Image: Garabara Dance Group by Liza Moscatelli, Mosca Media Australia
Summer 2024
2024 is heating up with Blacktown Arts!
Celebrate Summer with a season of creativity for children, families and all.
Featuring the prestigious Blacktown City Art Prize and Young Artist Prize exhibitions, a fun-filled Hive Festival for Sydney Festival, the unveiling of our brand-new Makers Space with Tarni Eastwood, and more.
Jump in and explore the full program below.
Exhibitions
Image: Garage Graphix: Making Art in Mt Druitt, 1986 Calendar page, 1986.
Screenprint on paper. Courtesy of the artists
Sydney Festival –
Talking Posters: Garage Graphix 1981 – 1998
Garage Graphix is heading to Walsh Bay!
Dive into a selection of screen-printed artworks, calendars and photographs alongside materials from the renowned ‘Garage’ in Mount Druitt in western Sydney.
This exhibition has now ended.
Image: The Great Barrier Reef, 2022 by Lauren Johnson. Photography by
silversalt Photography
2024 Blacktown City Art Prize and Young Artist Prize
Don’t miss the acclaimed Blacktown City Art Prize exhibition, showcasing 81 finalists’ works from Blacktown, western Sydney and across Australia.
Alongside, the Young Artist Prize exhibition showcases works from artists aged 3 to 14 from Blacktown City, responding to the theme ‘Creating Cooler Cities.’
This exhibition has now ended.
Festivals
Image: Zindzi & the Zillionaires, courtesy of the artist
Sydney Festival – Hive Festival
In collaboration with Claudia Chidiac and in partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Join us for 2 fun-filled days of hands-on art making, music, performance and play for children and families, Blacktown-style!
This event has now ended.
Making
Makers Space with Tarni Eastwood
The new Makers Space is here!
Ngiyampaa and Guringai artist and weaver Tarni Eastwood has created an immersive world that celebrates the cultural practice of weaving.
So come in, touch and feel the objects, and get making.
19 January to 4 May 2024
Digital
Image: Blacktown Shorts Q&A, courtesy Vonne Patiag and Dee Dogan
Summer Digital
Dive into digital this Summer!
Create at Home with online activities, listen to homegrown tracks by Solid Ground and get behind the scenes with the Blacktown Shorts Q&A.
Stream now
Presented by Blacktown Arts and supported by Blacktown City Council and the NSW Government through Create NSW.
