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SUMMARY:Artist & Curator Talk // Elizabeth Day with Ann Finegan
DESCRIPTION:Hear from artist Elizabeth Day and Curator Ann Finegan on major survey exhibition The Fragility of Goodness: The Prison on the Landscape and Other Stories.\nSaturday 16 May 2026\, 11am-12pm\nFREE\, all welcome\, RSVP essential\n\nElizabeth Day’s survey exhibition at BRAG examines the legacy of Empire and the colonisation of Australia and its First Nations peoples. The exhibition focuses on the lasting impact of colonial prison systems and how these institutions reshaped both landscape and society.\n\nThe project connects closely to Bathurst’s history as part of a network of colonial prison towns established west of the Blue Mountains. Day has explored these themes in earlier works: in 2023\, she presented There’s a Reason Beyond a Reason\, 1797 Parramatta Gaol at The National 4 at Carriageworks\, Redfern. This large-scale textile installation was made from unravelled second-hand garments and referenced early colonial prison architecture. Through the slow process of unravelling fabric\, the work suggested the possibility of undoing the prison’s imprint on the landscape.\n\nThe Fragility of Goodness: The Prison on the Landscape and Other Stories continues this investigation. The exhibition considers how the histories of colonial prisons continue to shape contemporary Australia. Day draws connections between historical penal sites including Parramatta and Tasmania\, engaging with ideas of layered colonial\, geographical and social histories. Her practice is informed by both historical research and personal experience within institutional systems.\n\nA key work in the exhibition\, The Law Is Not Always Just\, forms part of a new series of grass-grown texts mapping prisons across the Central West. This floor installation sits among several significant works including There’s a Reason Beyond a Reason\, Notes on the Castle\, the sculptural recreation of Bathurst Gaol’s Lion Gate\, Invisible Words Invisible Worlds\, and the collaborative community project MYCO LOGIC.\n\nTogether\, this exhibition invites reflection on systems of justice\, power and repair.\n\nElizabeth Day in Carriageworks’ Clothing Store Studios\, where she was artist-in-residence from 2021-2023. Photo: Jacquie Manning.
URL:https://www.bathurstregion.com.au/event/artist-curator-talk-elizabeth-day-with-ann-finegan/
LOCATION:Bathurst Regional Art Gallery\, 70-78 Keppel Street\, Bathurst\, 2795
CATEGORIES:Art,Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks,Tours
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bathurst Regional Art Gallery":MAILTO:brag@bathurst.nsw.gov.au
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SUMMARY:Opening // BRAG Exhibitions May-August 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) in celebrating the opening of three new exhibitions on Friday 15 May 2026\, 6-8pm!\nMain Gallery – Elizabeth Day: The Fragility of Goodness: The Prison on the Landscape and Other Stories\nFoyer Gallery – Heather Dunn: Found\nOUT THERE Digital Platforms | Forecourt Projector & TAFE Screens – Made By You \nFriday 15 May\, 6-8pm\nWelcome to Country with Smoking Ceremony by Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation \nAuslan Interpretation for Opening Speeches\nCatering by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Society\nBeverages by Renzaglia Wines\, Grass Parrot Vineyard\, and Cosmo Brewing\nFREE\, all welcome\, RSVP essential\nClick here for more information on the exhibitions \nBanner image: Elizabeth Day\, The Flow of Form: There’s a Reason Beyond a Reason. Beyond That There’s a Reason (1797 Parramatta Gaol)\, 2023\, unravelled op-shop garments\, muslin\, 2600 x 650 x 5 cm irregular. Installation view at Carriageworks in The National 4: Australian Art Now. Photograph: Zan Wimberley.
URL:https://www.bathurstregion.com.au/event/opening-brag-exhibitions-may-august-2026/
LOCATION:Bathurst Regional Art Gallery\, 70-78 Keppel Street\, Bathurst\, 2795
CATEGORIES:Art
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SUMMARY:School Holidays Workshop // Shape\, Colour\, Pattern\, Science!
DESCRIPTION:School Holidays Workshop // Shape\, Colour\, Pattern\, Science! \n\n\n\nThursday 16th April 2025\, 10:30am-12:00pm \n\n\n\nAges: 6-17 \n\n\n\nGet creative in this hands-on workshop exploring shape\, colour\, pattern and science! Together with visual artist and designer Liz Bryan\, we will explore the shapes and patterns that are repeated in nature: from DNA to Space! Participants will create their own geometric sculpture from cardboard\, wood\, and acrylic paint inspired by Liz Bryan’s Foyer Gallery exhibition Pattern Recognition. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will include a short tour of Pattern Recognition by Liz Bryan. \n\n\n\n$10 members\, $15 non-members\, no experience required\, bookings essential \n\n\n\nAbout the Artist\n\n\n\nLiz Bryan: Pattern Recognition\n\n\n\nLiz Bryan is a visual artist and designer working across drawing\, painting\, textiles\, sculpture and digital media. Her practice is shaped by an ongoing interest in esoteric knowledge\, mythologies and ritual\, and engages with themes of womanhood\, place\, and the hidden or overlooked histories of feminine experience. Moving fluidly between art and craft\, Liz’s work also reflects on the intersections of science\, mysticism and material knowledge. \n\n\n\nFor Pattern Recognition at BRAG\, Liz presents a body of work that explores the microcosmic world and the underlying geometry inherent in biological structures. Informed by sacred geometry and esoteric traditions outlined in Plato’s Timaeus\, the exhibition draws on the symbolism of the five Platonic solids—earth\, water\, air\, fire and ether—as metaphors for both physical and metaphysical systems. The relationship between microcosm and macrocosm\, particularly as seen in DNA structures and natural patterning\, underpins the work. \n\n\n\nThrough this work Liz explores the esoteric potential of shape\, line\, colour and form. Historic textile motifs\, including ogee forms and repeating half-brick patterns\, further inform the visual language of the exhibition. Through sculptures and paintings\, Pattern Recognition reveals pattern as a connective force—linking matter\, meaning and the unseen structures that shape our world. \n\n\n\nBathurst Regional Art Gallery is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW. \n\n\n\nBanner Image: Liz Bryan\, ‘Elemental Transmissions: Water’\, 2025\, found and repurposed wood\, acrylic paint\, gold and silver gilding. Photo: Maja Baska. Courtesy the artist.
URL:https://www.bathurstregion.com.au/event/school-holidays-workshop-shape-colour-pattern-science/
LOCATION:Bathurst Regional Art Gallery\, 70 -78 Keppel Street\, Bathurst\, New South Wales\, 2795\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Workshop // Experimental Mark Making with Rebecca Sciroli
DESCRIPTION:Saturday 21 February\, 10:30am-12:30pm \n$10 members\, $15 non-members\, ALL AGES\, no experience required\, Bookings essential \nJoin Rebecca Sciroli\, a We Are Studios artist\, for an immersive and playful workshop that invites you to refresh your relationship with artmaking. This experimental session encourages artists to reconnect with joy\, curiosity and process through interactive exploration. Working with recycled\, found and everyday materials\, participants will invent their own drawing and painting tools and experiment with mark making using materials including paint\, ink\, charcoal and pastel. This relaxed and supportive workshop is ideal for artists\, art lovers and anyone interested in experimentation\, play and discovering new techniques to add to their creative toolbox. \nThis workshop is supported by We Are Studios. \nAbout the Artist\nRebecca (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist\, facilitator and advocate. She works primarily in sculpture and installation\, wearables\, performance\, painting and drawing. Rebecca’s work often touches on memory and emotional connection through sensory stimuli\, femininity\, sensuality and empowering feminist work. The fine balance of fragility and resilience is explored through Rebecca’s conceptual and performative practice\, expressed through a sensory connection of energy and touch. Rebecca uses improvised experimental drawing devices (IEDD) for mark making that records her disabled body and how it can move. Rebecca has an ongoing practice of producing self-portraits throughout her recovery from a D.V. assault\, and life in a disabled body. Rebecca is an artist and board member at We Are Studios. \nAbout the Exhibition\nWe Are Studios: Acts of Inheritance\nActs of Inheritance presents new work from seventeen Disabled artists who explore identity as something lived\, layered and continually remade. We come to know ourselves through small\, everyday acts and performances – our own and those of others\, families\, cultures and communities as they leave their mark upon us. Some artists revisit family stories or inherited acts; others reflect on Disability\, mental health\, and shifting perceptions of self and how we perform it. Here\, inheritance is not fixed or predetermined\, but enacted through the choices we make\, the stories we tell and the ways we show up for one another. \nThrough these works\, Acts of Inheritance invites us to imagine identity as something performed in ongoing dialogue between who we have been\, who we are becoming and the worlds that shape us. \nWe Are Studios is a 100% Disability-led\, artist-run initiative empowering Disabled Western Sydney artists to thrive. \nArtists: Aili Brenton\, Virginia Bucknell\, Ria Cirera-Cruz\, Taylah Devlin\, Holly-lee Dickson\, Georgina Evans\, Nina Frankie\, Leanne Larwood\, Timothy W. Martin\, Grazia Napoletano\, Adrienne Proud\, Rebecca Sciroli\, Kiri Smith\, Jane Thatcher\, Miah Tito-Barratt\, Jordan Valageorgiou\, Eden Young. \nCurated by We Are Studios Collective. \nThe project is supported by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW and by the Australian Government through Creative Australia\, its principal arts investment and advisory body. \nBanner image courtesy Rebecca Sciroli and We Are Studios.
URL:https://www.bathurstregion.com.au/event/workshop-experimental-mark-making-with-rebecca-sciroli/
LOCATION:Bathurst Regional Art Gallery\, 70-78 Keppel Street\, Bathurst\, 2795
CATEGORIES:Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks
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SUMMARY:Maker Space
DESCRIPTION:Head to Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) for our Maker’s Space activities of collage and colouring for our current exhibitions!  \nMaterials and stool provided\nFREE\, self-guided session\nNo experience required\nAll ages welcome\, children must be supervised \nBRAG is open:\n10am – 5pm Tuesday through Friday\n10am – 2pm Saturday & Sunday \nAbout the Exhibitions \nWe Are Studios: Acts of Inheritance\nActs of Inheritance presents new work from seventeen Disabled artists who explore identity as something lived\, layered and continually remade. We come to know ourselves through small\, everyday acts and performances – our own and those of others\, families\, cultures and communities as they leave their mark upon us.\nSome artists revisit family stories or inherited acts; others reflect on Disability\, mental health\, and shifting perceptions of self and how we perform it. Here\, inheritance is not fixed or predetermined\, but enacted through the choices we make\, the stories we tell and the ways we show up for one another.\nThrough these works\, Acts of Inheritance invites us to imagine identity as something performed in ongoing dialogue between who we have been\, who we are becoming and the worlds that shape us. \nWe Are Studios is a 100% Disability-led\, artist-run initiative empowering Disabled Western Sydney artists to thrive.\nArtists: Aili Brenton\, Virginia Bucknell\, Ria Cirera-Cruz\, Taylah Devlin\, Holly-lee Dickson\, Georgina Evans\, Nina Frankie\, Leanne Larwood\, Timothy W. Martin\, Grazia Napoletano\, Adrienne Proud\, Rebecca Sciroli\, Kiri Smith\, Jane Thatcher\, Miah Tito-Barratt\, Jordan Valageorgiou\, Eden Young. \nCurated by We Are Studios Collective.\nThe project is supported by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW and by the Australian Government through Creative Australia\, its principal arts investment and advisory body. \nLiz Bryan: Pattern Recognition\nLiz Bryan is a visual artist and designer working across drawing\, painting\, textiles\, sculpture and digital media. Her practice is shaped by an ongoing interest in esoteric knowledge\, mythologies and ritual\, and engages with themes of womanhood\, place\, and the hidden or overlooked histories of feminine experience. Moving fluidly between art and craft\, Liz’s work also reflects on the intersections of science\, mysticism and material knowledge.\nFor Pattern Recognition at BRAG\, Liz presents a body of work that explores the microcosmic world and the underlying geometry inherent in biological structures. Informed by sacred geometry and esoteric traditions outlined in Plato’s Timaeus\, the exhibition draws on the symbolism of the five Platonic solids—earth\, water\, air\, fire and ether—as metaphors for both physical and metaphysical systems. The relationship between microcosm and macrocosm\, particularly as seen in DNA structures and natural patterning\, underpins the work.\nThrough this work Liz explores the esoteric potential of shape\, line\, colour and form. Historic textile motifs\, including ogee forms and repeating half-brick patterns\, further inform the visual language of the exhibition. Through sculptures and paintings\, Pattern Recognition reveals pattern as a connective force—linking matter\, meaning and the unseen structures that shape our world. \nBathurst Regional Art Gallery is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW. \nBanner image credits: (Left) Timothy W. Martin\, TORRENT\, 2025\, digital image. Photographed by Ebony Wightman. Courtesy We Are Studios; (Right) Image: Liz Bryan\, Transmissions 2\, 2024\, found wood and acrylic paint. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Maja Baska.
URL:https://www.bathurstregion.com.au/event/maker-space/
LOCATION:Bathurst Regional Art Gallery\, 70-78 Keppel Street\, Bathurst\, 2795
CATEGORIES:Art
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SUMMARY:BRAG I SPY
DESCRIPTION:Bring the youngsters to Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG)  for an I SPY detective trail throughout our current exhibitions! \nMaterials and stool provided\nFREE\, self-guided session\nNo experience required\nChildren must be supervised \nAbout the Exhibitions\nWe Are Studios: Acts of Inheritance\nActs of Inheritance presents new work from seventeen Disabled artists who explore identity as something lived\, layered and continually remade. We come to know ourselves through small\, everyday acts and performances – our own and those of others\, families\, cultures and communities as they leave their mark upon us.\nSome artists revisit family stories or inherited acts; others reflect on Disability\, mental health\, and shifting perceptions of self and how we perform it. Here\, inheritance is not fixed or predetermined\, but enacted through the choices we make\, the stories we tell and the ways we show up for one another.\nThrough these works\, Acts of Inheritance invites us to imagine identity as something performed in ongoing dialogue between who we have been\, who we are becoming and the worlds that shape us. \nWe Are Studios is a 100% Disability-led\, artist-run initiative empowering Disabled Western Sydney artists to thrive. \nArtists: Aili Brenton\, Virginia Bucknell\, Ria Cirera-Cruz\, Taylah Devlin\, Holly-lee Dickson\, Georgina Evans\, Nina Frankie\, Leanne Larwood\, Timothy W. Martin\, Grazia Napoletano\, Adrienne Proud\, Rebecca Sciroli\, Kiri Smith\, Jane Thatcher\, Miah Tito-Barratt\, Jordan Valageorgiou\, Eden Young. \nCurated by We Are Studios Collective. \nThe project is supported by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW and by the Australian Government through Creative Australia\, its principal arts investment and advisory body. \nLiz Bryan: Pattern Recognition\nLiz Bryan is a visual artist and designer working across drawing\, painting\, textiles\, sculpture and digital media. Her practice is shaped by an ongoing interest in esoteric knowledge\, mythologies and ritual\, and engages with themes of womanhood\, place\, and the hidden or overlooked histories of feminine experience. Moving fluidly between art and craft\, Liz’s work also reflects on the intersections of science\, mysticism and material knowledge.\nFor Pattern Recognition at BRAG\, Liz presents a body of work that explores the microcosmic world and the underlying geometry inherent in biological structures. Informed by sacred geometry and esoteric traditions outlined in Plato’s Timaeus\, the exhibition draws on the symbolism of the five Platonic solids—earth\, water\, air\, fire and ether—as metaphors for both physical and metaphysical systems. The relationship between microcosm and macrocosm\, particularly as seen in DNA structures and natural patterning\, underpins the work.\nThrough this work Liz explores the esoteric potential of shape\, line\, colour and form. Historic textile motifs\, including ogee forms and repeating half-brick patterns\, further inform the visual language of the exhibition. Through sculptures and paintings\, Pattern Recognition reveals pattern as a connective force—linking matter\, meaning and the unseen structures that shape our world. \nBathurst Regional Art Gallery is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW. \nBanner image credits: (Left) Timothy W. Martin\, TORRENT\, 2025\, digital image. Photographed by Ebony Wightman. Courtesy We Are Studios; (Right) Image: Liz Bryan\, Transmissions 2\, 2024\, found wood and acrylic paint. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Maja Baska.
URL:https://www.bathurstregion.com.au/event/brag-i-spy/
LOCATION:Bathurst Regional Art Gallery\, 70-78 Keppel Street\, Bathurst\, 2795
CATEGORIES:Art
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