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Exhibitions

Thursday 1 October
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

EMERGENCE[Y]

Melbourne Science Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 5 December

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Alison Tedesco

Street Stories

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Chogh چوغ

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Heidi Schoenheimer

Around Here

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Requiem in Power (RIP)

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Sally Ann McIntyre

Post-extinction huia soundings

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Watch These Hands

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 4 July – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Views and Vistas of the Valley

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 31 October

Desire Moheb Zandi

Songs

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 23 July – Saturday 3 October

Group Show

Inside the Mirage

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 1 November

Brassaï

Secret Paris

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 15 November

Group Show

Truth Telling Display

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 5 August – Saturday 19 December

Group Show

language to reach with

West Space
Saturday 22 August – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Grained

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 17 January – Sunday 8 February

Grained is a cross-cultural group exhibition curated by Playte in partnership with Blak Dot Gallery and Nongkrong Festival. This project stitches together teachings of intergenerational and collective cultural practices, using rice as both nourishment and a vessel of shared histories across the Global South.

Bringing together artists from diverse migrant and Indigenous communities who share a cultural connection to rice, Grained explores themes of migration, identity, and belonging. Drawing influence from the Rice Theory of Culture, the exhibition examines rice-based processes - harvesting, storing, planting, and communal sharing - as catalysts for interdependent ways of living.

Inspired by the Indonesian concept of lumbung - a communal rice barn that stores surplus harvest for collective benefit - Grained functions as a lumbung of stories. Each artist’s contribution becomes part of a collective resource, strengthening community bonds and offering a framework to think through how food shapes guidance, care, and cultural connection.

Through installation, sculpture, spatial intervention, mixed-media works, and public programming, Grained gathers cultural knowledge, lived experience, and memory into a living archive that continues to nourish beyond the exhibition itself.

By highlighting how a single ingredient connects people across borders, Grained positions rice as a powerful symbol of sustenance, resilience, and interdependence, opening fresh conversations about cultural experience in contemporary Australia and the wider Global South.

Location

Blak Dot Gallery
33 Saxon Street, Brunswick VIC, Australia

Date

Saturday 17 January – Sunday 8 February

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Website

https://blakdot.com.au/current-exhibitions/2026/1/17/grained

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Exhibitions

Thursday 1 October
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

EMERGENCE[Y]

Melbourne Science Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Saturday 5 December

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Alison Tedesco

Street Stories

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Chogh چوغ

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Heidi Schoenheimer

Around Here

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Requiem in Power (RIP)

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Sally Ann McIntyre

Post-extinction huia soundings

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 1 July – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Watch These Hands

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 4 July – Sunday 25 October

Group Show

Views and Vistas of the Valley

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 18 July – Saturday 31 October

Desire Moheb Zandi

Songs

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 23 July – Saturday 3 October

Group Show

Inside the Mirage

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 1 November

Brassaï

Secret Paris

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 25 July – Sunday 15 November

Group Show

Truth Telling Display

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 5 August – Saturday 19 December

Group Show

language to reach with

West Space
Saturday 22 August – Saturday 24 October

Group Show

Grained

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 17 January – Sunday 8 February

Grained is a cross-cultural group exhibition curated by Playte in partnership with Blak Dot Gallery and Nongkrong Festival. This project stitches together teachings of intergenerational and collective cultural practices, using rice as both nourishment and a vessel of shared histories across the Global South.

Bringing together artists from diverse migrant and Indigenous communities who share a cultural connection to rice, Grained explores themes of migration, identity, and belonging. Drawing influence from the Rice Theory of Culture, the exhibition examines rice-based processes - harvesting, storing, planting, and communal sharing - as catalysts for interdependent ways of living.

Inspired by the Indonesian concept of lumbung - a communal rice barn that stores surplus harvest for collective benefit - Grained functions as a lumbung of stories. Each artist’s contribution becomes part of a collective resource, strengthening community bonds and offering a framework to think through how food shapes guidance, care, and cultural connection.

Through installation, sculpture, spatial intervention, mixed-media works, and public programming, Grained gathers cultural knowledge, lived experience, and memory into a living archive that continues to nourish beyond the exhibition itself.

By highlighting how a single ingredient connects people across borders, Grained positions rice as a powerful symbol of sustenance, resilience, and interdependence, opening fresh conversations about cultural experience in contemporary Australia and the wider Global South.

Location

Blak Dot Gallery
33 Saxon Street, Brunswick VIC, Australia

Date

Saturday 17 January – Sunday 8 February

Save to Calendar

Website

https://blakdot.com.au/current-exhibitions/2026/1/17/grained

All exhibition content on this website has been sourced from the exhibiting gallery’s website or provided by other art enthusiasts. We do not own or seek to own any of this material. If you are concerned about any misuse of your content, please let us know here.

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