Campbelltown Arts Centre (CAC)

Located on the edge of Sydney, Campbelltown Arts Centre (CAC) is a national leader in the delivery of an expanding high quality, contemporary artistic program. CAC is in a unique position to forge collaborative exchanges between artists, disciplines and communities through the creation of new curatorial situations and challenging streams of practice are realised.

Campbelltown Arts Centre is a cultural facility of Campbelltown City Council and located on Tharawal land. CAC is assisted by the NSW Government through Arts NSW.

Campbelltown Arts Centre (CAC)

1 Art Gallery Road, Campbelltown NSW, Australia

02 4645 4100

c-a-c.com.au/

Daily 10am–4pm.
See our website for latest information.

Exhibitions

Fisher’s Ghost Art Award 2024

26 Oct - 6 Dec

Feature

Leyla Stevens responds to archival displacement

Past meets present in Leyla Steven’s latest exhibition, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and co-curated by Artspace. The Australian-Balinese artists adopts a collaborative approach to restitution, scrutinising the systems of conservation and documentation we have inherited.

Jennifer Yang

Preview

The ceramics of the Central Desert

Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Review

About Face mirrors the alluring world of contemporary portrait painting

About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.

Jane O'Sullivan

Preview

The immersive storytelling of Leah King-Smith

rhythm wRites, a new exhibition at QUT Art Museum, spans 30 years of Bigambul artist Leah King-Smith’s manifold art practice, covering painting, photography, sound and animation.

Briony Downes

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The photography of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto captures uncertainty, ruin and empty splendour

Born in 1948, Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto works with photography, site-specific sculpture and architecture. Time Machine at the Museum of Contemporary Art surveys over five decades of his work, highlighting his conceptual approach to images and his continual investigation of the photographic form.

Jane Simon

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AI-Generated Art? Bring it on!

Artists need not fear the spectre of AI-generated art. Instead, Oslo Davis suggests, we need to start reaping the rewards.

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Campbelltown Arts Centre (CAC)