APLLICATIONS NOW OPEN 2025/26
We are excited to announce the gallery will reopen in 2025 and we will now be taking
Applications for Exhibition Proposals from mid 2025/26.
These Arms Hold
These Arms Hold- Incinerator Gallery
Curated by: Maya Hodge, Artist(s): Gabi Briggs, Indiana Hunt, Moorina Bonini, and Tarryn Love.
FUTURE RIVER - when the past flows
International Festival of Photography PHOTO 2024, Counihan Gallery. Curated by Kimba Thompson,
the exhibition features work by Julie Gough, Maree Clarke, Peta Clancy and Jody Haines.
SAXON STREET CLOSING PARTY
Resonate will join forces with Blak Dot Gallery and Siteworks in Brunswick to deliver SAXON STREET CLOSING PARTY
ANCESTRAL MAGIK
Yo Soy Collective presents:
Ancestral Magik is an exhibition showcasing contemporary narratives from the Latin American continent.
Rebuilding Queerness
Rebuilding Queerness is a celebration of Queer & Trans Person of Colour (QTPOC) stories, highlighting the unique and diverging experiences of Queerness, culture and self within our community.
The Blood is Money
The Blood is Money is a critique that invites us to reflect on the one hand about the logic of power, money, abuse, and the excessive and irresponsible use of the image of Indigenous and Aboriginal people from various territories, who have been systematically mistreated throughout history.
BLAK LENS
Blak Lens is proud to celebrate our first collection of works from First Nation photographers of Blak Lens, a survey of works for this years NAIDOC week celebrations ‘Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!.
WALK THE RIVER
An immersive exhibition where 'you can take the memory of these scarred trees
with you forever, and share their story' - Uncle Jim.
ko kori toku ingoa
Please join us as we welcome baby kori from another dimension; with gifts, blessings and ritual offerings at our baby shower & gender reveal party!
WHANAUNGA
Whanaunga is an exhibition of new paintings by Renee Cosgrave with works by her Whaea (Aunty) Dorothy Nilson. Whanaunga means relative in te reo Māori
Through the Eyes of Her Children
Young Eritreans Australia celebrates our voices and how we connect with each other and culture creatively, living in the diaspora
VIRTUAL GALLERY ONLY
ARTIST MARKET
Blak Dot Gallery is proud to present the fourth annual Blak Dot Artists Market in Partnership with Brunswick Music Festival.
Across Oceans (across lands)
This group exhibition is an exploration of women's storytelling, culture, vibrations, weaving, family and ancestral ties, and the oceans and land which bridge our connection with one another.
CODE BLAK
Code Blak: code switching in the intersection of culture,gender and sexuality. Art is a code and Blak absorbs all the colours. The show is an output of all this.
Deadly Decade! 'Its our Birthday'
We acknowledge that Blak Dot would not be what it is today without its many volunteers and arts community.
Fringe Dwellers - Occupying and Reclaiming the Margins
A community response to the provocation “Who’s afraid of the Public space”
UN-SPORTS-MAN-LIKE BY: NICHOLAS CURRIE
UN-SPORTS-MAN-LIKE both questions and celebrates masculinity, the body and sport culture and iconography.
GOOD BREAD
An Afro American expression of pleasure and approval for a person, place or situation. Brought to you by Cubby Art Party
TELIA BY: YASK DESAI
Telia is a research based project incorporating photography and video that attempts to reanimate and reexamine the experiences of the men who came from undivided India and worked as hawkers or travelling salesman within rural Australia.
JIRNDI - BY: SONJA HODGE
Jirndi is a Lardil word for leaf/leafy branch, the leaves reflect the growing journey of identity through reconnecting with family members and the importance of caring for, and healing, Country.
Hatch /hatʃ/ - By: Alejandra Lena Becerra Draghi
I try to copy the moves like a surgeon closing the skin after it breaks. We are used to repairing each other’s wounds through very simple words “yo te creo” (I believe you).
Birrpai - Yirramboi Festival
Imagine seeing images frozen in time of your ancestors in museums, taken by people documenting an ‘exotic’ sighting. Who has the power over their image?
Here, There, Nowhere
Here, There, Nowhere presents works by artists Fazail Lutfi, Kareen Adam, and Manal - the first time a group of Maldivian artists are exhibiting works in Melbourne.
OPEN STUDIO RESIDENCY
Introducing Blak Dot Gallery’s First Nations Artist Residency recipients Michael Jalaru Torres in collaboration with Veisinia Tonga and Gina Ropiha.