Bathurst has been selected as the host city for the 2026 SWITCH Conference, a gathering of library staff, Councillors, trade delegates and industry professionals from across NSW.
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Have you thought to yourself: I’d get more art made if moved off the kitchen table into my own studio? Orange painter Tara Coey did just that and the move paid off. She opened her first full solo show, Place, at Peisley Street Gallery this month.
Long-time Parkes Musical and Dramatic Society director, writer and leader Lyn Townsend has been named the 2026 Central West Adult Volunteer of the Year at the NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards.
Award-winning Bathurst playwright Disapol ‘Oakie’ Savetsila will see his latest work, AMAH AND NANNA, in Sydney Theatre Company’s 2027 season, following the play’s recognition with the 2026 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award.
FILM TO WATCH. Grenfell Artists Inc are also one of the groups that have been supported in the Central West by a microgrant from the Arts OutWest Cultural Fund.
In our special quarterly enews we focus on the successes, the moves, the changes in our local arts, heritage and cultural scene.
Silence, 2010, by acclaimed Australian landscape artist Sophie Cape, a significant work in the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) Permanent Collection, will be on display for the first time in Bathurst from 14 November 2026 to 28 February 2027.
The little village of Newbridge put on a show with Spring into Art and the 5th annual Newbridge Art Show. Attracting 235 entries from across the state, the judges noted the high quality of the award winners and the importance of promoting regional art and artists in an industry with a noticeable metropolitan bias.
Four of this years SBTS Bondi artists made their works at The Foundations Portland including Harrie Fasher winner of the major $70,000 Aqualand Sculpture Award and Barkindji and Malyangappa artist David Doyle recipient of the inaugural NRMA Insurance Indigenous Artist Program.
Congratulations to all the Central West NSW exhibition projects and engagement programs nominated for Museums & Galleries NSW for IMAGinE Awards in 2026: Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Mudgee Arts Precinct, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange Regional Museum, Chifley Home and Education Centre and Arts OutWest, The Glen Museum (Portland).