Bundanon

Sera Waters is an artist living on Kaurna Country, South Australia. Her practice examines ongoing settler-colonial homemaking legacies, specifically hand-craft traditions and familial patterns.

In 2022 Waters was selected for the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State at Art Gallery of South Australia. Her series, Storied Sail Cloths, travelled to the Busan Biennale 2022: We, on the Rising Wave, South Korea. Throughout 2022 Waters realised her `Future Traditions’ project, enabled by the 2020 Guildhouse Fellowship, with a resulting exhibition at Art Gallery of South Australia. Other exhibitions include Going Round in Squares at Ararat Gallery TAMA (2019), and Domestic Arts which toured South Australian regional galleries with Country Arts SA (in partnership with ACE Open) from 2020.

Waters’s works are held by the Cruthers collection of Women’s art, Ararat Regional Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, Powerhouse and private collections across Australia. She is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery.

In Residence at Bundanon

While undertaking my residency at Bundanon, I plan to use embroidery `sampling’ techniques, particularly blackwork embroidery, to explore the connective threads operating between three strains of my practice: reckoning with the legacies of settler-colonial home-making patterns and matriarchal inheritances, exploring how textile traditions can address threats to survival due to climate change, and further developing my experimentation with blackwork embroidery as a primary mode of expression. I will be walking, developing and stitching patterns onsite, while also using the concentrated time and space to recalibrate and reflect upon the future directions of my practice.