20 December 2025
Absurd Cosmos Late Nite (Mark Groves, of Red Wine & Sugar/Voice Imitator/Index Clean fame) – rare Sydney show
Anthony Guerra & Peter Blamey
Nick Dan
7 pm
Saturday 20 December
$15
Stadium Rockdale
Level 1, 5 Tramway Arcade
Rockdale, NSW
17 July 2025
Lleaflitter + Hhost
Peter Blamey
Couch (Laura Altman/Danny Wild)
7 pm
Friday 17 July
$15
Stadium Rockdale
5 Tramway Arcade
Rockdale, NSW
14 July 2025
Ben Denham
Peter Blamey
Ben will be channelling air pressure fluctuations through his synthesiser. Peter will be playing combinations of light and sound.
6 pm
Monday 14 July
DRAW Space
31A Enmore Rd, Enmore
27 June 2025
Keynote: Peter Blamey
Novel Interactions with Materials and Energies / Entangle Me in Noise
This keynote, rather than a traditional lecture, is instead made up of realisations of several interrelated performance works. These works all explore the experiential capacities of small-scale and local energy sourcing in relation to environmental and artefactual forms of light, where sound, alongside its aesthetic aspects, functions as an indicator of physical processes in action. Using everyday materials and simple, open-form performative strategies that place performer and device on an equal footing, these works both play on and with the possibilities for realising, rethinking and relating to the immaterial energetic aspects of our environment.
Friday 2025-06-27 14:30-15:30 AEST
Kambri Drama Theatre
Australian National University
Ngunnawal Country, Canberra, Australia and Online
29 March 2025
Sodium Tail (Guerra/Blamey/Hopkins) – synthesiser, speaker/amp, lyre
Laura Altman & Melanie Herbert – clarinet/violin/things/feelings
Megan Alice Clune – keyboard/clarinet/electronics
7–10 pm
Saturday 29 March
$20/$15
Stadium Rockdale
5 Tramway Arcade
Rockdale, NSW
Fireworks, curated by Con Gerakaris
opens Friday 8.11.24
6–8 pm
Dylan Batty
Peter Blamey
Chris Burton
Luisa Hansal
Gabriella Lo Presti
Johanna Ng
Nick Santoro
Reina Takeuchi
Kai Wasikowski
Poppy Williams
Alex Xerri
Christopher Zanko
Continues 11–5 pm until 01.12.24
China Heights
Level 3, 16-28 Foster St,
Surry Hills 2010
10 August 2024
New North Concert 16
Sounds Like Movement (Peter Fraser and Dale Gorfinkel)
Shh! (Anja Füsti and Rosalind Crisp)
Peter Blamey
Saturday 10 August, 7:30 pm
Brunswick Mechanics Institute
270 Sydney Rd, Brunswick VIC
30 May 2024
Kinietic Vibrations, curated by Vicky Browne
Thursday 30 May, 5:30–8 pm
Join Verge for a dynamic sound activation night, featuring performances Vicky Browne with Blake Bridgewater and Jennifer Leahy, as well as artists and musicians Chris Dolman, Peter Blamey, Christopher James Ross, and Maëlyse Leculier
Verge Gallery
Jane Foss Russell Plaza
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW
11 May 2024
Sounds Like
Saturday 11 May, 5–7 pm
Emily Morandini
Peter Blamey
Ethan Frome
15 Fowler Street, Camperdown
4 May 2024
MMINC and SIRC_UIT present
Ale Hop (Berlin)
Peter Blamey
Verna Bloom
Lawson Industrial Area, Lawson NSW 2783
Saturday 4 May, 6:30–9:30pm
Pop-up venue will be announced 24 hours before the event
27 November 2023
A new audio work, Five Motley Exchanges, is now up on Radia here.
13 October 2023
Firstdraft Screening Program, October–November
Anthropocene – Dangerous Goods: Dawn Beasley, Peter Blamey
Anthropocene – Embodied Waste: Emily Norton, Miška Mandić
Opens Friday 13 October, 6–8 pm
Firstdraft
13–17 Riley St
Woolloomooloo
NSW 2011
17 June 2023
Peter Blamey, Backscatter, 17 June–9 July 2023
Opening Saturday 17 June, 3–5 pm
SCALA, Suite 3, 462 Parramatta Rd, Petersham
https://www.scalagalleries.com
7 June 2023
Hand over Panel, made for Avantwhatever Commissions, is now viewable on the AW website here.
26 May 2023
Avantwhatever Commissions Launch and Listening Party with Peter Blamey, Stephen Cornford, Charmaine Lee, and Ben Byrne
Avantwhatever premieres the first in our new series of audiovisual commissions of digital sound, art, and design, presenting works from artists Charmaine Lee (New York), Stephen Cornford (Bristol), and Peter Blamey (Sydney) on Friday 26 May in the RMIT Black Box space in Naarm, with an introduction from curator Ben Byrne.
The commissions will be hosted on our dedicated audiovisual server and website, using the open web and peer-to-peer technology to make them freely accessible and discoverable using decentralised social media, as will be demonstrated as part of the event.
The first three commissions will be presented on the night, ahead of publication, using the RMIT Digital Media Black Box’s bespoke audiovisual system to offer an ideal listening and viewing environment.
Commissions from experimental vocalist Charmaine Lee, and media artist and researcher Stephen Cornford will be premiered, followed by a live performance from commissioned musician and artist Peter Blamey.
Free by RSVP, with attendees added to the Avantwhatever mailing list.
Friday 26 May 2023, 6:00–8:00 pm
RMIT Digital Media Black Box at RMIT City Campus,
Entry via Little Bang Espresso next to the RMIT Tram Stop on Swanston St
Building 12, 402 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
8 March 2023
Ultra-Sonic, curated by Joyce Hinterding and David Haines
Exhibition opening: Wednesday 8 March, 6–8 pm
Ultra-Sonic weaves unconventional musical and sonic lines through the flotsam and jetsam of the shipwreck of installation art to create a new territory in an upended world. Peter Blamey, Lichen Kelp, Dylan Martorell, Naomi Oliver, and Kusum Normoyle create musical and non-musical kingdoms in which everything shakes and moves.
9 March–22 April 2023
Monday–Friday: 11 am–5 pm
Saturday: 12–4 pm
SCA Gallery
Sydney College of the Arts
Old Teachers College, Manning Road
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2006
5 February 2023
Concert in conjunction with the exhibition A.N.T.H.O.L.O.G.Y.
Laura Altman
Peter Farrar
Peter Blamey
Laboratory of the Creative Ear (Geoffrey Barnard, Jim Denley, Peter Blamey)
2:30–4:30 pm
Free Admission
Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf
548 New South Head Road
Double Bay NSW 2028
23 September 2022
Material Sound
Maitland Regional Art Gallery
10 September–27 November 2022
The final show for this touring exhibtion, opening event 5:30 pm, Friday 23rd September.
Maitland Regional Art Gallery
Tuesday–Sunday: 10 am–5 pm
230 High Street, Maitland, NSW
Saturday September 24
Material Sound curator talk, Caleb Kelly, 12:30–1 pm
Live performance, Peter Blamey, 1–1:30 pm
29 April 2022
Material Sound
NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns
29 April–18 June 2022
Material Sound goes to Tropical North Queensland.
NorthSite Contemporary Arts
Bulmba-ja Arts Centre
96 Abbott Street, Cairns
Queensland 4870
SOUNDING OUT, Friday 29 April 2022, opening night and performances
Join us at NorthSite at Bulmba-ja for the opening night of two contemporary multi-form exhibitions: Wish You Were Here by Kellie O’Dempsey and the touring exhibition Material Sound curated by Caleb Kelly.
7 pm doors open
7.20 pm Welcome to Country – Minjil tri-nations ceremonial performance
7.50 pm curator’s exhibition tour
8.20 pm Peter Blamey
8.40 pm The Ironing Maidens
9 pm Kelly O’Dempsey with Mick Dick
10 pm DJ Jimmy Flipshyt
Cocktails by Wolf Lane distillery.
3 April 2022
Nights at Tempe
7 pm
Tempe Jets, Holbeach Ave, Tempe
Sunday April 3rd, 2022, we say goodbye to daylight saving and hello to:
Rory Brown
Peter Blamey
Jenna Lewis & Finn Koslowski
6 March 2022
Material Sound
The Condensery – Somerset Regional Art Gallery
29 January–3 April 2022
Material Sound continues its tour of the Eastern states.
29 Factory Road
off the Brisbane Valley Highway
Toogoolawah, Qld
Monday to Friday: 9 am–5 pm
Saturday to Sunday: 10 am–4 pm
20 November 2021
Things have been pretty quiet in 2021 – no surprises there. A revamp of the site has seen the end of the old blog-style news page (something I was never a fan of) replaced with this simpler page. Also, the site now has a dark background, saving some energy and removing the ‘art gallery’ feel of the old white background (another thing I wasn’t keen on).
Not expecting to have any upcoming events until 2022, but then again you never know.
PETER BLAMEY 