Four new exhibitions are set to open at the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery this week, which will celebrate Australian tapestries and showcase the work of Heather Dunn, Camie Lyons and Sassy Park.
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The exhibitions - Threads Through Art: Australian Tapestries, Heather Dunn: Palette of Place, Camie Lyons: A Physical Response and Sassy Park: Looking for Gold - will open will a special event on Friday night.
Threads Through Art will present tapestries created by 18 of Australia's most celebrated artists, with tapestries on display ranging from the abstract works of John Coburn and Graham Fransella, to the expressive figures of Arthur Boyd and sweeping vista landscapes of William Robinson.
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Palette of Place is a showcase of tapestries by Bathurst-based textile artist Heather Dunn, who has been inspired by the landscape and colours of Hill End. Dunn has created dyes from local organic materials, with her tapestries comprising of rich ochres, wattle yellow and subtle shades of green.
"It's this connection through landscape and its biomass that still gives me rich themes and authentic responses to place," she said.
"Hill End crystallised these processes and will be a huge influence on future work."
The gallery will also present Camie Lyons' exhibition A Physical Response, which has drawn inspiration from the physical features of Hill End.
Lyons used branches, clay, sticks, stones and ochre, while casting bronze sculptures of tree branches and twisted wire.
Sydney-based Sassy Park's exhibition Looking for Gold is also heavily influenced by the Hill End region.
Park was struck with gold fever during her Hill End Artist-in-Residency at Murray's Cottage back in May and with the help of a local guide, she found a gold nugget on her first panning trip to Tambaroora Creek.
Park has drawn inspiration from the Holtermann Nugget - the largest piece of gold ever found weighing in at 290 kilograms - with miner Bernhardt Holtermann commissioning a photographic record of Hill End's people.
Using this Holtermann Collection as a reference point, Park has created a series of ceramics in response to her time at Hill End.
The four new exhibitions will open at the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery at 6pm on Friday evening.
Entry to the opening is $8 for Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Society members, $12 for non-members and $5 for students.
Entry is free from 10am to 5pm on Tuesdays to Saturdays and 11am to 2pm on Sundays and public holidays.