A regional NSW artist's cutting-experimental computer game has been awarded Best Experimental Game at the inaugural Game Design Awards in Dundee, Scotland. Read more
Regional champion Sheena Boughen has been awarded the Creative Parterships Australia 2017 Arts Leadership Award for her outstanding and innovative work in the sector, alongside three other industry leaders. Read more
The Northern Rivers is a region of villages, most with a hall that lay at their heart. To celebrate and revitalise these spaces and their histories, Arts Northern Rivers delivered a region-wide season of contemporary arts events in seven community halls during 2016. Read more
A once flourishing cement works town, Kandos (pop. 1,200) is located 3.5 hours from Sydney between the towns of Lithgow and Mudgee. The town owes its existence to the plentiful supplies of limestone and coal in the region, which supported the former cement plant up until its closure in 2012. Read more
There has been a surge of creative entrepreneurs popping up all over Outback NSW recently Read more
When you visit Matilda Julian’s website she is described simply as ‘Fine Artist from Central Western NSW’. More specifically, Matilda is a fine artist from the tiny town (population 454 at the 2011 census) of Geurie located on the main highway between Wellington and Dubbo. Read more
Artist Shane Bates says he was 'dobbed in' to enter the Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize this year. The dobber? Aboriginal Arts Officer with West Darling Arts, Kathy Graham. Read more
More than 500 people, including many from the regional arts community of the Southern Tablelands, attended a celebration of the life of artist, Kim Nelson last Saturday at the Yass Soldiers Club. Read more
Sprung!! Integrated Dance Theatre, based in the village of Tintenbar near Ballina in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, is developing a new work, Encounters: Looking In, Looking Out under the artistic direction of former Sydney Dance Company dancer, Michael Hennessy. Read more
Kate Kelly’s life has been imagined in books, poetry and song and to a much lesser extent in art: in this realm her brother Ned has been the star. Read more
