Artist talk
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.
Please join us for an Finissage for 'The Felling Place' and 'Land marks, with an artist talk by Julia Robinson on Saturday 11th April, 1pm-3pm.
Artist Talk from 1:30pm
Julia Robinson’s ‘The Felling Place’, currently showing at Hugo Michell Gallery, is a foray into eco-horror and plant horror: sub-genres that arise from our fractured relationship with the natural world and might be characterised by narratives where nature is not only sentient but malevolent. In these narratives, plant life may strike back at humans and horror comes from our terrifying encounter with ‘monstrous’ vegetation.
This will also be the final day to experience Bridie Gillman's solo exhibition 'Land marks', an exhibition developed in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (affectionately – Jogja). Each piece has been made in response to a patchwork of everyday observations – a fleeting moment while on a motorbike or a slower studied observation while waiting for a meal. Translated through colour, these seen things and places become landmarks through which the artist navigates around town.
Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this finissage event.
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.