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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Join exhibiting artist Linda Brescia and We Are Studios artist Josseline Jeria for a dynamic portraiture workshop that explores painting as the primary method of expression.

Together, Linda and Josseline will guide participants through various approaches to portraiture and delve into themes of identity and storytelling.

Participants are encouraged to bring a photograph or image to work from, this could be a self-portrait, a loved one, or a public figure significant to you. Over the course of two hours, you will begin creating a portrait-focused artwork that can be further developed in your own time.

Thursday 4 September from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm
The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre
Cost: $15, no experience required and all materials provided.
This workshop is designed for adults. 

Bio

Linda Brescia is a Western Sydney-based artist who investigates the banalities and complexities of everyday life experiences and rituals through painting, photography, sculpture and performance. Her practice explores dynamics around visibility and invisibility, masking, care and self-assertion.

The solo exhibition Linda Brescia: Holding up the Sky was presented at Fairfield City Museum & Gallery (2018–2019), and Brescia’s work has been presented in exhibitions and programs for Artspace, Sydney; Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre; Cementa; King Street Gallery Sydney; MOP, Sydney, Penrith Regional Gallery and Parramatta Artists’ Studios where she is an artist in residence 2021-2023 at their Rydalmere studios. Her work has been collected by Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Artcell Collection Management, Blacktown City Council, Penrith Regional Gallery and private collectors.

In 2020 Brescia was awarded the Blacktown City Art Prize for her portrait of American patron of the arts Peggy Guggenheim. Brescia has a long history of facilitating workshops and community projects for numerous organisations and groups.

You can find Linda on Instagram here

Josseline Jeria is an artist living on Dharug Land, New South Wales. Her work responds to autobiographical and lived experiences using various mediums in paintings, drawings and collaged compositions. Through deep investigations into the relationships she has to place, persons and nature, she aims to understand what these connections provide and signify for her.

Josseline’s focus is on understanding universal emotional structures through these autobiographical investigations. Her aim to communicate these structures visually, in order to bypass the verbal, is an effort to remain closer to feeling. Josseline Jeria’s work is held in private collections.

This project is presented by Blacktown Arts and supported by Blacktown City Council

Image Credits:

A Real Experience, 2025, photo by Garry Trinh
Linda Brescia for RAS, photo by Jacquie Manning

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