International Women’s Day Exhibition

In celebration of International Women’s Day an exhibition called Guyulgang Yinaagirbang (Strong women) will open at the Kew-Y-Ahn Aboriginal Art Gallery at Hartley Historic Site.

The exhibition of artworks celebrates the strength and diversity of female Aboriginal artists from the Central West.

The exhibition opens as a special International Women’s Day event at 11am on Wednesday 8 March to be opened by Cr Maree Statham, Mayor Lithgow City Council and Aleshia Lonsdale, Aboriginal Arts Development Officer, Arts OutWest.

Work will range from weaving, painting and jewellery to sound and digital artworks.

The Kew-Y-Ahn Aboriginal Art Gallery is located in the National Parks and Wildlife Service Building at 50 Old Great Western Highway, Hartley (10 minutes east of Lithgow). The gallery is a partnership between Arts OutWest, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and the NSW Department of Environment and Heritage.

The gallery is open Tuesdays-Sundays and receives more than

8000 visitors a year. Work by local Aboriginal painters, weavers, designers, jewellers and photographers from across the NSW Central West is shown and for sale in rotating exhibitions in the gallery space.