Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo

The Western Plains Cultural Centre is a function of Western Plains Regional Council and houses collections of the former Dubbo Regional Museum and Dubbo Regional Gallery.

The philosophy of the Centre is to create a positive and unique sense of place for Dubbo residents and visitors by providing opportunities and events for creative and cultural engagement with the community, and assisting in the preservation and growth of the region’s identity.

Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo

Dubbo Regional Gallery - The Armati Bequest, 76 Wingewarra Street Dubbo NSW 2830

02 6801 4444

westernplainsculturalcentre.org

Open daily 10am–4pm.
Closed Good Friday, Christmas Eve &
Day, Boxing Day and New Year Day.

Exhibitions

The WPCC Collection

Permanent Exhibition

15 Dec

Animal in Art: The Collection

Ongoing Exhibition

1 Dec

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Written in the stars

A major exhibition charts the ingenuity and creative spirit coming out of the Yirrkala community across time. In collaboration with Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre,Yolŋu Power: the art of Yirrkala is now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Tyson Frigo

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Creativity beyond mortality

Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

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Shadow and light

A quiet power pulses through It’s Always Been Always at Fremantle Arts Centre, where six First Nations women artists reflect on kinship, Country and cultural memory.

Rosamund Brennan

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Generation, making and exchange in Queer Territory

In Queer Territory at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, curator Maurice O’Riordan has drawn together diverse works from the 1980s to the present day to present a snapshot of queer practice in the Territory.

Josephine Mead

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Sensory perceptions

Inspired by the ways in which nature informs creativity, the exhibition Material Nature, now showing at Drill Hall Gallery, aims to encourage viewers to think deeply about the human connection to the natural world.

Briony Downes

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Flying high at the TarraWarra Biennial

Taking an expanded approach to Indigenous curatorial practice, the ninth TarraWarra Biennial features work responding to themes of regeneration, restoring spirit, and disrupting colonial space. Three artists discuss their contributions.

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Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo