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BLAK DOT GALLERY is a contemporary Indigenous run Arts Space that showcases artworks of world Indige

Wheel chair access is available via the front and side (facing public area) of the building. Saxon St is a private Street, car parking is available opposite the Brunswick baths on Dawson St or street parking in the area. PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Trams stop (Route 19, Stop 21) located either side on the corner of Sydney Rd and Glenlyon Rd/ Dawson Rd Town Hall/Brunswick Baths/Mechanics Institute. Bus Route

506 - Moonee Ponds - Westgarth Station via Brunswick

Train: Upfeild Line - Brunswick Train Station

Bike racks provided.

29/05/2026

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Thank you Aunty Barb.

This is our final weekend of We Should Be Seen, We Should Be Heard: The Photography of Aunty Barbara McGrady
What a beautiful show to finish reconciliation week with.

Gallery hours
Tuesday - Saturday 12-5pm
Sunday 12-4pm

Deepest respect to Aunty Barb for your vision, legacy and unwavering commitment to truth-telling through the lens 🖤💛❤️

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Video Credit: .clague

28/05/2026

Feeling grateful for everyone who came along last Saturday and shared space with us for such a heartwarming, engaging and deeply insightful conversation.

Thank you to the incredible panel, Prof. Gary Foley, Dr. Eugenia Flynn and Wayne Ludbey, for helping place Aunty Barb’s work and legacy in the context of her peers and contemporaries, and for the important reflections on recognition, visibility and the realities faced by Black women artists and storytellers.

Deepest respect to Aunty Barb for your vision, legacy and unwavering commitment to truth-telling through the lens 🖤💛❤️

So special to gather in celebration of ‘We Should Be Seen, We Should Be Heard’, which is now in its last days of showing - closing this Sunday ✨

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Image credits: Sumitra Vignaendra .vignaendra

19/05/2026

🔜 Saturday 23 May, 2pm

You’re invited to join co-curator Dr. Eugenia Flynn in conversation with Prof. Gary Foley and Wayne Ludbey for a discussion centred on the practice of Gomeroi/Gamilaraay Murri photojournalist Barbara McGrady (Aunty Barb).

Drawing on their long-standing connections to her work, the panel will reflect on what it means to photograph from within community, and how relationships, trust, and accountability shape the image-making process. The conversation will move across her career, from early moments behind the camera to her presence across key cultural and sporting events.

Together, they will offer insight into Aunty Barb’s distinct way of seeing, the broader conditions of the field she has worked within, and the impact of a practice built not just on documenting moments, but on being part of them.

Link in bio for more info.

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09/05/2026

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 12-3pm
Sunday 12-4pm

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04/05/2026

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.

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Exhibition is generously supported by the Aboriginal History Archive, Australian Governments’ Australian Research Council and Victoria University’s Institute for Health & Sport.

24/04/2026

Blak Dot Gallery is 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.

23/04/2026

On this weekend:

In conversation with Lena Becerra, unpacking Xenobotany - and all the spaces in between…

Join us! Saturday 25 April @ 2pm 🐛

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18/04/2026

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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
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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.

07/04/2026

🖤 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: Vollie, 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: Vollie, Cody, at weaving workshop held by artists of ‘Ganbuy Nanja’ exhibition

$Opening this Saturday 11 April, 2pm! 💫///\\\///\\\///\\\\Join us for the opening of Xenobotany, a new body of work by re...$

06/04/2026

Opening this Saturday 11 April, 2pm! 💫

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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.
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Address

33 Saxon Street, Brunswick
Melbourne, VIC
3056

Opening Hours

Thursday	12pm - 5pm
Friday	12pm - 5pm
Saturday	12pm - 5pm
Sunday	12pm - 4pm

Telephone

+61474328370

Website

http://www.blakdot.com.au/

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