Indigenous Art
Campbelltown is home to one of the largest urban Aboriginal communities in the Country and the Centre focuses on urban Indigenous visual arts and performance practice. The City is also home to one of the largest and fastest growing Pacific communities in Australia. The Centre has developed an ongoing Pacific arts program that in 2007 included the development and presentation of the major project News from Islands that included over twenty new commissions from artists across the Asia and the Pacific. Campbelltown Arts Centre has a range of international intercultural projects in development that includes residencies, performance and visual arts.
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“What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground,—and to one another; it is either winged or it is legged. It is hardly as if you had seen a wild creature when a rabbit or a partridge bursts away, only a natural one, as much to be expected as rustling leaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 8:2.
“Man was kreated a little lower than the angells and has bin gittin a little lower ever sinse.” (Josh Billings, His Sayings, ch. 28, 1865)