KANDOS. Pop-up window exhibition of Wart's 'Fat Man in the Bath'

BATHURST. Sally's take on surrealism focused on aquatic life - real and imagined - is unique. Her use of colour is vibrant and harmonious. 

BATHURST REGIONAL ART GALLERY, BATHURST. In February 2019, Lismore-based Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens was invited to collaborate with Bruce Pascoe as part of a project called An Artist, A Farmer & a Scientist Walk into a Bar. The project was initiated by the Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation, an organisation committed to supporting creative practices that respond to cultural change across a broad range of disciplines. The work that Dickens and Pascoe produced, Mother’s Little Helpers, focused on the urgent need to protect and conserve the land and to cease the many destructive practices that are threatening our environment.

ORANGE REGIONAL MUSEUM, ORANGE. Go behind the scenes of the groundbreaking sci-fi series. Explore First Nations storytelling, language and creativity in production design, costumes and props. This exhibition invites you to listen-first and immerse yourself in a powerful and contemporary expression of origin stories.

PEISLEY ST GALLERY, ORANGE. The inspiration for the exhibition WHIMSY comes from the colours in the fields and paddocks around Orange and the Central West as each season changes.
The semi abstract landscapes are imagined each with a point on an horizon that the viewer is encouraged to follow a path through the painting towards its horizon

BATHURST REGIONAL ART GALLERY, BATHURST. On the afternoon of Sunday 10 June 1838, a group of eleven convicts and ex-convict stockmen led by a squatter, brutally slaughtered a group of twenty-eight Aboriginal men, women and children who were camped peacefully at the station of Myall Creek in the New England region. 180 years after these events a group of Indigenous contemporary artists created works which explore the issues and complexities of this significant historic event and its aftermath locally and nationally

BATHURST REGIONAL ART GALLERY, BATHURST. This haunting holographic video installation by Samuel James with performer/writer Talya Rubi resulted from a residency the pair undertook in 2019 in Hill End which investigates experience of transcendence of real space through experimentations with contemporary spirit photography/videography.

BATHURST REGIONAL ART GALLERY, BATHURST. Bathurst based artists Colin Fenn and Karin Smith have been collaborating for over a decade, both working within sculpture and bronze casting. Each artist has developed their own unique style and approach to figurative bronze; an artistic tradition stretching back thousands of years.

BATHURST REGIONAL ART GALLERY, BATHURST.  Ben Quilty’s monumental Myall Creek Rorschach painting confronts Australia’s colonial past and challenges contemporary notions of history, place, and national identity. In 2019, Quilty attended the Myall Creek Memorial to commemorate the unprovoked massacre of twentyeight Wirrayaraay women, children and men by a group of stockmen on Myall Creek Station in 1838. Local elders Aunty Sue Blacklock and the late Uncle Lyall Munro gave permission for the artist to tell the story of this pivotal event through his painting.

BATHURST REGIONAL ART GALLERY, BATHURST. Paddy Fordham Wainburranga (1932 - 2006) was a dancer, painter, printmaker, sculptor of the Dhuwa moiety and Rembarrnga mythologies dreaming, born at Bandibu (or Bamdibu/ Bumdubu) (in Arnhem Land, the Northern Territory, Australia). Wainburranga’s painted and printed subject matter includes ancestral stories as well as political and social changes experienced, and incorporates iconography from both Aboriginal and European cultures. He painted, printed and sculpted spirit figures such as the Balangjangalan Spirit, an ancestral spirit, and Mimi Spirits.