BNI Project on NITV!

We were very proud to realise that NITV featured video footage from Artist Camp #2 during a recent broadcast, promoting the Corroboree celebration in November! In case you missed it, here’s [...]

Madang Gurrung Ngurra: June

Cara Macleod, MCA artist educator. True to its name the Ngurra (camp/ gathering) of gurrung (kids/ young people) was madang (strong/ brave), with a dazzling array of artworks produced in response [...]

Leanne Tobin: 2013 Exhibition

In 2013 Blacktown Arts Centre coordinated an exhibition curated by Brook Andrew.  Participating artists were r e a, Daniel Boyd, Jason Wing, Robyn Caughlan, Karla Dickens and Leanne Tobin. [...]

Madang Gurrung Ngurra: March

Cara Macleod, MCA Artist Educator. Local secondary students and staff from Chifley College, Senior Campus, and Plumpton High School were invited to take part in a 3 day intensive art camp called [...]

Karla Dickens: Random Bits and Pieces

My five year old daughter Ginger slept in this cradle as a baby, next to my bed, safe and untouched. Now it honours the pain of the mothers and children that were separated, the families and [...]

Biography of Maria Lock

By Jack Brook    Published as Lock, Maria, Dictionary of Sydney, 2008 There was nothing ordinary about Maria Lock. She was the daughter of an Aboriginal chief, her educational achievements were [...]

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