Naomi Blacklock
BIO
Naomi Blacklock is an Anglo-Indian artist based in Brisbane, Australia who works primarily with sound installation, text works and performance. Her artworks involve an exploration and examination of mythologies regarding the witch archetype and harmful histories of gender and cultural identity. She is concerned with representations of the ‘witch’ as characterised by legal, religious and social institutions and the operation of this term by cultural minorities and LGBTQIA communities. Her ritualised sound objects and performances are intended to amplify the body and the voice through performative bodily precision and aural screaming.
Blacklock is also a PhD Candidate and Sessional Tutor at QUT and is a Co-Director of Brisbane’s ARI, CLUTCH Collective. She has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including projects at Bus Projects (Melbourne) Seventh Gallery (Melbourne), Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane) Metro Arts (Brisbane) The Walls Art Space (Gold Coast), First Draft (Sydney), PICA (Perth) and Ildiko Butler Gallery (New York). She was the receipt of the Australian Postgraduate Award (2016) and was shortlisted for the Jeremy Hynes Award (2017).
https://www.naomiblacklock.com/about
https://ima.org.au/ima-talks/first-thursdays-naomi-blacklock
Art Practice Keywords:
Artist, Photograppher
Artist Role Keywords:
Collaboration/ Collaborator names Keywords:
Clutch Collective, Boxcopy
Collections
Various Private Collections
CV
EDUCATION
2016 Commenced Doctor of Philosophy (Visual Arts), Queensland University of Technology
2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts), First Class Honours, Queensland University of Technology
2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts), With Distinction, Queensland University of Technology
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/ PROJECTS
2018 First Thursdays, Naomi Blacklock in Collaboration with Charlie Blacklock, IMA, Brisbane
Häxan (Witchcraft Through The Ages), live sound score produced in collaboration with Lucy Cliché. Presented in partnership between the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Queensland Film Festival and the Institute of Modern Art, IMA, Brisbane.
Star-Crossed Rivers in collaboration with Anastasia Booth, curated by Jenna Green & Marisa Georgiou, performed in partnership with Brisbane State High Students, South Bank, Brisbane.
Common Scold in collaboration with Anastasia Booth, curated by Amy-Clare McCarthy & Kieran Swann, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2017 Parallel Presence, Jeremy Hynes Award Presentation, IMA, Brisbane
Body of Voice, Cut Thumb Laundry MetroArts ARI in Residence, Brisbane
Residue, Frank Moran Gallery, QUT Creative Industries, Brisbane
2016 BLACK MASS, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 NETHERWORLDS, Group Show, curated by Amy-Clare McCarthy & Kieran Swann, Spring Hill Reservoir, Brisbane
2017 NETHERWORLDS, Group Show, curated by Amy-Clare McCarthy & Kieran Swann, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
First Thursdays, Facilitated by Courtney Coombs, IMA, Brisbane
NETHERWORLDS, Group Show, curated by Amy-Clare McCarthy & Kieran Swann, The Walls Art Space, Gold Coast
2016 NETHERWORLDS, Group Show, curated by Amy-Clare McCarthy & Kieran Swann, First Draft Gallery, Sydney
HOMEGROUND, CLUTCH Collective, Boxcopy, Brisbane
Stella McCartney for Target, Cut Thumb ARI, Brisbane
Hatched: National Graduate Show, PICA, Perth
SHAPE of Things to Come Satellite Exhibition, Frank Morman Memorial Hall, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane
SHAPE of Things to Come: The Anniversary show, The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane
2015 Before All Else (Honours Visual Art Graduate Exhibition), H Block Gallery, QUT, Brisbane
Suspension Points, The Block, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane
THIS IS NOT A DRILL, The Hold Artspace, Brisbane
THIS IS NOT A DRILL (2), H Block Gallery, QUT, Brisbane
2014 Suspension Points, Group show, Ildiko Butler Gallery, New York
Exit (Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition), H Block Gallery, QUT, Brisbane
2013 Collaborative Performance, Chicks on Speed Workshop IMA, Brisbane
ARTIST TALKS/ FORUMS
2018 Artist Talk, Brisbane State High, Brisbane
2017 CoUNTess in Conversation with Elvis Richardson, Courtney Pedersen & Naomi Blacklock, IMA, Brisbane
Artist Talk, Body of Voice, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Experimental Creative Practice Talk, HDR Creative Lab, QUT, Brisbane
2016 Speaker at Women, Feminism and Art in Australia with Anne Marsh, Boxcopy, Brisbane
Artist Talk, Hatched: National Graduate Show Artist Talks, PICA, Perth
PUBLICATIONS
2017 NETHERWORLDS Review, Seventh Galley Melbourne, Dunhill, Anna, Un Projects 21 Dec. 2017
Queer Feminism, Intersectionality and Awkward Conversations. Coombs, Courtney, Artlink Magazine issue 37:4, Dec. 2017
2016 Parallel Presence. Ferguson, Brooke, Five Ways, Issue 3, Oct. 2016
Body of Voice. De Luca, Zoë. Exhibition Catalogue for Body of Voice
Othered and Domesticated [what scream makes a woman]. Gomez, Elena. Exhibition Catalogue for Black Mass
AWARDS
2017 Finalist in IMA’s Jeremy Hynes Award
2016 Finalist in PICA’s Hatched: National Graduate Show
2015 The Australian Post Graduate Award Scholarship
First Class Honours, Queensland University of Technology
NAVA Ignition Award for Professional Practice
Dean’s List for Academic Excellence, Queensland University of Technology
EMPLOYMENT
2016 – Current Sessional Tutor, QUT Creative Industries, Brisbane
CLUTCH Collective, Co-director