Braemar Gallery

Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 23 May

This exhibition by Neil Laredo features drawings based on family photographs, as well as sculpture pieces, highlighting the evolving nature of identity across generations.

Image: NEIL LAREDO Bell, 2026, timber and jute-bell, 240 x 120 x 240 cm

Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 23 May

Freedom is Beautiful presents new and recent works by Kurdish refugee artist Mostafa “Moz” Azimitabar, including his 2022 Archibald self-portrait and a series of medium and large-scale canvases. Each work, painted with a toothbrush, reflects survival, connection and freedom. Together they map a journey from detention to life in Australia, revealing art as survival, hope and resilience. The exhibition calls the audience to reflect on freedom as a human right. Seeking asylum as a human right. Refugees deserve safety and dignity.

Image: MOSTAFA AZIMITABAR KNS088, coffee and acrylic on canvas, painted with a toothbrush, 190.5 x 191.8 cm

This exhibition celebrates the joy of colour through the materiality of paint, while drawing inspiration from the Blue Mountains. The process begins with a playful exploration of paint, guided by the artist’s emotional connection to colour and remembered experiences of the landscapes that inhabit her world. The layers are repeatedly built up, scratched back and reworked, until form emerges, suggesting a place that might feel both familiar and mysterious.

Image: PIP ALEVRAS Yellow rock 2025, acrylics and oils, 30 x 30 cm

earthformed brings together a ceramic artist and a photographer whose practices are grounded in an attentive dialogue with the natural world. Through sculptural clay forms and quietly observant imagery, the exhibition explores erosion, texture, and the shifting boundaries between object and landscape. Each work invites a reconsideration of scale and time, tracing how environments shape—and are reshaped by—the materials and traces they leave behind.

IMAGE L to R: ERIN MILLER eroded light 2024, ceramic oxides and wild clay, 33 x 33 x 29 cm, JO CHIPPERFIELD Wind (detail) 2026, photograph on Ilford gold fibre gloss, 46 x 36 cm

Maeve is a Katoomba based artist, working directly with the soils of Broken Hill and the Blue Mountains Maeve responds to the land and her heart to make works on canvas and paper that speak to the experience of those places. The work explores the intimacy of working directly with the land in a collaborative way. Maeve has also been inspired by First Nations People’s connection and relationship to land and Country.

IMAGE: MAEVE DUNNETT Dancing earth 2026, mixed media on paper, soils and medium, 42 x 30 cm

Mounted ARI
Let the part tell the whole
8 Jan - 8 Feb 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 10 January.

Sandi Lucock
There and Not There
8 Jan - 8 Feb 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 10 January.

Susie Summers, Katrina Bodey & Anita White
Cotton, Clay & Canvas - life, light and place
12 Feb - 15 Mar 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 14 February.

Judy Thistleton-Martin, Jeannie McInnes, Christine Hyde, Robyn Cook
Inspired by Birdwood Gully
19 Mar - 12 Apr 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 21 March.

Jennifer Gardiner and Louise Fox
Intangible Legacies
19 Mar - 12 Apr 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 21 March.

Rob Gordon
Water Moving Through the Mountains and Highlands
16 Apr - 17 May 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 18 April.

Sheridan Linnell
So You Thought You Could Leave Us Behind
16 Apr - 17 May 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 18 April.

Tafe NSW Kingwood Campus - Student Works
16 Apr - 17 May 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 18 April.

Neil Laredo
Identity - A Self Portrait
21 May - 21 Jun 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 23 May.

Moz Azimitabar with the Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group
Freedom is Beautiful
21 May - 21 Jun 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 23 May.

Pip Alevras
In the company of colour
25 Jun - 26 Jul 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 27 June.

Erin Miller and Jo Chipperfield
Earthformed
25 Jun - 26 Jul 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 27 June.

Maeve Dunnett
Touching Earth
25 Jun - 26 Jul 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 27 June.

2026 Braemar Gallery Volunteer Exhibition
30 Jul - 30 Aug 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 1 August.

Tafe NSW Katoomba Campus - Student Works
30 Jul - 30 Aug 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 1 August.

Owen Thompson
Where Spirits Soar
3 Sep - 4 Oct 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 5 September.

Emma Donlevy
When I go under
3 Sep - 4 Oct 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 5 September.

James Gordon
Bees, blooms and blue
3 Sep - 4 Oct 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 5 September.

Julie Scifo
The Great Western Highway commute
8 Oct - 8 Nov 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 10 October.

Marnie Tomczyk
A Tender Archaeology: Returning to Memory
8 Oct - 8 Nov 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 10 October.

Kerrie Lander, Annette Macrae and Carol McCabe
Drawn to Nature
8 Oct - 8 Nov 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 10 October.

Tim Newman
Bush Lyrics
12 Nov - 13 Dec 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 14 November.

Inga Hope
Attentive: Still Life
12 Nov - 13 Dec 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 14 November.