Blop Blop Blop 2026: Figure 1. Workshop Series with Rosie Isaac - Applications Now Open

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Figure 1. Workshop Series

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In this workshop we will explore and experiment with the relationship between text and image. It's a BIG topic but we will approach it incrementally and sideways, through collage, captioning, iteration and ekphrastic responses. Using the university library as a source, we will create new or altered meaning for existing images and consider how framing through language changes what we see. The workshop and the publication will have an emphasis on thinking with our hands.

We will look at the work of artists who consider or utilise this relationship in various ways including Tracey Moffatt, Chris Marker, Burchill/McCamley and think about writing by Saidiya Hartman and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.

The workshops will culminate in the production of a series of small publications. We will work collectively and intuitively to conceptualise and produce these together. This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in how the gaps and resonances of images and text can produce meaning.

BLOP BLOP BLOP, an annual GPG workshop series, takes direct inspiration from blip blip blip, a curatorial programme founded in Leeds UK, committed to examining and fostering relationships between contemporary art practice and art education. Previous iterations have been delivered by Lilly Skipper, Bea Rubio-Gabriel, and Adam Cruickshank.

KEY DATES

Applications Close
Thursday 10 September, midnight

Successful Applicants Notified
Monday 14 September

Workshop 1
Thursday 17 Sept 3-4.30

Workshop 2
Thursday 25 Sept 3-4.30

Workshop 3
Thursday 8 Oct 3-4.30

Workshop 4
Thursday 15 October 3-4.30

Taking place in the Arts Lab, Level 1, Building 159, Arts & Cultural

Rosie Isaac makes sculpture, videos and reading performances. She is interested in material, social and linguistic systems and her recent projects have examined international time keeping, landfill technologies, soil chemistry, the law, libraries, and the collective act of reading. 

She has shown work at the National Gallery of Victoria, West Space, for 'Language Ecologies' at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Foundation Fiminco (France) and with Liquid Architecture, Gertrude Contemporary and Adelaide Contemporary Experimental.

Her writing has been published in Overland, Cordite Review, un. Magazine and Art and Australia.

She is a PhD candidate and sessional lecturer at MADA, Monash University.

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Please reach out to chantelle.mitchell@union.unimelb.edu.au with any questions.