BLINDSIDE in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Art gallery

BLINDSIDE

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9650 0093

Address: Nicholas Building, Level 7, Room 14, 37 Swanston Street 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.blindside.org.au

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24.01.2022 SATELLITE | the place one lives., 1 August - 30 October 2020 For the place one lives., four artists were invited to submit work relating to notions of home. The resulting works by Miko Revereza, Leyla Stevens, Talia Smith and Amrita Hepi consider what constitutes home through different guises - meditating on the malleability of home through gesture, image, memory, the body, story and site. That which constitutes home can adapt and evolve over time. What remains constant for c...reative practitioners is that art has the ability to act as a home a place one can always return. Curated by Josephine Mead Accompanying text by Anabelle Lacroix Head to our website to watch each of these moving image works in full > https://www.blindside.org.au/play Image stills from Amrita Hepi, Precedent piece video, 0:57min. This work was commissioned by Kaldor Public Art Projects. Amrita Hepi (b. 1989, Townsville of Bundjulung/Ngapuhi territories) is an artist working with dance and choreography through video, the social function of performance spaces, installation and objects. Utilising hybridity and the extension of choreographic or performative practices, Hepi creates work that considers the body’s relationship to personal histories and the archive. #BlindsideARI #Satellite

21.01.2022 SONIC.LAND LISTEN ONLINE NOW SONIC.LAND shares new artwork by Rachel Shearer, Clinton Watkins, Edwina Stevens and Reuben Derrick, four artists from Aotearoa New Zealand who work with environmental sound. Curator: Sam Longmore... This is a project which rejects staid models for environmental listening and recording in favour of pluralistic, subjective encounters. Attendance, spontaneity, reflection and deep engagement with the environment are presented and celebrated as ends in themselves, as well as modalities for developing meaning and understanding in relation to the world around us. Through a presentation of sonic artworks and a series of long-from interviews between the artists and curator, sonic.land explores the individual strategies and thought processes of leading NZ sound artists as they relate to environmental recording and associated practices in Aotearoa New Zealand. Link in bio This project was conceived in 2019 and was intended to feature as part of the 2020 exhibition programme at BLINDSIDE, Naarm Melbourne. It has been developed as an online project with support from the Audio Foundation, Tmaki Makaurau Auckland, whose International Presentations programme is generously support by Creative New Zealand. Image Edwina Stevens, Sonic.Land, 2020. Courtesy the artist. #BlindsideARI #SonicLand #CreativeNZ

21.01.2022 ISOLATION RESIDENCY - Notation 3 - Simone Nelson 10 - 27 June 2020 Simone Nelson's isolation residency was book-ended by two online publications; Notation 3 Open Studio and Isolation Residency.... Simone Nelson's second publication Notation 3 - Isolation Residency is now online. https://www.blindside.org.au/notation-3 "The exhibition became a residency. The gallery became a studio. The studio became a room. The product became a process." - excerpt from Notation 3 Isolation Residency Image: Simon Nelson, corner section 1, 2020, photo collage. #BlindsideARI #IsolationResidency #SimoneNelson

21.01.2022 ISOLATION RESIDENCY: IVEY WAWN 2 - 19 September 2020 Video courtesy of the artist... #BlindsideARI #IveyWawn

19.01.2022 CURHAT PAGI / MORNING CONFESSION by Badra Aji 23 September - 10 October Online now! ... Curhat Pagi / Morning Confession took inspiration from a popular television show in Indonesia, where live viewers are allowed to seek guidance from popular Islamic clerics. In turn, they will answer the questions with life advice based on the Quran and Hadith. In his new video work, Indonesian-born artist Badra Aji presented a question about love, intimacy, and a ghost of an ex-lover. Through the interlacing of banal imagery and poetic narrative, Curhat Pagi offers a heartfelt commentary on the changing attitude towards the LGBTQIA+ community in an increasingly conservative country. Indonesian-born artist Badra Aji left his homeland in his teenage years and has lived and worked in Melbourne ever since. Graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2016, he received the Majlis Traveling Scholarship and has exhibited in First Site Gallery, George Paton Gallery, Red Gallery, and TCB Art Inc. He was nominated as a finalist of the Paul Guest Drawing Prize as well as of the prestigious Dobell Drawing Prize in 2019. His work sits between the poetic and absurd and aims to investigate the notion of normalcy in Western culture from an Eastern point of view. Throughout his practice he works with photo-media, text, video, printmaking and drawing. There is no hierarchy in his mediums. Materiality however is chosen for its distinct qualities. IMAGE: Badra Aji, Curhat Pagi / Morning Confession, 2020, HD video, 7:43min. Courtesy the artist. #BlindsideARI #OnlineNow #BadraAji

19.01.2022 BSIDE: THANK YOU! BLINDSIDE Board and staff were overwhelmed by the generosity of everyone who made this year’s BSIDE fundraiser a success. Thank you to everyone who purchased an artwork, a puzzle or made a donation. Your support goes directly towards supporting artists and making BLINDSIDE a free exhibition space for the first time in 2021 and beyond. There are a few puzzles left, jump on our website and get yours now ... A massive thank you to all artists who generously donated a work to the fundraiser. Thanks to Creative Partnerships Australia Plus1, every dollar will be matched up to $5000. #BSIDE #BlindsideARI #fundraiser #SupportUs #SupportLocal #CreativePartnershipsAustralia #Plus1

19.01.2022 sonic.land online 2 - 19 Sep 2020 Curator | Sam Longmore sonic.land shares new artwork by Rachel Shearer, Clinton Watkins, Edwina Stevens and Reuben Derrick, four artists from Aotearoa New Zealand who work with environmental sound.... Through a presentation of sonic artworks and a series of long-from interviews between the artists and curator, sonic.land explores the individual strategies and thought processes of leading NZ sound artists as they relate to environmental recording and associated practices in Aotearoa New Zealand. https://www.blindside.org.au/sonicland This is a project which rejects staid models for environmental listening and recording in favour of pluralistic, subjective encounters. Attendance, spontaneity, reflection and deep engagement with the environment are presented and celebrated as ends in themselves, as well as modalities for developing meaning and understanding in relation to the world around us. This project was conceived in 2019 and was intended to feature as part of the 2020 exhibition programme at BLINDSIDE, Naarm Melbourne. It has been developed as an online project with support from the Audio Foundation, Tmaki Makaurau Auckland, whose International Presentations programme is generously support by Creative New Zealand. #BlindsideARI #SonicLand #CreativeNZ #AudioFoundation

18.01.2022 SATELLITE: the place one lives., 1 August - 30 October 2020 Miko Revereza Talia Smith... Leyla Stevens Amrita Hepi These four artists were invited to submit work relating to notions of home. The resulting works consider what constitutes home through different guises - meditating on the malleability of home through gesture, image, memory, the body, story and site. That which constitutes home can adapt and evolve over time. What remains constant for creative practitioners is that art has the ability to act as a home a place one can always return. Curated by Josephine Mead Accompanying text by Anabelle Lacroix Head to our website to watch each of these moving image works in full > https://www.blindside.org.au/satellite IMAGE still from Leyla Stevens Scenes for solace HD video, stereo sound, 8.28min. This work was commissioned by Prototype. #BlindsideARI #Satellite

14.01.2022 ONLINE NOW 23 September - 10 October BLINDSIDE has three new moving image projects, now available to view on our website. VALLEY OF LAGUZ... Valley of Laguz is Melbourne based artist Jesse Boyd Reid personal exploration of place. This video work explores a bend in a creek that is held sacred in his family mythology. Whilst under COVID-19 lockdown the artist’s family re-stage historical family experiences exploring ritual, belonging and ceremony. CURHAT PAGI / MORNING CONFESSION Curhat Pagi / Morning Confession took inspiration from a popular television show in Indonesia, where live viewers are allowed to seek guidance from popular Islamic clerics. In turn, they will answer the questions with life advice based on the Quran and Hadith. In his new video work, Indonesian-born artist Badra Aji presented a question about love, intimacy, and a ghost of an ex-lover. Through the interlacing of banal imagery and poetic narrative, Curhat Pagi offers a heartfelt commentary on the changing attitude towards the LGBTQIA+ community in an increasingly conservative country. KICKING THE BUCKET Kicking the Bucket by artist Sarah Rudledge is a daily ritual of kicking and repairing a plastic bucket that began in my backyard during the early stages of COVID-19 lockdowns. Initially based on feelings of hopelessness, the work explores tactics for a repeated movement; a heartfelt kick followed by a gentle repair, to sustain some enthusiasm and care for life during this time. By mediating this arguable pointless gesture through text, sound and video an approximate, possibly unreliable, process of archiving the day’s action is attempted. IMAGES 1. Jesse Boyd-Reid, Valley of Laguz, 2020, details, stills from HD video, 12:15min. 2. Badra Aji, Curhat Pagi / Morning Confession, 2020, HD video, 7:43min. 3.Sarah Rudledge, Kicking the bucket, Day 8. 2020, video still. #BlindsideARI #OnlineNow #JesseBoydReid #BadraAji #SarahRudledge

13.01.2022 ISOLATION RESIDENCY: Anna Dunnill Anna is continuing to process an invasive plant called moth vine into fibre (see previous post). While some of the fibres are long and fine, and can be spun together with no further preparation, others are... short and fluffythis is called ‘tow’. The tow is prepared with carding combs, a process that cleans the fibres and aligns them. They are then rolled into fluffy sausages called ‘rolags’ ready for spinning on thewheel. #BlindsideARI #AnnaDunnill

13.01.2022 KICKING THE BUCKET by Sarah Rutledge 23 September - 10 October Kicking the Bucket is a daily ritual of kicking and repairing a plastic bucket that began in my backyard during the early stages of COVID-19 lockdowns. Initially based on feelings of hopelessness, the work explores tactics for a repeated movement; a heartfelt kick followed by a gentle repair, to sustain some enthusiasm and care for life during this time.... By mediating this arguable pointless gesture through text, sound and video an approximate, possibly unreliable, process of archiving the day’s action is attempted. See more: https://www.kickthebucket.work/ IMAGES 1-4. Sarah Rudledge, Kicking the Bucket, Day 74; Day 72; Day 103 and Day 32, 2020, video still. #BlindsideARI #OnlineNow #SarahRudledge

11.01.2022 Weekend reading, check out Bianca Winataputri's Memo Review of Tertulia recent exhibition at BLINDSIDE, curated by Claudia Hogan and Carla Serrano. Read here - https://memoreview.net//tertulia-at-blindside-by-bianca-wi Tertulia is viewable through virtual tour - https://claudia-hogan-x5d4.squarespace.com/tertulia-welcome... Artists - Julia Barco, Ximena Cuevas, Nasim Nasr, Yandell Walton, Dalia Huerta and Ivan Puig. Tertulia is accompanied by commissioned texts responding to the works by Alejandro Del Castillo, Gabriella Muñoz, Gonzalo Varela, Makayla-May Brinckley, Sara El Sayed, Scarlett Evans and Rebecca Perich. Photos: Nick James Archer #Tertulia #BlindsideARI

08.01.2022 Platform Arts is offering a total of $20,000 to support creatives through Platform LAB, a new residency and development program for artists of all disciplines, including performancemakers, visual artists, sound/lighting designers, writers, game designers and evenmetalsmiths. Successful applicants will receive a six-month residency with studio or rehearsal space, $5000 cash and ongoing support from industry professionals.... Applications close TOMORROW Friday AUG 28. Visit the Platform Arts website for more information: www.platformarts.org.au/lab #PlatformArts #PlatformLAB #emergingartists #creativespaces #regionalarts #geelong

06.01.2022 BSIDE ARTIST : LACHLAN STONEHOUSE Over 10 days we will be featuring works by 10 artists who have generously donated to our BSIDE fundraiser. *please note, this work has sold. ... Keep an eye on our stories too, as we will be posting 10 artworks a day, over 10 days - that's 100 artists!! Help us reach our 2020 fundraising target of $5000 acquire an artwork, invest in the next generation of contemporary artists, writers and curators and your support of BLINDSIDE will be doubled, thanks to Creative Partnerships Australia Plus1. #BSIDE #BlindsideARI #fundraiser #SupportUs #SupportLocal #Plus1

06.01.2022 TRACTION: ACCUMULATE * Speakers I Justin Ashworth, Chantelle Mitchell, Anita Spooner Convener I Josephine Mead... TRACTION is a four-part discussion series that will examine ideas of modification and renewal within creative practice, the needs for upholding artist’s rights, the power of mature knowledge, and new modes of education and exchange. Under the umbrella title of TRACTION, BLINDSIDE will present four artist-focused professional development online presentations: PIVOT, ACCUMULATE, GAIN and PRIME. ACCUMULATE is a discussion around free / accessible new models of learning and sharing in the arts. #BlindsideARI #Traction #Accumulate

04.01.2022 APPLY NOW BLINDSIDE SUMMER STUDIO RESIDENCY PROGRAM BLINDSIDE invites applications to the 2020 2021 SUMMER STUDIO Residency Program from artists graduating from a Bachelor, Honours or Masters program in 2020 and who wish to maintain momentum and continue their research or practice based projects over Summer. Applications close midnight Tuesday 27 October 2020.... Since 2011, BLINDSIDE’s Summer Studio Residency Program has transformed the gallery space into a studio residency, culminating in a studio exhibition. Supporting the practice of two artists in gallery spaces 1 and 2 (or a duo working across both gallery spaces), the Summer Studio Residency Program provides a unique platform for the examination of practice and work within a combined studio and exhibition context. BLINDSIDE welcomes applications from people who wish to work independently and encourages applications that seek to approach the gallery space as a testing site for ideas and working space. The residency concludes with a studio exhibition to kick off our 2021 program. This showing may be approached as a presentation of residency findings or works in progress rather than as a fully resolved exhibition. City of Melbourne and BLINDSIDE are delighted to support artists in the development and exhibition of new work.

03.01.2022 Testing Grounds: Creative Development Program Testing Grounds are now accepting EOIs for our Creative Development Program. The program will begin in November 2020 and run through to the end of January 2021. Applications are due September 30, 2020.... Testing Grounds is seeking EOIs from creative practitioners who want support developing a creative project. The application process is as simple as submitting an EOI online telling us what you want to develop and we will see if we can help. As we are all working in and around COVID-19 this program is designed to be flexible and malleable to the needs of the individual practitioner. More info at http://www.testing-grounds.com.au/creative-development/ Image: Geoffrey Watson on-site at Midsumma Festival in 2017 #TestingGrounds #CreativeDevelopmentProgram

03.01.2022 << LAST DAY >> BSIDE ARTIST : SETH BIRCHALL Over 10 days we will be featuring works by 10 artists who have generously donated to our BSIDE fundraiser. ... This work is available for purchase on our website, for $1000. Keep an eye on our stories too, as we will be posting 10 artworks a day, over 10 days - that's 100 artists!! Help us reach our 2020 fundraising target of $5000 acquire an artwork, invest in the next generation of contemporary artists, writers and curators and your support of BLINDSIDE will be doubled, thanks to Creative Partnerships Australia Plus1. #BSIDE #BlindsideARI #fundraiser #SupportUs #SupportLocal #Plus1

02.01.2022 ISOLATION RESIDENCY | Anna Dunnill at home 12 - 28 August 2020 Anna has collected this soft hair-like fibre from a weed called moth vine (Araujia sericifera), from around Coburg. ... Moth vine has many names: moth plant, cruel vine, false choko, milkweed, kapok. It strangles trees and swarms over fences, its bulbous seedpods making it instantly recognisable. I’ve discovered that moth vine can be dried, retted (slightly rotted), split and scraped to access long strong fibres within the stems. It’s similar to the way linen fibre is made from flax, but using this weedthis invader no-one wants in their garden; that grows anyway. Packed inside each green pod are hundreds of seeds, each attached to a silky fibre parachute. While this is too short and brittle to make thread, the similar fibres from milkweed seeds (a related family) can be used for quilt batting and to fill life jackets! So many plants have properties we know nothing about. With this project Anna is getting to know some of them. Swipe to see snapshots of the process in reverse; from fibre back to growing plant. Images courtesy of the artist #IsolationResidency #BlindsideARI #AnnaDunnill

02.01.2022 ISOLATION RESIDENCY: IVEY WAWN 2 - 19 September 2020 'My practice revolves around the work that is necessary for each project that I embark on. It involves reading, speaking with friends and collaborators, moving in ways that are related to some of the ideas that I am concerned with at the time, and reading more, or writing, or drawing blueprints and maps to understand how the ideas are interrelated. It is inherently social, whether that is a sociality enacted between live bo...dies in physical space, or enacted with imagined bodies, or non-human bodies, or memories. It is a dance practice, and whilst sometimes not much dancing happens, it is always there as an intention, and sometimes, to me, that feels like what matters most.' IMAGE IVEY WAWN Photograph Matthew Syres | Courtesy the artist.

01.01.2022 APPLY NOW Applications are now open to exhibit in the 2021 June - December Exhibition Program. BLINDSIDE welcomes proposals from emerging, mid-career and established artists, curators, collectives or collaborators to present solo or group exhibitions, as well as events, performances, screenings and ephemeral projects.... NO GALLERY FEES! + Artist fee of $400 per space, or $800 if successful in a project proposal across both spaces. #BLINDSIDEARI #APPLY

01.01.2022 Isolation Residency: Yusi Zang 23 September 10 October The residency project will employ painting, sculpture and a hidden attempt to embrace the outside environment by fixing the images of memory inside of Yusi's shoe box apartment, in this time of lockdown.... Yusi Zang is a Beijing born multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Melbourne. Her practice entails the scrutiny of the quotidian and mundane, and strives for a degree of realism. #IsolationResidency #YusiZang