Braemar Gallery
Braemar House and Braemar Gallery's Sculpture Garden. Sculptures by Laurent Rivory.
Braemar House is part of the Blue Mountains Theatre and Community Hub precinct. It is home to Braemar Gallery.
Opened in 1988, Braemar Gallery is a community non-commercial gallery operated by Blue Mountains City Council to support local visual artists, with ongoing guidance from the all-volunteer Braemar Gallery Reference Group. We charge no exhibition fees, welcome proposals annually, and do not handle sales or collect any commission.
Braemar Gallery is proud to support Hub Upstairs Gallery located next door on level 1 of the Blue Mountains Theatre and Community Hub.
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Address: 104 Macquarie Road, Springwood, NSW 2777
Opening Hours: 10am – 4pm | Thursday – Sunday
Admission: Free
Access: Wheelchair access is available through the main door with a wheelchair ramp.
Contact: Email braemargallery@gmail.com or phone the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre on 02 4780 5410.
Applications to Exhibit: Information on exhibiting at Braemar Gallery and The Hub Upstairs Gallery is detailed under the Opportunities page.
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Helen Shields | Contours
18 Sep - 19 Oct 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 20 September.
This work explores the reiteration of reductive, elemental motifs in bas relief, using flat planes of colour to depict landscape and geomorphological processes; not in any conventional realistic manner, but to apply the visual language of hard edge abstraction based on organic and geometric forms and stylised patterning (developed in the artist’s previous work). Its aim is to gaze inwards to a world beyond appearances – where the physical and structural are realised by shifts in perspective via a Neo Brutalist aesthetic.
HELEN SHIELDS Cairn (detail) 2025, acrylic on carved ply and acacia board, 35cm x 26cm x 8cm
Bronwyn Newman | After the Margarets (Preston & Olley) There is Still Life
18 Sep - 19 Oct 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 20 September.
Bron has endeavoured in this exhibition to follow in the footsteps of the Margarets, Preston and Olley, to capture a particularly Australian flavour in a wide interpretation of the still-life genre. She has employed a diversity of processes and techniques including printmaking, collage, mixed media, drawing, watercolour and mixed media. Inspired in part by the reconstruction of Margaret Olley’s house, some interiors have been included using the same items and subject matter used by Margaret, to create her own compositions and style.
BRON NEWMAN Old Wares (detail) 2024, acrylic on canvas, 92 x 78 cm
Luba Bosch, Peta Hinton, Louise Kerr, Adrienne Richards & Kate Robinson | Right Here, Right Now
COMING SOON: 23 Oct - 23 Nov 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 25 October.
Right Here, Right Now is an exhibition exploring concepts around being in the present and thinking about where we all are—at this time on Earth. Acknowledging that what’s here now is the result of everything that has come before, 5 artists take inspiration from the world around them, whilst combining materiality with the act of being present and constantly making.
Image detail (L to R) Adrienne Richards, Peta Hinton, Louise Kerr, Luba Bosch, Kate Robinson
Laurent Rivory's Tumbling Eagle and The Defiant
Public Sculpture Garden
Our Public Sculpture Garden is always open on the lawns of Braemar House for everyone to enjoy!
Guarding the main path to the gallery are two steel sculptures by Laurent Rivory - "Tumbling Eagle" and "The Defiant". "Tumbling Eagle" represents an eagle capturing prey in mid-flight, at the moment where it loses its flight attitude and looks like it might crash – but doesn’t. "The Defiant", with its bold stance, celebrates those who stand firm and defy the odds. These highly abstracted works are made in Rivory's Springwood studio from salvaged steel in line with his sustainability ethos.
LAURENT RIVORY Tumbling Eagle 2023, scavenged mild and stainless steels, silver solder, citrine, approximately 1.8m x 0.6m x 0.4m
2025-2026 EXHIBITION PROGRAM
Coming soon
27 Nov - 21 Dec 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 29 November
Blue Mountains Mosaic Collective - Grounded
Byron Kinnaird - Poems for Independence
SUMMER CLOSURE: 22 Dec 2025 - 8 Jan 2026
8 Jan - 8 Feb 2026
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 10 January
Mounted ARI - Let the part tell the whole
Sandi Lucock - There and not there
12 Feb - 15 Mar 2026
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 14 February
Susie Summers, Katrina Bodey & Anita White - cotton, clay & canvas
19 Mar - 12 Apr 2026
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 21 March
Judy Thistleton-Martin, Jeannie McInnes, Christine Hyde, Robyn Cook - Inspired by Birdwood Gully
Jennifer Gardiner with Louise Fox - Intangible Legacies