Curator Talk: Bush Lines with Liam Keenan

Friday, 12 September 2025, 4:30pm

Don't miss this exciting opportunity to hear from the Curator of Bush Lines, an Art Gallery of New South Wales and Tamworth Regional Gallery Partnership Exhibition, Liam Keenan, ahead of the Official Opening Event. 

Bush Lines

Connect with Australia’s regional and remote landscapes through works from the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Tamworth Regional Gallery.

Bush Lines presents works by Australian artists that express our connections to the vast range of regional and remote landscapes in this country.

Drawing from the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Tamworth Regional Gallery, where the exhibition is presented, Bush Lines features paintings, sculpture, video and photography by artists whose creativity takes us on journeys from Gundagai to Broken Hill, the Central Desert to the Torres Strait Islands.

See these places through the eyes of historical and contemporary artists including luminaries such as Shaun Gladwell, Lorraine Connelly-Northey and the late Rosemary Laing. Though diverse, the works in the exhibition share universal themes of joy, connectedness and sustainability.

About the Curator, Liam Keenan

Liam Keenan is a Gomeroi musician and Assistant Curator, First Nations Art (Local) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Originally from the New England North-West region, he is passionate about supporting the growth of Indigenous creative practices in regional New South Wales, as well as exploring the growing potential of music and new-media projects in museums. Recent projects in 2025 include curating the first major museum exhibition of Gamilaraay artist Juanita McLauchlan’s work, titled yilaa minyaminyabal maaru-ma-lda-y (soon everything will be healing) currently on show at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The Tamworth Regional Gallery is fully accessible, and offers free and accessible parking - located behind the building, accessed via Peel or Hill St. 

If you have any questions about the Curator Talk or any programming, please contact the friendly Gallery staff.

gallery@tamworth.nsw.gov.au

Ph: 6767 5230