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ON TODAY // Sunday Sketch SessionSunday 27 September, 10am-2pmCome on down to BRAG for a FREE, self-guided sketch sessio...
26/09/2026

ON TODAY // Sunday Sketch Session
Sunday 27 September, 10am-2pm

Come on down to BRAG for a FREE, self-guided sketch session in our current exhibitions! Materials and stool provided, no experience required, all welcome!

In the Main Gallery, a mid-career survey by Hill-End based Nicole Welch, 'Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape' surveys 27 years of practice exploring relationships between landscape, the body, and memory. In the Foyer Gallery, 'Five Decades: Studies in Realism' by Bathurst-based Graham Lupp presents an exclusive look at studies made by the artist during formative moments of his expansive career.

Image: Exhibition View, 'Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape | Nicole Welch: A Mid-Career Survey', Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 29 August - 1 November 2026, featuring Nicole Welch, 'W I L D #1 - prelude' , 2019. Photography: Silversalt Photography.

Exhibition Tour // Join BRAG staff for a tour of current exhibitions today at 11am. FREE, all welcome, RSVP via link in ...
25/09/2026

Exhibition Tour // Join BRAG staff for a tour of current exhibitions today at 11am. FREE, all welcome, RSVP via link in bio or at bathurstart.com.au

Pictured here is 'Shepherd's Bush Market', 1977 by Graham Lupp, currently on display in the BRAG Foyer Gallery as part of 'Five Decades: Studies in Realism'.

The exhibition presents a small survey of personal work and invites us into Lupp's private collection, providing a unique glimpse of studies made during formative moments and experiences of the artist’s life. The exhibition offers a beautiful journey of reflection, retrospection and poignant perspectives, celebrating vulnerability and wisdom across five decades of practice.

'Shepherd's Bush Market', 1977 was made in gouache on watercolour paper and was a study for a larger oil painting simply called 'Mugs', 1977, The study was only the fifth painting in gouache the artist had attempted as a student at Chelsea School of Art. To date, Graham Lupp has now painted over 300 works in gouache.

Image: Exhibition View, 'Graham Lupp. Five Decades: Studies in Realism', Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 29 August - 1 November 2026, featuring Graham Lupp, 'Shepherd’s Bush Market' (1977). Photography: Silversalt Photography.

WHAT'S ON // Coming up at BRAG🏞️ HILL END ART EXPERIENCE // A rare opportunity to meet acclaimed artist Nicole Welch in ...
24/09/2026

WHAT'S ON // Coming up at BRAG

🏞️ HILL END ART EXPERIENCE // A rare opportunity to meet acclaimed artist Nicole Welch in her studio, including lunch at Hill End Micro Pub.
$45 BRAGS Members, $50 Non-Members, bookings are essential - via link in bio or at bathurstart.com.au: Saturday 17 October, 9.30am-3.30pm

🖼️ EXHIBITION TOUR // Join BRAG staff for a guided tour of our current exhibitions. RSVP preferred. Every Saturday at 11am

✏️ SUNDAY SKETCH // Join BRAG for a self-guided sketching session in our current exhibitions. This is a drop-in activity, pick up a clipboard, paper and pencil from reception and get sketching in the gallery! All ages, every Sunday 10am-2pm

🔍I-SPY // How many items on BRAG's I-Spy activity can you find? This activity is available daily during opening hours and is a great way to encourage deeper observation of artwork elements. Designed for kids, enjoyed by all ages!

🦉 MAKER SPACE // Enjoy some creative downtime in our Maker Space where our community have been creating a collection of animals that come out after dark! Materials are supplied and the space is open during gallery hours.

BRAG is open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm, and Saturday-Sunday 10am-2pm.

Image: Maker Space, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 29 August - 1 November 2026. Photo: Silversalt Photography.

School Holidays Workshop // Spring PastelsThursday 1 October, 10.30am-12.00pmGet creative at your regional Art Gallery a...
24/09/2026

School Holidays Workshop // Spring Pastels
Thursday 1 October, 10.30am-12.00pm

Get creative at your regional Art Gallery and learn how to use chalk and oil pastels to create a series of spring-themed artworks!

No experience required, all welcome, please wear something that can get messy, or bring your own smock.

This workshop will include a short tour of current exhibitions for inspiration.

$10 members, $15 non-members, ages 6-17, Bookings essential https://events.humanitix.com/school-holidays-workshop-spring-pastels

SHOP SPOTLIGHT // Joel TonksJoel Tonks is an Australian visual artist currently based in Orange NSW, working across pain...
15/09/2026

SHOP SPOTLIGHT // Joel Tonks

Joel Tonks is an Australian visual artist currently based in Orange NSW, working across painting, ceramics, interactive media and photography. Graduating from the University of Wollongong in 2014 with a Bachelor of Creative Arts Honours, his multifaceted practice explores the intersections between science, art, and everyday life.

​Discovery and empiricism are recurring threads in Tonks' artworks, whether it be the classification and taxonomy of the natural world, or interaction of virtual and physical worlds.

The Gallery Shop has a range of ceramics by Joel currently available for purchase, a beautiful range of colours, sizes and shapes.

Image: Joel Tonks ceramics in the Gallery Shop, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. Photo: BRAG

COMING UP // Artist Talk: Graham LuppSaturday 19 September, 11amHear from local artist Graham Lupp OAM about his current...
15/09/2026

COMING UP // Artist Talk: Graham Lupp
Saturday 19 September, 11am

Hear from local artist Graham Lupp OAM about his current BRAG Foyer Gallery exhibition 'Five Decades: Studies in Realism.'

This event is FREE, all welcome, RSVP essential via link in bio or at bathurstart.com.au

'Five Decades: Studies in Realism' presents a small survey of personal work and invites us into the artist's private collection, providing a unique glimpse of studies made during formative moments and experiences of the artist’s life. The exhibition offers a beautiful journey of reflection, retrospection and poignant perspectives, celebrating vulnerability and wisdom across five decades of practice.

Image: Installation view, 'Graham Lupp, Five Decades: Studies in Realism', Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 29 August - 1 November 2026, featuring Graham Lupp, Study Self Portrait, 1976). Photo: Silversalt Photography.

ON TODAY // Sunday Sketch Session, Sunday 13 September, 10am-2pmCome on down to BRAG for a free, self-guided sketch sess...
12/09/2026

ON TODAY // Sunday Sketch Session, Sunday 13 September, 10am-2pm

Come on down to BRAG for a free, self-guided sketch session in our current exhibitions! Materials and stool provided, no experience required, all welcome!

In the Main Gallery, a mid-career survey by Hill-End based Nicole Welch, 'Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape' surveys 27 years of practice exploring relationships between landscape, the body, and memory. In the Foyer Gallery, 'Five Decades: Studies in Realism' by Bathurst-based Graham Lupp presents an exclusive look at studies made by the artist during formative moments of his expansive career.

Image: Exhibition View, 'Graham Lupp. Five Decades: Studies in Realism', Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 29 August - 1 November 2026, featuring Graham Lupp, 'The Pink Ether' (2026). Photo: Silversalt Photography.

ON TODAY // Exhibition Tour, Saturday 12 September, 11amJoin BRAG for a free, guided tour of our current exhibitions!Tou...
11/09/2026

ON TODAY // Exhibition Tour, Saturday 12 September, 11am
Join BRAG for a free, guided tour of our current exhibitions!
Tours are FREE, all welcome, RSVP is preferred via link in bio or at bathurstart.com.au

In the Main Gallery, a mid-career survey by Hill-End based Nicole Welch, 'Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape' surveys 27 years of practice exploring relationships between landscape, the body, and memory. In the Foyer Gallery, 'Five Decades: Studies in Realism' by Bathurst-based Graham Lupp presents an exclusive look at studies made by the artist during formative moments of his expansive career.

Image: Exhibition View, 'Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape | Nicole Welch: A Mid-Career Survey,' Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 29 August - 1 November 2026, featuring Nicole Welch, 'Yarrahappini' (2019/20). Photo: Silversalt Photography.

WHAT'S ON // Coming up at BRAG🏞️ HILL END ART EXPERIENCE // A rare opportunity to meet acclaimed artist Nicole Welch in ...
10/09/2026

WHAT'S ON // Coming up at BRAG

🏞️ HILL END ART EXPERIENCE // A rare opportunity to meet acclaimed artist Nicole Welch in her studio, including lunch at Hill End Micro Pub.
Saturday 17 October, 9.30am-3.30pm, $45 BRAGS Members, $50 Non-Members, bookings are essential via link in bio or at bathurstart.com.au

🖼️ EXHIBITION TOURS // Join BRAG staff for a guided tour of our current exhibitions. RSVP preferred. Every Saturday at 11am

✏️ SUNDAY SKETCH // Drop in to BRAG for a self-guided sketching session in our current exhibitions. Pick up a clipboard, paper and pencil from reception and get sketching in the gallery! All ages, every Sunday 10am-2pm

🔍I-SPY // How many items on BRAG's I-Spy activity can you find? This activity is available daily during opening hours and is a great way to encourage deeper observation of artwork elements. Designed for kids, enjoyed by all ages!

🦉 MAKER SPACE // Enjoy some creative downtime in our Maker Space where our community have been creating a collection of animals that come out after dark! Materials are supplied and the space is open during gallery hours

🎙️ ARTIST TALK // Hear from artist Graham Lupp about 'Five Decades: Studies in Realism', a journey through practice, viewed from a vantage point of five decades. Sunday 19 September, 11am, Free, all welcome, RSVP essential via link in bio or at bathurstart.com.au

BRAG is open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm, and Saturday-Sunday 10am-2pm.

Image: Exhibition View, 'Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape | Nicole Welch: A Mid-Career Survey', Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 29 August - 1 November 2026, featuring Nicole Welch, 'TRANSFORMATION - journey' (2018) and 'TRANSFORMATION - arrival' (2018). Photo: Silversalt Photography.

'Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape | Nicole Welch: A Mid-Career Survey' was curated by Richard Perram OAM. This e...
09/09/2026

'Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape | Nicole Welch: A Mid-Career Survey' was curated by Richard Perram OAM. This exhibition surveys 27 years of work by Hill End-based artist Nicole Welch. Throughout her career and across mediums, her work is rich with symbolism, tension, and transformation and explores the relationships between landscape, the body, time, and memory. Welch creates works that are at once visually beautiful and conceptually challenging.

A significant moment in her relationship between landscape and body was falling ill in 2004 and being forced to return from London to her hometown of Bathurst on Wiradyuri Country. A tension which revealed itself as a new creative connection to this region, its landscape, ecology and history. Short trips into the landscape around the Central West nurtured Welch both emotionally and physically, allowing her to be drawn out of herself and into the forests, rivers and gorges and connecting her back to her own existence. Since 2012 she has worked primarily in photography and digital media creating images in remote bushland locations, bringing together installation, performance, and site-responsive research to create images that reveal the layered cultural, environmental and personal narratives embedded within place. Here the historical references play a different role, where Welch observes the objects from her past with a new national perspective and contends with the colonial history of Australia.

'Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape | Nicole Welch: A Mid-Career Survey' is open at BRAG until 1 November 2026.

Image: Exhibition View, 'Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape | Nicole Welch: A Mid-Career Survey', Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 29 August - 1 November 2026, featuring Nicole Welch, 'Tondo #3 - Kanangra Wall Lookout' (2014). Photo: Silversalt Photography.

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