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]
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. 2018. Genealogical ghostscapes : unsettling settler colonial home-making legacies in South Australia.
Thesis. University of South Australia.
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]
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. 2018. Genealogical ghostscapes : unsettling settler colonial home-making legacies in South Australia.
Thesis. University of South Australia.