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

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Garage Graphix in the 80s and 90s

In the 1980s Garage Graphix put Mount Druitt on the Australian cultural map. It was an astonishing explosion of energies, ideas and images, admired around the country for the way the ‘Garage’ tackled urgent social and political issues. Forty years later, Garage Graphix posters are still fresh, powerful, and relevant. The following photographs were taken at the ‘Garage’, and were selected for display in the ‘Talking Posters: Garage Graphix 1981 – 1998’ exhibition.

Reflections from Garage Graphix arts Workers, 'Talking Posters: Garage Graphix 1981-1998,' The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre.

Garage Graphix artworkers celebrating at the launch of the 1987 Calendar Mt Druitt 365 Days.

Young women participants printing issues posters as part of the Talking Posters project led by Leanne Donhoe.

Alice Hinton Bateup working through design ideas with a community member at the Garage.

Marla Guppy and Betsy McCabe running an outdoor T-shirt printing workshop at Minchinbury.

Garage Graphix trainees Leanne Clerke and Leanne Edwards printing an International Youth Year poster.

Marla Guppy setting up a print run with public tenants for the Edges of Cities project in 1986.

Gary Jones and Alice Hinton Bateup working on designs.
Image Credits:

First image: ‘Talking Posters: Garage Graphix 1981 – 1998’, exhibition display, Jennifer Leahy
Photos courtesy of Marla Guppy

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