OPENING | Danelle Bergstrom: Afterglow & Leanne Wicks: Birds Like Us
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWAfterglow is a career survey presenting key works from the last 25 years of the artist's practice
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Danelle Bergstrom: Afterglow
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWBased in Hill End since 1997, Bergstrom now lives between Australia and Åland, a remote archipelago in Finland.
Bergstrom uses landscape and portraiture as vessels to navigate “human emotion, experiences and choices”, where the artist paints what she feels, rather than what she sees. Afterglow traces Bergstrom’s own life as it is reflected in the overtures and undertones of her subjects, from major landscape paintings and portraits to intimate sketches and drawings.
Leanne Wicks: Birds Like Us
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWof artists associated with the artistic programs of BRAG and the Cementa art festival. Each portrait merges the personality and practice of artists with Australian birds to create a unique and whimsical knitted installation.
ARTIST TALK: Danelle Bergstrom
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWBathurst Regional Art Gallery presents Afterglow by acclaimed Australian-Swedish painter Danelle Bergstrom. Afterglow is Bergstrom’s first career survey and presents key works from the last 25 years of the artist’s practice.
Sunday Sketch Sessions
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWDrop-in, explore and draw the current exhibitions. All abilities and ages. FREE, all materials supplied, no bookings required.
SMITH & JONES: Single + Filmclip Launch @ BRAG
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWJoin Smith & Jones + Todd Fuller for a night of live music, filmclip screening, drinks & nibbles + a colouring activity!
Autumn School Holiday Program
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWColouring Activity by Smith & Jones + Todd Fuller Daily 10 - 21 April Join us in colouring your idea of home! Colouring activity inspired by Smith & Jones' new single and film clip by artist Todd Fuller. Artworks will...
Kids Colour Club
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWA new series of cool, creative and colourful art making sessions at the gallery!
Using a range of materials create your own artwork inspired by the themes of our current exhibitions.
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Cardboard Cockatoos
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWA hands-on school holidays art workshop @ BRAG SCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Cardboard Cockatoos Create and decorate your own cardboard cockatoo sculpture inspired by Leanne Wicks' sculpture birds. $10 BRAGS members, $15 non-members, bookings essential, all materials supplied, ages 6 - 13.
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS: 3D-look Art Workshop
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWInspired by Danelle Bergstrom's digital artworks in our current exhibition. Create your own 3D-look artwork by painting on different layers of a transparent material.
Sunday Sketch Sessions
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWDrop-in, explore and draw the current exhibitions. All abilities and ages. FREE, all materials supplied, no bookings required.
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS: Storytime + Colouring Activity with Smith &Jones
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery + Library 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWSmith & Jones have teamed up with artist and animator Todd Fuller to produce a participatory filmclip for their new single, Home. The filmclip explores community ideas of home and celebrates the many different ideas people have of what makes a home. View the filmclip projected in the Gallery & Library Forecourt every night 6 April - 11 June @ 6pm.
SUNDAY STITCH: Leanne Wicks, Native Birds
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWA series of textiles workshops exploring themes of BRAG's current exhibitions
WORKSHOP: Introduction to Landscape Watercolour Painting
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWIntroduction to landscape painting workshop with contemporary artist Kasey Sealy
SOUNDS OF SARANGI
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWBathurst welcomes Sangeet Misra, one India's foremost practitioners of Sarangi (a mesmerising bowed folk instrument) for a night of Hindustani classical music accompanied by Rob Shannon on Tabla.
ARTIST TALK & TOUR: Leanne Wicks
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWBlending her lifelong passions of birding, ornithology, and knitting, Leanne Wicks
presents knitted portraits of artists associated with the artistic programs of Bathurst
Regional Art Gallery and the Cementa art festival. Each portrait merges the personality
and practice of artists with Australian birds to create a unique and whimsical knitted
installation.
SUNDAY STITCH: Heather Dunn, Experimental Eco-Weaving
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSWLearn the basics of the timeless, simple frame loom and create an abstract landscape weaving use found, reclaimed and reused materials in the weft.
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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