In The Frame with Jenny Ward

29/08/2025

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Podcast Episode · IN THE FRAME - JENNY WARD · 29/08/2025 · 19m

28/08/2025

This months episode of In the Frame welcomes Anjum Olmo, Australian-Indian artist and creator of the powerful new exhibition SARI, running August 9–31.

In this deeply personal and visually rich exhibition, Anjum explores the cultural, political, and emotional layers of the Sari - a garment that is both everyday and extraordinary. From its ancient roots in India to modern-day reinterpretations, SARI weaves together tradition, self-expression, and resistance.

Anjum shares how her work navigates the space between South Asian heritage and Australian identity, blending colour, gesture, and pattern into artworks grounded in mindfulness and inspired by the Blue Mountains landscape.

🎧 Tune in from this Friday to hear how fabric becomes a story, and how art becomes a form of cultural reclamation, healing, and radical self-care.

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26/08/2025

In this months episode, we’re checking back in with Fiona Davies, who returns to In the Frame with an exciting update: the official reopening date for the Wentworth Falls School of the Arts is set for August 30th! 🎉🎉

After months of transformation, planning, and passionate community support, this much-loved cultural venue is ready to open its doors once again. Fiona shares what’s in store for the relaunch, what the space will offer artists and locals alike, and what it means to breathe new life into a building with such rich creative history.

🎧 Don’t miss this milestone moment for the Blue Mountains arts scene. Episode airing Friday August 29th and reopening this Saturday the 30th.

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25/08/2025

This episode of In the Frame features accomplished stage actor Daniel Mitchell, who takes on the role of Robert in Four Shadows Productions’ upcoming play PROOF by David Auburn—running at Wentworth Falls School of Arts this September.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, PROOF delves into the complex terrain of genius, mental illness, and the burden of legacy. Mitchell plays Robert, a brilliant but unstable mathematician whose legacy casts a long shadow over his daughter Catherine.

With a career that spans London, Belvoir Street, and the Sydney Opera House, Mitchell brings gravitas and nuance to a role that blurs the line between brilliance and breakdown.

Join us as Daniel reflects on stepping into this deeply layered character, and why intimate, local theatre continues to challenge and inspire.

📍 Wentworth Falls School of Arts
🗓️ 24 Sept – 5 Oct 2025
🎟️ Early bookings highly recommended

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1412026

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24/08/2025

Coming up this Friday on In the Frame, we speak with one of Australia’s most celebrated artists, Wendy Sharpe, about her haunting and deeply moving exhibition House of Ghosts, now showing at the Norman Lindsay Gallery.

Blending ephemeral wall paintings, oils, works on paper, and light installations, House of Ghosts explores themes of grief, memory, and spiritualism, inspired by the personal loss Norman Lindsay suffered during World War I—and mirrored by Wendy’s own family history of psychics and mystics.

Through the lens of art, Wendy imagines Norman wandering his home, lost in sorrow and longing, and invites us to consider the seen and unseen, the real and the imagined.

Tune in as Wendy shares how national tragedy and family legend converge in this evocative, unmissable show.

📍 Norman Lindsay Gallery & Museum, Faulconbridge
🗓️ 26 July – 17 November 2025
🎟️ National Trust Members – FREE | Adults $17 | Concession $15 | Family $49

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28/07/2025

In the Frame – Featuring Maggie MacKenzie 📚

This month, In the Frame welcomes Maggie MacKenzie, author of the beautifully nostalgic and sharply observed memoir, Get Back to Bondi: Tales of an Adventurous Kid.

Set in 1950s Bondi, Maggie’s book shares vivid, funny, and deeply moving stories of childhood in a time before lattes and influencers - when kids roamed free, neighbours were colourful, and your place in the world could be both questioned and reclaimed.

Written through the eyes of her younger self, Get Back to Bondi captures a working-class beach suburb, playground politics, shark fishermen, Russian chess players, and the bittersweet sting of being told to "go back to where you belong."

Tune in for a lively chat with Maggie as she reflects on childhood, identity, and the power of place, ahead of her book launch on August 9 at Nolan on Lovel Gallery, Katoomba.

You can order Maggie's book through Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/0R7aG3Z

28/07/2025

🎭 Towering Tales at Blackheath Theatre Company

Step into the misty, mythical world of the Blue Mountains with Blackheath Theatre Company’s 2025 short play season, Towering Tales - a collection of six new plays by local writers.

These original works weave together mystery, myth, and murder, all set against the atmospheric backdrop of our region’s storied landscape.

Performances:
August 28th, 29th & 30th – 7:30pm
Matinees: August 30th & 31st – 2:00pm

Phillips Hall, Blackheath Community Hall
265 Great Western Hwy, Blackheath

Featuring plays by:
Gary Stowe • Jeffrey Cleary • Geoff Nadin
Jenny Ward • Colin Semmler • Brian Twomey

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Doors open 60 minutes before the show – arrive early and soak in the atmosphere!

Local playwrights evoke the mist, myths, mysteries and murder of the Blue Mountains landscape. They have created a simmering set of six new plays...

27/07/2025

🖋️ The Kedumba Drawing Award 2025 – Entries Now Open! 🎉

Calling all artists! The prestigious Kedumba Drawing Award is back for 2025—and with it, a $20,000 acquisitive prize and a place in one of Australia’s most significant drawing collections.

New for 2025: We’re excited to announce the introduction of the Emerging Artist Award—created to celebrate and support rising talent in the field of drawing. The recipient will be recognised alongside established artists and invited to exhibit in a dedicated show at Kedumba Gallery in 2026.

✏️ Entry Details
– Open to all Australian residents aged 18+
– Works must be under 1.2m x 1.2m and 15kg
– Entry: $50 for one, $45 for a second (max 2 entries)
– Entries close: Midnight, 5th September 2025

Don’t miss your chance to be part of this landmark award.

👉 More info: https://kedumba.org.au/drawing-award/

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25/07/2025

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25/07/2025

In the Frame – Featuring Fiona Ryan-Clark 🐾🔥

On this episode of In the Frame, we speak with Fiona Ryan-Clark, whose mythic ceramic sculptures will feature alongside painter Judi Moss in an upcoming September exhibition at Rex-Livingston Art + Objects in Katoomba.

Fiona’s work draws on shape-shifters, magical beings, and universal myths—sculpted forms that echo ancient wisdom and explore the blurred lines between worlds.

Opening September 20 at 2pm, this joint exhibition pairs Fiona’s otherworldly ceramic creatures with Judi Moss’s atmospheric, meditative landscapes—a meeting of earth and spirit in two distinct mediums.

Tune in as Fiona shares her journey from writer to sculptor, her love of legends, and the magic of clay.