The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre
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I Talk Through My Art and My Art Talks Through Me
I Talk Through My Art and My Art Talks Through Me
Blacktown City recognises the importance of public art in contributing to a vibrant, inclusive and resilient community.
In 2023, Blacktown Arts presented I Talk Through My Art and My Art Talks Through Me an exhibition curated by Danny Eastwood’s son, Jamie Eastwood, featuring a broad selection of paintings, prints, cartoons and ceramics spanning over four decades of artistic practice. The 4 images displayed at Max Webber Library were selected from this exhibition to be displayed for the public.
Danny Eastwood is a proud Ngemba Elder and prolific artist practicing as a cartoonist, ceramicist and painter. He is well-known for his murals across Sydney walls, floors, hospitals and trains, and his iconic cartoons which have been featured in the Koori Mail for over 40 years. His extensive art practice continues to be an inspiration to many generations of artists.
Creative Team
By Uncle Danny Eastwood
This project is no longer available.
Artist bio
Danny Eastwood is a descendant of the Ngemba group of western New South Wales. His mother came from Brewarrina. He was born and grew up in the Eora area of the Gadigal nation. For the past 43 years he has been a proud member of the Darug area of western Sydney.
Danny Eastwood has been working in the Blacktown community in western Sydney for over 30 years. At 68 years of age, he has retired three times – but unable to say no, Danny finds himself continuing at a tireless pace. He is also a very modest man who has won the Parliament of New South Wales Indigenous Art Prize in 2008 for his entry My Reconciliation, a pen, ink and watercolour on paper, depicting a scene from the back lane where he grew up as a small boy in Waterloo/Redfern. Danny has also received the NAIDOC Poster Award.
Each fortnight Danny has to complete a cartoon for the Koori Mail – something he’s been doing for the last 20 years. In between these deadlines he travels across Sydney teaching art to inmates from Long Bay jail, Aboriginal Elders, school kids and community groups, as well as working on new public art works.
is project is presented by Blacktown Arts and supported by Blacktown City Council and the NSW Government through Create NSW.
