Blockprojects Gallery

16/10/2026

The Director's Choice
On until 7 Nov 2026..

Steven Asquith’s practice explores the relationship between abstraction, materiality and the psychological experience of contemporary urban life.

Based in Melbourne, the artist works across painting and works on paper, employing spray paint, enamel, acrylic and industrial markers to construct layered compositions shaped by processes of accumulation, gesture and erasure.

Moving between control and spontaneity, his works register the tensions of the urban environment while reflecting on the shifting nature of memory and perception.

Through an interplay of mark-making, surface and absence, Asquith approaches abstraction as a means of examining the complexities of contemporary experience, allowing meaning to remain open and unresolved.

16/10/2026

The Director's Choice 2026
Exhibition Opening
Saturday 17th Oct 2026
2:00 - 4:00 PM
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SOL LEWITT

In 1977, at the invitation of Australian collector and patron John Kaldor, LeWitt created wall drawings for the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

At the NGV, Lines to Points on a Grid unfolded across four fields of yellow, red, blue and black. A variation was later realised as an artist’s book, translating the work’s geometric language into printed form.

14/10/2026

A selection of works curated by the Director, representing emerging and established practitioners alongside major Australian and international artists.

07/10/2026

Christoph Dahlhausen & David Thomas -
An Ongoing Dialogue New Works on Colour, Light and Time
On until 10 Oct 2026..

A series of Bodies works by

03/10/2026

One so warm, acrylic and graphite on canvas, takes its title from In the Night by Korean poet Kim Kwang-Sup. From Ongoing Dialogue with Christoph Dahlhausen at Block Project Gallery, Hawthorn, Naarm/Melbourne.

On view until 10 Oct 2026...

One so warm, 2025-26
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
20 x 15 cm

03/10/2026

An intimate early photograph fixes a fleeting moment while memory continues to transform it.

On view until 10 Oct 2026..

David Thomas
First Photo, 2026
Photo on phototex
20 x 20 cm

12/09/2026

David Thomas lives and works in Melbourne/ Naarm, Australia. His work explores the contemplative function of painting, photopainting and installation, in particular how new iterations of the monochrome tradition can explore the perception of time and space, complexity and impermanence. He holds a PhD from RMIT University where he is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Art. He occasionally curates. Selected collections in Australia: National Gallery of Victoria, Australian National Gallery. Heide Museum of Modern Art. RMIT University, Cripp’s Collection, Australia and UK., Gippsland Art Gallery, Ballarat Art Gallery Victoria, Justin Art House Museum. Internationally: Chartwell Collection NZ, Auckland Art Gallery. Canterbury University, Christchurch, NZ. Lim Lip Museum, Gong Ju, South Korea. Theodor F. Leifeld Stiftung, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany. Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, The Frederick Collection, Germany.

12/09/2026

Christoph Dahlhausen is an artist, curator and teacher based in Bonn Germany. He works across installation and light-based artistic forms. Light, colour and space are the guiding principles of his artistic work. Both natural and artificial light and the interactions of light with reflective and translucent materials are at the centre of his installations and objects. Christoph has exhibited and curated extensively both in museums, institutional and commercial spaces in Europe, USA, Mexico, Brasilia, Australia and New Zealand. As a curator, he has been organising international exhibitions for various institutions since the 1990s. From 2003 to 2019, he ran the exhibition project spaces “proximus” and “raum2810” in Bonn.

12/09/2026

Christoph Dahlhausen & David Thomas: An Ongoing Dialogue, New Works on Colour, Light and Time

Across their individual practices and longstanding collaboration, Dahlhausen and Thomas explore how colour, light and reflection shape our experience of space. This exhibition brings their dialogue into the present through new work that invites us to slow down and look again.

On view 16 September–10 October 2026
Opening reception: 19 September, 3–5 pm.

29/08/2026