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Friday Night Lights
ORANGE. Heifer Station Wines is proud to continue its support of the NSW live music scene with a summer series of intimate live music shows on Fridays throughout summer
DARK: Steven Cavanagh & Wendy Sharpe
BATHURST REGIONAL ART GALLERY, BATHURST. Steven Cavanagh and Wendy Sharpe have been friends for a decade. Their work can be viewed as a dialogue between two artists who explore the drama of light and dark using different mediums. "We see this use of darkness in our work as a physical and psychological space that speaks to the human condition and the artists' experience." It is here that their work collides
Hardenvale: Our Home in Absurdia
BATHURST REGIONAL ART GALLERY, BATHURST. Hardenvale – our home in Absurdia is a real-scale, immersive, house-like environment by Australian artists Catherine O'Donnell, Kellie O'Dempsey and Todd Fuller. Through drawing, projection, built form, sound and movement, this collaborative project references the architecture of post war fibro housing as well as spaces the group describe as 'the cultural fringe of Australia'
Peter Spilsbury: Re.construction
BATHURST REGIONAL ART GALLERY, BATHURST. The works featured in Re.construction are made entirely of recycled materials, mostly found in and around his large garden. With minimal intervention and minimal manipulation, Spilsbury seeks to energise these materials and objects, always slightly confusing and slightly ambiguous
The Visitor – Scott Marr
GRENFELL ART GALLERY, GRENFELL. Scott Marr is a blue mountains-based artist who’s medium is painting, drawing and he recently started exploring sculpture through steel, timber and glass. Marr explores bio-metamorphosis through surrealism and abstraction. In his show ‘The Visitor’ he hopes to take visitors on a journey of the metamorphic nature of impermanence.
Exhibition Pagoda
GANG GANG GALLERY, LITHGOW. Anne Graham - Installation. Boyd Mcmillan - Artist Ink/Watercolour. To be included in exhibition, a selection of Photographs focusing on iconic regional imagery.
Boyd McMillan Exhibition
GANG GANG GALLERY, LITHGOW. Boyd's work starts from the immediacy of drawing and develops in the application of media and techniques available in the studio to convey the experience of change in landscape and explore resonance through metaphor.
Jim Turner Retrospective
BATHURST. A comprehensive selection of artworks from Jim's 50 year career as an artist and illustrator will be on display. Including Jim's Landscapes, Watercolours, Wood Sculpture and Abstract Expressionist Paintings.
Pat Ford – Pride of Orange
ORANGE REGIONAL MUSEUM, ORANGE. Celebrating the career of a remarkable Orange sportsman, this exhibiton features rarely seen photographs, film footage and sporting memorabilia.
Cowra Cancer Action Group – Locals for Locals Exhibition
COWRA JAPANESE GARDENS, COWRA. It’s all about Local Artist helping Locals with their Cancer journey, whether it be with buying equipment for the Cowra oncology unit or supporting Community Chest with ongoing donations.
Wildscapes
PEISLEY ST GALLERY, ORANGE. 'Wildscapes' is a series of pastel works capturing the unique luminosity and vastness of the wildness of our landscape.
Platform Arts Hub – At the Station Exhibition
PLATFORM ARTS HUB, BLAYNEY. Open to artists from across the NSW Central West.
The Twitchers Group Exhibition
ROSBY GALLERY, EURUNDEREE. The Twitchers brings together works by three regional artists, bird watchers and members of the extended Rosby family. While depicting birds through hanging and sculptural works is the common theme, each artist filters their own connection to the native and local species that flitter through their environments.
Out of This World: Australia in the Space Age
ORANGE REGIONAL MUSEUM, ORANGE. Welcome to the dawn of the space age. From the 1950s through to the 1970s, Australia was gripped with excitement as humanity made its first forays beyond Earth’s atmosphere. From cutting edge scientific research to architecture, design, television and more, Out of this world explores Australia’s role in the space race.
Tim Winters – Ridgeway
CORNER STORE GALLERY, ORANGE. The Ridgeway is one of the ancient roads criss-crossing Britain, connecting places of significant spiritual importance. The exhibition explores the nature of memory and place.
Lachlan Valley Biennial Art Awards
COWRA REGIONAL ART GALLERY, COWRA. An exhibition not to be missed! Presented by the Cowra Art Group Inc and hosted by the Cowra Regional Art Gallery, the Lachlan Valley Biennial Art Awards are open to regional artists living within 100 kilometres from Cowra, including Young, Boorowa, Grenfell, Parkes, Forbes, Bathurst, Orange and Canowindra.
Animal Farm – Orange
ORANGE CIVIC THEATRE, ORANGE. Created by shake & stir and directed by Michael Futcher, Animal Farm promises to be one of the most shocking, relevant and wickedly funny theatre events of 2020.
Classic Album Night – West Coast 70s
THE VICTORIA, BATHURST. Showcasing the biggest hits of The Eagles, James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, Linda Ronstadt, The Doobie Brothers and many many more.
Factory Espresso Comedy – Peter Berner
ORANGE. Peter Berner is returning to Factory Espresso Comedy for ONE NIGHT ONLY Friday 21st May.
Audition Notice for the 2021 production of The Tempest
BATHURST. Bathurst Shakespeare Players are doing The Tempest as their show this November at Abercrombie House
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