Queen of all the Wild Things - Melissa Kelly
This exhibition is an exploration of feminist themes from deeply personal experiences.
Outback Archies Exhibition
Now in it’s 13th year, the Outback Archies Art Prize showcases the best in regional art.
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.
Not Our First Rodeo
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.
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.
Upending Expectations
UPENDING EXPECTATIONS: CONTEMPORARY GLASS
Showing 16th March to 26th April
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.
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.
Pretty Dirty by Jill Kelly
Pretty Dirty is a small excerpt from Jill's collection of works that show the best bits of life in the bush.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
'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.