In the two months ahead of the Liddell Power Station closure in April 2023, sixteen artists visited the site. They explored, collected, and created new artwork to mark this historic event. LiddellWORKS is the resulting exhibition, spread across two galleries – Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre and Singleton Arts + Cultural Centre. The selected group of artists responded to Liddell: the sound, the light, the scale, the machinery, the workers, the crafted infrastructure, the layers of coal dust, and history. Many artworks include the very fabric of Liddell – recorded and reworked sounds, textures collected by rubbings, actual parts or moulds of parts, memories from staff, or toxic by-products preserved in resin. Others feel replete with imprinted echoes, just beyond hearing. If some artworks have an elegiac quality, steeped in recollection of a time that had to pass, others are curious or celebratory. All the artists reacted with wonder at this imposing place few people visited, and its coming metamorphosis as the Hunter Valley begins its shift into a post-carbon future. The LiddellWORKS program was conceived by Arts Upper Hunter and developed in partnership with AGL, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre and Singleton Arts + Cultural Centre, with funding from the Department of Regional NSW and AGL. Arts Upper Hunter receives core funding from Create NSW and the following local government bodies in the Upper Hunter Region – Dungog Shire Council, Muswellbrook Shire Council, Singleton Council, and Upper Hunter Shire Council.