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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English

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

From The Collection

Culture and creativity are part of everyone’s daily life.Blacktown Arts recognises that creativity plays an important role in developing opportunities for artists and in contributing to the wellbeing of our community.

From The Collection is a temporary public art display on the Max Webber Library windows that features 4 artworks selected from the Blacktown City Art Collection.

Blacktown City Council has been collecting artworks for over 30 years. The Blacktown City Art Collection has become an important source of civic pride and a treasured repository of local knowledge. It maps how social values, cultural perspectives and artistic concerns of the community have changed over time and is a source of inspiration for current and future generations.

To find out more about the Blacktown City Art Collection see here.

 

Artworks as displayed:

Leanne Tobin, Are you listening now? 2021

Barbara Newton, Waratah, 2018

Roxanne Minchin, Central Australian Landscape, c. 2000

Brendon Mogg, Early Morning Light, 2011

This project is presented by Blacktown Arts and supported by Blacktown City Council and the NSW Government through Create NSW.

Image Credits:

From the Collection, Max Webber Library, 2023. Photo courtesy of Blacktown Arts

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