KeaNU NeLSON – PHOeNIX CeNTRaL PaRK

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Singer songwriter | First Nations

Keanu Nelson

Hailing from the remote community of Papunya, northwest of Alice Springs, Luritja singer-songwriter Keanu Nelson quietly developed songs with his notebook, guitar, and voice. Songs of longing for Country, for family, for girls. With no immediate means to record them, he fatefully connected with producer and musician Yuta Matsumura (The Lewers, Th Blisks) through the Papunya Tjupi Arts Centre, where he can often be found painting in the Western Desert tradition and curiously scrolling YouTube for music videos and concert footage.

Phoenix Central Park

Phoenix Central Park is the singular vision of philanthropist Judith Neilson AM, well-known as the founder and owner of Sydney’s prized White Rabbit Gallery and its world renowned collection of contemporary Chinese art. A collection of one-of-a-kind performance spaces in Sydney, including the multi-award winning Phoenix Central Park in Chippendale and a repurposed 19th-century Gothic church in Alexandria, Phoenix Cultural Centre aims to revitalise inner-city neighbourhoods with new cultural beacons that are as bold on the outside as the performances they present within.