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 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.
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Jack Buckley | Power Lines and Banksia Branches
20 Feb - 23 Mar 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 22 February
Exploring the nature of built and natural places, Powerlines and Banksia Branches presents featured flora and fauna within their local environments. Through hand embroidery and pen illustration, a diverse range of familiar and underlooked species tangle amongst each other. The complexity of these forms emphasises the delicate structures of botanical and constructed worlds.
JACK BUCKLEY Western Forests Calyptorhynchus Banksii 2025, hand embroidery and illustration, 30 x 41 cm
Cathie Cox retrospective | Memories
20 Feb - 23 Mar 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 22 February
A retrospective exhibition of the work of the late Cathie Cox. Cathie was a huge supporter of Braemar Gallery. In 2001 Cathie discovered the use of tissue paper as a support for drawing, delicate paper cuts and as a substitute for fabric. She dyed, cut, stitched and worked on it with paint, pastels, pencils and textile additions. This practice developed over the following years, focusing amongst other things on the inner life and the essence of memory.
CATHIE COX In the Garden 2021, mixed media on tissue covered linoleum, 82 x 41cm
Lawrence Heggie | It's Looking Up
20 Feb - 23 Mar 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 22 February
It's Looking Up invites viewers to embrace optimism and hope through upward perspectives. The paintings symbolize upliftment, resilience, and the potential of the human spirit, using the skyward gaze as a metaphor for seeking light in dark times. Inspired by the artist's journey as a new parent, the vibrant works celebrate joy, resilience, and the possibility of rising above challenges toward a brighter future.
LAWRENCE HEGGIE Monarch Butterflies 2024, acrylic on canvas, 45 x 90 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
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
Sabine Le Tourneau - Living in symbiosis in the Blue Mountains
1 May - 1 Jun 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 3 May
Jade Forder - Balancing Acts: A Journey Through Motherhood
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(?)