Perth Symphony is excited to announce they have received a major grant from Lotterywest for a new music program with Arts Narrogin, titled Green Shoots.
Category: Arts & Culture in the Region
Call for Entries! Drawing Together: Renewal exhibition
Artists are invited to submit works that respond to the theme of ‘renewal’. This may relate to personal renewal, community renewal or renewal in the places and spaces observed around them.
Announcement of artists to feature in the 2020 Alternative Exhibition at the John Curtin Gallery
The John Curtin Gallery has announced the 40 regional artists, including 16 Indigenous artists, who will showcase their work in The Alternative Archive exhibition to be held in 2020. Congratulations to local artists Chan Dalgarno and Casey Thornton who have been selected from 'The Alternative Archive: Common Ground' exhibition held at NEXIS earlier this year.
Demos from The Wheatbelt Launch and first single preview
WA Music Launches Demos from The Wheatbelt Compilation 30th August at Cummins Theatre, Merredin.
In March this year, ten artists from WA’s Wheatbelt region travelled to Merredin’s iconic Cummins Theatre to record their original songs. The fresh harvest of new tracks was recorded under the watchful ears of award winning producers Matt Gio, Dan Carroll and Andy Lawson. For some of the artists, it was first chance they’d had to set foot in a professional studio.
The Quiet Achiever of the Upper Great Southern
When the regional community of Narrogin comes to mind, it elicits thoughts of the agricultural industry, wheat, sheep and hay farming, as well as sporting identities, including Barry Cable, Bevan George and Shaun Marsh who once lived in the town. But away from all the paddocks, shearing sheds and hockey turfs, an emerging, prize-winning artist flies under the public radar, going about her business with little attention or fanfare.
Still waters run deep for Narrogin artist
Through a series of exquisitely painted portraits that meticulously capture a range of people in various states of contemplative solitude, Narrogin artist, Casey Thornton, creates a rare opportunity for visitors to escape the hustle and bustle of their modern lives to relish a moment of peaceful calm and reflection.
Narrogin Artists Contribute to Groundbreaking Project of Statewide Significance
Artists, curators and photographers from the Narrogin region are contributing to a legacy of positive impact for WA’s cultural industries as key collaborators in the development of a ground-breaking series of fourteen inter-connected exhibitions titled ‘The Alternative Archive’.
Landscapes escape from a locked room
A substantial collection of artworks donated to the Town of Narrogin by Peter Taylor in 2015 will go on public display for the first time on Saturday, 30 April. The paintings, drawings and etchings were collected by Peter’s late wife, Carol, for the most part in secret – hence the exhibition’s title “Landscapes from a Locked Room”.