We Are Studios

Adrienne Proud’s 'A Charm Bracelet For Giants' feels like a memory made soft enough to hold. ✨ A charm bracelet becomes a sculptural keepsake, enlarged beyond the body but still deeply intimate. Each bead carries a quiet prayer for balance, gratitude and acceptance. Made in honour of Adrienne’s Mum and the hand-sewn toys she made for her as a child, the work holds the tenderness of things made slowly, lovingly, by hand. Here, inheritance is not grand or distant. It is stitched, softened, remembered. It lives in the objects that teach us how to imagine, make do, make beauty and keep love close. This is your last chance to catch Acts of Inheritance at @bathurstregionalartgallery before it closes this week. Get in before it’s too late. On view until May 3. Supported by the NSW Government through @creatensw , and by the Australian Government through @creative.australia . Image Credit: @silversalt_photography and Ebony Wightman. [Image Descriptions in Alt Text]

Taylah Devlin’s ‘Life is a Journey’ is a bright, bold and fantastical world where every scene feels like a love letter to living fully, dreaming loudly and becoming the star of your own motion picture. 🛵💨💨 Across the work, Taylah places herself as the star of her own journey. She line dances with characters from My Best Friend’s Wedding, cheers herself on, paints with her best mate Prickles the bird, and rides fiercely through the wind towards her dreams. In Acts of Inheritance, identity is not fixed. It is performed, practised, inherited, remade and lived out loud. Taylah’s work reminds us that becoming your own cheerleader is not silly at all. It might be one of the most powerful things you can do. This is your last chance to catch Acts of Inheritance at @bathurstregionalartgallery before it closes this week. Get in before it’s too late. Supported by the NSW Government through @creatensw , and by the Australian Government through @creative.australia . Image Credit @silversalt_photography and Ebony Wightman. [Image Descriptions in Alt Text]

There is something quietly beautiful about Georgina Evans’ “Inquisitive 1–4”. 🌼 These works feel alive with the layered logic of nature. Roots, soil, leaf litter, seeds, insects, growth, decay, renewal. Nothing stands alone. Everything is held in relationship with everything else. Through printmaking, Georgina builds images that feel both delicate and deeply grounded. Repeated forms shift and reappear, colours change, compositions move, and each work becomes its own small ecosystem. You can feel her love of nature in the way the works hold difference, repetition and surprise all at once. What stays with us is the sense that humans are not outside of this world looking in. We are part of it. Entangled in it. Changed by it. “Inquisitive 1–4” is gentle work, but it carries a big idea: that connection to the natural world is physical, emotional, spiritual, and part of who we are. See Georgina’s work in 'Acts of Inheritance' at @bathurstregionalartgallery until May 3. Supported by the NSW Government through @creatensw , and by the Australian Government through @creative.australia . Image Credit: @silversalt_photography and Ebony Wightman. [Image Descriptions in Alt Text]

In a world that demands so much of us, Ria Macabenta’s textile work, “Huminto,” offers something rare - a moment to pause, breathe and feel the magic. 🌸 'Huminto', meaning “pause” in Tagalog, invites us into a brief suspension of the world around us. Through vibrant fabric panels, cascading floral imagery and a dreamlike sense of reverie, Ria creates the feeling of a joyous moment held in time, like the split second before receiving a surprise bouquet and realising what is happening. While the work is bold and colourful, it is also deeply spiritual. Guided by an appreciation for flowers, beauty and the natural world, Ria’s banners offer the audience a small act of stillness and joy. In Jordan Valageorgiou’s exhibition essay, her work is described as “a dream-like, spiritual blend of beauty, colour and happiness” and that feels exactly right. See Ria’s work in Acts of Inheritance at @bathurstregionalartgallery until 3 May. Supported by the NSW Government through @creatensw , and by the Australian Government through @creative.australia . Image Credit: @silversalt_photography and Ebony Wightman [Image Descriptions in Alt Text]

Warm, heartfelt and unmistakably Grazia, We Are Studios artist Grazia Napoletano’s 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 invites audiences into a world made entirely by hand, one stitch at a time. Across a series of hand-embroidered images set in hand-illustrated ornate gold frames, Grazia brings together saints, sacred symbols, colour and devotion through her own visual language. With a more-is-more sensibility that feels like an ode to her Italian heritage, she draws on the statues that decorate her home and the picture books she treasures, reworking familiar religious figures in a way that is joyful, tender and entirely hers. For Grazia, the saints are not distant figures. They are close friends. They protect her, comfort her and help her feel less alone, something she wants them to do for others too. “I am Grazia, I love everybody.” In 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙄𝙣𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 reminds us that inheritance is also carried through faith, ritual, culture and devotion. Grazia’s work shows how those inheritances are not simply received, but lovingly kept alive and remade. On view now in Acts of Inheritance at @bathurstregionalartgallery until 3 May 2026. Supported by the NSW Government through @creatensw , and by the Australian Government through @creative.australia . Image Credit: @silversalt_photography and Ebony Wightman [Image Descriptions in Alt Text]

Holly-Lee Dickson’s act of inheritance is a ritual of return... One of the We Are Studios artists in 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙄𝙣𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚, Holly-Lee is a Wiradjuri artist whose work traces a small but life-defining moment of reconnection on Country. In her work, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙍𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙈𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚, Holly-Lee captures a small but life-defining ritual on Country: throwing a ball for her dog, Rumbo, by the Turon River near a rockface where her ancestors once moved, lived, and left their presence in stone and story. Housed inside a reclaimed flatbed scanner, the work appears as a flickering hologram, half-memory, half-presence. Built from footage of Holly-Lee and Rumbo and transformed through digital animation, its glitches and imperfect edges are intentionally preserved. They speak to the unstable, powerful way reconnection can arrive: flickering back into place before clarity settles. At the heart of the work is a quiet turning point. In painting her family totem, a goanna, onto the rockface, Holly-Lee felt something shift. Country recognised her. Ancestors found her. In a world shaped by fractured records, disrupted histories and questions of belonging, this work answers back with force and tenderness. A girl, a dog, a river, a rock. A presence rising out of absence. A place that called her home. On view now in 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙄𝙣𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 at @bathurstregionalartgallery until 3 May 2026. Supported by the NSW Government through @creatensw , and by the Australian Government through @creative.australia . Image Credit: @silversalt_photography [Image Descriptions in Alt Text]

Inheritance leaves its mark... 🧸 We Are Studios artist Jordan Valageorgiou’s 'Patria (Πατριά) I–IX' is a moving series of nine banners built from stories shared within Jordan’s family across 5 generations of Greek men. Through text and image, 'Patria' traces what is passed down through bloodline, language and memory: culture, masculinity, love, burden, grief and loss. Beginning with a great-grandfather lost to genocide, the work moves through Jordan’s relationships with their grandfathers and father, showing how history is passed down not only through trauma, but through the strange intimacy of everyday stories, casual remarks and ordinary moments. Tender and devastating, ‘Patria’ reminds us that inheritance is not only what we receive. It is also what we choose to carry forward, and what we refuse. That tension sits at the heart of ‘Acts of Inheritance’. On view now in ‘Acts of Inheritance’ at @bathurstregionalartgallery until 3 May 2026. Supported by the NSW Government through @creatensw , and by the Australian Government through @creative.australia . Image Credit: @silversalt_photography [Image Description in Alt Text]

"...Have you tried exercising?" Leanne Larwood’s 'Dress the Depressed', is a sharp and biting social experiment about masking, unsolicited advice, and the pressure to perform “normal” for other people’s comfort. “I am a paper doll. Dress away my depression. Does it fix me? Or am I still the same person underneath?” Engage with this interactive work by dressing Leanne, and reflect on the advice you’ve received, the advice you’ve given, and how often “help” is really about making someone else easier to live with. Funny, brutal and painfully familiar, this work refuses easy answers. On view now in 'Acts of Inheritance' at @bathurstregionalartgallery until 3 May 2026. Supported by the NSW Government through @creatensw , and by the Australian Government through @creative.australia . Image Credit: @silversalt_photography [Image Description in Alt Text]

“Raw, emotional, funny and generous, 'Acts of Inheritance' reminds us that identity is not something we hold alone, but something we shape together through care, memory and connection.” — @jordanvalageorgiou Still time to see 'Acts of Inheritance' at @bathurstregionalartgallery . Curated by the We Are Studios Collective, this powerful exhibition brings together work by seventeen Disabled artists exploring identity, memory, culture, family and change. On view until 3 May. Don’t miss it. ✨ The project is supported by the New South Wales Government through @creatensw and by the Australian Government through @creative.australia , its principal arts investment and advisory body. Image: Exhibition view, 'Acts of Inheritance', Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 7 February - 3 May 2026, featuring L-R: Adrienne Proud, 'A Charm Bracelet For Giants', 2025; Timothy W. Martin, 'Torrent: Legend of the Mammoth', 2025. Photo: Silversalt Photography. [Image Description in Alt Text]

⚠️ Content Notice: Domestic violence, attempted murder, and its ongoing impacts. Open now at @bathurstregionalartgallery , 'Acts of Inheritance' by @wearestudiosorg . Pictured is Rebecca Gentz Sciroli’s mixed media sculptural installation, 'In the shape of her absence', holding space for grief, survival and memory. Tender, devastating and deeply powerful, this mixed media sculptural installation holds grief, survival and memory in fabric and form. Through these hollow corsets, Rebecca honours the women lost to domestic violence while drawing on her own lived experience as a survivor of a near-fatal domestic violence attempted murder. The work speaks to absence, but also to resilience, power, femininity, and the strength it takes to survive and keep going. As Rebecca writes, these forms are “hollow vessels” - sacred and mournful tributes to the three women whose lives are taken each month through domestic violence, and a reminder that the world is less rich with every woman lost. We Are Studios artist Rebecca (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, facilitator and advocate working across sculpture, installation, wearables, performance, painting and drawing. Her practice explores memory, sensuality, emotional connection, fragility and resilience. 'Acts of Inheritance' is on now at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery until 3 May 2026. Curated by the We Are Studios Collective. Supported by the NSW Government through @creatensw , and by the Australian Government through @creative.australia . Image Credit: @silversalt_photography [Image Description in Alt Text]

⚠️ Content notice: This open letter discusses eugenics, forced sterilisation, institutionalisation, abuse, mass murder, genocide, the Holocaust, and the ongoing erasure of Deaf and Disabled people and culture. For the arts community and the wider community, this is both an invitation and a provocation: to read, to learn, to think, and not to forget. An open letter on Rememory, the 25th anniversary @biennalesydney from the We Are Studios Collective. “A show about remembrance should not need reminding that we exist.” Easy English and plain text format available via the links in our bio. [Image Description in Alt Text]

Grinning ear to ear. Ink everywhere (the good kind). And a boat load of bold prints heading home with their talented makers. We Are Studios artist Georgina Evans’ sold-out Connections! workshop at @bathurstregionalartgallery was pure joy. Georgie definitely inspired some future printmakers. Georgina is currently exhibiting in Acts of Inheritance - catch her work while the show’s on at BRAG. Next up in our public program: Experimental Mark Making with We Are Studios artist Rebecca Sciroli 📍 Bathurst Regional Gallery 🗓 Saturday 21 February, 10:30am–12:30pm 🎟 $10 / $15 Rebecca’s workshops are all about play, invention and trusting your body. Expect recycled materials, improvised drawing tools, paint, ink, charcoal - and full permission to experiment. Book via the link in our bio. Images courtesy of Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. [Image Descriptions in Alt Text]