Please join us for an Artist Talk with Sera Waters on Saturday 16th May from 2pm.
Sera will speak about her current exhibition ‘Collared & Cuffed’. About this body of work, Sera shares: “My artworks are made from labouring, working, fretting, and expelling energies that come up incredibly short against the suffering of others and ecologies. I’ve learned that in my family this is a multi-generational tactic to reckon with all that happens. In my times, deliberate hand-making draws upon this matrilineal activist tactic to rally against Capitalist greed and power which has always caused damage upon bodies of all kinds. Each of these works, informed by a feminist understanding of textile practices, has documentation as its impetus; documenting what is happening, what happened, and valuing how archival records (like the family letters) have been cared for, for future generations to learn from.”
This will be the last day to visit our current exhibitions, Sera Waters’ ‘Collared & Cuffed’ and Sally Bourke’s ‘I’m a ghost, I’m gone’.
Hugo Michell Gallery acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region, and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.
Pictured: Sera Waters in the studio, 2023. Photography by Aubrey Jonsson for InDaily.