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Last night we had the privilege of hosting guests at alongside .agency for CORE.
 
Raw, thought-provoking and deeply moving, the work explores what it means to navigate identity across two worlds: Country and colony. It’s the kind of performance that sparks conversation long after you leave the theatre.
 
The season is still running until June 6. We highly recommend experiencing it for yourself.
🎭 Tickets available via

The nightclub institution of ‘Australia’ sits on stolen land. The lights are bright. The music is loud. Beneath it all, Country continues to live and thrive.
 
CORE is a bold contemporary performance exploring Indigenous identity in modern Australia — navigating the tension between Country and colony through movement, sound and theatrical collage. 
 
We’re proud to support the full season at alongside our long time collaborators .agency.
 
Starting tomorrow and running through to the 6th of June. 
Book tickets now through before the season wraps up.

NEW WORK | THEFULCRUM.AGENCY
Some work is measured in buildings. Some in decades.

TheFulcrum.Agency works across architecture, Aboriginal community development and social impact — with First Nations communities in urban centres, regional towns and remote communities. Their process isn’t about polished case studies. It lives in the relationships, the listening, and the long-term thinking beneath the built outcome.

Their new site needed to reflect that. More space for community voice, context and process. A calmer, more considered way into work that resists easy summarising.

Design by Block. Development by Morgan Leek.

A collaboration twenty years in the making — and still going.
🔗 thefulcrum.agency

NEW WORK | REMUMBER 10.05.26

Every year, the same thing happens.

Mother’s Day arrives. Someone panics. Someone ends up at a servo.

The irony of forgetting the day dedicated to the woman who forgets nothing.

didn’t need to motivate people. They just needed to make sure they remembered. One idea. One date. Said loudly enough that it sticks.

REMUMBER 10.05.26.

Radio, digital, in-store and outdoor - including a 21-poster mega-site in Melbourne. Far-from-subtle by design.

Don’t be the servo flowers person.

CRED | UNBLOCK
The traditional agency remuneration model has a design flaw. Every new project means scoping, estimating, negotiating. Before a brief is even written, time and goodwill are already spent.
 
We built UnBlock with Simon Lamplough, Chief Customer Officer at Warehouse – a client who’d sat on both sides of the table and had seen enough.
 
The model is simple. Clients subscribe to a pool of ‘BlockBits’ – priced by project type, allocated by priority, adjusted in real time as their business changes. No haggling. No renegotiating. Just the brief and the work.
 
Outcome-based. Built for flexibility. Designed to make the relationship the asset, not the invoice.
 
It’s live. And we think it changes things.
 
Read the full story via Online. Link in bio.

GOOD COMPANY | MONTISA

Montisa is in her final year of school in northern Thailand. She’s Akha — one of the hill tribes that face systemic barriers to education, employment, and economic participation. She’s thoughtful, capable, and clear about what she wants: university, then business or teaching.

The only thing standing between her and that future was money. For us, a shamefully small amount. For her, a life-defining amount. That’s the part that’s unacceptable.

We’ve established the Block Scholarship to support Montisa through to graduation and into Rajabhat University, Chiang Rai. She earned it. We’re just removing the obstacle.

Millions of kids like Montisa don’t get to find out what they’re capable of — not because of who they are, but because of where they were born. That’s not misfortune. It’s a structural failure.

If you want to make a direct impact, look at what are doing.

GOOD COMPANY | MONTISA.

Montisa is in her final year of school in northern Thailand. She’s Akha — one of the hill tribes that face systemic barriers to education, employment, and economic participation. She’s thoughtful, capable, and clear about what she wants: university, then business or teaching.

The only thing standing between her and that future was money. For us, a shamefully small amount. For her, a life-defining amount. That’s the part that’s unacceptable.

We’ve established the Block Scholarship to support Montisa through to graduation and into Rajabhat University, Chiang Rai. She earned it. We’re just removing the obstacle.

Millions of kids like Montisa don’t get to find out what they’re capable of — not because of who they are, but because of where they were born. That’s not misfortune. It’s a structural failure.

If you want to make a direct impact, look at what are doing.

HAPPENINGS | HOW WE ENTERED YEAR 25.

April 1. Twenty-five years in. We held the first Notes on Block Salon at The room filled the way good rooms do; without effort.

We launched IRL - printed editions of our  journal for the thinking behind the work. Volumes 1 and 2 are now sitting at Block and Lawson Flats — pick one up or visit NotesonBlock.com for the digital experience.

‘Allegory of Perth (2020–2024)’, ’s mixed-media painting series, is now showing at Lawson Flats through April. Kept private for years. Worth the wait.

And in Volume 2 — ‘The Ghost in the Studio’. walked into Braddock’s studio unannounced and photographed whatever he found. The result is unsettling in the best way.

Three things at once on our way to 25.

We are looking for freelance mid-senior designers based in WA.

If that sounds like you, send your CV to [email protected]