For Our Elders, It’s In Our Hands
July
12
to 1 Sept

For Our Elders, It’s In Our Hands

Adele Waabii Chapman-Burgess, Andrew Hull, Mary Small, Tania Hartigan, Sophie Honess, Rainy King, Veneta Dutton, Frank Wright, Raquel Clarke

Outback Arts Creative Arts Gallery is exhibiting artworks, objects and artefacts carefully curated by ten first nations artists and emerging curators as part of the first nations led curatorial intensive program. The exhibition For our Elders, it’s in our hands explores the stories, Cultural Practices and wisdom from Elders that have guided the narratives and themes of this exhibition. A reverence for the Connection to Country is evident in each piece. The yearning for language elevates the artworks and provides a sense of identity and cultural growth.

Opening Night: 12th July.

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Not Our First Rodeo
June
10
to 30 June

Not Our First Rodeo

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Quilt Show Celebrating 20 years

Material Girls Coonamble

This highly anticipated annual exhibition shows the talented patchwork artists in the region and the stories they tell with fabric and thread. Opening over the June Long Weekend each year this exhibition will celebrate 20 years of Quilt shows in Coonamble with Not Our First Rodeo.

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Cobar Sounds and Stories
May
2
to 6 June

Cobar Sounds and Stories

Birds singing, ukulele strumming, delicate piano notes and the voices of five local community

members are some of the sounds and music you will hear in Cobar High School’s Sound and

Stories Installation. Students from Cobar High School, with the help of composer Elizabeth Jigalin

and music teacher Laura Andrew, have collaborated to create their own sound installation that

will be played inside the Cobar Sound Chapel at a future music festival. The installation weaves

together original student compositions, interviews and recorded environmental sounds to

capture the tales of the old Silver Tank, sitting on the hill on the outskirts of Cobar.

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Volker
Jan
18
to 11 Mar

Volker

For artist Volker Leder, there was nothing more inspiring than the landscapes and colours of the rugged west.

This sale exhibition shows works spanning decades, observing the 30 years he spent living in Lightning Ridge.

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Standing Stories
Nov
20
to 10 Mar

Standing Stories

Standing Stories is an outdoor gallery of three-dimensional artworks (sculptures) installed at the 'Back O Bourke' Exhibition Centre. On display in the Gallery are the films that capture the form of these sculptures and the stories shared by those involved.

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'Abundance' by Walgett Art Group
Nov
7
to 13 Jan

'Abundance' by Walgett Art Group

'Abundance' celebrates the way the landscape has burst with new growth, and life during the recent rainfall.

A group of like-minded women formed the Walgett Art Group in 2000. Some have studied art but all have an interest and passion for painting or photography.

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2022 Outback Archies Art Prize
Sept
12
to 28 Oct

2022 Outback Archies Art Prize

This annual art prize showcases the talented artists in regional New South Wales and brings them together to inspire one another and their community as well as providing emerging artists with a platform to boost their profile.

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The Unfolding Landscape, Jude Fleming
Aug
1
to 3 Sept

The Unfolding Landscape, Jude Fleming

This exhibition celebrates the unfolding landscape, the landscape of geography and of the mind, as folding concertina artist books. Whether these places be near or far, the folding form solidifies and shares these memories and moments.

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Annual Quilt Show
June
9
to 22 July

Annual Quilt Show

This highly anticipated annual exhibition showcases the talented patchwork artists in the region and the stories they tell with fabric and thread.

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Coonamble Shire Waste 2 Art Exhibition
May
9
to 3 June

Coonamble Shire Waste 2 Art Exhibition

A project by Netwaste this exhibition and competition gives aspiring and professional artists the chance to explore and share their waste reduction message and provides a wonderful opportunity for all community members including children, to showcase their artistic ability.

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Mosses to Marshes
May
6
to 3 June

Mosses to Marshes

Mosses and Marshes is an exhibition of video, sound, prints and paintings by artists Andrew Howe (Shropshire, UK) and Kim V. Goldsmith (NSW, Australia) from their collaborative Mosses and Marshes project undertaken between 2019-2022. This project spans two countries, both with Ramsar listed wetlands of international importance. It brings together artists, community, land managers and scientists to reimagine the future of these landscapes and the place they have in our communities.

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'Colour, Country. Silkscreen and me' Lisa Wheeler
Feb
21
to 24 Apr

'Colour, Country. Silkscreen and me' Lisa Wheeler

Lisa Wheeler is a printmaker artist who uses the medium of silkscreen to explore her relationship with the place she calls home. As both artist and a farmer, she is every day observing and interacting with this country and the way it both inspires and challenges.

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'Time and Light' George Williams
Feb
14
to 24 Apr

'Time and Light' George Williams

George works in a range of art forms through which he expresses his Barkindji, Ngemba culture, including the most contemporary of forms, photography. His nightscape photographs of the night sky take him out into the landscape at the quietest times, under the same stars of his mother’s and father’s country, and with the closest possible connection to himself.

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