Videos & Writing Links
Sera Waters - Selected Writing
2021
‘A Care-full Re-Membering of Australian Settler Colonial Homemaking Traditions’, in Feminist Visual Activism and the Body, Basia Sliwinska (ed), from the Routledge Research in Gender and Art series, Routledge Press: Oxon, pp. 104-120
2020
‘Life Forms’, catalogue essay for exhibition: Life Forms, Nicole Clift, Nancy Downes, Zoe Freney, Zoe Kirkwood, Lucy Turnbull, Talia Wignall, praxis ARTSPACE, 12 November – 11 December.
Sera Waters, 'Crafty Prepping', Artlink: It's Time, Issue 40:1 March 2020.
'Hiraeth', catalogue essay for exhibition: Hiraeth, Georgia Button, FELTspace https://www.georgiabutton.com/hiraeth-sera-waters SALA Podcast, ‘Episode 3: Textile and Craftivism with Britt Burton & Sera Waters’, https://salafestival.podbean.com/e/textiles-craftivism-with-britt-burton-sera-waters/2019
‘A time-travelling guide for the climate apocalypse’, fine print magazine, Issue 21: Transcriptions 2
http://www.fineprintmagazine.com/current#/a-time-travelling-guide-for-the-climate-apocalypse
‘Layerscapes: Colonial history on a thread’, Garland, published online:6 September 2019
https://garlandmag.com/article/layerscapes/
2018
PhD Thesis: Genealogical ghostscapes : unsettling settler colonial home-making legacies in South Australia, University of South Australia:
https://ap01-a.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/delivery/61USOUTHAUS_INST/12172268990001831
2015
'Inside the outback: An exploration of domesticated landscapes in Semco's Long Stitch Originals series of the 1980s', craft + design enquiry, issue 7
http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/craftdesign-enquiry/issue-4-2012
2012
'Repetitive Crafting; the shared aesthetic of time in Australian Contemporary Art', craft + design enquiry, issue 4, 2012
http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/craftdesign-enquiry/issue-4-2012
AGSA magazine. Issue 42, Autumn 2021
Cover: Life Forms Catalogue
AGSA magazine. Issue 42, Autumn 2021.
Catalogue essay: Life Forms exhibition
Artlink: It's Time, 'Crafty Prepping' view, Issue 40:1, March 2020
Textile: Cloth and Culture, Vol 17, Issue 4, Dec 2019
SALA Monograph, Clare Belfrage, 2019
Textile: Cloth and Culture, Vol 17, Issue 4, Dec 2019
Selected bibliography
2022
Liz Cooper, ‘imperfect past tense’, embroidery (UK), January/February 2022, pp. 32-37
2021
Cunningham, Daniel Mudie, 'Notable accolades: The Guildhouse Fellowship', Art Collector Magazine, Issue 95, Jan - March 2021
2020
McEwan, Sarah, 'Sera Waters: Domestic Arts', Country Arts SA touring exhibition catalogue.
2018
Coleman, Sheridan, ‘Sera Waters unpicks the long stitches of Australian History ‘, Art Guide Australia. October 2018.
https://artguide.com.au/sera-waters-unpicks-the-long-stitches-of-australian-history
2017
‘Sera Waters’ Ghostly Embroideries’, interview with Sarah Kanowski for ‘Books and Arts’, Radio national, Friday 21 July 2017 10:48AM,
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/sera-waters/8724454
Miriam Kelly, ‘Sera Waters: Domestic Arts’, Artlink, December 2017, Vol.37(4), p.4
https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4643/sera-waters-domestic-arts/
Llewellyn, Jane, ‘Sera Waters celebrates the Domestic Arts’, The Adelaide Review, July 21 2018,
https://www.adelaidereview.com.au/arts/visual-arts/sera-waters-celebrates-domestic-arts/
2016
Pitt, Elspeth, ‘Sappers & Shrapnel: Contemporary Art and Art of the Trenches, Artlink, November,
https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4560/sappers-26-shrapnel-contemporary-art-and-the-art-of/
Purvis, Andrew, ‘Vote For Me’, Artlink, September,
https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4536/vote-for-me/
Janet de Boer, 'A Curious Collision', embroidery (UK), July/August 2016, pp. 28-33
2015
Juliette Peers, 'Slipstitch', Artlink, vol 35 no 2, June 2015
2014
White, Sara, ‘Ghostscapes: Sera Waters’, Artlink,
vol 34 no 2, June 2014.
2013
Sheridan Coleman, Dark Portals: Sera Waters', Art Monthly Australia, 264 October 2014, pp. 39-42
2011
Kelly Fuller, Sensorial Loop, ABC radio: (be sure to click on the audio tab to hear interview with curator Patrick Snelling)
http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2011/09/30/3329808.htm
Lisa Harms, 'Sera Waters', FELTspace GOLD, pp. 116-119
John Neylon, 'Flights of Fancy', The Adelaide Review, April 2011
2010
Jenny Hart, 'Sera Waters', Embroidery as Art blog, Jan 12, http://embroiderasart.blogspot.com/
2007
Pamela Zeplin, 'Sera Waters: Crooks & Nannies', Craft Culture online, Craft Victoria, http://www.craftculture.org
embroidery magazine, Jan/Feb 2022
Art Collector Magazine, Issue 95, Jan - March 2021
Embroidery Magazine, July/August 2016
Art Collector Magazine, Issue 95, Jan - March 2021
Embroidery Magazine, July/August 2016
Artlink, December 2017, Vol.37(4), p.4
FELTgold, 2011
Artlink, December 2017, Vol.37(4), p.4
FELTgold, 2011
Selected presentations
2021
'Survivalist Samplers: 'sampling' as a future tradition'. The David Roche Foundation, August 19. Link here
2020
'Crafting Democracy', Panellist, Centre of Democracy, September 15, https://history.sa.gov.au/where-to-learn-more/talking-history/
SALA Podcast, 'Episode 3: Textile and Craftivism with Britt Burton & Sera Waters' https://www.salafestival.com/sala-podcast/
Invited speaker at This is not just a piece of cloth. Care-full entanglements - A discussion, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London, UK
2019
'A time-travelling guide for the climate apocalypse', fine print magazine, Issue 21: Transcriptions 2, http://www.fineprintmagazine.com/current#/a-time-travelling-guide-for-the-climate-apocalypse
2018
'A care-full re-membering of Australian settler colonial home-making traditions', in session: Care: forging an alternative ethics through contemporary art, convened by Catriona Moore and Jacqueline Millner, AAANZ Conference: Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art, December 5-7, 2018, School of Arts, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
'Unsettling settling: the ghosts within domestic textiles' (20 minute paper), Textile and Place conference, Manchester School of Art & the Whitworth, Manchester UK, April 12, 2018
2017
Invited speaker, '250 Years of Embroidery symposium: Heritage, the Now and the Future of Embroidery', Hand & Lock, Carriageworks, Sydney
'Spectral Rubbish: Unearthing three buried pasts from colonised South Australia' (15 minute paper), The First Eric Richards Symposium in British and Australasion History, Flinders University, Adelaide, Jan 31 - Feb 3.
2016
'Women of the Nest' (15 minute paper), Intersections 2016: 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, UniSA, City West, Adelaide, September 19-20, 2016
'Spectral Rubbish: Unearthing three buried pasts from colonised South Australia' (20 minute paper), Colonial Formations: Connections and Collitions (CASS network) conference, University of Wollongong, NSW, 23-25 November 2016.
'Unsettling the traditions of settling' (20 minute paper), Crosscurrents: Land, Labor, and the Port: 15th biennial symposium, Textile society of America organised in partnership with Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Savannah, Georgia, USA, October 19-23, 2016
2015
'Comfort Matters: Settling in South Australia' (20 minute paper), Mnemonics 2015: Memory and Materialism, Kings College London; Goldsmiths, University of London; and the University of Westminster, London UK, 8-10 September 2015.
'Knotted Lines: Entangling Genealogical Methodology with Practice-led Research' (20 minute paper), ACUADS CONFERENCE 2015: ART AND DESIGN EDUCATION IN THE GLOBAL 24/7, School of Art, Architecture and Design, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 24-25 September 2015