SERA WATERS

Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions

Sera Waters: Domestic Arts

26 Sep 2020 - 31 Oct 2021

Sera Waters: Domestic Arts is a Country Arts SA touring exhibition presented in partnership with ACE Open. Country Arts SA is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

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Past Exhibitions

Drawn Thread: 50 years of Australian Feminist Textiles

5 Dec 2020 - 13 Feb 2021

Drawn Thread is the first of 5 iterations of The Hand-made Tale; 50 years of craft and design in Queensland, a series of curatorial offerings celebrating artisan’s influential 50 years’ of operation.

The Partnershipping Project

7 Mar 2020 - 1 Jun 2020

The Partnershipping Project is an exhibition touring regional galleries across Australia curated by Pat Hoffie.

Drastic Fabric

12 Feb 2020 - 20 Mar 2020

A group exhibition celebrating four South Australian artists using textiles. Curator: Andrew Purvis. Adelaide Central School of Art Gallery. Artists: Sera Waters, Henry Jock Walker, Carly Snoswell and Liz Jenner.

Going Round in Squares

9 Mar 2019 - 30 Jun 2019

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Dazzleland

23 May 2019 - 8 Jun 2019

A solo exhibition at Hugo Michell Gallery of contemporary artworks by artist Sera Waters. Dazzleland explores the shimmering aftermaths within dry Australian Country.

DECADE

20 Nov 2018 - 12 Dec 2018

The ten year anniversary exhibition for Hugo Michell Gallery: featuring represented artists. Work by Sera Waters exploring the family legacies of golf and repetitive textiles.

Limb by Limb

22 Sep 2018 - 20 Oct 2018

Art Collective WA

WORD

30 Aug 2018 - 13 Oct 2018

Hugo Michell Gallery

Domestic Arts

21 Jul 2017 - 26 Aug 2017

Domestic Arts, a solo exhibition at ACE Open by Sera Waters, exploring settler colonial inheritances through contemporary textiles and home-craft traditions.

Sappers & Shrapnel

11 Nov 2016 - 29 Jan 2017

curated by Lisa Slade

Vote For Me

4 Sep 2016 - 2 Oct 2016

Curated by Powerhouse: Brigid Noone & Kate Power

Illusions of History

28 Jul 2016 - 2 Sep 2016

Ali Gumillya Baker, Sue Kneebone, Paul Sloan & Sera Waters – Illusions of History

Fleurieu Art Prize 2016

3 Jun 2016 - 29 Jul 2016

Gathering Misery, a pair of textile artworks by Sera Waters selected for the Fleurieu Art Prize 2016.

FELTpublic

20 Nov 2015 - 29 Nov 2015

FELTspace public art project, taking art out into public precincts.

Spectre Folk

1 Oct 2015 - 31 Oct 2015

Hugo Michell Gallery

135th Meridian East

5 Sep 2014 - 4 Oct 2014

135th Meridian-East: a group exhibition of SA and NT artists, curated by Andre Lawrence, exploring an ongoing relatedness across expanses of Country.

Art House: The Local Ghost Laboratory

13 May 2014 - 17 May 2014

Art House: an experimental series of exhibitions held at the Adelaide Central Markets. The Local Ghost Laboratory by Sera Waters collected ghost stories.

Ghostscapes

6 Apr 2014 - 4 May 2014

Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide.

Not Just a Pretty Face

14 Feb 2014 - 20 Mar 2014

Crystal Palace

27 Jul 2013 - 29 Sep 2013

A group exhibition at Flinders University Art Museum, including the contemporary textile artwork of Sera Waters. Curated by Lisa Harms.

See Unseen

20 Aug 2013 - 13 Sep 2013

Adelaide Central Gallery

Beyonce is a feminist

7 Jul 2013 - 11 Aug 2013

A collaborative art work led by Sera Waters and Cheryl Hutchens exploring what it means to be feminist today.

Sensorial Loop

24 Sep 2011 - 30 Apr 2013

Dark Portals

8 Feb 2013 - 20 Apr 2013

A solo exhibition of contemporary textiles by Sera Waters at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, featuring works drawn from the Cruther's Collection of Women's Art.

Random

7 Mar 2013 - 10 Mar 2013

Random works of public art installed along Jetty Roads, Glenelg and Brighton, SA

End of the World

25 Nov 2012 - 21 Dec 2012

A group exhibition pondering the end of the world.

...build me a city

9 Nov 2012 - 8 Dec 2012

...build me a city: an exploration of the Architecture Museum archives by seven artists

Life, Stitching

24 Aug 2012 - 11 Sep 2012

Life, Stitching will offer textile work by women from the 'Beachport Coastal Quilters’

Objectified

4 Apr 2012 - 4 May 2012

These works reflect legacies that have been left with me.

Sensation Seekers

1 Apr 2012 - 29 Apr 2012

Fontanelle Gallery & Studios opened with the group exhibition 'Sensation Seekers' curated by Director Brigid Noone.

CavernLight

9 Sep 2011 - 8 Oct 2011

A solo exhibition of ominous contemporary textiles by Sera Waters, Lowrise Projects, Melbourne.

Flocked

1 Jul 2011 - 19 Aug 2011

Flocked: a project by Sera Waters collecting bird stories from across South Australia as part of the Inside SAM's place residency, at South Australian Museum, facilitated by CraftSouth (now Guildhouse).

Imagining Interiors

21 May 2011 - 10 Jul 2011

curator: Wendy Walker

Covet

29 Apr 2011 - 28 May 2011

A group exhibition included experimental textile jewellery by Sera Waters.

Home Stories

11 Feb 2011 - 19 Mar 2011

Curated by Vivonne Thwaites, a collaboration between the Migration Museum and Adelaide Central Gallery

artroom5: Sera Waters 2011

18 Feb 2011 - 13 Mar 2011

An exhibition of Sera Waters' contemporary textile artworks, predominantly blackwork and goldwork embroidery, exploring an Australian ominousness.

flyblown

4 Aug 2010 - 21 Aug 2010

flyblown: an exhibition by Sera Waters of Australian historical narratives reinterpreted into contemporary re-imaginings of domestic home-craft traditions.