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Blindside Committee

Jared Davis (Member 2009-) is a curator, writer and musician from Melbourne. He produced and curated South African sound artist James Webb's In Living Memory of What Never Happened as part of the 2009 Melbourne International Arts Festival, for his self initiated Echoes sound art cultural exchange project. Jared coordinated and co-curated the Blindside Sound Series, a month long mini festival of sound and exploratory music held at Blindside artist run initiative in September 2009. His upcoming curatorial projects in 2010 include Always Moving (a performance laboratory in several parts) at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, and Echoes at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town. Jared is a member of un Magazine Editorial Committee, Blindside (since 2009) and was Sub Editor of un Magazine volume 3. He has contributed art and music related articles to journals including RealTime, Artlink and Cyclic Defrost Online.

Natalya Maller (Secretary 2010, Member 2008-) currently works in the Cataloguing Department of the National Gallery of Victoria (since 2008), previously employed at Deakin Art Galleries and Collection as the Assistant Collections Officer (2006-08), and also worked at the Queensland Art Gallery (2000). Natalya holds a BSc Australian Environmental Studies (1999) from Griffith University, and Dip Visual Arts (New Media) (2002) from Swinburne University Of Technology and in 2010 will begin a MA in Arts Management. She is an artist and curator with continued interest in New Media and experimental film. Natalya has been on the blindside board since 2007, during which time she participated in the Rumble in the Library, Bus Vs Blindside (2008), was the curator of Blindside’s Debut V exhibition (2009), and is co-curator of Debut VI (2010).

Elise Murphy (Member 2010-) has recently returned to Melbourne after working as Adult Events Officer at the Museum of London and Museum of London Docklands (2008-09). Prior to this, she held public programming and curatorial roles at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, and worked in arts administration and coordination at RMIT University Gallery and the Centre for Adult Education, covering a wide range of arts courses, exhibitions and events. She completed her Honours degree in Art History and Literature at the University of Melbourne (2001), and was awarded the Dwight Final Examination Prize for Art History, Classics & Archaeology.

Shae Nagorcka (Treasurer 2010, Member 2010-) completed his BA (2008) and BA Hons (2010) within the school of Theory of Art & Design at Monash University. In 2009 he contributed the written catalogue texts: Now 2.0, Inner Conflict, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and Perfect from Now On to exhibitions at Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne, and Inflight Gallery, Tasmania. Shae is an active member of the Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces community: a gallery assistant, administrational assistant and contributing writer to the publication “21:100:100” (2008). He is currently a curatorial assistant at Dianne Tanzer Gallery (since 2008).

Hanna Tai (Member 2010-) is a practicing Melbourne artist. Since 2008 she has exhibited work in solo and curated exhibitions across Melbourne at: the CCP, West Space, Kings ARI, Bus Gallery and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. She holds a Bachelor of Design Studies, Architecture (1998) from the University of Adelaide, an MA in Image and Communication (2003) from Goldsmiths College, London, and an MFA (2007) from RMIT University. Hanna teaches photography at RMIT University School of Architecture (since 2010) and at the CAE (since 2009).

Andrew Tetzlaff (Chair 2010, Member 2008-) is a graduate of Tufts University (BA summa cum laude, 2002), the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (BFA, 2002) and RMIT University (MFA, 2006). He is currently the Gallery Administrator for RMIT University’s Project Space/Spare Room Gallery and RMIT School of Art Gallery (since 2007), the Secretary to the School of Art Galleries Committee (since 2007), a member of Blinside ARI (since 2008) and a practicing Melbourne artist and curator. Tetzlaff has exhibited works in private and public galleries in Australia, the US, Japan and Austria.

Claire Anna Watson (Member 2010-) is an artist, curator and arts writer and is the Visual Arts Program Coordinator at Asialink – The University of Melbourne. Prior to this she was the curator at Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale. Her installation-based art practice is centred on ephemerality and public space and she has exhibited in Australia, Finland, Portugal and Turkey. She holds an Honours Degree (Fine Art) and a Graduate Certificate (Public Art) from RMIT University and is currently a Master of Fine Art Candidate at Monash University.

Julian White (Administration 2008-, Member 2007-) is a contemporary printmaker. He completed a BA (Fine Art), Hons at RMIT in 2006 and was awarded both the Firestation Print Studio award and the Siemens/RMIT Travelling Scholarship. A committee member since 2007, Julian formally manages Blindside’s administration (since 2008), including photographically documenting all of Blindside’s exhibitions. White continues to practice and exhibit as an artist and curator throughout greater Melbourne.

 

Blindside Committtee Advisory Board

Robert Heather (Advisor 2010-, Member 2006-2009) is the Events and Exhibitions Manager at the State Library of Victoria. He was previously the Director of Artspace Mackay (2002-2006), the regional art gallery managed by Mackay City Council. He has previously held positions as Executive Director of the Regional Galleries Association of Queensland (1999-2002), Cairns Regional Gallery and the Queensland Art Gallery, as well as being on the Board of the Queensland Museum (2001-2006), the University Art Museum (2002-2006) and various other arts organizations including Blindside (since 2006) and the Print Council of Australia (since 2007).

Natalie Kazakis (Graphic design 2007-, Advisor 2010-, Member 2007-2009) has been a volunteer and committee member with Blindside since 2007. She oversees and designs the promotional material for exihibitions, including invitations, catalogues, and print ads for such magazines as Australian Art Collector, and Art Almanac. She has completed studied at Brighton Bay Art, Design & Photography (2002) and received a BA Design (Visual Communication) (2005) and a BA Design, Hons (Visual Communication) (2007) from Monash Univerisity. She is a member with AGDA (since 2005), and was in the Top 20 short-listed artists for: AG Ideas, Fabrica Scholarship, the Collie Trust Award, and “Before & After” Competition (2004). She has been working for Davidson Branding as a Graphic Designer since 2007.

Julietta Park (Advisor 2010-, Member 2009) is assistant curator at the National Gallery of Victoria and Blindside Committee Member (since 2009). She was working previously as assistant cataloguer at the National Gallery of Victoria (2001-2008), and as a gallery assistant at the Ian Potter Museum of Art. She completed both Master degree in of Art and Post Graduate diploma of Curatorship of Museum and Gallery at the University of Melbourne.

Drew Pettifer (Advisor 2010-, Member 2008-2009) is a solicitor, artist and curator. He holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons. – First Class) from the University of Melbourne and in 2009 completed a Master of Arts (Arts Management) at RMIT University. Pettifer has been on the committee since 2008 and exhibits in public and private galleries across Australia and in the United Kingdom.

Daine Singer (Advisor 2010-, Member 2006-2009) is an independent curator and Associate Curator at Experimenta Media Arts where she is part of the curatorium for Experimenta Utopia Now: International Biennial of Media Art (2010). Recent and current projects include Draw the Line: the Architecture of Lab (National Gallery of Victoria 2009), Dream Weavers (CAST Gallery, Hobart 2010), The Nauru Elegies (DJ Spooky and Annie K Kwon, Experimenta at Blindside 2010). Previously Daine was Gallery Manager at Anna Schwartz Gallery and prior to that Curator of Melbourne’s Chinese Museum. She has a BA (art history and history), Grad Dip in Arts Management and Master of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne.

 

Past Members

Melanie Upton (Member 2009)

Holly Arden (Member 2008-2009)

Linda Good (Member 2006-2008)

Marion Piper (Member 2006 – 2008)

Joanna Collyvas (Member 2007)

Lenni Morkel-Kingsbury (Member 2007)

Jessie Borrelle (Member 2005-2007)

Chris Howlett (Member 2006)

Rosie Mahoney (Member 2004-2006)

Simon Koger (Member 2004-2006)

Renai Grace (Founder 2004, Member 2004-2006)

Christine Morrow (Founder 2004, Member 2004-2006)

Pip Haydon (Founder 2004, Member 2004-2006)

Asim Memishi (Member 2004-2005)