Opening // BRAG Spring Exhibitions 2026

Join Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) in celebrating the opening of two new exhibitions on Friday 28 August 2026!

Main Gallery - Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape | Nicole Welch: A Mid-Career Survey

Foyer Gallery - Five Decades: Studies in Realism | Graham Lupp

Friday 28 August, 6pm

Welcome to Country
Opening Speeches
Auslan Interpretation for Opening Speeches (Remote Video Interpretation link from Sydney)
Catering by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Society
Beverages by Renzaglia Wines, Grass Parrot Vineyard, and Cosmo Brewing
FREE, all welcome, RSVP essential

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) celebrates the breadth of creativity in our own backyard this Spring with two new exhibitions by Central West NSW artists. In the Main Gallery, a mid-career survey by Hill-End based Nicole Welch, Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape surveys 27 years of practice exploring relationships between landscape, the body, and memory. In the Foyer Gallery, Five Decades: Studies in Realism by Bathurst-based Graham Lupp presents an exclusive look at studies made by the artist during formative moments of his expansive career.

Plus: our vibrant display of visitor-made artworks in Made by You has been extended across our OUT THERE Digital Platforms | TAFE Screens until summer.

Main Gallery

Transformations: Image, Time & Landscape

Nicole Welch: A Mid-Career Survey

Curated by Richard Perram OAM

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. Curated by Richard Perram OAM.

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Image: Nicole Welch, Yarrahapinni (still), 2019, single channel HD infrared time lapse, 3:21mins, edition of 3. Courtesy the artist.

Foyer Gallery

Five Decades: Studies in Realism

Graham Lupp

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

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Image: Graham Lupp, Self-Portrait Study, 1976, 27 x 22 cm. Courtesy the artist.

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