Blak Dot Gallery

Forthcoming exhibition! - Presented in partnership with @blakdotgallery , @ccp_australia is delighted to announce our next exhibition! - ‘We Built a House Out of Water’ by Peta Duncan is a deeply personal body of work that draws on memory, family, and culture – while understanding healing as an ongoing process. @p333ta Featured in this exhibition are multiple works that explore catharsis and expression through photography, stop-motion animation and alternative printing techniques. Developed at the intersection of religion and culture; these works address the conflicting relationship of two complex belief systems and how they both simultaneously impact the identity of the Artist, her Family and wider community in Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait). This exhibition is presented in partnership with Blak Dot Gallery, and is supported by Spicers, Hahnemuhle, HCPro and Colour Factory. - Opening event Saturday June 6th 2pm @blakdotgallery , 33 Saxon St, Brunswick @balambalamplace . @hahnemuehle_global @hahnemuehle_imaging @spicersaus @danielabarrth @colour_factory @mgimagery #HCpro Poster design @endform.studio ❤️👏

Thank you to everyone who came today to the opening of We Should Be Seen, We Should Be Heard: The Photography of Aunty Barbara McGrady. It’s an immense privilege to share Aunty Barb’s prolific work with the many mob and communities she has so gracefully walked alongside and captured throughout her journey. We Should Be Seen, We Should Be Heard: The Photography of Aunty Barbara McGrady is now showing until 31 May 2026. Blak Dot Gallery 33 Saxon Street Brunswick VIC 3056 Gallery opening hours: Thursday-Saturday 12-5pm Sunday 12-4pm ✨🖤✨ ~~ We Should Be Seen, We Should Be Heard exhibition is generously supported by the Aboriginal History Archive, Australian Governments’ Australian Research Council and Victoria University’s Institute for Health & Sport. ~~

Please join us for the opening of: We Should Be Seen, We Should Be Heard: The Photography of Aunty Barbara McGrady Opened by: Professor Gary Foley Saturday 9 May, 2pm We Should Be Seen, We Should Be Heard pays homage to the extraordinary life and work of leading Gomeroi/Gamilaraay Murri First Nations photojournalist and photographer, Aunty Barbara McGrady (Aunty Barb). From the moment she was given a camera by her mother in the 1960s, Aunty Barb began documenting the lives of the First Nations communities around her. She soon brought a Blak lens to the pivotal social, political, cultural, and ceremonial events unfolding across her world. The exhibition centres Aunty Barb’s gaze and voice through image, video, and text. Contextualised by reflections from Gumbaynggirr activist and historian Professor Gary Foley and renowned photojournalist Wayne Ludbey, it also considers Aunty Barb’s lifelong connection to sport. Sport has been central not only to her life, but to her broader purpose of representing First Nations people through a Blak lens—on her own terms, and as they ought to be seen. 🔗 bio Exhibition is generously supported by the Aboriginal History Archive, Australian Governments’ Australian Research Council and Victoria University’s Institute for Health & Sport. @wludbey

We are now accepting proposals for our 2027–2028 exhibition program. Got an idea you’ve been wanting to bring to life? A project that needs the right space, support, or community to grow? We’re seeking submissions from First Nations, global Indigenous, and PoC artists, collectives, curators, and emerging curators working across all disciplines. We’re especially interested in group exhibitions and collaborative projects, with funding support available for selected projects aligned with Midsumma, Yirramboi 2027, and Melbourne Fringe. APPLICATION DEADLINE: Sunday 28 June, 11:59pm ARTISTS NOTIFIED: Friday 24 July Come by during gallery hours if you’d like to talk through an idea, we’re always open to a chat. Save the date, get to writing! 🤓 Link in bio for more info and to apply.

On this weekend: In conversation with Lena Becerra, unpacking Xenobotany - and all the spaces in between… Join us! Saturday 25 April @ 2pm 🐛

///\\\///\\\///\\\///\\\/ Join returning artist Lena Becerra for an intimate floor talk inside Xenobotany, exploring the evolving materials and memory-driven processes behind her work. >>>Saturday 25 April, 2pm <<< Hear directly from the artist on the intersections of biology, technology, and lived history - and step into the ideas shaping the exhibition. Ask questions, unpack the work together, and consider your own relationship to the systems and histories she brings into focus. @lena.bcrra Photo credit @galyafeierman

🖤 Volunteers Wanted 🖤 We’re looking for Front of House volunteers (weekends) — and are always keen to connect with folks interested in volunteering more broadly at the gallery. Hold space, welcome audiences, and support upcoming shows + programs, with opportunities to get involved across installs, events and workshops, build your skills and arts community, and much more. 1 x shift per month (Sat or Sun) We’re especially keen to hear from First Nations mob, emerging artists, curators, and community — all welcome. 📅 Apply by Wed 29 April 🔗 Link in bio for more info 📧 [email protected] Exciting times ahead, come join us!✨ Image 1: Emma assisting with food prep at Kulture Kitchen w/ We Eatin Good Image 2: Current intern, Lesley, painting walls during bump in of ‘Xenobotany’ exhibition Image 3: Cody at weaving workshop held by artists of ‘Ganbuy Nanja’ exhibition

Opening this Saturday 11 April, 2pm! 💫 ///\\\///\\\///\\\\ Join us for the opening of Xenobotany, a new body of work by returning artist Lena Becerra, marking a striking evolution in her sculptural practice. Expanding her interest in hybrid material systems, Becerra transforms the gallery into a speculative ecosystem where biology, technology and memory converge. Glass vessels, silicone, steel armatures and circulating liquids form an installation that behaves like a living organism - tubes pulse, fluids move, and forms hover between specimen and anatomy. Drawing on childhood landscapes and family histories, memory emerges as atmosphere, shifting and returning. Step into this uncanny environment and experience a living system in motion. Encounter an immersive installation where vulnerability and precision coexist, and where the boundaries between body, machine and memory dissolve into a quietly charged, sensorial experience. Link in bio for more info. @lena.bcrra

We are pleased to announce our opening show to open our new home, EXCHANGE - ngunggilanha . yunggama . taonga tauhokohoko, has been Short listed for the 2026 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards @pgav_victoria @amaga_victoria in the First Nations Project of the Year.

Congratulations to the artists: Maree Clarke @ree_clarke , Lisa Couzens, Vicki Couzens @vickicouzens , Kirsten Garner Lyttle @kirstlyttle , Brian Martin @brianmartin_artist , Yhonnie Scarce @yhonniescarce , Frances Tapueluelu @frances_tapueluelu , and Wani Toaishara @wanitoaishara and curators Kimba Thompson @sista1 and Catherine Hunt.

A deadly line up of nominees! 

Image: @faz.io

🎥 EOIs are now open for Blak Dot’s 2026 ‘Around the Block’ winter night screening program ~~ Application deadline extended: DUE May 8, 11:59pm ~~ We’re calling out to First Nations artists working in video or moving image to be part of Winter Night Screens, a unique six-week screening series that transforms not only our main glass entrance into a circular portal but also expanding to include the ‘House’ for storytelling and experimentation.
 We are teaming up again with our neighbours and partners @next_wave , Merri-bek Council’s Michelle Guglielmo Park, @counihangallery and the Brunswick Library to create our outdoor screening and walking tours series over six weeks during winter. 
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Applications close Friday 1 May, 2026

Whether you’re crafting something new or adapting a recent work, we’re looking for fresh, daring perspectives: on community, culture, climate, futures, politics …wherever your vision leads. We love to get the fire pit going, let’s light up the block 🔥 
Featured works by April Phillips, photo courtesy of Tom Noble Supported by @artsmerri_bek

Sharing some beautiful moments of last weeks opening of Ara-Thulu (Tree) — the exhibition bringing together Lanjia Saura artists from Odisha, India, with Aboriginal artists and cultural custodians on Boonwurrung, Wurundjeri and Kamilaroi Country. Ara-Thulu (tree) is a collaboration between Indigenous artists of southeast Australia and Odisha, India about the cultural significance of trees. The purpose of Ara-Thulu is to build a deeper understanding of the relationships that Indigenous peoples in Australia and India have to place, Country and in particular trees. ///\\\///\\\///\\\ 

The exhibition will run over two gallery spaces, Blak Dot Gallery and William Mora Galleries @wmoragalleries 
 Link to bio for more info. 
 @brianmartin_artist @srinivasgamango 
@narweet_carolyn 
@deepsg_indespoiled @djirridjirri 
@gamangosubasini 
@santimaraita 
@pujarisantoshini255 
@lesi.raita 
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@prityraita544 @ausindiacentre 
@dfat 
@mada_fine_art 
@centurion.university.official Images: @lurkercody

*Woops, we had our dates mixed up in yesterday’s post! Correct info below* 🤭 ➡️ Next Saturday 28 March from 2pm We’re excited to have artist Brian Martin and project coordinator Deeptimayee Patro sharing a conversation about the cross-cultural exchanges, shared making, and Indigenous knowledges that shaped the ‘Ara-Thulu (Tree)’ project and culminating exhibition. Experience the works in the gallery, then join us for this lively talk which will be followed by a dance performance by Patro - extending the project’s themes through movement, sound, and embodied storytelling. Link in bio for more info. ///\\\///\\\///\\\ This is a free public program event as part of ‘Ara-Thulu (Tree)’ exhibition, showing now until April 5 💚🤎 @brianmartin_artist @deepsg_indespoiled @ausindiacentre Slide images courtesy of Brian Martin