Celebrating the importance of Country, featuring a group of First Nations and non-First Nations contemporary artists the works in this exhibition focus on a significant area within our region. Each artist has responded to place, Country and story, addressing cultural, environmental, historical and social values that make up the water cultures of the Goulburn River and The Drip Gorge.
This exhibition investigates notions of hybrid printmaking.
Liam Benson: Virtue Without Stain presents a collection of works, performances, and participatory workshops by Western Sydney based artist Liam Benson exploring issues of masculinity.
Home 2022 features artwork created by local primary school students who participated in the Home Program. The artworks were created during a workshop led by Wiradjuri artist Ronda Sharpe.
The Home Program connects schools to local Aboriginal artists, community, language and culture.
Exhibition: 19 November 2022 – 23 April 2023
This exhibition tells the little-known story of the time the Dunera boys spent at the Orange Showground in 1941 and features artworks created during their internment. Many are drawn from the archives of relatives and private lenders, as well as never-before-seen works from a recently acquired collections held by the State Library of NSW. This project was developed and curated by Dr Seumas Spark, Adjunct Fellow in History at Monash University, Emeritus Professor Andrew Mcnamara from the Queensland University of Technology and translator Kate Garrett, in conjunction with Orange Regional Museum.
This survey catches a great Australian painter at the height of his powers. Born in 1952, Idris Murphy developed deep roots in the history of painting as well as a profound feeling for the natural environment. Murphy’s idiom transcends “either/or”—it is indistinguishably landscape painting and painterly abstraction all at once. Arising from a sort of improvisatory incantation, the most vivid metaphors of land, space, light, mood and feeling seem to coalesce spontaneously and unbidden.
New exhibition opening tomorrow from local artist Felicity Cavanough. Felicity creates intricate wire sculptures & paints a variety of subjects, inspired by every-day moments.
Set to showcase the playful courage of 5 artists, this group show is one to set aside for a must see.
This exhibition is an accumulation of memories committed to the subconscious, portrayed from his studio looking over the docks of Newcastle.
He is working mainly in watercolours - gouche and acrylics
Wiradjuri artist and storyteller, Josh Yasserie will unveil a new artwork at Mudgee Museum, developed over several months as part of an Orana Arts’ Heritage Artist Residency at the museum.
This is the 18th occasion the Cowra Regional Art Gallery will present this significant youth art exhibition, this year including an impressive and diverse showcase of artwork by 94 students in Stages 5 and 6 (years 9. 10, 11 and 12) including painting, photography, ceramics, mixed media and sculpture.
Meet some of our local achievers living this year’s national NAIDOC theme Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! in a new photographic foyer exhibition from 29 October. Produced in conjunction with the Orange NAIDOC Week Committee, with photography by Jason French and artwork by Kylie Tarleton, this exhibition celebrates members of the Orange Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community working for justice, equality, community and culture, as well as those who are leading by example through achievements across a range of fields.
This mini-exhibition is part of recognising 10 years of passenger train service to the
Bathurst community by the Bathurst Bullet. Covering the early years of train services,
through the halcyon days of the steam era, touching on services like the XPT and
Bathurst Bullet it even looks to the future with the new Regional Rail Fleet
Willy Wonka invites you to participate in our scrumdiddlyumptious Summer Reading Program over December and January, register at your local library from 1 December onwards.
Full of emotion, expression and at points stillness, Before you know invites you to be immersed in intense and intimate compositions that connect to everyday life.
An emotional response to colour, form, pattern, landscapes and decoration.
In 2022, artists from across the Central West have been asked to use the CD as a jumping off point and inspiration for new work. This unique opportunity for regional visual artists to create artworks in response to regional music has been a labour of love for Arts OutWest. While the World Waits Exhibition is a curated exhibition in which selected artists each respond to one or more tracks, title or words on the album.
The exhibition will showcase work from across all mediums. You will see painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, moving image, animation, photography, glass and textiles.
Proud to announce my first art exhibition thanks to The Church Block Cafe!
I will be there in person each Saturday morning from 10-12!
"Our exhibition is a chance for the local children who attend Early Childhood centres in our community to express themselves through art. All children involved are competent, capable learners who express their ideas and opinions in their own way. Creative arts gives each child the opportunity for their voices to be heard" - Early Circle Learning, 2022
Presented by the Peak Hill Leisure Arts & Craft Council Peak Arts Connect Workshops is a funded initiative under the NSW Government's Reconnecting Regional NSW program.
All events are free but registration is required.
Can you play an instrument? Are you a bit rusty? Join the band!
This concert is an end of year celebration of our instrumental students with some
Christmas favourites for the festive season to be performed. It will also be a
fundraiser to support further Mitchell Conservatorium events
The Little Art Nook runs Workshops each week on Tuesday and Friday focusing on a new craft each time
Are you a NSW artist, group or arts and cultural organisation? Are you considering applying for Round Two of the Arts and Cultural Funding Program, opening 6 December 2022? This includes Creative Koori Projects Funding, Project Funding for Individuals and Organisations and Organisation Annual Program Funding.
The Agrestic Grocer welcomes back Cecelia and Rocky Rochelli, Will Ferguson and Micky Young (Trouble With Johnny) performing their interpretation of hit songs from the EURYTHMICS '87 Australian Revenge Tour. Local vocalist Melissa Stanford will be our special guest.
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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