Events

New exhibition opening tomorrow from local artist Felicity Cavanough. Felicity creates intricate wire sculptures & paints a variety of subjects, inspired by every-day moments.

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

This selection of works from Orange Regional Gallery’s Collection presents various approaches to the still life genre. Ranging from works on paper, painting, photography and ceramics, each is an invitation to imagine the daily life and narratives of the objects, artists, and times from which they were made.

This exhibition includes recent acquisitions by John Olsen OAM, Elisabeth Cummings, Peter Boggs, Kevin Connor, Rachel Ellis, Hendrik Kolenberg, Margaret Loy Pula, Mandy Martin, Arthur McIntyre, Mavis Ngallametta, Tom Polo, David Serisier, Tim Storrier, Aida Tomescu and John R Walker. These are shown alongside collection highlights.

Exhibition will be opened by Sarah Gurich - Director of Bathurst Regional Art Gallery on Saturday 10 December 2-4pm.

The exhibition Connection, Artist/Master Printer, introduces the individual and collaborative practice of Basil Hall, artist and founder of Basil Hall Editions; Michael Kempson, artist and founder of Cicada Press; and Ron McBurnie, artist and publisher of Monsoon Publishing. I have worked with them for many years and have grown to respect them for the sheer talent of their work and the causes that drive them to produce work as artist printmakers and master printers.

One of the few sculptors who casts his own work, Laurence Edwards is fascinated by human anatomy and the metamorphosis of form and matter that governs the lost-wax process. His sculptures express the raw liquid power of bronze, its versatility, mass and evolution, and the variety of process marks he retains tell the story of how and why each work came to be.

The title expresses that after the Covid hiatus we have sprung back to life with renewed energy and vigour and a refreshed motivation to create new and different artworks.

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.

Textile artist Leanne Wicks, Professor of Taxinema (Latin for  'yarning appearance') of Songlark University, presents a museological exposition of endangered bird species local to the region of Kandos, and associated Capertee and Cudgegong Valleys. She is also renowned for her behavioural studies of the cockatoos that have learnt to open her green bin. (Songlark University is an affiliate of KSCA, the Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation)

The landmark exhibition Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize explores the prize across its history, revealing fascinating stories behind 100 carefully selected artworks. It uncovers changes in society in engaging ways, enabling people to experience how artistic styles and approaches to portraiture have changed over a century.

Using the transformative power of the kiln to reclaim and reuse waste materials, the resulting works in reCLAYm are a manifesto for an innovative and environmentally aware approach to art making. Daly aims to inspire others to creatively reuse that which was considered useless, and to add his own ripples to this new wave of action and debate amongst artistic practitioners.