Events

Inherit: 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.

ORANGE 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.

Mudgee 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's 'Poetic Structures' exhibition.

Beyond 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.

When 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....

The 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.

Across 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.

Exhibition 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.

COLETTE JONQUIERES – PENELOPE OATES – BOYD McMILLAN 

CANOWINDRA ARTS GALLERY.
While the World Waits touring exhibition is heading to Canowindra for the fifth leg of a 12 month tour.

For 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.

Incredible lives series is a narrative photographic series which conceptualises the lived experiences of older people living in rural Australia.

Join us for ‘ALCHEMY’ a exhibition series in the beautiful historic town of Taralga with ceramicists/artists Rebecca Dowling and Anja Gower

Linda 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.

BLOOD 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.

Romance of the Swag celebrates the creative life of iconic Australian artist Linda Jackson. An itinerant traveller, Jackson’s work has always drawn inspiration from place; from the black opals of Lightning Ridge, to the billabongs and boabs of the Kimberley Coast, to the tropical flora and fauna of Far North Queensland, and the waratahs of the Blue Mountains region. Romance of the Swag explores four decades of the artist’s practice, charting her travels through painting, fabric, and fashion, all steeped in the symbolism, colours, and textures of the Australian landscape.