Outback Arts launches new website to showcase local art
Outback Arts, the Regional Arts Development Organisation for Far West NSW, has launched a brand-new interactive website, to showcase and assist travellers and locals discover the art, culture, and heritage the region has to offer.
The new website is called ‘Creative Country’, and, in the words of Outback Arts’ project artist Andrew Hull, ‘Creative Country’ is where land opens up, the spaces are bigger, and the people and the culture reflect the scale of this landscape.
“This expanse is where ideas have space to grow and where art fills the space diversely and authentically,” Andrew said.
For the first time, locals and visitors will be able research and plan visits to more than 150 galleries, public art, aboriginal experiences, museums, festivals, and events from across the western plains.
Creativecountrynsw.com includes the shires of Warren, Nyngan, Bourke, Brewarrina, Walgett, Cobar, Coonamble and all the towns in between, in one interactive map.
Former Bourke-based writer and artist Andrew Hull has been busy promoting the new resource and said he was astounded at how much art was being homegrown across the region.
“The western region is really rich in art, and it’s been accumulating in galleries and craft shops and spaces all around us,” he said.
“The online resource is great because you might not know what is going on in other regions. There’s the silo art for example, that you can find in so many of our western towns.
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