Blacktown Arts

Blacktown Arts Centre is a recognised leader in the development of contemporary arts in Australia. We support artistic innovation and offer exciting, new experiences for audiences through an award-winning curated program of exhibitions, performances, workshops, residencies and events.

Blacktown Arts Centre is committed to exploring dynamic, culturally diverse work that reflects Blacktown, its history and its communities. We place Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and communities at the heart of our program to develop new work drawing on issues of local and global significance.

Email: artscentre@blacktown.nsw.gov.au

Blacktown Arts

78 Flushcombe Rd, Blacktown NSW 2148, Australia

02 9839 6558

blacktownarts.com.au

Tue to Sat 10am–5pm.
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Exhibitions

A Real Experience

1 Jul - 13 Sep

Feature

Barbara Kruger: THINK OF ME THINKING OF YOU

For decades, beginning well before the advent of social media, Barbara Kruger’s prescient use of words and text has invited people to consider their context in contemporary society. In Brisbane, between 4–7 September, audiences may experience her concise, dynamic aesthetic within the internationally acclaimed Gems delivered by choreographer Benjamin Millepied and the L.A. Dance Project.

Louise Martin-Chew

News

The Hadley’s Art Prize Winner is announced

New South Wales-based artist Sophie Cape, has won the Hadley’s Art Prize for 2025. The winning piece, alongside the 28 finalists, will be on display at Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart until 21 September.

Art Guide Australia

Feature

Listening with Discomfort and Possibility

For Listening Acts at the Now or Never Festival, the music and performance company Chamber Made invited artists to interrogate the intersection between the body, listening and technology.

Josephine Mead

Preview

Questions from the boulevard

‘North Terrace: worlds in relief’ showing at Samstag Museum of Art, invites viewers to reflect on the complicated legacies of the cultural institutions that line Adelaide’s North Terrace.

Walter Marsh

In Pictures

Photos of a life

An exhibition 50 years in the making, Auto-Photo: A life in Portraits currently on display at RMIT Gallery, celebrates the life of Alan Adler, one of the oldest and longest-serving photobooth technicians in the world.

Art Guide Australia

Feature

Piercing the veil

A new exhibition at Buxton Contemporary finds a rich complexity in the shadowy terrain between life and death.

Blacktown Arts

Blacktown Arts

Exhibitions

A Real Experience

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