The Poster Centre 2019 - Blacktown Arts

Acknowledgement of Country

Dharug

Bayadyinyang budyari Dharug yiyura Dharug Ngurra.
Bayady’u budyari Dharug Warunggadgu baranyiin barribugu.
Bayady’u budyari wagulgu yiyuragu Ngurra bimalgu Blacktown City. Flannel flowers dyurali bulbuwul.
Yanmannyang mudayi Dharug Ngurrawa. Walama ngyini budbud dali Dharug Ngurra Dharug yiyura baranyiin barribugu.

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We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this Land, the Dharug people, and their continued connection to Country.
We pay our respects to Elders from yesterday to tomorrow.
We extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Blacktown City where the flannel flowers still grow proud and strong.
We will walk softly on this land and open our hearts to Country as the Dharug people have for tens of thousands of years.

Credit to: Dharug woman Rhiannon Wright, daughter of Leanne ‘Mulgo’ Watson Redpath and granddaughter of Aunty Edna Watson

The Poster Centre in 2019 was a creative studio response to the Garage Graphix archive of screen-printed posters. Printmaker, Wendy Murray, was invited to setup an open print studio at The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre for 6 weeks. It was artist-run, free and open to all visitors and community participants to make a screen-print and add their voices to the tradition of community activism in Western Sydney. Alongside the print studio was a gallery display of original Garage Graphix artworks and photographs from the 80s and 90s, which inspired the creative work in The Poster Centre.

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Display of Garage Graphix wallpaper and original posters, The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, 2019.

The display was used as a resource and inspiration for artists and community participants working in The Poster Centre screen-printing studio, photo by Jennifer Leahy

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