BAYANIHAN PHILIPPINE ART PROJECT

AT BLACKTOWN ARTS CENTRE, THEfinal segment of the major Bayanihan Philippine Art Project across Sydney is about to open. Titled Balik Bayan, the exhibition translates from the Tagalog language – balik means ‘return’ and bayan ‘country’ – thus “a return to country”. This sense of return and closure will wind up the epic and ongoing art project that explores the many facets of faith, ceremony, home and place in Philippine art.

First proposed in 2016 by Dr John Yu AC, former Chair