BCC
Angus Bowskill , Reece Cahill , Cass Lynch , Mei Swan Lim , Ella Valentine , Gemma Weston , Clare Wohlnick
8 Jul–1 Aug 2026
BCC is an exhibition initiated by Blindside and curated by Cool Change, bringing together works by Angus Bowskill, Reece Cahill, Cass Lynch & Mei Swan Lim, Ella Valentine, Gemma Weston and Clare Wohlnick, with a text by Liz Smith.
Considering the tensions between acts of connection and indicators of distance, the exhibition takes its title from the blind carbon copy—a familiar email function that quietly extends a conversation beyond its visible recipients—positioned here as a form of distribution rather than secrecy, working to introduce individuals in the same networks who may not yet know each other.
A group show organised by one artist-run initiative in Boorloo/Perth materialises in another in Naarm/Melbourne. In place of artists traversing physical space for this exhibition, the artworks travel instead via email, where JPGs and PDFs become digital prints, MP4s appear on borrowed TV screens, and text instructions are interpreted to create physical objects.
The works in BCC examine subjects such as extractive industries, attention economies, deep memory and climate change, translation and comprehension, and the increasingly unstable boundaries between online and offline life. Diverse in form and approach, these artworks engage systems of transference, mediation, circulation, and transformation. They reflect on how information and meaning move through contemporary networks, and how those movements shape our relationships with the world.
Thanks to THIRDS Fine Art Printing for sponsoring this exhibition.
BCC is an exhibition initiated by Blindside and curated by Cool Change, bringing together works by Angus Bowskill, Reece Cahill, Cass Lynch & Mei Swan Lim, Ella Valentine, Gemma Weston and Clare Wohlnick, with a text by Liz Smith.
Angus Bowskill is an artist from Boorloo who graduated from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Creative Arts in 2025. His practice typically involves printmaking and digital media techniques to explore materiality and aesthetics and make sense of the world around him. Together with Phoebe Campbell and Annabelle Gallon, he runs the artist-run initiative Third Place.
Reece Cahill is an artist based in Boorloo on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. His practice usually swims within pools of slowness, desire, allure, and ghosts. Site-responsive and interested in mixing the real with the unseen, he often presents his ideas as short fragments of looped video, poetic writing, and photography that accumulate to suggest more than the sum of their parts. Completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Curtin University, he has previously exhibited at Pig Melon, Nyisztor Studio, Midland Junction Arts Centre, and Paper Mountain.
Cass Lynch is a Koreng Wudjari Noongar woman and is descended from the families of Ravensthorpe in the Great Southern region. She is a writer and Research Fellow, and has a PhD that explores Noongar stories that reference climate change. Cass is a committee member of Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories, who focus on the revitalisation of culture and language connected to south coast Noongar people. She has published short stories, essays, and poems, and her multimedia storytelling works have been featured at Perth Festival, Fremantle Biennale, PICA, Arts House Melbourne, CCA Glasgow, and more. Her Noongar language haikus won the 2019 Patricia Hackett Prize. Her short story ‘Split’, a creative impression of deep time Perth, is a key text for high school students studying VCE English in Victoria (2024–27) and can be found in the UQP publication Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now.
Mei Swan Lim is a practising sound designer and visual artist whose work centres on the environmental, emotional, and spiritual importance of place, inter-cultural investigation and storytelling. She is also an electronic musician who has been performing and writing under the name Mei Saraswati since 2010.
Ella Valentine is a visual artist living and working in Boorloo. Their work is born from a daily practice of drawing, collecting, arranging, and talking. Fervent compositions and determined constructions are the result. Ella has previously shown with Blindside in every time we touch I get this feeling, curated by Audrey Jo Pfister in 2024, and with Cool Change in their solo exhibition Wishing sweet rhythm back in 2022. They have also exhibited at Pig Melon, Light Works, ____g.s (aka Underscore Gallery & Studios) and Goolugatup Heathcote (all in Boorloo) and TCB (Naarm).
Gemma Weston is undertaking a Master of Library and Information Studies at Charles Sturt University, specialising in Librarianship. Prior to this, she held curatorial and administrative positions at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth Festival, AVA (formerly sweet pea), and ART ON THE MOVE, whilst occasionally exhibiting as an artist under the ‘pseudonym’ of Gemma Watson or collaboratively as Pet Projects (with Dan Bourke and Andrew Varano). The relationship between text and image has been central to her creative work—in writing about art, as a curator working with archival material, in the semiotic jump cut between works in a group show, or as an artist exploring guttural sounds and failures of language (AAAAAAAAAA, uh oh).
Clare Wohlnick is an artist based in Boorloo/Perth. Through the exploration of felting and oil painting processes, her practice contemplates the forces that shape our environments. Her recent exhibitions have appeared at ARS AVANTI (Alte Handelsschule), Besser Leben Leipzig, Cool Change, PS Art Space, Adult Contemporary, and Caves Gallery. In 2025, she undertook the Internationales Sommeratelier residency in Aschersleben, Germany.
Cool Change is an artist-run initiative established in Boorloo/Perth in 2018. Since its inception, they have hosted exhibitions, residencies, performances, workshops, talks, and operated a small shop. Volunteer-led and not-for-profit, CC is committed to presenting experimental and critically engaged artistic practice in a welcoming and accessible environment, with an agile and responsive outlook.