Recently, students from Scone Grammar took part in workshops with immersive artist Anna Fraser, researching and animating items from the collection at Scone Museum. Using Procreate, students drew and documented stories and objects of interest, including a brass fire helmet, a prickly pear pulper, a remnant of dingo fence, and a buckjumping saddle. The resulting…
Stories of place connect communities to land, culture, and one another. With this in mind, Arts Upper Hunter set out to document two Wanaruah stories from the Upper Hunter Valley, creating new digital content for Creative Valley-a cultural tourism platform that celebrates the stories, people and creative heritage of the region. The project was funded…
Arts Upper Hunter is thrilled to announce recipients of Country Arts Support Program (CASP) and Micro Grants for 2026. Arts Upper Hunter’s small grants provide a great opportunity to community groups, individuals and businesses across the Upper Hunter Region to develop a program, event, exhibition, performance, workshop, career opportunity or experience. “This year there’s a surprising…
Dare To Be Deadly On-Country Youth Day Camp We’re calling for Expressions of Interest from our young people to be part of our Dare To Be Deadly On-Country Youth Day Camp happening in April 2026! The Day Camp will bring young people together to build life skills, take part in creative workshops, learn bushcraft, teamwork,…
Creatives with disability looking to gain professional experience with leading NSW arts, screen and music organisations can now apply for accessible and inclusive internships for 2026. Now open, NSW creative practitioners with disability or who are d/Deaf are invited to apply for a variety of internship roles with 20 host organisations across NSW, including new…
Gelli printing, or gel plate printing, is a form of mono-printing that uses a reusable, soft gelatine-like plate to create unique, layered images on paper. Acrylic paint is applied to the plate with a brayer & textures and designs can be created by pressing objects like leaves, stencils, or tools onto the surface, and then…
Update. The Common by Jonathan Burrows won the Best Cinematography Award at the Blue Heeler Film Festival 2025. The Common, a short film set on Muswellbrook Common in the Upper Hunter, has been officially selected for the Blue Heeler Film Festival in the Nurture Award category. Directed by Jonathan Burrows and produced by Arts…
Small Forest Wines presents an exhibition by Maude Butta. The exhibition closes at the end of the year. Artist statement: “The Hunter Valley is a landscape of shifting modes – light dissolving into shadow, ridges glowing at dusk, valleys wrapped in silence. My paintings are not records of place, but records of feelings. Each canvas…
Elizabeth Birch, organiser of the Upper Hunter Quilt Adventure has reported. “What a wonderful weekend we had for the Quilt Adventure. The weather was perfect. A great variety of stalls in the garden and a very nice morning tea and lunch made by the Wybong Caterers. We had 65 quilts to hang and no two…
Arts On Tour’s just announced the successful applicants for their Back Roads program, touring regional NSW. One production, which Arts Upper Hunter is getting right behind, will be coming especially to our region. Of the three successful applicants, Danielle Brame Whiting’s “Flat Pack” is coming to a space near you! Touring in April 2026, this…