Braemar Gallery
Braemar House and Braemar Gallery's Sculpture Garden. Sculptures by Laurent Rivory.
Braemar House will be temporarily closed for maintenance from 12 December and will reopen from 16 January.
Braemar House is part of the Blue Mountains Theatre and Community Hub precinct. It is home to Braemar Gallery and the Creative Spaces co-work pilot program.
Opened in 1988, Braemar Gallery is a community non-commercial gallery, hosting changing exhibitions each month that showcase works of local and regional artists. The gallery presents an annual program of exhibitions from local artists coordinated by a Management Committee and run by a team of volunteers.
Braemar House is part of the Blue Mountains Theatre and Community Hub precinct. It is home to Braemar Gallery and a planned creative co-working space.
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.
Mailing List: Join the mailing list to receive all the latest news and details on exhibition openings.
Peter Burger | Painted Memories
16 Jan - 16 Feb 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 18 January
Painted Memories is a compilation of the images and recollections of the Australian landscape that Peter has accumulated over the years. It is about rural vistas, the entanglement of scrubby bushland and rocky hillsides baking under cobalt blue summer skies. It is his attempt to capture the moodiness, drama and beauty of our country’s landscape.
PETER BURGER The Pond 2023, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90 cm
Geoff Matthews | H/Arbour
16 Jan - 16 Feb 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 18 January
The colours, shapes, lines and textures of the Australian bush provide endless inspiration. For Geoff, it is a place of peace, of quiet. More than this, it provides solace, it generates a deep calm, it provides a place of safety... a harbour. His approach is not to replicate the landscape but to evoke its rough-hewn beauty, its often -surprising subtlety, its resilient strength, its delicate scratchiness.
GEOFF MATTHEWS After the burn, the quiet 2023, mixed media. 102 x 102 cm
Nepean TAFE Visual Arts Student Show
16 Jan - 16 Feb 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 18 January
This exhibition celebrates the Advanced Diploma and Diploma Visual Arts students from the Kingswood campus of TAFE NSW with a selection of works curated by the Braemar Gallery Management Committee. The students work with a range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking and photography, and the student body includes a diverse range of learners from school leavers to mature age, culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, neurodivergent and people with disabilities.
ALEX NIASS Lawnmower 2024, oil on linen, 36 x 40.5 cm
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.
Image: LAURENT RIVORY Tumbling Eagle 2023, scavenged mild and stainless steels, silver solder, citrine, approximately 1.8m x 0.6m x 0.4m
2025 EXHIBITION PROGRAM
Coming soon
20 Feb - 23 Mar 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 22 February
Jack Buckley - Power Lines and Banksia Branches
Cathie Cox retrospective - Memories
Lawrence Heggie - It's Looking Up
27 Mar - 27 Apr 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 29 March
Nicole George & Sharron Mountain - Quiet Lines
Kumari Abeydeera, Mareike Gronwald & Liz Bryan - Unseen
Darius Guilford - Between Here and Here
1 May - 1 Jun 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 3 May
Jade Forder - Balancing Acts: A Journey Through Motherhood
Sabine Le Tourneau - Living in symbiosis in the Blue Mountains
Zorana McDavitt - Circularis
5 Jun - 6 Jul 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on a Saturday to be confirmed
Corinne Loxton - On Sacred Ground - Paintings of the Macdonnell Ranges
A Creative Collective - EcoAesthetics’: Nature’s influence on Art and Design
Janet Saunders - Go placidly(?)