Creative Country is the key which unlocks the diverse cultural and creative landscapes of North and Western NSW. This site provides all the links, contacts and information you need to navigate your way across the Creative Country of NSW Far North West.
Meet our makers and musers, our collectors and curators, the wild-eyed dreamers whose search for their soul aligned their compass to the Far North West. We’ll help you find your own path to explore this expanse, and perhaps to find yourself, in this Creative Country.
Enjoy the Outback Arts region, plan, road trip, visit the region and watch this space as we continue to add more listings and are joined soon by our neighbors!
The arts have the power to connect people beyond geographic, social and cultural borders and play a pivotal role in education, health, wellbeing, identity and inclusion in regional areas. In Creative Country, the arts is intrinsic to an engaged, responsive, and resilient society.
The region prides itself on being the place where the Outback begins, with vast open woodlands and plains stretching to the edge of the grasslands, and the tributary and distributary waterways of the Upper Murray Darling Basin converging within the area.
Delivering on the aspirations of the Aboriginal community in the Outback Arts region, ‘Our Stories’ delves deeper into the artistic and cultural practices of six artists.
Sincere gratitude and respect to the artists, knowledge holders and custodians who have shared their stories and time to create this series.
Outback Outloud is a community podcast and oral history recording project by Outback Arts, delivered in partnership with Signal Creative.
The major outcome of Outback Outloud is a fully developed podcast series available on all major listening platforms. These recordings are unique perspectives, 100% unscripted, and are the greatest stories never told.
Living Arts and Culture is a project delivered by Outback Arts that celebrates the stories of Aboriginal cultural knowledge holders and artists living across the Far Western NSW communities of Bourke, Brewarrina, Cobar, Coonamble, Lightning Ridge, Walgett, Warren, and Nyngan. It showcases their cultural practices through storytelling, music and art making practices, sharing the stories of their challenges and triumphs in life.
