Welcome to the regional list of arts and cultural events happening in the NSW Central West gathered from artists, event producers, great local venues and groups across the region.


  1. To find events: Use the categories, locations or artforms menus below to filter your search.
  1. To book: Use the contact or ticketing details listed with each event to find out more or to book. Likewise please contact venues directly for venue hire questions.
  2. or, explore Culture Maps for listings and details of museums, galleries, artist studios, historic sites, Aboriginal experiences and sites, craft shops, handmade retail outlets or public art.
  3. Event submission process and guidelines at the bottom of the page.

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  • Exhibition: Faces in the Crowd

    Gulgong Holtermann Museum 125 Mayne Street, #123, Gulgong, NSW, Australia

    Sydney graphic designer and photographer Christopher Dingle returns to the Holtermann Museum with his photographic colourisation. The theme of this exhibition is "the faces in the crowd" - an exploration of the people lurking in the Holtermann Collection photographs from 1872 in and around Gulgong.

  • Tracks to Power: Ben Chifley’s Political Genesis

    Chifley Home and Education Centre 12 Busby Street, Bathurst

    To coincide with the 150th anniversary of the railway arriving in Bathurst, Chifley Home presents Tracks to Power: Ben Chifley’s political genesis. This exhibition looks at Chifley’s work with his union, and his role as a leader in the community. His later political reputation was built upon his analytical and leadership skills, alongside his work for his community, all developed during his time as a locomotive driver.

    free-with-museum-entry
  • Exhibition: Nike Savvas, Purple Haze

    Orange Regional Gallery 149 Byng Street, Orange, NSW, Australia

    Orange Regional Gallery is delighted to present Nike Savvas: Purple Haze, a major new exhibition featuring previous works alongside a spectacular new iteration of Savvas’ acclaimed Atomic series.

  • Exhibition: ‘Our Stories, Our Crowns’

    Orange Regional Gallery 149 Byng Street, Orange, NSW, Australia

    As we mark 50 years of NAIDOC, this exhibition reminds us that our future is built on the knowledge, strength, and resilience of our Female Elders. Their stories, wisdom, and culture continue to guide and inspire the next generation, ensuring these legacies are carried forward with pride.

  • Untamed

    Orange Regional Museum 151 Byng Street, Orange, NSW, Australia

    Weeds, introduced, invasive, pest. We have lots of ways to describe wild plants that don’t belong in our environment.

    What makes a plant a weed and who decides? How can we care for Country and our native species? Is a weed always a bad thing?

  • Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape Nicole Welch: A Mid-Career Survey Curated by Richard Perram OAM

    Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst

    Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape 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.

    FREE
  • Exhibition: ‘Bloom’

    Country Universities Centre Mudgee 70 Court Street, Mudgee, NSW, Australia

    An exhibition inspired by colour, abundance, and the season of growth and new life. 

  • Five Decades: Studies in Realism Graham Lupp

    Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst

    FOYER: Five decades presents a small survey of personal work and invites us into the private collection of local artist Graham Lupp, 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.

    free
  • Exhibition: ‘In Stillness’

    The Peisley St Gallery, Orange 54 Peisley St Gallery, Orange, NSW, Australia

    The Peisley Street Gallery is delighted to present *In Stillness*, a compelling joint exhibition showcasing the vivid and expressive works of acclaimed Central West artists Joy Engelman and Chris Anderson. 

  • Exhibition: ‘A Closer Look’

    Orange Regional Gallery 149 Byng Street, Orange, NSW, Australia

    A Closer Look encapsulates Graham Lupp’s passion for the landscape around Bathurst, where he was born. This has been a lifelong fascination, stemming from his childhood and times spent fishing with his father.

  • Exhibition: ‘The Things We Discover’

    Cowra Information and Neighbourhood Centre 5 Vaux St, Cowra, NSW, Australia

    An exhibition of Mel Gersbach's works. 
    A collection of Australian wildlife, nostalgia and the little moments that invite us to pause, look closer and discover something unexpected.

  • Peter Brock Exhibition

    National Motor Racing Museum 400 Panorama Avenue, Mount Panorama, Australia

    This exhibition celebrates Peter Brock’s career andincredible influence on the
    history of Australianmotorsport, particularly here at Mount Panorama,
    the location of so many of his most notableachievements. We remember a
    legend of our sport,and a hero to so many race fans across the country.

    $7.50 – $15
  • Spring Salon

    little magpie gallery 53 Kendal Street, Cowra, NSW, Australia

    Pictured: “Cheeky Lambs” by Megan Markotany See more including current opening hours and days at Instagram

  • Exhibition: ‘Here/Now’

    Orange Regional Gallery 149 Byng Street, Orange, NSW, Australia

    Here/Now is Orange Regional Gallery’s annual open community exhibition presenting the work of artists from across the Central West of New South Wales.

  • Checks & Balances

    WAYOUT Artspace 71 Angus Avenue, Kandos, NSW, Australia

    Checks and Balances examines systems of authority and governance through gridded formations. Artists Willabel Grindley Bennett and Hayley Zena Poynton employ the grid as both methodology and visual object as a way of fostering their neurodivergences and allowing critical contemplation of bureaucratic modes of control.

  • Coming up: Nice. Different. Unusual

    Cowra Micro Gallery 14A Lynch Street, Cowra, NSW, Australia

    September - October at Cowra Micro Gallery. Open Saturday 27 September 2pm. Weekends.

  • Nikki Burns artist of the month

    T.Arts Gallery 75 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSW, Australia

    Millthorpe artist Nikki has worked extensively in pencil and charcoal, creating detailed realistic forms through a tactile process of blending and refining. With a growing interest in watercolour over the past decade, she enjoys the freedom and experimentation that paint brings to her work.

  • Exhibition: ‘If Not Now, Then Wren?’

    The Loft Mudgee 18 Perry St, Mudgee

    If Not Now, Then Wren? Exhibition - raising awareness for the plight of our beloved Fairy Wrens, facing extinction within 30 years because of climate change.

  • REVEL

    A Thousand Words Gallery, Carcoar 11 Icely Street, Carcoar, NSW, Australia

    This exhibition features Wynne Prize finalists Harrie Fasher, Nic Mason and Julianne Ross Allcorn, three distinctive Australian artists whose practices span sculpture, painting, drawing and mixed media.
    REVEL, bringing together an exceptional collection of contemporary Australian art, selected for its ability to evoke something. A response. A memory. A feeling. A moment that makes you stop and look again.

  • Sculptures in the Garden – Mudgee

    Rosby Wines, Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Mudgee 122 Strikes Ln, Eurunderee, NSW, Australia

    Sculptures in the Garden is an exciting event that combines garden design, large-scale Australian sculpture and traditional art mediums in beautiful rural surroundings within a private garden and vineyard in Mudgee.

  • My Kingdom for a Horse

    Rosby Wines, Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Mudgee 122 Strikes Ln, Eurunderee, NSW, Australia

    A collaborative community sculpture project is coming to Sculptures in the Garden 2026.

    To celebrate the Year of the Horse, we’re inviting our community to help us create something a little wild, wonderfully creative and unmistakably SIG.

  • Quiet Hour

    Quiet Hour
    Age of Fishes Museum 129 Gaskill Street, Canowindra, NSW, Australia

    The Age of Fishes Museum offers a Quiet Hour every Thursday from 10am to 11am.

    Quiet Hour is the perfect time for visitors who prefer a calmer, more relaxed experience. The lights are softer, background noise is reduced and the pace is unhurried.

  • Newbridge Art Show

    Newbridge Newbridge

    The Newbridge Art Show is a vibrant and growing celebration of art and creativity in a historic village in the heart of the New South Wales Central Tablelands.

  • Opening Night: Taking a Bow – Iconic 75

    Parkes Shire Library 25 Bogan Street, Parkes, NSW, Australia

    Join us as we celebrate 75 years of the Musical and Dramatic Society with the opening of this special exhibition in the Coventry Room Gallery.

    Explore a fascinating collection of costumes, photographs, and memorabilia that highlight the Society's rich history and achievements.

    $20
  • upstART 26

    Cowra Regional Art Gallery

    The annual upstART Exhibition and Awards is a unique showcase of artworks by students in Stages 5 and 6 (years 9, 10, 11 and 12) embracing a diverse range of artworks, including experimental and creative approaches in painting, ceramics, mixed media, photography, time-based art and sculpture. This is a ‘must-see’ exhibition of artworks by young artists proudly presented by Cowra Regional Art Gallery in collaboration with high schools in the Central West.

    Free
  • The Art of Tess Kelly

    Condobolin Health Service 1 Quirk Drive, Condobolin, NSW, Australia

    Opening: 29 October 2026 at 11am. All welcome.

  • Save the date: CraftAlive Orange

    Orange Showground Leeds Parade, Orange, NSW, Australia

    CraftAlive is returning to Orange for three big days. Featuring both local and interstate craft experts, the show is packed full of the latest craft supplies, kits and equipment. CraftAlive is a hands-on event and a chance to learn from world-class specialists with interactive classes on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. https://www.craftalive.com.au/events/orange/

  • Josette Lynch Exhibition

    Rosnay Organic, Canowindra 510 Rivers Road, Canowindra, NSW, Australia

    Local Cowra artist Josette Lynch will be exhibiting her newest works as well as running Paint and Sip workshops leading up to the exhibition and as Christmas parties.

  • Form & Fire

    Gang Gang Gallery 206 Main Street, Lithgow, NSW, Australia

    Featuring work by members of the Blue Mountains Clay Collective, Form & Fire celebrates the diversity, creativity and technical excellence of our ceramic community, bringing together a broad range of contemporary clay practices.

  • ‘To Orange With Love’

    See Saw Wines, Orange Orange

    Sophie Corks is putting on one last show before her move to Newcastle.

    Small works and a few biggies of the moments that have inspired Sophie: backyard life, businesses and buildings, the seasons, and everyday life in a cool regional town.

  • Market Day Ceramics

    Gang Gang Gallery 206 Main Street, Lithgow, NSW, Australia

    Come along to Ceramics Market Day and discover a wonderful selection of handmade ceramics created by artists from the Blue Mountains Clay Collective.

  • Save the date: MAP Portrait Prize 2026

    Mudgee Arts Precinct 90 Market Street, Mudgee, NSW, Australia

    Returning in November 2026, the third biennial MAP Portrait Prize will open on 27 November 2026 and run through to 21 February 2027.

  • MUDGEE AIR 2026

    Rosby Wines, Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Mudgee 122 Strikes Ln, Eurunderee, NSW, Australia

    This November, a small group of artists from across Australia will arrive in Mudgee to immerse themselves in the region’s distinctive landscapes, light, and creative spirit. Over five days, they will paint and create across the Mudgee and Capertee Valleys, responding directly to place before presenting their finished works at the Rosby Gallery.

Where: The What’s On calendar covers arts and heritage events happening across the NSW Central West in the local government areas of Bathurst Region, Blayney, Cabonne, Cowra, Forbes, Lachlan, Lithgow, Mid-Western Region, Oberon, Orange, Parkes and Weddin.

What: Content is managed by Arts OutWest. Event listings are sourced or supplied from local venues and arts organisations. Many events listed here have been originally shared by the organisers on social media. Whilst all care is taken – and accuracy is our priority – we can take no responsibility for date changes or the content of contributed information. Contact the event organisers listed for more details or to book tickets.


It’s free to submit your local events.

The best way to include your event is to use our Submit an Event form.

‘Featured events’ are those submitted directly online by presenters.

Terms of use for presenters:

1. Event listings must be for the local government areas of Bathurst Region, Blayney, Cabonne, Cowra, Forbes, Lachlan, Lithgow, Mid-Western Region, Oberon, Orange, Parkes, Weddin

2. Events must be directly arts, creative or heritage related.

3. Images submitted are owned by the organisers or the organisers have express permission to use these images. Please include artist and artwork credits (if relevant) and photographer credit. see our fact sheet USING IMAGES FOR PROMOTING EVENTS. 

3. All submissions will go to Arts OutWest for approval before publishing and may be edited.  Please allow a couple of days for listings to be published. If you have submitted an event and want to make changes – or if you are having difficulty with the form – just email us at artsoutwest@csu.edu.au

4. Organisers must let Arts OutWest know of any event changes or cancellations. Email artsoutwest@csu.edu.au