It is a cultural facility of Campbelltown City Council, assisted by other government funding and private sponsorships.

[2] The focus is on contemporary art, aiming "to forge collaborative exchanges between artists, disciplines and communities through the creation of new curatorial situations and challenging streams of practice".

[2] Hosted by Campbelltown City Council, Campbelltown Arts Centre is funded by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW, and by the federal government through the Australia Council for the Arts.

[2] The Centre's complex includes the following facilities:[3][4] Campbelltown is home to one of the largest urban Indigenous communities in Australia[5][6] and the Centre's permanent collection contains a lot of contemporary Indigenous art, including fibre art, paintings and work on paper.

Artists represented include Joyce Mate, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Shirley MacNamara, Lena Yarinkura, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, James Gleeson, Queenie McKenzie, Pat Larter, John Mawurndjul, Yuhana Nashmi, Abdul Abdullah, and Kitty Kantilla.