BLINDSIDE

🙌 BLINDSIDE 2026 PROGRAMMING 🙌 Our programming is going to look a little different in the next year! Instead of our usual annual Open Call, we will do a series of smaller Call Outs for specific programs, exhibitions, and projects that will take place throughout 2026. This will allow us to work with like-minded partner organisations and widen the groups of artists that we can connect with - across and beyond the arts sector. Blindside is first and foremost an organisation that encourages the creative futures of our artists, and we want to do so for many years to come 💗 Thank you to everyone who has been a part of the Blindside community over the years – we couldn’t do it without you! ✨Keep en eye out for upcoming information about our new studio residency program, our annual BSIDE fundraiser and more iver the next month ✨

Scoring 29 APR - 30 MAY 2026 Scoring is a collaboration between Composite and Blindside that explores the expanded field of cinematic sound, traversing diverse approaches to composition, voice, and sonic world-building. From the infrastructural and communicative logics of radio to embodied and ritualistic sound practices, Scoring positions listening as a site of encounter, where meaning emerges through resonance, duration, and attention. Closing Event: Saturday, 30 May, 3-6 pm Artist talk + performance @maf.zhf @timecrisis_ii @lucrecciaquintanilla @pratyay_90 @miacerasalsjo wukirsuryadi @infojewels Curated by Channon Goodwin & Ming Liew Image Credit: Lucreccia Quintanilla, Thresholds, 2025, installation view, Bureaucracy of Feelings, Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, 2025, speaker, sound, image courtesy and © the artist, photograph: Christian Capurro.

Final week of our April Exhibition

I’m not a spiritual person 8-24 APR 2026 Opening from the work of artists who are part of the Blindside collective to incite collaborative actions, I’m not a spiritual person recognises artist-led spirit as a drawing together.
 @_boggymarsh @___borboleta @yongpingren @martinacopley @shannonmaypowell @hantocanto @geoffrobinsonprojects @scarrboroughaffair @ben.jamin.woods @kkksssttt @fiona.e.m @siying_z @ellenygson @jesse_deng48 @genevievepiko @ellasimpsonartist @1barcodepeople1 @mingliew_art @ardootwo @6isme 

Curated by Martina Copley
Images courtesy of Sebastian Kainey @sebastiankainey

✨Queer Theory Reading Group ✨ Come along for the next reading of queer theory on at Blindside Gallery! This month we’re joined by Benjamin Woods (@ben.jamin.woods , he/they), an artist and researcher living in Naarm on unceded Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country. Woods’ sculpture and sound performance-installation practice mutates and develops in the context of specific place-based research projects. We’ll be reading ‘On Touching’ (2012) by Karen Barad. Come contribute to the discussions of poetics at play in the current BLINDSIDE show ‘I’m not a spiritual person’ via the queer reading of feminist science studies that Barad theorises and imagines. To touch and be-touched is (always already) occurring and yet eludes measurement, giving way to a straying ‘from all calculable paths.’
 📅 23 / 04 / 2026, ⏰ 6:30 - 8:00 PM, 📍 Blindside Gallery, 54 Errol St, North Melbourne VIC 3070 💡 All welcome. Welcome participants to bring a tactile object as a point of discussion. 🔗 Register via link in bio 💕 Photo by Benjamin Woods, drawings by Karen Barad during Masterclass 2018

This April, an exhibition built on invitation I’m not a spiritual person 8-24 APR 2026 Opening from the work of artists who are part of the Blindside collective to incite collaborative actions, I’m not a spiritual person recognises artist-led spirit as a drawing together. 🌙Opening Night Thursday 9 April, 6-8pm @_boggymarsh @___borboleta @yongpingren @martinacopley @shannonmaypowell @hantocanto @geoffrobinsonprojects @scarrboroughaffair @ben.jamin.woods @kkksssttt @fiona.e.m @siying_z @ellenygson @jesse_deng48 @genevievepiko @ellasimpsonartist @1barcodepeople1 @mingliew_art @ardootwo @6isme ^Martina Copley, 2974, 2025. Courtesy the artist. ^Genevieve Pikó, The Foundation Is Moving, 2024. A3 digital collage. Courtesy the artist. ⛳️Link in bio

Closing Event: A Library of Libraries 📘 We’re excited to bring together a final day of workshops, talks, live archiving, and drinks to mark the close of the exhibition. 
Swipe for the closing day program and see the full schedule on the Blindside website.

@fragment31 
@changecommons @nonalignedbooks 
@noreply_collective 
Curated by @grey.dear

Events This Week: A Library of Libraries📘
Week Two of our gallery activation continues.
 Join us for another series of readings, workshops, and events happening across the space. 
 Swipe for our weekday program, and stay tuned for closing event details. See the full schedule on the Blindside website. @silentarmyprojects 
@fragment31 
@elena.inkwell 
@zoe.bastin @melbartlibrary 
@molstar_roxy101 Curated by @grey.dear Book here for Reparative Reading _ workshop: 
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📣Now Live: ARIXCHANGE 2.0 Launching digital works from Amy Baillie and Isabella Rose Cort. ARIXCHANGE is an ongoing collaborative exchange series between artist-run initiatives Blindside (Narrm/Melbourne) and Sawtooth (Lutruwita/Tasmania). Presented this year as a digital residency, ARIXCHANGE 2.0 brings together two recent graduates, Isabella Rose Cort (Narrm/Melbourne) and Amy Baillie (Lutruwita/Tasmania), for a digital presentation of their work As part of the residency, Amy Baillie and Isabella Rose Cort virtually connected in a series of development sessions with mentors from Sawtooth and Blindside, finding creative ways to reimagine their performance-driven practices for a digital context. Check out our ARIXCHANGE website for digital screenings of their works. Links in bio and Blindside’s website. @isabellaroseartist @sawtoothari

This Saturday’s Events: A Library of Libraries📘 
Join us for a series of readings, workshops, and events taking place across the space. Swipe for details of Saturday’s events and stay tuned for next week’s program 👀 
 See the full schedule on the Blindside website. Events by: @lea.kylie.rose @estheranatolitis Gabrielle Tejada Curated by: @grey.dear Image credit: Process materials for novel Everything Before Gaia, documentation image by Elena Hogan, courtesy of the artist. @elena.inkwell

Events This Week: A Library of Libraries📘
Week One of our gallery activation kicks off this week. 
Join us for a series of readings, workshops, and events taking place across the space. Swipe for our weekday program, and stay tuned for this weekend’s events!
 See the full schedule on the Blindside website. @roundtablereadings @silentarmyprojects 
@fragment31 

Book here for Reparative Reading _ workshop: 
/fragment31/reparativereading Image credit: Frosty silence without colour, by Molly Stephenson, 2021, oil, acrylic, pencil and varnish on canvas, framed in Tasmanian oak, 128 x 102.3 x 3.5cm.

ARIXCHANGE 2.0 is a collaboration between Blindside and Sawtooth, bringing together two recent graduates for a digital presentation of their work. Presented as a digital residency, this iteration features Isabella Rose Cort (Narrm/Melbourne) and Amy Baillie (Lutruwita/Tasmania). _____ Isabella Rose Cort @isabellaroseartist is a neuro/queer interdisciplinary artist working across performance, choreography and visual art. After early training in classical ballet in Australia and the UK, she transitioned to contemporary art following injury. Isabella later transitioned into visual arts, studying at Queensland University of Technology where she received multiple Executive Dean’s Commendations and the 2024 Hilde Chenhall Memorial Scholarship. She recently completed a choreographic residency with Phluxus2 Dance Collective (IndepenDance 2024) and was selected for Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025 at PICA, Perth. In 2025, she graduated from RMIT with First Class Honours and received the Varney Foundation Prize. Photo credit: Peter Cabral _____ Amy Baillie is an emerging artist currently studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts - majoring in Sculpture & Time-based Media at the University of Tasmania. Amy’s practice traverses disciplines of performance art, dance, participatory performances and sculpture. World-building and space making, Amy is passionate about creating environments transporting audiences elsewhere. She thrives off of collaboration and connection, constantly seeking out opportunities to create and work with others. Being a member of Launceston’s Youth Dance Company Stompin since 2020, Amy has performed in Junction Arts Festival, MONA FOMA and Ten Days on the Island. Choreographing works such as ‘Into the void’ 2023, in Stompin’s Youth Choreographic Project and interning in Stompin’s major project ‘Ground Beneath, Ocean Between’ 2024. Alongside her artistic practice Amy is the 2024/25 Director of The Creative Pod, UTAS’ art society, and works at Design Tasmania. Amy hopes to create a safe, inclusive and expressive space for all as she continues to work, dance and create on palawa country. Photo credit: Stevie’s Camerawork

We’re excited to present two performances for tonight’s opening of A Library of Libraries. Join us for performances by Charlie Lee and Amelia Watson, alongside INDEX-SYSTEM by Esther Anatolitis. 📚 A Library of Libraries Opening Event: 12 March 2026, 6–8pm 📍 Blindside Gallery 54 Errol St, North Melbourne VIC 3051