In The Frame with Jenny Ward

11/12/2025

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28/11/2025

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27/11/2025

In the Frame – November Edition: Art, Gifts & Gallery Gems

Need a bit of festive inspiration? This month’s In the Frame has you covered with a round-up of exhibitions and gallery gift ideas to help you shop local, thoughtful, and artful this Christmas.

Tune in from November 28th to be the first one in line 🎅🏻

From beautiful Blue Mountains exhibitions to Peisley St Gallery in Orange, where you’ll find pre-loved artworks with charm and history, we’re spotlighting creative spaces where you can pick up something truly special (and skip the shopping centre madness).

Tune in for insider tips, quirky finds, and a few unexpected suggestions to make your gift-giving a little more gallery-chic.

26/11/2025

This month on In the Frame, we travel to the Southern Tablelands to visit Jo Morris, artist and co-founder of the Orchard Street Gallery in Taralga.

Jo shares how a tree change and a love for mark-making led to a more personal, nature-connected art practice and a whole new way of supporting local and emerging creatives.

Tune in to hear how Jo’s career has moved from graphic design to stone lithography, 3D wire sculpture, and gallery ownership, and why nurturing community is at the heart of her creative life.

📍 Orchard Street Gallery, Taralga
🕙 Open Fri–Sun, 10am–3pm (closed public holidays)

25/11/2025

This month’s podcast isn’t the only place you’ll find host Jenny Ward getting creative! She’s also running a Christmas-themed wreath-making workshop at Gang Gang Gallery, Lithgow and you're invited!

Saturday 14 December
2pm – 4pm
$35 per person

Come along for a fun, hands-on afternoon of floral art, festive tunes, and a chance to create something beautiful to take home for the season.

Tickets available at https://www.stickytickets.com.au/pl7aih/christmas_themed_floral_art_workshop.aspx

24/11/2025

In this month’s In the Frame (airing November 28th), we’re joined by Spencer Calveley, winner of the 2025 Kedumba Drawing Award, taking home the $20,000 prize for his dynamic and textured work Rural Eclectic III.

Spencer, based in Bathurst, shares how his drawing practice is fuelled by travels through the Central West, drawing on both local and historical forms to create bold, dreamlike compositions. His award-winning work blends charcoal, ink, Conté, acrylic, and pastel - a tactile and expressive mix that captures the energy of place and memory.

Tune in to the November edition as Spencer reflects on his creative process, his influences, and what winning the Kedumba means to him.

Finalists Exhibition at Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls
🗓️ 16 Nov – 21 Dec 2025 & 4 – 26 Jan 2026
Thurs–Sun, 11am–3pm

Follow Spencer on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spencercalveley/

21/11/2025

Coming up on November 28th - On the Road with David Isbester

This month, In the Frame travels west to Canowindra to catch up with artists David Isbester and Peter Larsen, whose latest exhibition Outside the Box is exactly that - cardboard, house paint, and a healthy disregard for rules.

Known for his evocative plein air oil paintings of rural Australia, David Isbester shares what happened when he swapped oil for house paint and canvas for packing cardboard. Joining him is painting companion Peter Larsen, a seasoned watercolourist who also took the plunge into this experimental creative process.

Their collaborative show, Outside the Box, is on at Rosnay Cellar Door until the end of November 2025 - pairing expressive, unexpected artworks with beautiful organic wine and wide country skies.

Tune in from November 28th for a relaxed and open conversation about risk, landscape, painting without polish, and the joy of creating outside your comfort zone.

📍 Rosnay Cellar Door, near Canowindra
🗓️ On now until 30 November 2025

More info at https://davidisbester.com/blogs/blog/out-side-the-box-exhibition-and-workshop

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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