One Past Liverpool exhibits emerging artists alongside the artists that have helped transform our building into Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.

One Past Liverpool marks the 25th anniversary of Casula Powerhouse as an arts centre. To consider this milestone, we have commissioned a group of artists under the age of 25 to create a new work by engaging our extensive archive and through conversations with many prominent Australian artists, curators and producers behind the centre’s projects. Each of these new commissions are exhibited alongside works from our past, to position them within the conversations and concerns that we have been responding to throughout our history. By displaying works from our history alongside new commissions, One Past Liverpool reveals how Casula Powerhouse has always been a key player in conversations about how ‘this place’ (our building, Liverpool and Western Sydney) represents itself and challenges those same ideas.

One Past Liverpool recognises that ‘this place’ is never still, static or fixed; instead, it is always growing and always pushing at the boundaries of what you think it might be becoming.

One Past Liverpool will also exhibit artworks from the history of Casula Powerhouse’s artistic program by artists including: Idil Abdullahi, Robyn Backen, Diego Bonetto, Rebecca Brady, Michael Butler, Christine Dean, Gary Deirmendjian, Suzanne Everett, Rew Hanks, Joanne Hoppett, Jamie James, Matthew James, Michael Kempson, Hussam Khadhr, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Suzanne Lyons-Jones, Tin Nguyen, Raquel Ormella, Prins, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Joanne Saad, Gina Sinozich, Shireen Taweel, George Tillianakis, My Le Thi, Arthur Trindall, Judy Watson.

One Past Liverpool also exhibits the winning works from Off The Tanks, a two-part graffiti battle featuring artists who have a history of using the legal walls on the tanks behind the building. Off The Tanks has been coordinated by Phu Nguyen and features: DCYDES, H1, Yoshe.

Join us for the Official Exhibition Launch on Saturday 28 September (2pm-4pm) and the Anniversary Event on Saturday 26 October. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.

Photo by Micha Couell. Image features (from left to right): Lili Occhiuto (XXXL member), Beryl La, Lizeth Mendoza Yalan (XXXL member), Louie Young, Kristina Savic, Simone Cheuanghane, Anna May Kirk, Jack De Lacy, Mark Bosch, Loc Nguyen, Emily Roebuck. Absent: Liana Molina (XXXL member).