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Exhibitions

Wednesday 1 July
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 16 August

Badra Aji

Get the boy a dog and call it a day

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 16 August

Group Show

TarraWarra International 2026: System Release

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 21 March – Sunday 5 July

John Perceval

All That We Are

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 21 March – Sunday 12 July

Group Show

Floras Localis: Colour + Place

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 7 May – Saturday 11 July

Ray Thomas

Yeerung's Journey

Koorie Heritage Trust
Saturday 30 May – Sunday 9 August

Lygin Ang

Window Seat

Benalla Art Gallery
Monday 1 June – Monday 31 August

Peta Duncan

We Built a House out of Water

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Sunday 5 July

Glenn Barkley

Arcadia

Sullivan+Strumpf
Thursday 11 June – Saturday 11 July

Group Show

Red Salon 2026

Red Gallery
Thursday 18 June – Saturday 4 July

Hop Dac

Sông mơ

Boom Gallery
Thursday 18 June – Saturday 11 July

Group Show

The Figure

Boom Gallery
Thursday 18 June – Saturday 11 July

Group Show

Babette’s Feast

Futures Gallery
Saturday 20 June – Saturday 18 July

Clara Napurrula

Clara Napurrula

Alcaston Gallery
Wednesday 24 June – Friday 17 July

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Peta Duncan

We Built a House out of Water

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Sunday 5 July

We Built a House Out of Water is a body of work that draws on memory, family, and culture – while understanding healing as an ongoing process. This exhibition uses water as both a material and a metaphor to create various works of layered meaning. Exploring catharsis and expression through photography, stop-motion animation and alternative printing techniques. The artist creates an expressive, intimate space that mirrors an internal landscape.

Emerging from the emotional impacts of her personal experiences of domestic and family violence. This exhibition is the artists approach to overcoming through childhood reminiscence, where play became a tool for processing, empowerment and belonging. For her family, religion and faith offered a space of safety, support and forgiveness. However, the artist questions these imposed systems of belief as tools for restoration.

Developed at the intersection of religion and culture, We Built a House Out of Water addresses 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 the Torres Straits. This coexistence carries tension, and rightly so. This body of work acknowledges that religion was and is a colonial tool; however, recognising this intersection does not flatten the devastating history of its imposition or the continuing impacts of colonial power. Rather, the artists’ intent is to put into perspective the blending of these systems of belief and how they have been adopted in the Torres Strait to create a layered spiritual reality shaped by history, resilience, and agency - and how this in turn, has shaped the artist and her family’s processes of healing.

Overall, We Built a House Out of Water is a space of safety and contemplation. Calling into question the inherited and indoctrinated beliefs. This body of work invites viewers to reflect and contemplate what forces (both seen and unseen) help us endure.

Location

Blak Dot Gallery
33 Saxon St, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia

Date

Saturday 6 June – Sunday 5 July

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Website

https://blakdot.com.au/current-exhibitions/2026/6/6/we-built-a-house-out-of-water

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Exhibitions

Wednesday 1 July
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Group Show

The Chelsea Hotel Years 1967–69

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 28 February – Sunday 16 August

Badra Aji

Get the boy a dog and call it a day

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 14 March – Sunday 16 August

Group Show

TarraWarra International 2026: System Release

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 21 March – Sunday 5 July

John Perceval

All That We Are

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 21 March – Sunday 12 July

Group Show

Floras Localis: Colour + Place

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 7 May – Saturday 11 July

Ray Thomas

Yeerung's Journey

Koorie Heritage Trust
Saturday 30 May – Sunday 9 August

Lygin Ang

Window Seat

Benalla Art Gallery
Monday 1 June – Monday 31 August

Peta Duncan

We Built a House out of Water

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Sunday 5 July

Glenn Barkley

Arcadia

Sullivan+Strumpf
Thursday 11 June – Saturday 11 July

Group Show

Red Salon 2026

Red Gallery
Thursday 18 June – Saturday 4 July

Hop Dac

Sông mơ

Boom Gallery
Thursday 18 June – Saturday 11 July

Group Show

The Figure

Boom Gallery
Thursday 18 June – Saturday 11 July

Group Show

Babette’s Feast

Futures Gallery
Saturday 20 June – Saturday 18 July

Clara Napurrula

Clara Napurrula

Alcaston Gallery
Wednesday 24 June – Friday 17 July

Christopher Pyett

Years of Colour

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October

Peta Duncan

We Built a House out of Water

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 6 June – Sunday 5 July

We Built a House Out of Water is a body of work that draws on memory, family, and culture – while understanding healing as an ongoing process. This exhibition uses water as both a material and a metaphor to create various works of layered meaning. Exploring catharsis and expression through photography, stop-motion animation and alternative printing techniques. The artist creates an expressive, intimate space that mirrors an internal landscape.

Emerging from the emotional impacts of her personal experiences of domestic and family violence. This exhibition is the artists approach to overcoming through childhood reminiscence, where play became a tool for processing, empowerment and belonging. For her family, religion and faith offered a space of safety, support and forgiveness. However, the artist questions these imposed systems of belief as tools for restoration.

Developed at the intersection of religion and culture, We Built a House Out of Water addresses 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 the Torres Straits. This coexistence carries tension, and rightly so. This body of work acknowledges that religion was and is a colonial tool; however, recognising this intersection does not flatten the devastating history of its imposition or the continuing impacts of colonial power. Rather, the artists’ intent is to put into perspective the blending of these systems of belief and how they have been adopted in the Torres Strait to create a layered spiritual reality shaped by history, resilience, and agency - and how this in turn, has shaped the artist and her family’s processes of healing.

Overall, We Built a House Out of Water is a space of safety and contemplation. Calling into question the inherited and indoctrinated beliefs. This body of work invites viewers to reflect and contemplate what forces (both seen and unseen) help us endure.

Location

Blak Dot Gallery
33 Saxon St, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia

Date

Saturday 6 June – Sunday 5 July

Save to Calendar

Website

https://blakdot.com.au/current-exhibitions/2026/6/6/we-built-a-house-out-of-water

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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