Our Creative Residency Program offers exciting opportunities for artists who want to engage with people or places in Blacktown. Applications close Thursday, 14 September 2017.

Artists Naomi McCarthy and Shirley Daborn, recipients of the 2017 Pat Parker Memorial Residency, talk about their project "Veil of Wishes" and their plan to collect people's most secret desires.

Bent Western was a 2008 exhibition and performance program at Blacktown Arts Centre that featured works spanning 30 years from a selection of prominent queer artists from Sydney’s western suburbs.

NAIDOC is a special event in Blacktown, which is home to the largest urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in Australia. It's a day where we celebrate the contribution of Aboriginal people to the wider nation by showcasing our talents within.

Sometimes you find art in the most unlikely places ... Let us take you on a tour to 10 of our city’s most creative corners from Bidwill Square to Nurragingy Reserve to Blacktown International Sportspark.

Meet Bee Cruse, Community Engagement Coordinator at Solid Ground. Bee is a storyteller, born and bred on Cabrogal country (a clan within the Darug nation), and her family come from the Gomeroi, Wiradjuri and Monaroo-Yuin peoples of NSW.

We’ve started a collaborative Spotify playlist inspired by the Western Sydney Jam Session. Follow and collaborate with us. And join us at the next jam on Wednesday, 9 August 2017!

Meet artists and first-year university students, Katie Masonwells and Jocelyn Depamaylo, who used their time in the Main Street Studios to work on their project 'Blacktown Storyboards'.

Cali Prince and Wendy McDougall are the recipients of a 2017 Space Residency. Engaged in a range of creative practices, collaboration is at the heart of their upcoming project, "Western Sydney 4th Space Residency (WS4S-R)".

In 2016, Blacktown Arts Centre presented the first iteration of this exhibition series, which examined how the collaborative practices and styles of hip-hop culture influenced the work of contemporary artists Khaled Sabsabi and Minky Rawat.

Leanne Tobin is the recipient of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Creative Residency in 2017. While in residence, Leanne will be working on a new project called 'Nurragingy the Man'.

Watch graffiti artist Chez transform the metal seat in front of Blacktown Arts Centre as part of our current exhibition 'It's Our Thing: More History on Australian Hip-Hop (Part II)'.