Narrandera Arts & Creative Network will host the work of a collective of NSW regional artists from 6 to 29 August 2022 as a part of its WideOpen Narrandera 2022 Program. The launch of the Sunflower Collective’s exhibition will feature a conversation with the artists, led by the Cad Factory’s Sarah McEwan. The artists are Kelly Leonard of Broken Hill, Michael Petchkovsky of the Blue Mountains and Snowy Monaro regions, Julie Briggs from Narrandera, and Julie Montgarrett of Wagga Wagga. Each of the artists has a years-long association with Narrandera, The Cad Factory and Western Riverina Arts as both arts workers and artists. The four regional artists first came together as the Sunflower Collective in early 2021 and exhibited in Way Out art space at Kandos in December 2021. The collective has no hierarchy, no curator, no pre-conceived program. The practices are diverse. The collective allows the artists to participate together within what they describe as a democratic intersection of arts practices, and to explore work together as a conceptual weaving of ideas. The works to be shown have come together into an exhibition through a continuing process of exploration and virtual gatherings of the artists, and each draws attention to the environment via an ecofeminist perspective