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Blindside Committee

Blaine Cooper (Member 2011-) is a practicing artist with a BFA (Painting) from Monash University (2007). He forms one-third of the Melbourne-based artist collective Safari Team. Together with the team since 2006 he has exhibited extensively throughout Melbourne, Sydney as well as abroad in Italy and Canada; showcasing their unique brand of interdisciplinary practice Safari Team use video, installation, collage, painting, drawing and sculpture. Blaine is currently focusing further on his solo practice, curating and writing with a constant interest in experimental video, story telling and drawing.

Adele Macer (Member 2011-) is currently undertaking a Masters of Visual Art at Victorian College of the Arts and Music. She has also been awarded Post Graduate Diploma of Visual Art from Victorian College of the Arts and Music (2010) and also holds a Bachelors Degree of Fine Art (Painting) from Monash University (2002). Participating in the annual graduate show Debut VII, BLINDSIDE (2011), her work explores objects, desire and the nature of illusion. In 2011 she plans to expand her working medium from casting and digital prints to include 3D rendering, installation and animation.

Natalya Maller (Secretary 2010-, Member 2007-) works at the National Gallery of Victoria (Cataloguing 2008-10, Registration 2010-), 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 Dip Visual Arts (New Media) (2002) from Swinburne University Of Technology. Natalya is a curator with continued interest in new media and experimental film. She has co-managed Rumble in the Library, Bus Vs BLINDSIDE (2008), and was the curator of BLINDSIDE’s Debut V exhibition (2009) Celluloid Cave (2010), and the up-coming exhibition Equilibrium (2011). Natalya was also the co-curator of Debut VI (2010).

Elise Murphy (Member 2010-) is currently Programs Manager, Community Engagement at Immigration Museum, Museum Victoria. She has worked in various public programming, curatorial, arts coordination and teaching roles at the Museum of London and Museum of London Docklands (2008-09), the National Museum of Australia in Canberra (2007-08), the Centre for Adult Education (2004-06), the University of Melbourne (2003) and RMIT University Gallery (2001-03).  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-, Gallery Administrator 2011-, Member 2010-) completed his BA (2008) and BA Hons (2010) within the school of Theory of Art & Design at Monash University. In 2008 he contributed the written catalogue texts: Now 2.0, Inner Conflict, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and Perfect from Now On for exhibitions at Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne, and Inflight Gallery, Tasmania. Shae is an active member of the Gertrude Contemporary community: he curated We Are Hidden And We Can See You, We Are Hidden And You Can See Us in 2008. He was also a contributing writer to the publication “21:100:100” (2008). He is currently an installation and curatorial assistant at Dianne Tanzer Gallery (since 2008).

Andrew Tetzlaff (Chair 2010-, Member 2008-) is currently the Coordinator of the international Artist in Residence Program at RMIT University (since 2011), the Gallery Administrator for RMIT’s Project Space/Spare Room and School of Art Gallery (since 2007), the secretary to the School of Art Galleries Advisory Committee (since 2007) and a practicing Melbourne artist and curator. Tetzlaff 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 has exhibited works in private and public galleries in Australia, the US, Japan and Austria.

Claire Anna Watson (Member 2010-) is an artist and arts writer and is the Art Curator at Banyule City Council. Prior to this she was the Visual Arts Program Coordinator at Asialink (The University of Melbourne), and 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 (Member 2007-, Gallery Administrator 2008-2011) 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. An avid supporter of Melbourne’s independent galleries, White managed BLINDSIDE from 2008 to early 2011. White continues to practice and exhibit as an artist and independent curator throughout greater Melbourne. Cementing his commitment to the arts and art education, White is undertaking a Diploma of Education to teach primary age children in 2011.

 

BLINDSIDE Committtee Advisory Board

Robert Heather (Advisor 2010-, Member 2006-2009) is the Manager, Collections Interpretation at the State Library of Victoria, responsible for exhibitions and publishing programs. Prior to commencing the appointment as the Manager, Events and Exhibitions (2006-2010) at the State Library he was the Director of the regional art gallery Artspace Mackay (2002-2006), managed by the Mackay City Council. His extensive career in the visual arts has included roles as the Executive Director of the Regional Galleries Association of Queensland (1999-2002), Marketing Manager and Deputy Director at Cairns Regional Gallery (1995-99) and at the Queensland Art Gallery. He has volunteered on a number of arts management bodies and Boards including Flying Arts Inc, The Queensland Museum, the University of Queensland Art Museum and he is currently the Treasurer of the Print Council of Australia.In 2010 he worked on the steering committee for the successful Museums Australia National Conference in Melbourne. 

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 exhibitions, including invitations, catalogues, and print ads for such magazines as Australian Art Collector, and Art Almanac. She has completed studies 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 University. She has been a member of the Australian Graphic Designers Association (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). Since the end of 2007, she has worked for 3 years at Davidson Branding, and is currently working at Celsius Design, as a Mid-Weight, Graphic Designer.

Daine Singer (Advisor 2010-, Member 2006-2009) is an independent curator and will open her own commercial gallery in 2011. Recent projects include Experimenta Utopia Now: International Biennial of Media Art (Experimenta curatorium, 2010), 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 and Shed 4, 2010). Previously Daine has held positions including Associate Curator at Experimenta Media Arts, 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

Julietta Park (Advisor 2010-2011, Member 2009)

Drew Pettifer (Advisor 2010-2011, Member 2008-2009)

Jared Davis (Member 2009-2010)

Hanna Tai (Member 2010)

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 (Founder 2004, Member 2004-2007)

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)

 

 

 

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