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 2025 Blacktown City Art Prize winner, Monica Rani Rudhar, in this hands-on printmaking workshop.

Participants will explore objects of personal significance, selecting a piece of their own or borrowed jewellery to use as the basis for this printmaking workshop.

Items of jewellery will be translated into two-dimensional prints, exploring scale, pattern, colour. The workshop will guide participants through the steps of translating their chosen object into a printed artwork, first sketching their designs and then working with soft rubber to carve bespoke stamps for printmaking.

Please bring in a small item of jewellery, or a photo of a piece of jewellery to use as inspiration for your artwork.

For ages 16 and over
All printmaking materials are provided
No experience needed

The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre
Saturday 22 March 2025
2.00 pm to 3.30 pm
Cost: $10 + booking fee

Artist Bio

Monica Rani Rudhar is an artist working on Gadigal Land across video, performance and sculpture. Born to Indian and Romanian migrant parents, her work speaks to longing and loss as she navigates the cultural disconnection that stems from the complexities of her multi-racial ethnicity.

Her work is delicately personal and takes the shape of a restorative autobiographical archive that seeks to record her own histories where these stories can exist permanently, unlike those that have been passed down orally from her family which remain fragmented.

Her practice attempts to restore familial histories, traditions and rituals that have been dispersed by migration and draws on the labour required to move passed the barriers that stand in the way of reforging these connections.

Follow Monica on Instagram here

Image Credits:

Monica Rani Rudhar, image courtesy of ABC Arts, photography by Eloise Fuss
Monica Rani Rudhar, image courtesy of ABC Arts, photography by Eloise Fuss

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