The Campbelltown City Council art collection comprises over 1500 artworks by more than 650 Australian artists.
It is focused on major artworks by leading contemporary artists from, living in or closely connected to Western Sydney, and from around Australia.
The collection grows each year through generous donations, bequests, the acquisitive Fisher’s Ghost art award, new commissioned works, and through the Australian Government’s cultural gifts program.
In the last five years, more than 150 artworks have entered the collection.
If you go further back in time, one of the most famous donations was from the estate of the late John Marsden.
This consisted of hundreds of ceramic ducks collected by Marsden, who played a pivotal role in the development of the Campbelltown arts centre.
The ducks, some of them at least, went on exhibition from time, in the John Marsden gallery, naturally.
This latest exhibition will share a selection of the 150 most recently arrived artworks with the community, celebrating the diverse mediums and themes of the artworks that are acquired.
Artists include Suzanne Archer, Blak Douglas, Gordon Hookey, Danie Mellor, Claudia Nicholson, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran and Angela Tiatia.
The exhibition, titled New to the Collection, opened to the public today, Monday, January 4 and will continue until March 16.
This Friday evening there will be a formal opening of this exhibition, along with that of Marikit Santiago: Proclaim Your Death! Exhibition which also opened today.
Proclaim Your Death! is a major solo exhibition by Western Sydney based artist Marikit Santiago, exploring themes of transformation, faith, and identity through immersive and collaborative art practices.
