Sera Waters

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

Sera Waters
Born1979
Murray Bridge, South Australia
NationalityAustralian
EducationUniversity of South Australia, University of Adelaide
Known forTextile arts, Embroidery, Blackwork
AwardsHeysen Prize for Landscape 2016
Websitehttps://serawaters.com.au/

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

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.
  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". web.archive.org. 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". web.archive.org. 19 September 2006. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  16. "Heysen Prize". Hahndorf Academy. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  17. "Achievements and Announcements". w3.unisa.edu.au.
  18. "Ramsay Art Prize 2019 finalists announced". Art Almanac. 30 April 2019.
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