Bankstown Arts Centre

Bankstown Arts Centre (BAC) is a vibrant contemporary multi-arts organisation that advocates for diverse and accessible art with a strong focus on Canterbury-Bankstown, Western Sydney, First Nations and CALD artists.

Embedded in community, our projects connect people and address critical issues of our time. We champion experimental art practices for generative social impact.

Centred on the twin pillars of social practice and placemaking, BAC develops and presents engaging multi-platform art experiences and stories that are local, global and interconnected. Core to our artistic vision is an innovative transdisciplinary, transcultural and transmedial curatorial framework.

Bankstown Arts Centre

5 Olympic Parade, Bankstown NSW, Australia

02 9707 5400

cbcity.nsw.gov.au/arts-centre

Tue to Sat 10am–4pm.
See our website for latest information.

Exhibitions

Utopia: Painting for peace and cultural wellbeing

9 Mar - 27 Apr

Flux + Flow

Caroline Garcia, Kristina Mah, Michellie Jade Charvat

9 Mar - 27 Apr

MultiFutures

Group Exhibition

11 May - 29 Jun

Feature

Trevor Yeung captures the feeling of small intimacies

Trevor Yeung’s art draws on moments of quiet, dawning intimacy between people—interactions which are immensely felt yet so difficult to express. The Hong-Kong based artist is in this year’s Biennale of Sydney at White Bay Power Station and Artspace.

Isabella Trimboli

Interview

Talking Promises with Jill Orr

With a practice stretching over 50 years, celebrated artist Jill Orr is known for working with her body and centering responsibility towards our environment and place. In her latest exhibition at Linden New Art, Orr revisits an earlier series from 2012—and what it can tell us today.

Amelia Wallin

Feature

The systems that connect us with Dana Harris and Peter Atkins

In their first joint exhibition together, the couple Dana Harris and Peter Atkins share their separate three-year-long projects made during the Melbourne lockdowns, delivering a shared interest in geometry and colour in SUPERsystems at TarraWarra Museum of Art.

Andrew Stephens

Feature

Bundanon’s Tales of Land & Sea: three exhibitions working in harmony to discuss loss, migration and colonisation

The three separate exhibitions that come together in Tales of Land & Sea, speak to Arthur Boyd’s sense of justice, his desire to break down barriers between class and cultures, and his deep love of the ancient myths that still speak to humanity.

Joanna Mendelssohn

Preview

The mutable language of drawing

Fabrication, a co-curatorial project now showing at DRAW Space, brings together 10 contemporary artists working in the intersections of drawing and digital fabrication.

Saaro Umar

Studio

Serwah Attafuah’s studio brings together Afrofuturism, The Matrix and heavy metal

25-year-old Serwah Attafuah is known for her hyper-luminescent dreamscapes and cybernetic archetypes. In her Sydney studio she discusses the scavenger methods, ancestral rituals, and socio-ecological concerns that scaffold her practice—and why The Matrix helps her understand the world.

Bankstown Arts Centre