Sera Waters Explained
Sera Waters |
Birth Date: | 1979 |
Nationality: | Australian |
Awards: | Heysen 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.
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
- Lawrence, Kay, Waters, Sera, & Belfrage, Clare. 2018, Clare Belfrage : rhythms of necessity, Wakefield Press, Mile End, South Australia. Worldcat record
- Waters, Sera Jaye. 2006. Invoking disaster : visions of the monstrous and catastrophic in Japanese visual culture from the Edo and postwar periods. Thesis. University of Adelaide.
- Waters, Sera. 2007. Valuing relationships: Concertina. Artlink, Vol. 27, No. 4, 39-41
- Waters, Sera. 2012. Repetitive crafting: The shared aesthetic of time in Australian contemporary art. craft+design enquiry, 4, 69-87.
- Waters, Sera. 2015. Inside the Outback: An Exploration of Domesticated Landscapes in Semco’s Long Stitch Originals Series of the 1980s. craft+design enquiry, 7, (2015): 27-48.
- Waters, Sera. 2015. Knotted Lines: Entangling genealogical methodology with practice-led research. ACUADS 2015 Annual Conference. Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools.
- Waters, Sera. 2018. Genealogical ghostscapes : unsettling settler colonial home-making legacies in South Australia. Thesis. University of South Australia.
- Waters, Sera. 2020. Crafty prepping. Artlink, Vol. 40, No. 1, Mar 2020: 20-27.
About Waters
- Adams, Jude. Three artists - in the world: Anne Kay, Irmina van Niele, Sera Waters. Artlink, Vol. 29, No. 2, Jun 2009: 89.
- Clarke, K. 2016. Willful knitting? Contemporary Australian craftivism and feminist histories. Continuum, 30(3), 298-306.
- Coleman, Sheridan. Dark Portals: Sera Waters. Art Monthly Australia, no.264, Oct 2013: 39-42.
- Hart, Sheridan. 2018. Sera Waters unpicks the long stitches of Australian history. Art Guide Australia.
- Kelly, Miriam. 2017. Sera Waters: Domestic arts. Artlink, 37(4), 48–55.
Exhibition catalogues
- Capone, Jacobus & Thwaites, Vivonne & Garnaut, Christine & Collins, Julie & Fazakerley, Ruth, 1965- et al. (2012). Build me a city : an exploration of the archives of the Architecture Museum, UniSA by seven artists. Architecture Museum and Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, S. Aust.
- Purvis, Andrew. 2020. "Drastic Fabric". Adelaide Central School of Art.
- Waters, Sera, Nowell, Liz, & Kelly, Miriam. 2017. Sera Waters: Domestic arts. ACE Open. Worldcat record
Notes and References
- Web site: AGSA - Online Collection . Art Gallery of South Australia . 2 July 2020 . en.
- Book: Waters . Sera . Invoking disaster: visions of the monstrous and catastrophic in Japanese visual culture from the Edo and postwar periods . 2006 . University of Adelaide . 225036173 . English.
- Web site: Waters . Sera . Genealogical ghostscapes : unsettling settler colonial home-making legacies in South Australia / Sera Waters (Torchio) . University of South Australia . 2 July 2020.
- Web site: Recipients of the Scholarships 2006, Carclew . https://web.archive.org/web/20060919083114/http://www.sayab.org.au/sayab/download/Scholarships_2006.doc . dead . 19 September 2006 . 2 July 2020 . 19 September 2006.
- Web site: Adelaide Central School of Art: Dr. Sera Waters . www.acsa.sa.edu.au.
- Kelly . Miriam . Sera Waters: Domestic Arts . Artlink . 2017 . 37 . 4 . 48-55.
- Web site: Waters . Sera . Knotted Lines: Entangling genealogical methodology with practice-led research . Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools 2015 conference . 2 July 2020.
- Web site: Waters . Sera . Genealogical ghostscapes : unsettling settler colonial home-making legacies in South Australia / Sera Waters (Torchio) . University of South Australia . 2 July 2020.
- Von Mengersen . Belinda . Slipstitch: a survey of contemporary narrative-based stitch and embroidery practices in Australia . Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings . 2 July 2020 . 1 January 2016.
- Adams . Jude . Three artists - in the world: Anne Kay, Irmina van Niele, Sera Waters . Artlink . 2009 . 29 . 2 . 89.
- Web site: Neylon . John . Adelaide exhibition guide: March 2020 . The Adelaide Review . en . 2 March 2020.
- Web site: Waters . Sera . Crafty prepping . Artlink Magazine . 2 July 2020 . en.
- Web site: Kelly . Miriam . Sera Waters: Domestic arts . Artlink Magazine . 2 July 2020 . en.
- Waters . Sera . Repetitive crafting: The shared aesthetic of time in Australian contemporary art. . Craft+ Design Enquiry . 2012 . 4 . 69-87 .
- Web site: Recipients of the Scholarships 2006, Carclew . https://web.archive.org/web/20060919083114/http://www.sayab.org.au/sayab/download/Scholarships_2006.doc . dead . 19 September 2006 . 2 July 2020 . 19 September 2006.
- Web site: Heysen Prize . Hahndorf Academy . 2 July 2020 . en-AU.
- Web site: Achievements and Announcements . w3.unisa.edu.au.
- Web site: Ramsay Art Prize 2019 finalists announced . Art Almanac . 30 April 2019.