Cowra Regional Art Gallery

Cowra Regional Art Gallery The Cowra Regional Art Gallery is located in Cowra’s main cultural precinct together with the Cowra Library, World Peace Bell and the Cowra Civic Centre.

🎯 'Central Belonging Art Award’ is now showing until 14 June!🌟 Exhibiting artists who were unable to join us at the open...
29/05/2026

🎯 'Central Belonging Art Award’ is now showing until 14 June!

🌟 Exhibiting artists who were unable to join us at the opening visited the Gallery recently to view their works alongside the other finalists’ artworks.

✍ Come and cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award!

⏰ Gallery hours are Tues-Sat 10am to 4pm, Sunday 10am to 2 pm. Admission is free.



IMAGES 1. Margot Huebner, ‘I Like It What is It’, acrylic on canvas. 2. Silas Clifford-Smith, ‘Skew/Wiff’, acrylic on canvas. 3. Karen James. ‘Portrait of my Father’, charcoal on Canson Mi-tientes paper. 4. Andrew Baylor, ‘Down Along the Waugoola Creek’, oil on canvas. 5. Spencer Calveley, ‘Digger II’, charcoal, Conté, ink, acrylic and pastel on paper.

Cowra Regional Art Gallery acknowledges Reconciliation Week. “White settlement/invasion and industrialization have chang...
26/05/2026

Cowra Regional Art Gallery acknowledges Reconciliation Week.

“White settlement/invasion and industrialization have changed the face of Australia. They have brought pressure to bear on the indigenous peoples, flora and fauna. 'Irinjilli Lost' is a representation of this. Amongst the survivors, are those brought to the brink of extinction.”

– Bronwyn Ingersole
'Central Belonging Art Award' Finalist
15 May to 14 June 2026



Image: Bronwyn Ingersole, Irinjilli Lost 2026, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 50 x 4 cm

📣 Call for entries for the 'Calleen Art Award 2026' is now open 📣🎨 The 'Calleen Art Award' is an annual acquisitive pain...
24/05/2026

📣 Call for entries for the 'Calleen Art Award 2026' is now open 📣

🎨 The 'Calleen Art Award' is an annual acquisitive painting prize and exhibition. It presents the best of contemporary Australian painting in any style, theme or subject.

🌟 The Award was established in 1977 as an acquisitive art prize by Mrs Patricia Fagan OAM to encourage originality, creativity and excellence in the visual arts, and is made possible by the generous support of the Calleen Trust.

📍 ENTRIES CLOSE Sunday 19 July 2026 at 11.59pm (AEST)

📍 EXHIBITION OPENING 6.00pm, Saturday 5 September 2026

📍 EXHIBITION DATES
6 September to 11 October 2026

📍 ENTER ONLINE cowraartgallery.com.au

🎯 'The Calleen Art Award 2026' is open to artists across Australia and this year’s award prize is $30,000. The winning artwork will join the Calleen Collection at Cowra Regional Art Gallery. Visitors are also encouraged to vote in the People's Choice with the winner announced at the end of the exhibition.

🎊 Drop into the Gallery to view our annual ‘Central Belonging Art Award’ exhibition for 2026! 🎊🎯 This is your chance to ...
22/05/2026

🎊 Drop into the Gallery to view our annual ‘Central Belonging Art Award’ exhibition for 2026! 🎊

🎯 This is your chance to see works of 70 professional and emerging artists local to Cowra Shire and surrounding Central West region and to vote for your favourite in the People’s Choice, with the winner to be announced at the end of the exhibition.

📆 ‘Central Belonging Art Award 2026’ is on show until 14 June 2026.

⏰ Gallery hours are Tues-Sat 10am to 4pm, Sunday 10am to 2 pm. Admission is free.



IMAGES 1. Award Judge Lizzy Galloway, Gallery Curator at Mudgee Arts Precinct and visitors. 2. (l-r) Award Judge Lizzy Galloway, Award recipients: Therese Crowe, Shani Nottingham, Simone Darcy and CRAG Director, Cassandra Hard Lawrie.

🎉 Friday 15 May saw the launch of the Gallery’s annual “Central Belonging Art Award’ for 2026 with a record number of vi...
17/05/2026

🎉 Friday 15 May saw the launch of the Gallery’s annual “Central Belonging Art Award’ for 2026 with a record number of visitors attending! 🎉

🎯 70 finalists were selected for the exhibition.

👏 Thank you to Award Judge Lizzy Galloway, Gallery Curator at Mudgee Arts Precinct.

🏆 Congratulations to all our Finalists and Winners!

“Central Belonging Art Award” celebrates what it means to be part of the vibrant ‘Cowra and beyond’ artistic cohort.

“Central Belonging Art Award” is supported by the Cowra Regional Art Gallery Advisory Committee. The Gallery gratefully acknowledges donations from David Henley and Ken Hutchinson for the first-place Central Belonging Art Award of $2,000, and a private donor for the second-place award of $1,000.

✍️ Visit the Gallery and cast your vote in the People’s Choice! The winner will be announced at the end of the exhibition.

📌 Gallery hours are Tues-Sat 10am to 4pm, Sunday 10am to 2 pm



IMAGES Finalists and Winners. Visitors at the exhibition opening.

📣 FINAL DAY THIS SUNDAY 10 MAY to view “Olive Cotton and her contemporaries”! 📣⏰ The Gallery is open today from 10AM to ...
10/05/2026

📣 FINAL DAY THIS SUNDAY 10 MAY to view “Olive Cotton and her contemporaries”! 📣

⏰ The Gallery is open today from 10AM to 2PM.

📷 Olive Cotton (1911‒2003) is now recognised as one of Australia’s most significant photographers, especially notable for her images that draw attention to the immersive qualities of photography. Cotton began taking photographs with a Kodak Box Brownie when she was 11, and by the early 1930s was an integral member of a vibrant creative community in Sydney that included her good friend (and later husband) Max Dupain. She spent the decade making some of the most innovative photographs in the history of Australian photography, which she published and exhibited during this period, including internationally 📷

The exhibition is a luminous look at one of Australia’s greatest photographers and her international peers who shaped modernist vision.

“Olive Cotton and her contemporaries” is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of the Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program.



IMAGE Olive Cotton, “Teacup ballet”, 1935, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1983

🎥 LIGHT YEARS: Olive Cotton 🎬 & ✨ Show Us Your Olives! ✨Join us this Friday 8 May 2026 for a screening of the 1990 film...
05/05/2026

🎥 LIGHT YEARS: Olive Cotton 🎬 & ✨ Show Us Your Olives! ✨

Join us this Friday 8 May 2026 for a screening of the 1990 film by Kathryn Millard

'Light Years: Olive Cotton' is a unique record of the life and work of eminent Australian photographer, Olive Cotton.

The screening concludes with 'Show Us Your Olives!' a presentation of past and present residents’ collection of their own Olive Cotton photographs. 📷

The National Gallery of Australia and Cowra Regional Art Gallery invited the Cowra community to celebrate the legacy of Olive Cotton by asking them to share photographs and anecdotes in celebration of Olive, presented in a slide show format as a special community event.

GUEST SPEAKER Kathryn Millard
ADMISSION FREE | AGES: All ages

⏰ Friday 8 May 6-9pm

This event is part of the National Gallery of Australia’s touring exhibition Olive Cotton and her contemporaries, presented at Cowra Regional Art Gallery. These programs are generously funded by the Bowness Family Foundation.

Images:
1. Still image of Olive Cotton from 'Light Years: Olive Cotton' a 1990 film by Kathryn Millard.
2. Sally McInerney, Olive Cotton (detail), c. 1990, hand coloured photograph.

📣 FINAL WEEK! 📣 📆 “Olive Cotton and her contemporaries” exhibition enters its final week and must end Sunday 10 March!!📷...
02/05/2026

📣 FINAL WEEK! 📣

📆 “Olive Cotton and her contemporaries” exhibition enters its final week and must end Sunday 10 March!!

📷 The exhibition is a luminous look at one of Australia’s greatest photographers and her international peers who shaped modernist vision.

“Olive Cotton and her contemporaries” is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of the Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program



IMAGE Olive Cotton, “The shell” c. 1935, National Gallery of Australia, KamberriCanberra, purchased 2012

🎊 Art Lab has just wrapped for the afternoon! 🎊🤩 Young people attended an Art Lab session with National Gallery of Austr...
02/05/2026

🎊 Art Lab has just wrapped for the afternoon! 🎊

🤩 Young people attended an Art Lab session with National Gallery of Australia educators, where they learned to make cyanotypes.

📍 Pictured: Art Lab attendees with their artworks and educators Andrew, Bailey and lead artist Anna Madeleine Raupach.

The program was part of the National Gallery of Australia’s touring exhibition “Olive Cotton and her contemporaries”, presented at Cowra Regional Art Gallery.

These programs are generously funded by the Bowness Family Foundation.


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77 Darling Street
Cowra, NSW
2794

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 2pm

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(02) 6340 2190

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