Choose Your Fighter
Blacktown Arts, 6–27 February 2021
Artists: Amy Toma, Emily Ngo, Ethan Neish, Jayda-Leigh Neish
Curators: Justine Youssef, Leila El Rayes, Tian Zhang
Workshop facilitators: Justine Youssef, Leila El Rayes
Fantasy armour, adornments and alternative personas—Choose Your Fighter brought together the work of young artists local to the Blacktown area. Through a series of workshops and conversations, the artists developed costumes and props that highlighted personal experiences, connections to place and this current time. These surreal objects were then used to produce a series of fictional and fantastical self-portraits that explored concepts of world-building, placemaking and code-switching.
All photos by Jade D’Amico, courtesy of Blacktown Arts.