The Last Tide Waiter

The Last Tide Waiter

The Last Tide Waiter


Adelaide Central Gallery

We are now showing Dr Sue Kneebone’s solo exhibition The Last Tide Waiter, open Monday – Friday 9am-5pm until Friday 5 September.

Opening to coincide with the 2025 SALA Publication, Sue Kneebone’s ambitious new exhibition The Last Tide Waiter is the culmination of years of historical research and artistic creation. Exploring the life and circumstances of a 19th century ancestor working as a tide waiter on the remote island of Mauritius, Sue Kneebone reimagines a warehouse of forgotten goods and strange regalia reflecting the social and environmental repercussions of imperial conflict, commerce and trade as an unending current circulating across the oceans into the present.

Sue Kneebone is the 2025 SALA Feature Artist, and the subject of the forthcoming Wakefield Press monograph, to be launched in August by SALA Festival.

Exhibition dates: Tuesday 29 July – Friday 5 September

Photos by Sam Roberts


Photo by Rosina Possingham.

Location

Adelaide Central School of Art

Exhibition dates

Tuesday 29 July - Friday 5 September

We acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of country throughout Australia and acknowledge their continuing connection to land, water and community.

We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the elders past, present and emerging.