Transitioning Practice with Bianca Hoffrichter and Sera Waters
Description
Join contemporary artists Bianca Hoffrichter and Sera Waters as they share learnings and advice gained from their Guildhouse Catapult + City of Port Adelaide Enfield Mentorship.
Wednesday 14 October 2026
10am–12pm
Post Office Projects, 175 St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide 5015
In this session, Bianca and Sera will share practical advice for other emerging artists interested in applying for future mentorship programs, and general professional development guidance for artists at later stages of their emerging practice seeking to transition towards more established mid-career practice.
The workshop will include time for questions, a short time for practical note taking/prompted response writing for attendees to reflect on during the session and will conclude with the opportunity for relaxed networking between attendees.
Catapult + City of Port Adelaide Enfield Mentorship is presented by Guildhouse in partnership with the City of Port Adelaide Enfield.
Lineup
Bianca Hoffrichter
Bianca Hoffrichter is an Australian contemporary artist based on Kaurna Country (South Australia) whose practice explores ‘place’, identity, viewership and ethics through installation, cross-disciplinary media and interdisciplinary collaboration. As an Honours graduate of Contemporary Art at the University of South Australia, she has undertaken significant practice-led research centring around ethical exchange in arts practice and continues to deeply engage with ongoing research-based projects focused on critical socio-environmental issues. Hoffrichter situates her practice within discourses of decolonisation, feminist critique, and environmental ethics, informed by writers such as Sara Ahmed, Susan Sontag, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith. She works across innovative technology and found objects to create immersive participatory works, inviting audiences to slow down, attend, and reorient - to reconsider what is within reach, what is excluded, and how our ways of seeing shape the worlds we collectively create.
Sera Waters
Sera Waters is an artist living on Kaurna Country, South Australia. Hand embroidery has been central to Waters’s art practice since receiving a Ruth Tuck Scholarship to attend the Royal School of Needlework (UK) in 2006. Her practice employs the material intimacy and intergenerational knowledge of hand embroidery to examine ongoing legacies of settler-colonial homemaking, specifically through domestic textiles, hand-craft traditions, and familial patterns. This was the focus of her PhD, ‘Genealogical Ghostscapes’, completed in 2018, University of South Australia, supervised by Emeritus Professor Kay Lawrence. In 2022 Waters was selected for the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State at Art Gallery of South Australia. Her series, Storied Sail Cloths, travelled to the Busan Biennale 2022: We, on the Rising Wave, South Korea. Major exhibitions include Future Traditions (2022) and Radical Textiles (2025) at Art Gallery of South Australia, Eucalyptusdom, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (2021) and Poetics of Place II curated by Melinda Young at ATTA Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (2025). Waters’s works are held by the Australian War Memorial, Cruthers collection of Women’s art, Ararat Regional Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, Artbank, Powerhouse and private collections across Australia. She is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery, Australia.
Access
POP Studios Workshop Space - door entrance at the right of Post Office Projects main gallery entrance - accessible ramp available. Desk and chairs provided, and accessible toilets are on site. Short term free and paid car parking locally.
Permissions
Photography:
Photographs and/or video may be taken at this event. By taking part in this event, you grant the event organisers full rights to use the images resulting from photography/video filming, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images, for fundraising, publicity, or other purposes to help achieve the group’s aims. This might include (but is not limited to) the right to use them in their printed and online publicity, on social media, in press releases, and in funding applications.
If you do not wish to be photographed, please inform the photographer or a Guildhouse staff member.
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