Sera Waters
photo: Sia Duff, courtesy of Guildhouse
Dr. Sera Waters is an artist and writer living upon Kaurna Country, South Australia. Her research, writing, embroideries, and hand-crafted sculptures dwell within historical gaps to examine settler colonial home-making patterns and repetitive practices. In 2019 she was awarded her PhD from the University of South Australia which examined her own ‘genealogical ghostscapes’. Her solo exhibition ‘Domestic Arts’, which toured regional South Australia with Country Arts SA from late 2020, was the result of both being recipient of the 2017 inaugural ACE Open South Australian artist commission and this research into local and homely hauntology. Waters has lectured at Adelaide Central School of Art since 2009, and contributes local, national and international publications. Recently her chapter ‘A Care-full Re-Membering of Australian Settler Colonial Homemaking Traditions’ was published in Feminist Visual Activism and the Body, edited by Basia Sliwinska (Routledge Press). In 2018 she co-wrote the SALA monograph on Clare Belfrage with Emeritus Professor Kay Lawrence. Waters exhibits across Australia and is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery.
Sera Waters writes about Henry Jock Walker in Neoteric 2022.