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We're excited to be working with Bankstown Community Garden for our upcoming School Holiday program!Here's everything yo...
12/06/2026

We're excited to be working with Bankstown Community Garden for our upcoming School Holiday program!

Here's everything you need to know about our Holiday Art Club workshops for kids aged 6 to 12.

Session 1: Botanical Drawing and Painting en Plein Air
Thursday 9 July, 1-2:30pm
Bankstown Community Garden

Session 2: Ceramic Flower Pots
Thursday 16 July, 1-3pm
Bankstown Arts Centre

Register now via eventbrite.com/e/holiday-art-club-draw-paint-and-sculpt-with-nature-ages-6-12-tickets-1990213208281

Get warm and cozy for our July school holiday workshops! KIDS (Ages 6-12)Holiday Art Club: Draw, Paint and Sculpt with N...
05/06/2026

Get warm and cozy for our July school holiday workshops!

KIDS (Ages 6-12)
Holiday Art Club: Draw, Paint and Sculpt with Nature!
Meet at the Community Garden of Bankstown Public School to create colourful botanical artworks with pencils, oil pastels and watercolours, then learn basic ceramic hand-building techniques to create your own flower pots! Use flowers, grasses and leaves to create decorative floral imprints in the clay.
Thu 9 Jul, 1-2:30pm
Thu 16 Jul, 1-3pm
$40 for one session or $70 for both

TEENS (Ages 12-17)
Intro to Still-life painting
Bring an item from home and learn to paint it in this introductory still-life painting workshop for teens!
Wed 8 Jul, 1-3pm
$40

Nerikomi Ceramics: Cups, Plates and Bowls
Learn the Japanese technique of layering coloured clays to create your own set of cups, plates and bowls with personalized patterns!
Thu 16 Jul, 10am-noon
$40

ADULTS (Ages 18+)
Functional Ceramics: Decorative Bowls and Plates
Create your own dinnerware set using basic ceramic hand-building techniques!
Sculpting: Wed 8 Jul, 6-8pm
Glazing: Wed 15 Jul, 6-8pm
$70 for both sessions

Book now here
https://ow.ly/IcmL50Z7qq9

Save the date - Saturday 25 July, noon-6pm! OPEN DAY is back for 2026. Our liveliest day of performances, artist markets...
03/06/2026

Save the date - Saturday 25 July, noon-6pm! OPEN DAY is back for 2026. Our liveliest day of performances, artist markets, free workshops and an opportunity to meet all the organisations that call Bankstown Arts Centre home. Come down to enjoy the sunny vibes to celebrate BAC's 15 year anniversary. Meet new friends, try your hand out on art-making activities and soak up the live performances. 👯☀️🎨

See you there 🎂🙈🤩

Last day to see Ngilina nganyundiya muya-la (it's in my breath/soul) as part of National Reconciliation Week, closing to...
29/05/2026

Last day to see Ngilina nganyundiya muya-la (it's in my breath/soul) as part of National Reconciliation Week, closing tomorrow on Sat 30 May!

Otis Hope Carey is the National Reconciliation Week 2026 artist, presenting Gaagal.


This survey exhibition marks a significant milestone for Gumbaynggirr artist Otis Hope Carey, charting a decade of profound creative evolution. Spanning his 2016 beginnings to the most recent, visceral explorations of Country, the exhibition highlights the kinetic element that connects Carey’s history as a professional surfer to his contemporary mastery of the canvas.

Images 1 and 3: Richard Trang
Image 2: Liam Black

Closing event: ARTIST TALK WITH TIA MADDENSat 30 May, 2-3pm Hear directly from the artist about the significance of the...
28/05/2026

Closing event: ARTIST TALK WITH TIA MADDEN
Sat 30 May, 2-3pm


Hear directly from the artist about the significance of the illegible graffitied forms as seen in Backjump. Tia Madden has been working across language and the linguistics of symbols, finding interest in the porous boundaries between drawing and writing. Come listen to how her time in Cairo has shaped the direction of her practice, how environment becomes a co-author and the expansion of drawing in Misreading Misreading. Saturday 30 May will also be the last day to view the exhibition!

RSVP now via link in bio
https://ow.ly/4NoU50Z4xIt

Photography by Richard Trang

EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT:To Handle / To Hold centres the material of clay and fibre as barometers of cultural history. It...
22/05/2026

EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT:

To Handle / To Hold centres the material of clay and fibre as barometers of cultural history. It is a complex interrogation of social politics, identity and the sensory of the handmade in the digital age. Featuring the works of four emerging artists – Kyiesha Booth, Alice Royds, Anisha Sawaid and Sirinya Stuebe – the exhibition juxtaposes textiles with ceramics, alongside the convergence of materials and concepts in a single artwork or across an individual’s practice. Through material crossings of fibre and clay, the assembly of sculpture and installation redirects signifiers of domestic space and female labour to contemporary art and social discourse.

Kyiesha Booth
Alice Royds
Anisha Sawaid
Sirinya Stuebe

Exhibition opens Saturday 13 June, 2-4pm
RSVP here https://ow.ly/bZmh50Z2veG

To get to Bankstown Arts Centre, you must walk past, or encounter through line of sight, the neighbouring trainline. Tra...
19/05/2026

To get to Bankstown Arts Centre, you must walk past, or encounter through line of sight, the neighbouring trainline. Trains pass by at frequent intervals in a blur of windows, doors and faces, and every so often, you might also glimpse a sprawling line of graffiti. Street writers call this a backjump: a piece painted quickly on the side of a train when parked briefly in traffic or at a terminal, before it proceeds en route to ferry commuters across the metropolis. Of course, backjumps are made with the knowledge they’ll likely be washed off by the day or week’s end and so these markings are not intended to last, nor, necessarily, should they be read or understood. A backjump and graffiti more broadly, is simply made to be witnessed.

- Tia Madden, Artist of Backjump

Hear more from the artist on the poetics of illegibility and the significance of marks that defy to meaning.

Sat 30 May, 2-3pm
Bankstown Arts Centre

RSVP to help us with accurate catering 🙈
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-poetics-of-illegibility-artist-talk-with-tia-madden-tickets-1988612441344

FREE DANCE CLASSES! ⭐👯As part of Shaun Parker & Company's residency at Bankstown Arts Centre, company dancer Samuel Beaz...
15/05/2026

FREE DANCE CLASSES! ⭐👯

As part of Shaun Parker & Company's residency at Bankstown Arts Centre, company dancer Samuel Beazley will lead free daily dance workshops for the public, with an extra special class Wednesday night. Explore a taste of their latest work in development through the surreal styling of SP&Co's custom-built pom-poms in a unique combination of free styles, armography, polyrhythms, waving, popping and contemporary dance moves.

These workshops will be held during their residency at Bankstown Arts Centre every day from 22-26 June 2026.

Mon 22 Jun, 9:30-10:30am
Tues 23 Jun, 9:30-10:30am
Wed 24 Jun, 9:30-10:30am and 6-7pm
Thu 25 Jun, 9:30-10:30am
Fri 26 Jun, 9:30-10:30am

OPEN TO ALL BODIES WITH AND WITHOUT DANCE EXPERIENCE
Ages 12+
Book here https://ow.ly/WnN150YZfrh

ARTIST MARKET STALLHOLDERS CALLOUT 🎨We are so excited to host Open Day 2026 on Saturday 25 July, noon-6pm. Artists will ...
12/05/2026

ARTIST MARKET STALLHOLDERS CALLOUT 🎨

We are so excited to host Open Day 2026 on Saturday 25 July, noon-6pm. Artists will be accepted based on quality and product diversity to ensure a broad range of offerings for our community. We especially encourage applications from artists who specialise in wearable art and accessories, as well as food- or dining-related merchandise.

🫧 No tabling fees; all sales will go directly to you
🫧 Open to Sydney-based artists
🫧 Choice of whole table (180x75cm) or shared table (120x75cm)
🫧 Artists are to provide their own tablecloth and set up their own equipment
🫧 Bankstown Arts Centre supports local craft, art and design and will not accept AI-generated, traced or copied art, or reselling of products

Submissions close midnight, Saturday 30 May. Apply via link in bio!

Some of our youngest visitors from Kids Art Club have been very inspired by Otis Hope Carey's survey exhibition. They as...
11/05/2026

Some of our youngest visitors from Kids Art Club have been very inspired by Otis Hope Carey's survey exhibition. They asked big questions about the ocean and family, and even made their own paintings inspired by the large ones on the walls.

Come visit Ngilina nganyundiya muya-la with your little ones if you haven't already, or bring the child within to appreciate the stories of the Gaagal.

On until Sat 30 May

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