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Broken Hill: The Past and Present

When two aspiring artists from Broken Hill, photographer Jordan Kowalski and graphic designer Josh Cowdrey, began planning to work together on a project called 'Broken Hill: The Past and Present', not...

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Desert abloom with artificial forest

A year of rain following a decade of drought has brought Australia's deserts to life over recent months, but mother nature can't take credit for a forest that sprung up in Broken Hill's Living Desert...

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Art gallery role finally filled

After a long period of vacancy, the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery finally has a permanent manager.

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Broken Hill artist welcomes mobile health service

Broken Hill artist Jack Absalom says it's good news for Broken Hill that his artwork will feature on a mobile health service.

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Drawing inspiration from the mighty River Murray

How do you capture three years of your life, as well as the grand scale of Australia's longest river, in just one painting? The answer is simple - go big.

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Silver City lights up with solar exhibition

The iconic city of Broken Hill has been turned into an art gallery over the last week as around 20 visiting artists have built sculptures throughout the community ahead of the upcoming Desert Equinox...

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Solar art exhibition - in photos

Solar power of a different kind is on display in the Australian outback.

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YOUR Gallery Week One: A is for Animal

What happens when you ask the public to decide what hangs on the Art Gallery's walls?

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White Cliffs Underground Art Festival attracts international talent

The art festival was a great success over the weekend and attracted artists from across the region and beyond.

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YOUR Gallery Week Two: After Dark

What happens when you ask the public to decide what hangs on the Art Gallery's walls?

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Textile exhibition arrives in Broken Hill

A new art exhibition featuring textiles of all kinds opens at the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery tomorrow.

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YOUR Gallery Week Four: Sacred and Powerful

What happens when you ask the public to decide what hangs on the Art Gallery's walls?

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YOUR Gallery Week Five: The Body

What happens when you ask the public to decide what hangs on the Art Gallery's walls?

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YOUR Gallery Week Six: Journeys

What happens when you ask the public to decide what hangs on the Art Gallery's walls?

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YOUR Gallery Week Three: House and Garden

What happens when you ask the public to decide what hangs on the Art Gallery's walls?

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Concern over cuts to Broken Hill TAFE

There are concerns Broken Hill's artistic scene could suffer from changes to vocational education and training in New South Wales.

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Eerie graveyard of trees

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Eerie outback wins people's choice award

An eerie outback photo has won the People's Choice Award in an annual nature photography competition.

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David Dowden and one of his paintings.

David Dowden and one of his paintings.

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Charities 'wind down' amid funding uncertainty

A Broken Hill homelessness charity says it can not take new clients because of uncertainty over its funding.

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Julia Gillard, Radiohead and Warnie emerge in the Silver City

Broken Hill's Robin Sellick has built a reputation as Australia's leading celebrity photographer and like the portraits he is famous for there is an intriguing depth to the man himself.

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Remedial powers of art

Inpatients at Broken Hill Hospital will be the first to benefit from an innovative arts program which could be used as a model for health services across NSW.

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Brushmen of the Bush: Absalom tells of taxi ride to stardom

He may not be the best known of the internationally-acclaimed Brushmen of the Bush, but artist, author, 'Roo shooter, boxer, TV host and adventurer Jack Absalom surely ranks as the most extroverted...

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20th anniversary for BH tourism icon

During the past two decades the Broken Hill Sculpture Symposium has earned a reputation as one of the most photographed landscapes in Far West NSW.

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Chalking it up at St Barbara Festival

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Painting pavement in pastel at St Barbara Festival

One of Australia's best pavement artists Jenny McCracken chalks up in Broken Hill at the St Barbara Festival

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Mining the pavement at St Barbara Festival

In the mining town of Broken Hill in far west NSW, St Barbara, the patron saint of miners, soldiers and artillerymen is being celebrated.

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PNG past filters into outback landscape art

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Outback wild country impresses prize-winning artist

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Archibald artist watercolours outback

Big skies in the outback and the wide-vast landscape entices many artists to far west NSW.

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Ben Quilty: From Afghanistan to Wilcannia

The landscapes of Far West NSW are "some of the most spectacular and spiritual" that leading Australian contemporary artist Ben Quilty has ever seen - and prompted an incredible flashback to his stint...

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Visiting American students experience 'outback'

College students from different parts of the United States are visiting the Sunraysia region for three weeks as part of La Trobe University's photography program 'Edge of the Outback'.

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Call to rename Broken Hill streets after locals

Pressure is mounting on authorities to rename Broken Hill parks and thoroughfares.

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Outback Open Art Prize

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Strong interest in outback art prize

The winner of Broken Hill's Outback Open Art Prize will be announced tonight.

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Outback art prize winner stirs controversy

Broken Hill's Outback Open Art Prize has been won by a contraption put together by the Swan Hill artist Ian Tully.

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An angel monument at the Broken Hill cemetery

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How the Titanic 'saved' a life

Most people equate the tragic sinking of the Titanic with an enormous death toll but, for Bradley Falappi, the story has been the making of his life.

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Broken Hill artists define 'Local Life'

A selection of Broken Hill's leading amateur artists are being considered for higher honours after entering the ABC's Local Life 2013 exhibition.

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Take a 'Captain Cook' at this: Priceless treasures on bush tour

Teachers and students from Far West NSW have received high praise for their knowledge base after witnessing original and unique Australian historical treasures.

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Time taking its toll on gallery's artworks

The Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery is seeking donations to fix damage to some of its most well known works.

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All aboard the Art Express

Some of the best student artworks produced in NSW are on show at Grafton Regional Gallery.

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Botanical artists draw Beckler's plants

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Drawing Beckler's plants

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Burke and Wills inspire botanical artists to draw

The art of scientific drawing takes a lot of skill and concentration as botanical artists record in minute detail the specimen at hand.

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Outback search for planet Mars

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Planet Mars inspires artist in outback

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Planet Mars draws artist to mining town

The planet Mars and the rugged outback landscape near Broken Hill might seem like worlds apart but one artist is trying to find the link.

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Car bonnet art a tribute to Broken Hill

When the Frost family set off on their next travelling adventure, they'll be taking a little bit of Broken Hill with them.

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Broken Hill's 2013

As 2013 comes to be end, we take a look back at the events that have shaped the last 12 months.

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