Inherit: old and new histories Exhibition
Orange Regional Museum 151 Byng Street, Orange, NSWInherit: old and new histories brings together both familiar and less well-known stories from across the Central West. Exploring the region’s history, the exhibition highlights big events and significant personalities also the lives and experiences of everyday people.
More than tea and scones
Orange Regional Museum 151 Byng Street, Orange, NSWORANGE REGIONAL MUSEUM
Celebrating one hundred years of CWA NSW, take a behind-the-scenes look at our local and regional CWA branches to discover the remarkable work, passion and community service performed.
A City for Kids, SPARKE Project
Orange Regional Museum 151 Byng Street, Orange, NSWThis joyful art-making and environmental education project was developed with our friends @orangeregionalmuseum and hundreds of school children and their teachers through the SPARKE network of local public primary schools.
Dobell Drawing Prize #22
Cowra Regional Art Gallery 77 Darling Street, Cowra, NSWThe exhibition showcases the finalists’ artworks across a broad range of media that acknowledges the foundational principals of drawing, while also encouraging challenging and expansive approaches to drawing
MATING DANCE: Anna-Wili Highfield
Mudgee Arts Precinct Market St, Mudgee, NSWMudgee Arts Precinct is delighted to present Mating Dance by Anna-Wili Highfield, an installation of courtship formations. The sculptures are an homage to the brolga – Australia's principal dancing bird. Suspended like marionettes, the birds are sewn from waxed cotton and have stopped mid-ballet, in a gesture of call, response and mimicry.
Composer and musician Bree Van Reyk has created an accompanying sound piece which will intermittently join the dancing birds with instrumentals inspired by the brolga’s bold trumpeting.
Genevieve Carroll: Poetic Structures
Hill End Art Gallery Beyers Ave, Hill End, NSWGenevieve Carroll's 'Poetic Structures' exhibition.
Beyond the Shadow: Catherine O’Donnell
Orange Regional Gallery 149 Byng Street, Orange, NSWBeyond the Shadow is a survey exhibition of Catherine O’Donnell’s practice over the last decade. Through drawing, sculpture and installation Catherine pays attention to the geometric detail and abstract forms of mid-century architecture, inviting the viewer to find the aesthetic poetry embedded within ordinary buildings. In Beyond the Shadow Catherine will create her first major installation, a 75% scale replica of a fibro house, expanding upon her ongoing elevation of everyday Australian architecture and social history.
BOTANICALS UP CLOSE
Peisley St Gallery, Orange 54 Peisley St Gallery, Orange, NSWWhen two friends with an admiration for each other's work and a love of nature collide. BOTANICALS UP CLOSE LISA STEWART My part of the exhibition is inspired by Herbariums and my fascination on the early documentation of plant species....
Art Workshops for Adults and Teens
Marramarra Makerspace Studio, Parkes Shire council Parkes Library, Bogan St, Parkes, NSWKaren Ritchie is back this term delivering art workshops on Sundays. Please see below for information.
‘Through the Glimmering Night’ By Sharon Field
Grenfell Art Gallery 88 Main Street, Grenfell, NSWThe titles of Sharon’s works have been drawn from poems or the works of Shakespeare. She finds the lyricism of wordsmiths adds a precious dimension to the visual work.
Material Measure: Examining the changing environment of the Central West of NSW
Orange Regional Gallery 149 Byng Street, Orange, NSWAcross painting, drawing, installation, performance and video work, the artists examine how art can connect to a place in concept, materiality and aesthetic. And how it can enable us to reimagine and understand the natural environment in the Central West of New South Wales.
Hendrik Kolenberg Urban/Industrial
Orange Regional Gallery 149 Byng Street, Orange, NSWExhibition opening Friday 29 July, 6pm.
Since he was an art student in the 1960s, Hendrik Kolenberg has been a wayfarer of the back streets, construction sites and working harbours of Sydney, and other cities including Rotterdam—the Dutch city of his birth. His paintings don’t depict sentimental or pretty subjects, rather they convey his fascination with the overlooked, discarded or functional aspects of the city.
LUMINE
GANG GANG Gallery, Lithgow 206 Main Street, Lithgow, NSWCOLETTE JONQUIERES – PENELOPE OATES – BOYD McMILLAN
While the World Waits Exhibition (Canowindra)
Canowindra Arts Gallery 70a Gaskill Street, Canowindra, NSWCANOWINDRA ARTS GALLERY.
While the World Waits touring exhibition is heading to Canowindra for the fifth leg of a 12 month tour.
Waterland Exhibition Kandos
WAYOUT ArtSpace, Kandos 71 Angus St, Kandos, NSWOver the last year, students, artists, designers and storytellers have been involved in our Citizen Science project ‘Modelling Landscape Rehydration for Catchments, Communities and Curriculum’, which has received Citizen Science grant funding from the Australian Government.
Mulaa Giilang: Wiradjuri stories of the night sky
Orange Regional Museum 151 Byng Street, Orange, NSWFor First Nations people, the Earth, sea and sky are intimately connected. Looking up, the night sky reflects Dreaming stories, landforms, animals and seasonal patterns, informing the way people live on, and care for, Country. This exhibition features stunning night sky photography and an immersive soundtrack to explore Wiradjuri astronomical knowledge alongside comparative mythologies from across the world.
Alchemy Exhibition – Ceramics
Taralga Taralga, NSWJoin us for ‘ALCHEMY’ a exhibition series in the beautiful historic town of Taralga with ceramicists/artists Rebecca Dowling and Anja Gower
“led me here” Linda Chant
Cowra Japanese Garden and Cultural Centre Ken Nakajima Place, Cowra, NSWLinda Chant's paintings and drawings are a playful mix of memories, experiences, figures, costume, flowers, ornamentation, and hinted landscape. She employs the possibilities of light, colour, and mark making to awaken an emotional response in the viewer.
TOURISM WAYFINDING AND SIGNAGE STRATEGY 2022 Public Meetings
Bathurst Bathurst, NSWSignage is a crucial part of a destination’s branding and in creating a positive and consistent visitor experience and in directing and dispersing both visitors and locals throughout the city and the LGA. Tourism related signage in the Bathurst region does not adequately enhance the visitor experience or direct visitors to the area’s many attractions.
Enlivening Early Childhood Music Term 3
Bathurst Bathurst, NSWEarly childhood music classes for children aged 0 to school entry. Elissa Jones aims to create a fun musical environment to develop a love of music.
1, 2 BOOKS! – Orange Library
Orange Library 147 Byng Street, Orange, NSWIn 1, 2 BOOKS! we read books, sing and play to encourage engagement with language and literacy. 1, 2 BOOKS! builds upon the skills introduced during the Ten Minutes a Day workshops, focusing on older babies, aged 1 and 2 years. We use nursery rhymes, action songs, finger plays and stories in a fun and interactive way. Sessions are lively and stimulating for both children and adults.
The Oberon Writers Group
Oberon Oberon, NSWmeet on 2nd Tuesday each month 10am-12.30pm. For more information and to join contact Denise 0467 390 663
Blood – Madeline Young & Magnus Young-Holborow
The Corner Store Gallery, Orange 382 Summer Street, Orange, NSWBLOOD is a collaborative body of work between mother and son duo Madeline Young and Magnus Young-Holborow. This body of work was born of a creative block, some necessary multitasking and an accident.
Oil Painting
Lee Street Hall. Kelso 7 Lee Street, KELSO, NSWThis is a weekly workshop run every Wednesday. You will learn mixing colours, composition, atmospheric and distance perception.
Art Classes for Adults: Acrylic Painting (4 weeks)
Little Art Nook Orange Orange, NSWLearn the basics of acrylic painting ie choice of brushes, preparation of surfaces, colour mixing, paint consistency, techniques and more.
The What’s On calendar covers arts and heritage events happening across the NSW Central West in the local government areas of Bathurst Region, Blayney, Cabonne, Cowra, Forbes, Lachlan, Lithgow, Mid-Western Region, Oberon, Orange, Parkes and Weddin.
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