinary performing artist, based in Kaurna Country-Adelaide, with strong interests in dance and poetry. Over the last three years she has featured in a variety of events and performances such as Word on the Street Vol. 2 (2024), Draw Your (S)words (2024), SA Playwrights Reading Night (2022/24), Mixed Bag Poetry (2023), Soul Lounge (2023), JAUMA FEST (2023) and WOMAD (2022). 

  This year, she debuted as a music video director under the company of Adverse Reign for ‘KABALA’ (by Magajie) and this sets as a continuation of her exploration in art now adding script writing as a skill. She’s continued her work as a creative director in the company playing an integral role in the success of the most recent live show of Word on the Street Vol. 2 which was featured Live at the Lab during the 2024 Illuminate Adelaide Winter Festival. 

  Her journey continues as she prepares to officially launch her project ‘Art is the Medium’ at The Mill Adelaide with musicians Jack Green and Vanté Kay for the 2025 Fringe season. 

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This program has support from

Photographer in Residence 2025: Carmen Alcedo

We are thrilled to announce Carmen Alcedo as the recipient of the Photographer in Residence program for 2025. Presented in partnership with the Ana and Christopher Koch Foundation Fund, Carmen will receive a 12-month studio space in 2025 and an exhibition outcome as part of our Visual Arts Program in 2026.

About the artist:

• Carmen Alcedo

  Carmen Alcedo is a Spanish-born freelance photographer based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a background as a lawyer.

  With over seven years of experience in professional photography, her work focuses on storytelling, capturing personal narratives and intimate moments through both portrait and documentary photography.

  Carmen's artistic practice explores themes of identity, transformation, and human connection, often delving into how we relate to our environment and the people around us. She combines technical proficiency with emotional depth to create visual narratives that resonate with the viewer.
  
  Carmen's exhibitions include Imaginary Journeys (SALA 2024), currently on display at Cherrybomb Cafe in Adelaide, and participation in the group exhibition TEACHERS, LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE at 229LAB in Paris (2024). She has also exhibited in the Hybrid Art Fair (2016-2018) and the Affordable Art Fair in Sydney (2022).

  Currently, Carmen is involved in community-driven art projects in the Brompton Community Garden, where she collaborates with others to create work that fosters connection and environmental awareness.

Photo: Bri Hammond

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This residency has support from

Writer in Residence 2025: Steph Daughtry

We are thrilled to announce Steph Daughtry as the recipient of the 2025 Writer in Residence.

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.

About the writer:

• Steph Daughtry

  Steph is an award winning cross-disciplinary artist, producer, director, and writer working predominantly in live performance and installation.

  Specialising in collaborative and devised forms of theatre that explore social and environmental impacts, her credits include Brag Drunch (Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2023), The Fish Bowl (Best Theatre and Physical Theatre Award at the Adelaide Fringe in 2022), and Eating Tomorrow (Sustainability Award Adelaide Fringe 2021).

  Steph works as an independent freelance artist, as well as in her role as the co-Founder and co-Artistic Director of production company Post Dining, producing award-winning, innovative forms of entertainment and education designed to engage all the senses.

  Steph is currently completing her PhD as part of Uni SA Creative exploring the impact of cultural policy on the capacity for artists to engage in professional practice. As part of this research Steph has published in the Journal of Sociology exploring the impact of arts funding, and has previously written for Felt Space as part of their writers program, and published pieces in Fine Print magazine and The Skinny (Edinburgh). Steph looks forward to using her residency to translate her research into smaller digestible pieces that engage with the artistic community at The Mill and wider Adelaide. 

Photo: Bri Hammond

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The Writer in Residence program is presented in partnership with CityMag.

Exhibition: Bri Hammond, Object Permanence

Image: Happy Times, by Bri Hammond

January 27 - March 28, 2025

Artist talk: Friday March 7, 12-1pm

Gallery I, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find Object Permanence in The Mill’s Gallery I, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

  Accessibility

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

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

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

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

We are excited to present Object Permanence, a new exhibition by Bri Hammond developed through our Photographer in Residence program, presented with support from the Ana and Christopher Koch Foundation.

For Object Permanence Bri has developed a personal project examining the relationship between objects and memory, connecting generations of her family through unlikely treasures. Bri’s signature bright colours and playful aesthetic elicit common memories of childhood. Collections of doll hair brushes, shells collected on the beach by her grandparents, and pieces of board games are common place and yet exquisitely familiar, capable of transporting us back to our own birthday parties and beach trips. While easily disregarded, Bri’s attention to these objects sheds light on their relationships to our bodies, every object held by tiny hands. At the same time, Bri speaks about the joys and the struggles of parenthood, and the overload of information, parenting hacks, theories of childhood development and pasta necklaces that come along with modern parenting.

Object Permanence is presented with support from the Ana and Christopher Koch Foundation.

• Artist Statement

  Object Permanence is a still-life photographic series exploring the connection between parenting and childhood, using objects accumulated over generations. The term ‘object permanence’ is used to describe a child’s ability to understand that objects continue to exist, even though they can no longer be seen or heard. Through the work, I am questioning why families hold onto certain things, and how objects and photography can serve as tools for memory. 

  With vibrant colours and graphic compositions, the photos seem at first glance to exude a happy, everything-is-fine mood. But a closer look reveals grubby fingerprints all over a deflated balloon, or ripped hair stuck to an odd collection of tiny brushes. A dead bee, presented to me by my son, is melted into the wax of a birthday candle. A vase I’ve owned for decades, smashed during an unsupervised moment, is mended with playdough and houses a pipe-cleaner flower – a gift from childcare. 

  The hero piece displays hundreds of small items; gathered, photographed and printed on adhesive wallpaper. From precious gemstones foraged by my grandparents, to small game pieces and feathers found on the street, the composition examines what we place value on, especially when parenting and consumerism now feel so entwined. 

  
  I became a mum in 2022. While grappling with this transition, I came across a theory that has stuck in my mind. Psychotherapist Philippa Perry said in The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read, ‘Whatever age your child is, they are liable to remind you, on a bodily level, of the emotions you went through when you were at a similar stage.’ This prompted me to look back on my own childhood and adolescence, the good and the bad. I’m hoping parents will feel a sense of solidarity with the work, and that others will recognise their own childhood within the frames.

• About the artist

  Bri Hammond is a photographer living on Kaurna country in Adelaide, previously residing on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, until recently. Her work displays a mix of authentic emotions and odd moments, usually expressed with poppy colours and graphic compositions. She loves championing the peculiarities of life and highlighting the idiosyncrasies of people and places. Originally a graphic designer, she began her career with a year-long residency at Fabrica, Benetton’s Creative Research Centre in Treviso, Italy in 2011. Bri now creates images for a wide range of clients, publications and organisations across Australia with a unique visual approach.
  
  Bri’s debut solo exhibition ‘Nuoto da sola (I swim alone)’ was shown at Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne, 2019. In 2022, her first photobook ‘Endline - Deathcare during Melbourne’s Covid Crisis’, won the photobook prize at Melbourne’s Centre of Contemporary Photography. Bri has completed a Bachelor of Visual Communication (Design) at UniSA, and a Bachelor of Arts (Photography) at RMIT.

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This exhibition has support from

The Mill’s Photographer in Residence program, presented with support from the Ana and Christopher Koch Foundation.

Exhibition: Oriana Julie, Head in the Clouds

Image: Oriana Julie

January 27 - March 28, 2025

Artist talk: Friday February 14, 5:30-6:30

Gallery II, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

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

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

  Accessibility

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

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

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

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

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

Head in The Clouds is an exploration of creative play, embracing spontaneous method making in order to form a hybrid, affective sanctuary. Oriana uses foraged objects - discarded furniture, vintage glassware, beads, synthetic fibers, and organic matter - turning everyday items into objects of divine contemplation. She speaks about the idea of sublime escapism, where she has created a shared affective experience for audiences. Here, art and art-making exist outside of language and are instead experienced through feeling. Slow and meditative processes are positioned as a form of care and the body is grounded through the state of creative flow.

• About the artist

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

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

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

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

• Artist Statement

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

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

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This exhibition has support from

The Visual Arts Residency is presented with support from donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin

Kayangan Visual Arts Studio Residency 2025: Dai Trang Nguyen

We are thrilled to announce Dai Trang Nguyen as the recipient of the Kayangan Visual Arts Studio Residency in 2025. The Mill’s Kayangan Visual Arts Studio Residency is supported by donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin, Arts SA and OzAsia Festival.

Dai Trang will receive 6-months of studio space and an exhibition outcome in The Mill’s Gallery II as part of OzAsia Festival 2025.

Kayangan is a Malay word meaning ‘heaven’ or ‘from the sky’. 

• About the artist

  Dai Trang is a Vietnamese artist and designer based in Kaurna Country whose creative journey spans the UK, Vietnam, and Australia. With a foundation in graphic design, her work radiates vibrancy and a profound connection to colour.

  During the solitude of the COVID-19 pandemic, art became her sanctuary, a way to delve into self-discovery and expression. This transformative period led to her first solo exhibition in Vietnam, exploring themes of self-identity. Inspired by this milestone, she moved to South Australia in 2022 to pursue contemporary art, embracing experimentation and deepening her artistic practice.

  Living far from home has enriched her connection to her heritage and mindfulness practices. Deeply influenced by mindfulness and Buddhism, her work has evolved from structured design to an intuitive, meditative process she calls Moment Art. Rooted in the present moment, by letting go of judgment and pre-determined notions, she lets life unfold naturally through painting, textiles and found objects.

  After three years of solitary practice for self-understanding, Dai Trang has recently begun sharing her work in the local art scene. Her creations reflect her inner journey, inviting viewers to pause, reflect, and connect with their innermost selves.

Photo: Courtesy of the artist.

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This residency has support from

The Kayangan Visual Arts Studio Residency is supported by donors Geoff and Sorayya Mahmood Martin.

Visual Arts Studio Residency 2025: Nadera Rasulova

We are thrilled to announce Nadera Rasulova as the recipient of the Visual Arts Studio Residency in the second half of 2025. Nadera Rasulova will receive 6-months of studio space and an exhibition outcome in Gallery II, as part of our 2026 Visual Arts Program.

Our Visual Arts Studio Residency is supported by donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin.

• About the artist

  Nadera Rasulova is an emerging abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of her Central Asian heritage and Australian upbringing.

  Drawing inspiration from Uzbek cultural traditions and Western societal norms, Nadera’s art fosters a dialogue between these two worlds. Her compositions often take the form of patchwork topographies, evoking the diverse natural environments she has encountered throughout her life.

  Her use of upward and downward strokes in oil paint is reminiscent of the intricate techniques of traditional Uzbek silk weaving, reflecting her cultural roots. These gestures, combined with modern abstraction, create works that resonate with themes of memory, identity, and place.

  Sustainability plays a significant role in Nadera’s practice. She consciously works with canvas and linen offcuts, transforming what would typically be discarded into meaningful, purposeful art. This commitment to repurposing materials reflects both her respect for the environment and her dedication to creative innovation.

  In 2022, Nadera’s work Greenwashing was selected as a finalist for the National Emerging Artist Prize, marking a significant milestone in her career. As her practice evolves, Nadera continues to bridge tradition and contemporary issues, producing art that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.

Photo: Courtesy of the artist.

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

Exhibition: Fragments, Erin Daniell

Image: Erin Daniell

October 25, 2024 - January 17, 2025

Finissage: Friday January 17, 4:30-6:30pm

The Mill Foyer, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find Fragments in The Mill’s Foyer, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

  Accessibility

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

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

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

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

We are excited to present Fragments, a new Showcase exhibition featuring studio artist and jeweller Erin Daniell.

The exhibition features wearable sculptures inspired by the natural South Australian landscape, in particular the Fleurieu Peninsula.

• Artist statement

  ‘Fragments’ is a small collection of wearable sculptures that are inspired by the eroded coastline of the Fleurieu Peninsula. Each metal form has been hand sculpted in wax to mimic the striations and undulations of sedimentary rock and weathered flora found along the coast. Broken and irregular, these pieces are like broken shells and flotsam and jetsam that washes up along the sand. The intuitive process of moulding is what creates the organic texture found on the surface of the pieces and the uncontrollable nature of the wax material is what informs the final result.

  In contrast the expectation mass production set by fast fashion, the making process of this work is slow and mindful. Craft and preservation workmanship is a central part of the artistic practice, and each piece is one of a kind. Driving the work is a love of beauty and the human connection to objects, as they act as reminders of places, people or history.

• About Erin Daniell

  Erin Daniell is a jewellery designer and visual artist based in Tarntanya/Adelaide. She completed a bachelor’s degree in Creative Arts at Flinders University in 2021, and she was selected for the Peter Walker/Helpmann Advancement award in 2020. In 2022, Daniell participated in the JamFactory Associate Training Program in the Jewellery and Metal Studio.

  Daniell's design philosophy reflects an exploration of growth and beauty, taking inspiration from natural forms. She builds organic shapes to create small scale sculptures and jewellery collections. Employing her own take on ancient cire perdue techniques, she manipulates liquid wax by pulling and twisting to create fragile forms that are each as unique as a fingerprint. This process infuses her designs with natural textures that carry an elemental aesthetic, reminiscent of mollusc spiral growth patterns and coastal erosion striations.

  Daniell has exhibited in galleries such as Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, CRAFT ACT, Canberra and Zu Design, Adelaide and she was selected as finalist in the Parklands Prize in 2023. Her works are currently stocked in KIN Gallery, Canberra and JamFactory, Adelaide. She has received grants from Helpmann Academy and Australia Council for the Arts and has undertaken an Artist in Residence program in the Mornington Peninsula. 

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Exhibition: Between Dream and Reality, Gough Pitawat and August Porter

Image: August Porter

October 25, 2024 - January 17, 2025

Finssage: Friday January 17, 4:30-6:30pm

Gallery II, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find Between Dream and Reality in The Mill’s Gallery II, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

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

  Accessibility

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

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

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

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

We are excited to present Between Dream and Reality, a new exhibition in Gallery II featuring studio artists Gough Pitawat and August Porter.

The exhibition features landscape paintings by these two emerging artists, whose individual styles create dreamlike, hazy and abstract interpretations of the natural world. We're thrilled to be able to profile these two artists alongside each other, with their distinct practices that compliment each other. 

• About Gough Pitawat

  Artist Statement

  I am an impressionistic landscape artist. My work focuses on creating artworks that influence the audience’s feelings through forms, movements, and colours, transporting them to the places I depict not just visually, but as if they were experiencing them firsthand.

  To me, a landscape is not just the sky, the trees, or the mountains. The subject matter is only a part of the landscape. My works encompass the entire environment, aiming to make the audience feel the wind blowing, the warmth of the sun, or the chill of a breeze in the air.

  Through experimentation, I developed a unique oil painting technique and mixture that leaves brush marks on the canvas to enhance the sense of movement. This technique captures the motion of clouds drifting across the sky and bushes swaying in the wind. I want my works to feel alive.

  By using colours to mimic the atmosphere, I evoke sensations such as the feeling of green grass on a hot and humid day, the comfort of being in a particular place, the discomfort of a storm, or the emptiness in your chest when gazing at the evening sky.

  The land holds feelings and memories, causing past events to flash back every time you visit a place. To me, landscapes represent inspiration, hope, and sentimental.

  Biography

  Gough Pitawat was born in a small village in Thailand in 1989 and relocated to Australia in 2014. Although he had a passion for art, considering it initially as a hobby, he began to pursue it more seriously in 2017.

  Over the course of five years, Gough has engaged in intensive training and practice, focusing primarily on classical and realist approaches. However, he felt that this focus alone was not enough, so he decided to enrol in art school in 2022.

  Gough chose to major in Photography to gain a deeper understanding of the elements that influence the emotional impact of photographs and the techniques used in image composition. His objective was to integrate this knowledge of composition, conceptualization, and development into his own artistic practice.

  During the academic year, his work was recognized as one of 'The Australian Top 40 Emerging Photographers of 2022' by Capture magazine, marking a significant step forward in his career within the art world. Unfortunately, due to financial hardships, Gough has been unable to continue his studies. Therefore, has sought alternative opportunities, eventually finding a place at The Mill, where he is now continuing to cultivate his artistic practice and advance his skills.

• About August Porter

  When not painting in studio at The Mill, you’ll find artist August Porter getting her hands dirty in the garden. As an abstract and semi-abstract painter and landscape designer, she draws inspiration from her home’s surrounding bushland. After years of observing the environment and being a passionate gardener, August truly understands nature’s rhythm. Her deep connection to the natural world allows her to paint the peaceful and dynamic life force.

  Self-taught, with years of painting as a hobby, August took the leap to full-time artist in 2020-and has not looked back. As an intuitive painter, she evokes the elusive and intangible, reflecting what can only be felt or sensed as an indescribable beauty of the landscape.

  August’s work explores beyond the surface of what we see and embodies the land’s spirit. She creates depth through layers, and fluid strokes result in dynamic movements within the paintings.

  Rarely static, each piece depicts the fleeting yet eternal, continuous cycle of life. She’s currently exploring these themes on a larger scale and is excited to see what emerges.

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This exhibition has support from

Exhibition: Glister in the Sun

Belinda Wilson, Teaching lakun (weaving), detail, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 45cm

October 25, 2024 - January 17, 2025

Finissage: Friday January 17, 4:30-6:30pm

Gallery I, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

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

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

  Accessibility

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

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

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

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

We are excited to present Glister in the Sun, a new group exhibition featuring Emiko Artemis, Michael Carney, Chelsea Farquhar and Belinda Wilson, curated by Adele Sliuzas.

The exhibition explores the role of the artist within the creation of folklore through visual art, written text and photography. Their work shows that folklore is still alive today, popping up in the stories we tell, songs we sing, and the way we remember and share these traditions. This captivating exhibition encourages viewers to reflect on their connection to tradition, exploring how customs shape personal identity and create a sense of belonging.

• Curatorial Statement

  Glister in the Sun is a new exhibition of works by South Australian artists exploring dialogue with time, history and cultural lore. Featuring new works by Emiko Artemis, Michael Carney, Chelsea Farquhar and Belinda Wilson. The exhibition considers the role of the artist within the creation of folklore; that artistry, style, creation and alteration influence the construction of cultural ideology. The artists represented all explore deep relationships with time through archival research, material flux, exchange, and representation of cultural stories. 

  Let me go on

  Like I glister in the sun

  Let me go on

  Big hands, I know you're the one. 

  Glister in the Sun is an exhibition about the way that ‘art’ and ‘life’ are deeply entwined. Curating an exhibition is kind of like telling a story, pulling together gestures, colours and moods to create a feeling within the gallery space. This story speaks about rituals and journeys, and about the way that art can affect the body of the maker, wearer, viewer, listener. I wanted to bring together artists whose work shows the ways that folklore and folkloric traditions continue within contemporary contexts and exist beyond the written archive- folklore thrives in oral stories, songs, and artifacts, performance, movement and memory. While the cultural study of folklore has taken a western approach to categorising and delineating, I also want to acknowledge that folklores exist outside of the colonial lens- they are oral, flexible and spiritual in ways that resist.

  Excerpt from Curator Essay by Adele Sliuzas, full text available above

• About Emiko Artemis

  Artist Statement

  The images presented for the group show, Glister in the Sun, are centered around the ongoing theme of Haunting that I have been exploring for the last two years. First enacted during a residency in Oatlands, Tasmania, i have continued to use the metaphor of  haunting to grapple with ideas around histories that will not sleep until they are resolved. As someone who has personal histories needing resolution, and someone who is also a child of migrants from Sweden who were escaping their own grief and trauma, I have a close understanding of the way history rises up through time to reassert itself in the present until it is addressed. The images were created at Kulkyne/Mildura, on the lands of the Latji Latji peoples. They were created near an historic pumphouse on the river and they ask, what happens to history when it is not addressed? What happens to the people of the past whose stories are not heard? History, as we know, is written by the victors but history never stops speaking. There is always a time to look back and tell the stories of the past. The people of the past are still there, waiting to speak. 

  Biography

  Emiko Artemis graduated with a PhD in 2012 and was awarded the University medal for their honors year. They were a Hatched Graduate exhibitor at PICA in their undergraduate year. They have also completed a master of Design at The University of South Australia. Since graduating Emiko has been a finalist in art prizes and won awards such as category winner in the Manning Valley art prize .Before relocating to South Australia, Emiko was president of IAVA in NSW and was showcased in Wollongong regional gallery’s Local Current show. 

  In 2020 they were selected as a grantee to attend Meeting Place, Arts Access Australia’s annual arts gathering. In 2021 they were artist in residence at Saubier House. Emiko was awarded first prize in the Waverly Woollahra Printmaking Digital Prize. Their work has appeared in publications including CODE magazine and Open Doors Collective. They have been profiled by the Illawarra times and interviewed by Radio Adelaide and Regional Arts Australia about their practice. Alongside their Visual arts practice, Emiko has also run a number of successful community arts projects and has presented work in seminars and online platforms as well as in traditional exhibition format. Recently, Emiko was asked to create temporary sculpture to be exhibited outside of the prestige Adelaide arts venue, The MOD (the Museum of Design) and has successfully completed an innovative sculpture ready for installation.Emiko has also been selected for a scholarship funded arts residence and exhibition at The RoyalSouth Australian Arts Society in 2022/23, presented their talk” Queering the World “ at BetterTogether 2023 and has been awarded funding through Country Arts SA to attend an arts residency atOatlands, Tasmania in 2023. Emiko presented their research and performance work At the Performance of the Real conference in Dunedin New Zealand, with funding through Country Arts South Australia. Emiko’s performance practice has been recognized through invitations to present their performance work at both Burrinja Arts Center in Melbourne in 2023 and Neoetric, part of the Adelaide Festival in South Australia in 2024 as well as HillsceneLive2024. Emiko’s professionalism in their practice has also been recognized through invitations to assess grant applications with Creative Australia and to represent regional South Australia during Regional Arts Australia’s symposium, Artlands 2023. Emiko currently works from their studio space at Fleurieu Arthouse in Maclaren Vale, South Australia. 

• About Michael Carney

  Artist Statement

  My paintings explore storytelling at its most fractured and fluid, engaging with vignettes and storyboard techniques that deliberately distort and elude traditional narrative structures. Much like folklore, which evolves and shifts over time, my work presents fragmented stories open to the viewer's interpretation, encouraging them to piece together their own meaning from the imagery.

  In Echoe, dual landscapes offer two perspectives, allowing the canvas to be rotated for a compositionally similar, skewed perspective. The horizon lines and illuminated central hillside are compositionally identical in both landscapes, yet the elements making up this composition have shifted and changed. This speaks to how stories over time shift and adapt, much like folklore evolving through oral traditions.

  A Quiet Pursuit, featuring two large figures walking with a melancholic yet purposeful energy, embodies a similar ambiguity. The figures, veiled in white light, suggest a dreamlike quality, obscuring their narrative and allowing for emotional flux. This vagueness encourages the viewer to bring their own energy and interpretation to the work, becoming an active participant in the narrative process.

  The interplay of these works reflects the fluid relationship between myth, memory, and the present, inviting personal connections that ripple through both time and story

  Biography
  

  Michael Carney is an interdisciplinary artist found most often working with paint, clay, digital and virtual reality mediums.

  His practice began in 2009 as a painting undergraduate at the University of South Australia where he was introduced to ceramics as his minor. By 2016 he had completed a Masters by Research (Visual Arts) where both ceramics and painting became the predominant processes in his exhibition practice.

  Both ceramics and paintings blend contemporary and antiquated aesthetics to present work that plays with notions of time in flux. Works that are rendered or figurative are often shattered with a gestural flourish forcing the viewer to continue to explore the pictorial plane for a familiar foothold. His work stops short of overt explanation, whilst ontological themes and philosophies are presented, he prefers to activate the viewer’s own contemplation within the broader theme.

• About Chelsea Farquhar

  Chelsea is an emerging artist who utilises her artistic practice as a place of observation and contemplation. She is process driven and explorative in her use of mediums from sculpture, performance, and video. Play, testing and examination, are important elements of her practice for blacksmithing, led lighting and costuming. Time is an important contextual element to her work: time it takes to explore materials; make and sculptural works being a marker of time.

  Collaboration with visual artists, musicians and other creatives has pushed her practice to evolve and expand upon the visual language of memories. The fluidity of mediums and flexibility of collaboration has allowed Chelsea to deeply explore her sculptural practice and push concepts of process and product.

  Farquhar graduated with First Class Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2020. She was awarded a West Space Window award and exhibited 2021; in 2018 received a Carclew Fellowship assisting her to complete a Scottish Sculpture Workshop and a New York residency. This year Chelsea will be developing her practice further with a residency at Watch This Space gallery in Alice Springs NT. 

• About Belinda Wilson

  Belinda Wilson is a Ngarrindjeri woman, and a painter, weaver and sculptor. She was born on Raukkan mission in 1956, she grew up there until she was four years old. Her father and mother moved to Kingston for work on the waterworks. They stayed in Kingston for a year and then her father got permanent work on the railways in Kalangadoo. She lived there with her three brothers and her sister until she was 16 and then left SA to go to Victoria with her partner.  

  Belinda started painting right there in Kalangadoo, she started drawing at home and then in school. She was always creative and loved to make using things from nature. Her family would go out hunting for kangaroo, swan eggs. Belinda has a daughter and a son who are also very creative. Belinda lives with her daughter on the south coast and collects materials from nature to create her weaving and to make jewellery as well as using recycled and found materials. 

  Her paintings are inspired by nature. There is connection through her work to nature through repetition. Everything is connected, she explores these themes, there is layers and hidden meaning that speaks to people differently.

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This exhibition has support from

Adelaide Fringe: The Mill 2025 Program

February 21 - March 23, 2025

We’re back with a jam-packed season for Adelaide Fringe 2025!

Expect everything from theatre to spoken word, comedy, music, cabaret, exhibitions and workshops. This year, our intimate black-box theatre, The Breakout, will play host to shows from 13 incredible companies.

Make sure to throw your support behind these acts and grab your tickets!

• Accessibility

  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.

PSYCHOPOMP

February 28-March 16

The God Between Life and Death, Conductor of Souls, Usher of Oblivion, is visiting living souls for the first time through the vessel of a lowly mortal - Poppy! Existential as heck, real Stygian energy,  a divine exploration of the meaning human beings bring to their own precious, fleeting existence.

With the support of The Mill, Poppy has enlisted a dream team of local Adelaide theatre-makers, artists and Intense Characters to bring the full production of PSYCHOPOMP screamingly to life. Audiences can expect bodily functions, games, storytelling, all through the eyes of an insensitive, arrogant god and a upsettingly human intermediary.

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Art is the Medium

February 28-March 16

“Dear Lover”, she begins to speak, unseen, her disembodied consciousness extending an invite into a world of creation. The music plays, each string and key carefully woven as the words are truthfully spoken…”no longer just an incarnation, I am the threads in words that spell out the birth of Nubian Queen”. 

Curious? Come and see Praise Mangena in a collaborative project of music, movement and spoken word poetry.

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Courier

February 26-March 8

One courier. One impossible delivery. How far will he go to complete his order?

Written & performed by Piers MacKenzie, fresh off his starring role as Daniel Radcliffe in Edinburgh Fringe 2024’s most talked-about show, TERF. This dark comedy, inspired by his time as a Deliveroo cyclist, dives into a fractured mind where reality and imagination collide as the brakes come off.

Strap on your helmets and grip those handlebars tight—this ride is full of sharp twists, sudden turns, and plenty of bumps along the way.

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Administration

March 19-22

A one-person darkly comedic play about growing up autistic (and not knowing it). 

Stumbling into a therapist’s office with a stack of paperwork, (and stories to match) Addy recounts what it was like to grow up in a small town catholic school. 
Through vignettes from Addy’s life, we come to realise the impact your environment can have on coming to accept who you are. We experience how someone may learn to abandon their childhood curiosity and natural expression in favour of an exterior mask: the polar opposite of the internal world. 

Administration welcomes you into a space where we can come together and laugh at some shared experiences. 

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CAST LIST

March 8-15

Get ready for a wild ride this Adelaide Fringe! Cast List: A Theatre Kids Cabaret is here, and it’s bursting with the incredible stories of talented teens in the performing arts scene.

Join us for a night of unforgettable performances by seven young artists from the AK Creative Scholarship Program! This amazing program empowers local youth creatives to explore their talents and produce their own cabaret. You’ll experience a journey filled with laughter, passion, and a sprinkle of teenage drama—think powerful monologues, catchy original songs, and dazzling dance numbers!

Don’t miss your chance to witness the next generation of stars shine bright on stage. Bring your friends and come support our local youth as they share their dreams and challenges in this one-of-a-kind cabaret experience!

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Part of Fringe

March 21

Join Part of Things and regional storytellers from Port Lincoln, Mount Gambier and the Riverland for a behind the scenes sharing of new works in development. 

This will be the first sharing of work in development through the Part of Fringe x Playwright Pals program developed and presented by Part of Things in collaboration with Adelaide Fringe. 

Part of Fringe x Playwright Pals is a three-year strategy to build the skills, confidence, networks, and capacity of regional storytellers to develop, create, and present new original performance work.

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DUST

March 5-22

A man fights for each breath, determined to make it home to Dot. In his isolated, morphine-fuelled delirium, we witness a frail man reliving his fragmented past: a boxer, a soldier, a boilermaker, a miner—dancing with Lady Luck as he battles to win. But is it fate, or sheer will to survive that determines when we return to dust?

Dust is one man’s unforgettable journey, examining generational trauma, resilience, and survival against the backdrop of post-World War II England. Dust is dedicated to the servicemen who fought for their country, the seven men who tragically lost their lives in the 1973 Lofthouse Colliery disaster, and to every miner who lived their lives in darkness, so we could live in the light. Based on a true story.

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POPERA: Sex Death and Politics

March 13-22

Uma Dobia is your game show host for the evening as we spin the wheel, shake our maracas and ding our dong. Spotify playlists collide in Popera with questions such as "Why did Trevor leave? What’s cockrockera? And, who will win the air fryer?". Directed by Bronny Lane, get ready for opera, original pop songs, video and on-stage chaos coated in pop culture. If you love your cabaret dirty with an intellectual twist thrown you will definitely want to play POPERA: Sex, Death & Politics as we stomp on the patriarchy and ageism in a pair of red knee-high sparkly boots. 

Get ready to spin the wheel, shake your maracas and ding your dong as Popera delivers the most iconic moments of opera coupled with pop! Spotify playlists collide in this game show shining a lense on entrenched misogyny and ageism. 

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An Age To Remember

February 21-March 1

Just before her 20th birthday, Abby asked the world (Facebook) advice for the decade of her 20s. Flooded with guidance from well-meaning friends, enemies, and that person she forgot to block. It’s time to check the comments and compare where life took her. Did she - Invest in property? Get that rash looked at? Shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die? Let's find out through song and a Facebook deep dive.

Simultaneously, with a new decade unravelling before her, Abby is again seeking guidance - off the internet. So come in person to dish life advice to the best friend you never knew you didn't want. Bring your hopes and dreams for the 30s. Whether they’re behind you, in front of you, or you’re smack bang in the middle… let’s reminisce, plan and discuss the decades behind and before us.

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Fruition

March 5-8

Cherese is just a girl, standing in front of an orange, asking it to make out with her.

Join citric acid daredevil, Cherese Sonkkila, for her debut solo show.

Fruition is a silly smoothie of ridiculous characters, hot dance moves and useless fruit facts. But also asks the serious question: what if all your juiciest dreams came true?

This show is her Fruition. But it is also yours.

Come and get a taste of this zesty, thirst-quenching hour of laughs.

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Kook

February 21-22

A comical feast of visual music absurdities. Surreal and just plain stupid, it plays with our dark, our light and our overblown ego through theatrical, musical and physical pieces, that draw upon the questions “what unites us and what separates us?”

Collaborating with award winning visual artist extraordinaire Ray Harris, we experiment with illustrations and play with our projections. We dance with the shadow, sing with the dark, absurd ego talk, Patti Smith spark, of musical humour, live visual effects, varied sketches of human aspects, with light and shade and whacked out dismay, of original song, of covered tunes with a cracked view, skewed for you, to peek through. Physical and musical humour at its best. 

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Hag-ia Workshops

March 1-21

Hagia means holy.

Hag: a once sacred word, turned into a slur by powerful men of history who disparaged, demonised and burned women at the stake because they had the temerity to be independent. Their knowledge was erased.

In this workshop we reclaim this word and ask ourselves: can we recover a sense of connection to our women ancestors whose voices were silenced? Can we uncover their lost wisdom? This is a remembering. A relearning. You will gain the language and the time to connect to those who informed who you are. You will experience a successful method of dialogue, making, journalling, and embodying to encounter the stories and wisdom of our women ancestors.

We, our conversations, and what we create together, is the art.

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Finissage: Glister in the Sun, Between Dream and Reality and Fragments

Photo: Daniel Marks.

January 17, 2025

Finissage: Friday January 17, 4:30-6:30pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

  You can find Glister in the Sun, Between Dream and Reality and Fragments in The Mill’s Gallery I and II, located at 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide).

  The Mill's Galleries is open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm.

  Accessibility

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

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

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

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

Please join us for the closing event for our three exhibitions Glister in the Sun, Between Dream and Reality and Fragments.

Glister in the Sun is a new group exhibition featuring Emiko Artemis, Michael Carney, Chelsea Farquhar and Belinda Wilson, curated by Adele Sliuzas. The exhibition explores the role of the artist within the creation of folklore through visual art, written text and photography.

Between Dream and Reality is a new Showcase exhibition featuring studio artists Gough Pitawat and August Porter. The exhibition features landscape paintings by these two emerging artists, whose individual styles create dreamlike, hazy and abstract interpretations of the natural world.

Fragments is a new Showcase exhibition featuring studio artist, jeweller Erin Daniell. The exhibition features wearable sculptures inspired by the natural South Australian landscape, in particular the Fleurieu Peninsula.

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These exhibitions have support from

Artist talk: Bri Hammond, Object Permanence

Artist Talk

When: Friday, March 7, 12-1pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

• Accessibility

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

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

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

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

Join Bri Hammond and The Mill's Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas for a chat about Bri’s new solo exhibition Object Permanence showing in Gallery I.

About the exhibition

We are excited to present Object Permanence, a new exhibition by Bri Hammond developed through our Photographer in Residence program, presented with support from the Ana and Christopher Koch Foundation.

For Object Permanence Bri has developed a personal project examining the relationship between objects and memory, connecting generations of her family through unlikely treasures. Bri’s signature bright colours and playful aesthetic elicit common memories of childhood.

• About the artist

  Bri Hammond is a photographer living on Kaurna country in Adelaide, previously residing on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, until recently. Her work displays a mix of authentic emotions and odd moments, usually expressed with poppy colours and graphic compositions. She loves championing the peculiarities of life and highlighting the idiosyncrasies of people and places. Originally a graphic designer, she began her career with a year-long residency at Fabrica, Benetton’s Creative Research Centre in Treviso, Italy in 2011. Bri now creates images for a wide range of clients, publications and organisations across Australia with a unique visual approach.
  
  Bri’s debut solo exhibition ‘Nuoto da sola (I swim alone)’ was shown at Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne, 2019. In 2022, her first photobook ‘Endline - Deathcare during Melbourne’s Covid Crisis’, won the photobook prize at Melbourne’s Centre of Contemporary Photography. Bri has completed a Bachelor of Visual Communication (Design) at UniSA, and a Bachelor of Arts (Photography) at RMIT.

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This exhibition has support from

The Mill’s Photographer in Residence program is presented with support from the Ana and Christopher Koch Foundation.

Artist talk: Oriana Julie, Head in the Clouds

Artist Talk

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

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

• Accessibility

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

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

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

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

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

About the exhibition

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

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

• About the artist

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

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

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

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

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This exhibition has support from

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

Workshop: Beading with Oriana Julie

Image: Oriana Julie

Workshop

When: Saturday March 1, 12pm-2pm

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

Cost: $45 (+ 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.

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

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

What to expect:

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

Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be available.

• About the workshop leader

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

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

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

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

• Artist Statement

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

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

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This program has support from

The Visual Arts Residency is presented with support from donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin

Brand X Residency 2025: The Kinetik Collective

We are thrilled to announce The Kinetik Collective as the recipient of the 2025 Brand X Residency, presented in partnership with Brand X, Sydney.

This residency offers place and space as part of a vibrant arts community, for artists to develop and show new or existing work and then take that work interstate for further development, presentation and networking opportunities.

The Kinetik Collective will be in residency and performing as part of Brand X’s Flying Nun season March 10-15, 2025.

About the artists:

• Bianka Kennedy (Designer/ Co-Founder)

  Bianka Kennedy (Designer/ Co-Founder of The Kinetik Collective): Bianka is a designer + maker with a diverse practice, working across the stage, screen and gallery settings. Bianka has been Head of Prop Making for the multi-award-winning children’s TV series Beep and Mort, lectured in the creative industries division of Adelaide College of the Arts, is Co-Founder of Kinetik Collective and operates a workshop from Fab, the former acclaimed George Street Studios. Currently, Bianka is working on the design of DreamBIG festival (2025).

  Bianka’s design for State Theatre Company of South Australia’s 2019 sold-out season of Animal Farm was a national finalist in the Australian Production Guild’s awards for emerging designer for live performance. Her debut solo exhibition Sugar won an Adelaide Fringe 2021 visual arts award and was an industry example of integrating accessibility into the design, fabrication and exhibition of an art experience. Her accessible theatre designs have also been recognised with a 2022 Ruby Award. Permanent public artworks can be found in Adelaide and in the Kangaroo Island Sculpture Trail. Collaborators include Warner Brothers, Windmill Theatre, Windmill Picture + ABC, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Theatre Republic, Kinetik Collective, Crossover (London) + Adelaide Fringe, Largent Studio (New York) +FOMO, Fox Creek + Garden of Unearthly Delights, SA Water, SA Tourism Commission, SA Power Networks, Adelaide City Council, independent theatre and private commissions.

• Clara Solly-Slade (Director/ Co-Founder)

  Clara Solly-Slade (Director/ Co-Founder of The Kinetik Collective): Clara graduated from the acting stream of The Adelaide College of the Arts (2013) then undertook further training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London (Acting Shakespeare course, 2016). In 2017 she trained in Italy with La Mama Experimental Theatre Company at their International Directors Symposium. Clara was awarded the Helpmann Academy’s Neil Curnow Award (2018) where she interned in the USA with The H.E.A.T Collective, Working Classroom and continued her work with La Mama Experimental Theatre Company. She is a member of the multidisciplinary art collective The Bait Fridge.

  Clara worked for two years full-time as an Emerging Director Fellow with the State Theatre Company of South Australia and State Opera of South Australia (2019-2020). In 2021 Clara directed Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons at Adelaide Collage of the Arts and for Dream Big Children’s Festival with Finnigan Kruckemeyer’s Everything They Ever Said with Fingers Crossed Behind their Backs for the Say Art’s Youth Ensemble. Co-Founder of Independent Company The Kinetik Collective she Directed Kill Climate Deniers in 2022 as part of The State Theatre Company of South Australia’s ‘Stateside Program’. Clara Co-Directed The River that Ran up Hill with Andy Packer for Slingsby Theatre Company presented in the 2023 Adelaide Festival, Hypercolour Miscellaneous Bistro Buffet with Dave Court for Slow Mango and The Bait Fridge as a part of Illuminate Festival and The Sight with Victoria Falconer for Dark Mofo.

• Anthony Nocera (Playwright)

  Anthony Nocera is a writer based in Adelaide. He writes essays, criticism and plays.

  In 2017, he was commissioned to co-write Boys of Sondheim for Woodward Productions. The play premiered at Melt Festival before touring to Sydney Mardi Gras in 2019. In 2023, Anthony’s work My Hair is Thinning was developed as part of Vitalstistix’s Adhocracy program and Theatre Republic presented his short play Black Widow Pussy as part of the FUTURE:PRESENT new writing incubator.

  Anthony’s writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, The Age, Metro, Vice, Voiceworks and CityMag among many others. His essays have been anthologised in collections published by Black Ink and Wakefield Press. He has appeared at the National Young Writers Festival and Noted Festival.

  His work has been rejected from many publications and places of note.

• Zoë Dunwoodie (Performer/ Movement Consultant)

  Zoë is a performing artist and emerging maker currently living and working on Kaurna Yerta. She studied at the New Zealand School of Dance graduating in 2011 with a Diploma in Dance Performance and is a NZSD Distinguished Alumni for 2021.

  After being offered a position at Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) in 2012, Zoë worked full-time and as a guest dancer until 2020 under the directorship of Garry Stewart.

  As an ADT dancer and independent artist, Zoë has toured nationally and internationally, and worked with local and international choreographers including Daniel Jaber (Nought and Dirt) and Ina Christel Johannessen (North).

  Whilst living in SA, Zoë has also performed with local companies in children’s theatre and puppetry shows including Patch Theatre Company (Home and I Wish...), Windmill Theatre Co (Grug and Bluey’s Big Play) and Windmill Pictures (Beep and Mort: Season 1 and Season 2).

  Zoë is an emerging maker and in 2023 she choreographed Co-Incident which featured fourteen AC Arts students. She also completed a first-stage development for her new dance theatre work Llama, which deals with motherhood, transformation, and intergenerational peculiarities.

  When she isn’t performing, Zoë enjoys teaching people of all ages and abilities within a wide range of dance organisations, institutions, and studios.

• Elizabeth Hay (Performer)

  Elizabeth Hay (Performer): Elizabeth is a graduate of the Flinders Drama Centre and lives and works as an actor on Kaurna land. Her theatre credits include Hibernation, The Gods of Strangers, Red Cross Letters, Volpone and Jesikah for the State Theatre Company South Australia, The Garden for Theatre Republic, Baba Yaga, Grug and Grug and the Rainbow for Windmill Theatre Company, Yo Diddle Diddle and The Lighthouse for Patch Theatre Company, and the Helpmann Award-winning Emil and the Detectives for Slingsby. Elizabeth was part of the Australian cast of Girl from the North Country for GWB Entertainment/STCSA.

  She joined the main cast of Danger 5 as ‘Holly’ for the series return on SBS and has worked on many other locally made television productions, commercials, and short films. Most recently, she appeared in A Sunburnt Christmas on Stan. Elizabeth is the voice of Olli in Sun Runners, a collaboration between Audioplay and Windmill Theatre Company.

  Elizabeth made her directing debut in the inaugural season of RUMPUS at the end of 2019, with Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves.

• Max Brading (Multi-Media Artist)

  Max is an artist working on Kaurna land, specialising in real-time visual arts, interactive programming, and artistic integration with multimedia systems. Max graduated with a BA in Photography from Charles Sturt University in 2012 and built their technical skills by working at art festivals including the Edinburgh Fringe, Sydney Festival and Adelaide Fringe, and was creative producer at The Lab (Adelaide) until 2022.

  Max is a member of The Bait Fridge arts collective and is currently based at Washdog Studios. From a lifelong interest in digital technology, Max has developed a creative practice that blends technical knowledge and multimedia arts, centred around collaboration and experimental process. Installation works include In The Belly Of The Beast (2023), a participatory experimental performance, and Computer Vision (2021) an early AI synthesized video installation. Notable collaborations include ROCKAMORA by Kaspar Shmidt Mumm at ACE Adelaide (2023), Trippin Up (2023) music video by The Jungle Giants created with volumetric 3D data, and ATM-001 (2023), an AI powered talking vending machine by Dave Court. With a diverse range of skills including photography, music and sonic arts, interactive programming, performance art, and lighting design, Max's experience allows them to connect and create using technology across disciplines. Max is proud to be have been selected to be one of Creative Australia’s Digital Fellows for 2024.

• Mat Morison (Composer)

  Adelaide-based musician and community arts facilitator, Mat Morison (he/they), is always looking for new ways to forge connections between disparate styles and ideas. Originally training in jazz piano, Mat has since taken their skills in improvisation and applied it to a wide variety of pursuits, from film and theatre composition, to performance art, Auslan interpreting, community arts facilitating, coding, and language making.

  Mat performs regularly with musical outfit Slowmango, and performance art group The Bait Fridge, and is the Coordinator of Music at disability arts organisation Tutti Arts. They also work in Deaf adult education classes at TAFE SA, and contribute to a number of other community arts organisations such as Girls Rock! Adelaide, Open Space Contemporary Arts, and MUD.

• Rob Wells (Performer)

  Rob (they/them) is an actor, and writer born in the USA and currently based on Kaurna country. Prior to graduating from Sydney Actors School in 2021, Rob studied engineering, education, and dance, having trained in Ballet (RAD) for 10 years.

  They dive head first into everything they do; from contemporary works - Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Shane Anthony, 2021), to classic texts - The Comedy of Errors (Kyle Rowling, 2019), to short works of their own devising - Chip Off The Old Block (Rob C Wells, 2023).

  After the 2022 season touring Australia with Poetry In Action, Rob last year moved to Adelaide for love. With a few things in the works, they can't wait to continue to tell challenging stories, and show their dad that the theatre isn't just a "stage".

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This project has support from

Centre Stage Residencies: Announcing the successful 2024 recipients

We are thrilled to announce Poppy Mee and Praise Mangena as the recipients of the 2024 Centre Stage Residencies.

The Centre Stage Residencies are presented in collaboration with Adelaide Fringe as part of their Arts Industry Collaborations program. This unique incubator program is for South Australian artists to progress a new performance work in its second or third stage of development to the next level, culminating in a season at The Mill as part of the 2025 Adelaide Fringe Festival.

About the artists:

• Poppy Mee

  Poppy Mee is an actor, writer and theatre-maker working on unceded Kaurna land. Since completing her undergraduate training at ACArts in 2017, she has worked as an actor and writer on numerous local and interstate stage and screen projects.

  Credits include Heavy Red, Lucy and DiC and Stateless. In 2019 she was the recipient of a Carclew Fellowship to study theatre-making at Fourth Monkey in London, resulting in her first solo project, A Slight Exaggeration, which premiered at The Mill for Adelaide Fringe 2021. As a member of RUMPUS Theatre she performed in various productions as well as serving as co-head writer on Hamlet In The Other Room (2021).

  Poppy recently undertook specialist training at L'Ecole Philippe Gaulier in France, studying Le Jeu and clowning performance technique. Her second solo work, PSYCHOPOMP: A Cordial Evening with the Messenger God of Hope and Doom, premiered its initial season at The Courtyard of Curiosities at Adelaide Fringe 2024, and is currently holding its second creative development for Fringe 2025, with support from Adelaide Fringe and The Mill. Poppy is a proud MEAA member.

• Praise Mangena

  Praise Mangena is a multidisciplinary performing artist, based in Kaurna Country-Adelaide, with strong interests in dance and poetry. Over the last three years she has featured in a variety of events and performances such as Word on the Street Vol. 2 (2024), Draw Your (S)words (2024), SA Playwrights Reading Night (2022/24), Mixed Bag Poetry (2023), Soul Lounge (2023), JAUMA FEST (2023) and WOMAD (2022). 

  This year, she debuted as a music video director under the company of Adverse Reign for ‘KABALA’ (by Magajie) and this sets as a continuation of her exploration in art now adding script writing as a skill. She’s continued her work as a creative director in the company playing an integral role in the success of the most recent live show of Word on the Street Vol. 2 which was featured Live at the Lab during the 2024 Illuminate Adelaide Winter Festival. 

  Her journey continues as she prepares to officially launch her project ‘Art is the Medium’ at The Mill Adelaide with musicians Jack Green and Vanté Kay for the 2025 Fringe season. 

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The Mill’s Centre Stage Residencies are presented in collaboration with Adelaide Fringe as part of their Arts Industry Collaborations program

This program has support from

Exhibition: HELD, Youth Inc. SALA exhibition

August 30 - September 19, 2024

Free entry, all welcome

• Visiting the exhibition

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

  Open Monday to Friday, 10am-4pm.

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

• About HELD

  Holding a specific thing

  is a very nice thing to do.

  You are standing there

  and you hold

                   an enormous cabbage.

                    Or a violin.                  

                    Or a bright balloon.

  That is a job in and of itself.

  The simple act of doing one thing.

                                   —Maira Kalman, Women Holding Things

• About Youth Inc.

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

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

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

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

• Accessibility

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

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

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

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

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This exhibition is presented by

First Nations Dance Residency: Caleena Sansbury, 'Mullamar'

Photo: Supplied by Caleena Sansbury.

Showing and Q&A

When: Friday, September 13, 6-7pm

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

Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)

Note: Please arrive 15 minutes early to grab a drink. This event will be 1 hour (including a Q&A). 

• Getting to the showing

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

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

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

  Accessibility

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

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

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

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

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Mullamar is a new project by Caleena Sansbury, in collaboration with Adrianne Semmens and Kaine Sultan Babij, aiming to create a rich, multidimensional exploration of her great-grandmother Mary Cooper’s life.

By blending storytelling, physical movement, and projection, this creative development will investigate the personal and systemic challenges faced by Aboriginal people in the 1940s, highlighting their resilience and cultural significance.

About the artist:

• Caleena Sansbury

  Caleena Sansbury is a prominent First Nations artist whose diverse background and extensive experience have established her as a leading figure in the arts. Her heritage, encompassing Ngarrindjeri, Narungga, and Kaurna cultures, deeply influences her work and perspective.

  A graduate of NAISDA Dance College, Caleena’s career spans various disciplines including performance, choreography, and program coordination. She has showcased her talents on both national and international stages, working with respected artists and companies.

  Her notable collaborations include:

  • Vicki Van Hout on productions like Long Grass and Les Festivities Lubrufier.

  • Thomas E. S. Kelly on the performance work [MIS]CONCEIVE.

  • Karul Projects on the piece SSHIFT.

  Caleena’s experience extends to children's theatre, where she has performed in shows produced by InSite Arts such as Saltbush and Our Corka Bubs, and with Polyglot Theatre in Tangled. Her work demonstrates a deep understanding of both dance and theatre, particularly in contexts involving young audiences.

  In addition to her performance career, she has contributed to theatre as an actor in Legs On the Wall’s The Man With The Iron Neck and has showcased her organizational skills as a producer for the Melbourne Fringe in 2018. She has also toured South Australia with Taree Sansbury’s Mi:wi 2019, and performed in Jacob Boheme’s dance work Gurranda in 2024. Caleena continues to perform and practice dance in and throughout South Australia. 

  Currently, Caleena is a Program Coordinator at The Mill, an award-winning multi-disciplinary arts organisation. Her role at The Mill continues to reflect her commitment to fostering a vibrant and dynamic First Nations arts community.

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LIMITLESS: The Mill Fundraiser Exhibition

October 4-11, 2024

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

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

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

• Visiting the exhibition

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

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

  Accessibility

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

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

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

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

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The Mill is excited to be hosting LIMITLESS, a fundraising exhibition shining a light on over 100 local artists.

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

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

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

• Why support The Mill?

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

• Meet the artists!

  We're excited to have submissions from:

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

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