The Blak Arts Collective Pop-Up Gallery Shop …
…will bring local Aboriginal art and creatives to Muswellbrook Marketplace in mid-October.
Step inside and discover Aboriginal artwork, stories and culture.
15-18 & 22-24 October 2026 (see below for actual hours)
You can:
- Browse and purchase true local original artwork and gifts
- Enjoy live art demonstrations and talks
- Workshops! Activities! for kids and adults!
- Meet local First Nations creatives
Come to the opening: 5pm Thursday 15 October 2026
Muswellbrook Marketplace, 72-78 Brook St Muswellbrook (we’re near the foodcourt). Get first dibs on the art!
Aboriginal artists from across the region will have the opportunity to exhibit and sell their work, share their stories of culture behind their art, participate in workshops and live demonstrations, and connect with the local community.
“The Pop-Up will be a great centre of fun and activity,” says Bindi Baker, one of the gallery organisers. “There’s demonstrations and workshops, and there’ll even be a boomerang-throwing lesson you can book into.”
Organiser Kemer Edwards is filling the gallery with a representative line-up of creative work. “There’s be big and small paintings, weavings, jewellery, woodwork, sculpture, and other stuff too. And a lot of First Nations art tells a story that comes from Country and Family and that stuff.”
Whose work will you get to see? Expressions of interest are now open to First Nations artists from Wanaruah/Wonnarua and Gringai./Worimi mob, as well as any First Nations creatives living within the Dungog, Singleton, Muswellbrook and Upper Hunter Shires. “We are super grateful for Muswellbrook Shire Council who manage the shopping mall in supporting this Pop-Up to happen,” says Bindi. “Our goal is to sell work – something for your wall, for your table, something to wear, or a great Christmas present.”
Hours of opening: (subject to change)
- Thu 15 October 11am-5pm; then the launch 5-7pm.
- Fri 16 October 10am-5pm
- Sat 17 October 9am-4pm
- Sun 18 October 10am-2pm
- Thu 22 October 10am-5pm
- Fri 23 October 10am-5pm
- Sat 24 October 9am-4pm
Book for a boomerang-throwing lesson at the shop. Some workshops require booking (Uncle Richie picture below), others are just drop-ins at the shop!
Details of workshops and demonstrations: click here. They include:
- All-day demonstrations of Aboriginal art illustration
- Drop-in bush medicine demonstrations
- Boomerang painting workshop
- Boomerang throwing activity (book at the shop, limited numbers – the actual throwing will happen at Stan Thiess Park)
- Weaving activity
- Meet The Artist opportunities
- and more!
The project is delivered by Blak Arts Collective, in partnership with Arts Upper Hunter and Wanaruah Local Aboriginal Land Council, with funding support from the Australian Government’s Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support (IVAIS) program.
Like to know more? info@blakartscollective.com.au.
Images: basketwork by Rosslyn Thomson from the 2023 Here Now Always festival, courtesy the artist. Uncle Richie Lawton, who will be teaching boomerang throwing, courtesy Sue Lawton.