Sera Waters

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Sera Waters
Born1979
Nationality Australian
Education University of South Australia, University of Adelaide
Known for Textile arts, Embroidery, Blackwork
AwardsHeysen Prize for Landscape 2016
Website https://serawaters.com.au/

Sera Waters is a South Australian textile artist, arts writer, and arts educator. She lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art.

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Biography

Sera Waters was born in Murray Bridge, South Australia, in 1979. [1] She has a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) from the University of South Australia, a Masters of Visual Arts from the University of Adelaide, and a PhD from the University of South Australia. [2] [3] She received the Ruth Tuck Scholarship in 2005 and used it to undertake study at the Royal School of Needlework in the UK. [4] She lectures in art history at Adelaide Central School of Art. [5]

Artistic style and subject

Waters 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]

Awards, residencies and scholarships

Collections

Bibliography

By Waters

About Waters

Exhibition catalogues

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References

  1. "AGSA - Online Collection". Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  2. 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.
  3. Waters, Sera. "Genealogical ghostscapes : unsettling settler colonial home-making legacies in South Australia / Sera Waters (Torchio)". University of South Australia. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  4. "Recipients of the Scholarships 2006, Carclew". 19 September 2006. Archived from the original on 19 September 2006. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  5. "Adelaide Central School of Art: Dr. Sera Waters". www.acsa.sa.edu.au.
  6. Kelly, Miriam (2017). "Sera Waters: Domestic Arts". Artlink. 37 (4): 48-55.
  7. 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.
  8. Waters, Sera. "Genealogical ghostscapes : unsettling settler colonial home-making legacies in South Australia / Sera Waters (Torchio)". University of South Australia. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  9. 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.
  10. Adams, Jude (2009). "Three artists - in the world: Anne Kay, Irmina van Niele, Sera Waters". Artlink. 29 (2): 89.
  11. Neylon, John (2 March 2020). "Adelaide exhibition guide: March 2020". The Adelaide Review.
  12. Waters, Sera. "Crafty prepping". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  13. Kelly, Miriam. "Sera Waters: Domestic arts". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  14. Waters, Sera (2012). "Repetitive crafting: The shared aesthetic of time in Australian contemporary art" (PDF). Craft+ Design Enquiry. 4: 69-87.
  15. "Recipients of the Scholarships 2006, Carclew". 19 September 2006. Archived from the original on 19 September 2006. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  16. "Heysen Prize". Hahndorf Academy. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
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  18. "Ramsay Art Prize 2019 finalists announced". Art Almanac. 30 April 2019.