ARCHIBALD prize-winning artist Blak Douglas returns to his home turf for a mid-career survey exhibition opening on March 15 at Penrith Regional Gallery in NSW.

Douglas’s first exhibition was staged in Jamisontown, South Penrith, in 1998, and this new exhibition, Blak Douglas: The Halfway Line, includes more than 30 major works in varied mediums drawn from collections around Australia focusing on the past 30 years of the artist’s practice and his longstanding connection to Penrith from 1998 to the present.

Co-curated by Djon Mundine OAM and Penrith Regional Gallery Director Toby Chapman, the exhibition tells the story of where, how and why a young graphic artist and Dhungatti descendant…