David Mendelsohn working in the APA studio holding up one of his artworks
Footsteps in the miasma: David Mendelsohn
The Blindside Artist Mentorship Initiative is a structured three-month internship program supported by the City of Melbourne that engages an early-career artist, curator or arts administrator with a disability to work on a self-devised project with advice from Blindside personnel.
In 2026, Blindside mentors Martina Copley and Benjamin Woods have worked with APA artists David Mendelsohn resulting in the exhibition Footsteps in the miasma.
David Mendelsohn is an emerging multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans drawing, painting, and ceramics. Drawing on diverse influences, including science, technology, geology, and philosophy, his work explores abstract and kaleidoscopic forms. Mendelsohn’s visual language is defined by vivid colours and patterns that warp and shift, evoking a psychedelic experience. His ceramic works echo his two-dimensional practice, incorporating intricate surface markings that mirror the rhythmic, linear motifs of his drawings. Since 2023, Mendelsohn has been developing his practice at Arts Project Australia. His work is held in private collections.
Martina Copley is an artist and writer whose practice explores the poetics of compositional processes. She has worked with Sutton Projects, Propane, Bus Projects, RMIT Project Space, SEVENTH, West Space, City and Docklands Libraries, Melbourne Festival, and Liquid Architecture. She has co-produced two artist books and her writing (often with live readings) has been published by the Expanded Writers Collective, Runway Journal, no more poetry, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), and Bloomsbury Academic. Martina is Chair Artistic Director at Blindside and lectures in contemporary art and writing at RMIT University, the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne and La Trobe College of Art & Design.
Benjamin Woods is an artist and researcher living in Naarm on unceded Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country. His sculpture and sound installation practice mutates and develops in the context of specific place-based research projects.
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