Jump in the car, wind down the windows and hit the hot tarmac. It’s time for a regional road trip to the best arts offerings this summer across the NSW Central West.
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The Parkes Elvis Festival, featuring music, exhibitions, lookalike contests, busking, food and the big parade, might be over, but there is plenty more to see.
At the lovely Grenfell Art Gallery, Indigo Blue (through to February 26) features the Japanese-style Shibori textile work of Maureen Locke-Maclean. The gallery is open daily.
At the Ludlow Creative Space in Orange, Flow by acclaimed Australia painter Joy Engelman (until Saturday, February 4) is new works focusing on the cascading nature of the landscape.
The touring exhibition of the Archibald Prize is not in Bathurst this year, but you can see it just down the road at Cowra Regional Art Gallery from January 21 to March 19.
Back home at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, the book Two Lives, One Road: A Book of Drawings for the Love of Drawing by Lesley O’Shea and Joe Penn accompanies their popular current exhibition.
It was launched at a champagne event on Tuesday at the gallery.
Snap public art
ARTS OutWest is tagging public art across the region – in a digital, virtual sense, anyway.
Get your phone out and join the summer Instagram challenge.
So on your travels, take a picture, tag @artsoutwest #publicart and the location and post it.
Funding on offer
A REMINDER that applications are open for Arts NSW’s 2017 Young Regional Artist Scholarship. There are 15 scholarships on offer, awarding $10,000 each plus a professional development program.
Get the details from arts.nsw.gov.au.
Applications close February 20, 2017.
Applicants require a letter of support from their local regional arts organisation – in this region that’s Arts OutWest. Give Arts OutWest a call on 6338 4657.