
The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre
An innovative multi-arts hub in the heart of Blacktown City.
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.
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
Winner 2018 Blacktown City Art Prize | Bankstown Koori Elders Group , Tribal Pride
Winner Aboriginal Artist Prize | Venessa Possum, Damana (Hand)
Winner Local Artist Prize | Fozia Zahid, Country Out of the Man
Highly Commended | Jane Theau, #MeToo
Highly Commended | Mohsen Meysami, Green, Blue, Yellow, Red …
Highly Commended | Belinda Sims, Saudade: Portrait of Janet and Leo Kelly at Home
Highly Commended | Blak Douglas, Workers (for the Dole) ClubWinner 2017 Blacktown City Art Prize | Tess Mehonoshen, Measuring Loss
Winner Local Artist Prize and Highly Commended | Kristone Capistrano, Breath
Winner Aboriginal Artist Prize | Naomi Grant, Dad’s Country
Highly Commended | Carol Ann Fitzgerald, Landscape and Memory – Wiradjuri Country
Highly Commended | Minka Gillian, Pink Outburst – A Self Portrait
Highly Commended | Terry Murphy, Tabulae Unum Ex Oculis
Highly Commended | Peter Hinton, Quality of a Few Minutes #1 and 2 – A Study on Whitlam2016 Blacktown City Art Prize | Jane Giblin, Lilu Stands to Izzie
Local Artist Prize and Highly Commended | Melissa Chapman, Irrational Logic
Aboriginal Artist Prize | Bankstown Koori Elders Group, Murris and Kooris
Highly Commended | Amala Groom, Read Before Consuming
Highly Commended | Nerissa Lea, The Sane Ones
Highly Commended | Rosalind Stanley, My World
People’s Choice | Sima Alikhani, Fly
Main Prize |Francois Breuillaud-Limondin, Prisms
Aboriginal Artist Prize | Tony Albert, Hello, Paleface,
Local Artist Prize | Alexandra Byrne, Outside My House
People’s Choice Prize | Jane Bennett, Millers Point from the Top of the Harbour Tower
Painting | Joel Beerden, Wandering Front #3
Watercolour | Brian Stratton, Estuary Fragments, Crookhaven
Works On Paper | Jody Graham, Sentinel
Sculpture | Elizabeth Roet, Pods, Reef Series
Aboriginal Artist Prize | Geoff Sellman, Puffins, Lyn Butchart and Land Spirits #2
Environmental Art Prize | Melissa Harvey, Out Grown
Local Artist Prize | Hiren Patel, Winter Rain
Youth Artist Prize | Liam Veldsman, Echoes of Grief
Painting | Linda Joyce, The Vagrant Lichen
Watercolour | Jessica Bradford, Pt. Macquarie
Works On Paper | Rew Hanks, Stop! There’s No Need to Shoot the Natives
Sculpture | Jody Graham, Someone Else’s Life
Aboriginal Artist Prize | Craig Tangye, The Hawkesbury
Environmental Art Prize | Ro Murray, Harvest
Local Artist Prize | Edgar Schilter, Buenos Aires No.23
Youth Artist Prize | Peter Carney, Death Instinct
People’s Choice | Freya Jobbins, Zeus, Optimus Maximus
Blacktown Workers Club | Mehwish Iqbal, Maha
Young Painter Prize | Liam Ambrose, Tabourie
Painting | Joseph Hallam, Portrait of Isabella
Watercolour | Jessica Bradford, Destination
Works On Paper | Ro Murray, Ocean Park Still Life
Sculpture | Terrence Wright, Uncle Bill in Glass
Aboriginal Artist Prize | Terrence Wright, Uncle Bill in Glass
Environmental Art Prize | Carol Ann Fitzgerald, Essence
Local Artist Prize | Erum Zackria, Glory
Youth Artist Prize | Wade Kirby, Untitled
ARG Prize | Cassandra Hard-Lawrie, Jane
Young Painter Prize | Marikit Santiago, Mestiza
Painting Prize | Brendan Mogg, Early Morning Light
Watercolour Prize | Liz Shreeve, (Not) Green
Works On Paper | Elizabeth Pozega, Procession 1-9
Sculpture Prize | Louis Pratt, Just a Bee’s Penis
Aboriginal Artist Prize | Danny Eastwood, How Blacktown Got It’s Name
Environmental Art Prize | Kate Dunn, Mount Tomah
Local Artist Prize | Ernst Aaron, Untitled
Youth Artist Prize | Christian Atkins, AAAGH!!! – Smell the cheese
ARG Prize | Ro Murray, Ocean Park Still Life II