Sera Waters is an Australian textile artist, arts writer, and arts educator. She lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art in Adelaide, South Australia.
Sera Waters | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1979 (age 44–45) |
| Education | University of South Australia, University of Adelaide |
| Known for | Textile arts, embroidery, blackwork |
| Awards | Heysen Prize for Landscape 2016 |
| Website | serawaters |
Early life
editSera Waters was born in Murray Bridge, South Australia, in 1979.[1]
She received a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) from the University of South Australia in 2000.[2] In 2005 she was awarded the Ruth Tuck Scholarship for Visual Arts, and used it to undertake study at the Royal School of Needlework in the UK.[3][2]
She then went on to earn a Masters of Visual Arts from the University of Adelaide in 2006,[2] and later (2018)[2] a PhD from the University of South Australia[4][5]
Artistic style and subject
editWaters specialises in textile arts and techniques, such as embroidery. Waters’ blackwork is considered her signature technique.[6] In her PhD thesis, she used textile arts to explore family genealogy.[7][8] Her works have been described as deeply conceptual,[9] witty,[10] and using humble needlework to encompass worlds of concern.[11] As well as examining the colonial experience through her art, she is concerned with practicing art on Aboriginal land and the impact of colonisation.[12] She is also interested in textiles arts embodying labour and time.[13][14]
Academic career
editAs of 2024[update] Waters lectures in art history at Adelaide Central School of Art.[15]
Awards, residencies, and scholarships
edit- 2006: Ruth Tuck Scholarship for Visual Arts[2]
- 2016: Heysen Prize for Landscape, Hahndorf Academy[16]
- 2018: Hill Smith Gallery / University of South Australia Postgraduate Award, Helpmann Academy[17]
- 2019: Finalist, Ramsay Art Prize, Art Gallery of South Australia[18]
- 2020: Guildhouse Fellowship, from the Art Gallery of South Australia[2]
Collections
edit- Art Gallery of South Australia[19]
- Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, University of Western Australia[20]
Bibliography
editBy Waters
edit- Lawrence, Kay, Waters, Sera, & Belfrage, Clare. 2018, Clare Belfrage : rhythms of necessity, Wakefield Press, Mile End, South Australia. Worldcat record
- Waters, Sera Jaye. 2006. Invoking disaster : visions of the monstrous and catastrophic in Japanese visual culture from the Edo and postwar periods. Thesis. University of Adelaide.
- Waters, Sera. 2007. Valuing relationships: Concertina. Artlink, Vol. 27, No. 4, 39-41
- Waters, Sera. 2012. Repetitive crafting: The shared aesthetic of time in Australian contemporary art. craft+design enquiry, 4, 69-87.
- Waters, Sera. 2015. Inside the Outback: An Exploration of Domesticated Landscapes in Semco’s Long Stitch Originals Series of the 1980s. craft+design enquiry, 7, (2015): 27-48.
- Waters, Sera. 2015. Knotted Lines: Entangling genealogical methodology with practice-led research. ACUADS 2015 Annual Conference. Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools.
- Waters, Sera. 2018. Genealogical ghostscapes : unsettling settler colonial home-making legacies in South Australia. Thesis Archived 3 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine. University of South Australia.
- Waters, Sera. 2020. Crafty prepping. Artlink, Vol. 40, No. 1, Mar 2020: 20-27.
About Waters
edit- Adams, Jude. Three artists - in the world: Anne Kay, Irmina van Niele, Sera Waters. Artlink, Vol. 29, No. 2, Jun 2009: 89.
- Clarke, K. 2016. Willful knitting? Contemporary Australian craftivism and feminist histories[dead link]. Continuum, 30(3), 298-306.
- Coleman, Sheridan. Dark Portals: Sera Waters. Art Monthly Australia, no.264, Oct 2013: 39-42.
- Hart, Sheridan. 2018. Sera Waters unpicks the long stitches of Australian history. Art Guide Australia.
- Kelly, Miriam. 2017. Sera Waters: Domestic arts. Artlink, 37(4), 48–55.
Exhibition catalogues
edit- Capone, Jacobus & Thwaites, Vivonne & Garnaut, Christine & Collins, Julie & Fazakerley, Ruth, 1965- et al. (2012). Build me a city : an exploration of the archives of the Architecture Museum, UniSA by seven artists[dead link]. Architecture Museum and Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, S. Aust.
- Purvis, Andrew. 2020. "Drastic Fabric Archived 26 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine". Adelaide Central School of Art.
- Waters, Sera, Nowell, Liz, & Kelly, Miriam. 2017. Sera Waters: Domestic arts. ACE Open. Worldcat record
References
edit- ^ "AGSA - Online Collection". Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f "The Guildhouse Fellowship: Sera Waters". Guildhouse. 19 October 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
- ^ "Recipients of the Scholarships 2006, Carclew". 19 September 2006. Archived from the original on 19 September 2006. Retrieved 2 July 2020. [dead link]
- ^ Waters, Sera (2006). Invoking disaster: visions of the monstrous and catastrophic in Japanese visual culture from the Edo and postwar periods. University of Adelaide. OCLC 225036173.
- ^ Waters, Sera. "Genealogical ghostscapes : unsettling settler colonial home-making legacies in South Australia / Sera Waters (Torchio)". University of South Australia. Retrieved 2 July 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Kelly, Miriam (2017). "Sera Waters: Domestic Arts". Artlink. 37 (4): 48-55.
- ^ Waters, Sera. "Knotted Lines: Entangling genealogical methodology with practice-led research" (PDF). Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools 2015 conference. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ Waters, Sera. "Genealogical ghostscapes : unsettling settler colonial home-making legacies in South Australia / Sera Waters (Torchio)". University of South Australia. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ Von Mengersen, Belinda (1 January 2016). "Slipstitch: a survey of contemporary narrative-based stitch and embroidery practices in Australia". Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ Adams, Jude (2009). "Three artists - in the world: Anne Kay, Irmina van Niele, Sera Waters". Artlink. 29 (2): 89.
- ^ Neylon, John (2 March 2020). "Adelaide exhibition guide: March 2020". The Adelaide Review.
- ^ Waters, Sera. "Crafty prepping". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ Kelly, Miriam. "Sera Waters: Domestic arts". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ Waters, Sera (2012). "Repetitive crafting: The shared aesthetic of time in Australian contemporary art" (PDF). Craft+ Design Enquiry. 4: 69-87.
- ^ "Adelaide Central School of Art: Dr. Sera Waters". ACSA. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
- ^ "Heysen Prize". Hahndorf Academy. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ "Achievements and Announcements". UniSA. Archived from the original on 15 April 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ "Ramsay Art Prize 2019 finalists announced". Art Almanac. 30 April 2019.
- ^ Art Gallery of South Australia
- ^ Cruthers Collection of Women's Art (see PDF of works held)