BIOGRAPHY
SERA WATERS
1979 Born Murray Bridge, South Australia
Lives Adelaide, South Australia
EDUCATION
2006 Royal School of Needlework, Surrey, United Kingdom, Summer School courses
2003-2006 Adelaide University, Art History Department, Masters of Arts in Art History
2000 University of South Australia, South Australian School of Art, Honours Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class)
1997-1999 University of South Australia, South Australian School of Art, Bachelor of Visual Arts
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010
Flyblown, FELTspace, Adelaide, SA (August 2010)
Arts SA, emerging curator’s exhibition (Brigid Noone), Adelaide, SA
ArtWest, Phat on Hindley Street, Adelaide, SA
Consumed, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Little Weeds, online (littleweeds.conservatory.org.au) + Peel Street exhibition space (with Format Festival) + Seedling Art Space, curated by Lisa Harms, Adelaide, SA
Hedgemaze, Prospect Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2009
Nell Pearson, Sera Waters, Claude Jones & Beci Orpin, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Just Is, Max Dawn Gallery, curated by Bev Southcott, Adelaide, SA
Craft’n Disaster, The Project Space, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide SA
Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, Wangaratta Exhibition Gallery, Vic Talente 2009, International Trade Fair, Munich, Germany
artroom5, Adelaide, SA
Revealing Meaning in Cloth, curated by Annabelle Collette + Craftsouth, Prospect Gallery, SA
2008
artroom5, Adelaide, SA
2007
Spirited Away, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Quiet Hands, Gaff Gallery, curated by Rayleen Forrester, Port Adelaide, SA Hedgemaze, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2006
Crooks & Nannies, downtown art space, Adelaide, SA
2001
Hatched, National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, WA
SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS
2010 Arts SA, Project Assistance Grant
2005 Ruth Tuck Scholarship, South Australian Youth Arts Board, for Royal
School of Needlework courses, Surrey, UK
2002 Artists-in-studios, South Australian Youth Arts Board, Adelaide, SA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Adams, Jude, 'Three Artists- in the world: Anne Kay, Irmina Van Niele, Sera Waters', Artlink, vol 29, no 2, 2009 (http://www.artlink.com.au/articles/3259/artroom5/)
Bull, Chris, ‘Local ‘Talente’ exhibits work in Munich’, Helpmann Academy Update, Mar 2009, p. 8.
Clifton, Catherine, ‘All Stitched up’, Adelaide Matters, issue 107, February 2009, pp. 28-29.
Dunt, Nerina, ‘Craft’n Disaster: Sera Waters’, Object, issue 59, October 2009, p. 58.
Harris, Samela, 'Huge Appetite for Arts', Adelaide Advertiser, 21 April 2010
Hart, Jenny, ‘Sera Waters’, Embroidery as Art blog, Jan 12, 2010 (http://embroideryasart.blogspot.com/2010/01/sera-waters.html)
Hemmings, Dr Jessica, ‘The Dark Side’, embroidery (UK), vol. 60, Sept/Oct 2009, pp. 24-27.
Kemp, Jemima, ‘During the South Australian Living Artists Festival’, Point Blank, Point 3, 09/08.
Radok, Stephanie, ‘Filling an extraordinary space’, The Adelaide Review, no 253, Sept 28, 2004, pp 20-21
Zeplin, Dr Pamela, ‘Sera Waters: Crooks & Nannies’, Craft Culture online, Craft Victoria, http://www.craftculture.org/Review/pzeplin1.htm , 2007
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010-current Studio member of The Incinerator, Thebarton, SA
2007-2009 Peer Assessment Panel, Arts SA 2007 Key note speaker, SALA
Festival, Art Gallery of South Australia
2005-current Committee Member on Adelaide Visual Arts Critic Circle, since Nov
2005.
2005-current Lecturing and tutoring in Art History at Art History Department
(Adelaide University), Adelaide Central School of Art and South
Australian School of Art (University of South Australia).
2005-2009 Studio member of Hedgemaze, Port Adelaide
2005 Project Assistant, Tatsuo Miyajima residency, Contemporary Art
Centre of South Australia
2004 – current Arts writer for local and national publications and catalogues
COLLECTIONS
The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, University of Western Australia
Private Collections, South Australia and New South Wales, Australia
Short Biography
Sera Waters is an Adelaide-based practicing artist and arts writer whose work is often imbued with dark meticulousness. She has spent time living in Tokyo and is a graduate of the Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), South Australian School of Art, (1997-2000) and the Master of Arts (studies in Art History), Adelaide University (2003-2006). She has been exhibiting regularly since graduating and being selected for Hatched, the National Graduate Exhibition at PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Art) in 2001. In 2006, Waters was awarded the Ruth Tuck Scholarship, which enabled her to attend the Royal School of Needlework (Hampton Court Palace, Surrey, UK) to study hand embroidery. This experience is clearly evident in Waters’ practice, which regularly explores and challenges stitched techniques. In 2009 three of Waters’ blackworks, from her Crooked Lineage explorations of petty crime, were selected to be exhibited in Talente, in the International Trade Fair, Munich. Waters is a current studio member of The Incinerator, Thebarton, and lectures and tutors in art history and theory, at Adelaide Central School of Art and the Art History program, Adelaide University, respectively.