Braemar Gallery
Braemar House and Braemar Gallery's Sculpture Garden. Sculptures by Laurent Rivory.
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 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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Fay Graham - Layers of the Land
29 Aug – 29 Sep
Official opening at 2pm on Saturday 31 August.
Through the lens of abstraction, Fay endeavours to encapsulate not just the visual representation, but the visceral experience of the Australian landscape. The transformation from nature-inspired works to this newfound exploration signifies her artistic evolution, while the Blue Mountains' essence remains a constant touchstone. This body of work is an expression of Fay’s life journey and a tribute to the enduring connection between memory, emotion, and the terrain she calls her home.
Image: FAY GRAHAM Layers of Time 2024. Acrylic and acrylic mediums on canvas, 42 x 21.5 x 8 cm
Fiona Lenord - Wattle Days
29 Aug – 29 Sep
Official opening at 2pm on Saturday 31 August.
Fiona’s work is a colourful celebration of Australian native flowers. As a mixed media artist, she explores ink, pastels, charcoal and pencil on plywood, and enjoys the challenge of the “slightly out of control” nature of wood grain. She hopes this exhibition encourages people to think about their relationship to our natural environment and our collective impact on it.
IMAGE: FIONA LENORD Green Parade Wattle 2024, mixed media, 101.5 x 76cm
Anita Swanson - Strays
29 Aug – 29 Sep
Official opening at 2pm on Saturday 31 August.
This series of paintings and mixed media drawings are unified by a unique pictorial iconography. The springboard for each work is a small spontaneous pencil drawing. Naïve figures from the drawings are then loosely rendered by hand onto larger canvases or thick pastel art paper. Hovering between the figurative and the abstract, the images inhabit an imaginative and psychological landscape that is private but can resonate directly with the viewer’s interiority.
IMAGE: ANITA SWANSON Suns and others, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 50 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
2024-2025 EXHIBITION PROGRAM
3 Oct - 3 Nov 2024
Jane Tadrist: Solace
Tim Newman: Haiku Meets the Blue Mountains
Christine Hyde: ETHEREAL LANDSCAPES Abstracted
7 Nov - 8 Dec 2024
Joel Lambeth: CONTENT
Sarah Frost, Emily Lane and Teresina White: In-Version
Roman Balla: Navigate
Christmas Closure from 12 Dec 2024 – 12 Jan 2025
16 Jan - 16 Feb 2025
Peter Burger: Painted Memories
Geoff Matthews: H/Arbour
Catherine McCorkill: Echoes of Light
20 Feb - 23 Mar 2025
Jack Buckley: Power Lines and Banksia Branches
Lawrence Heggie: Mountain Magic
27 Mar - 27 Apr 2025
Nicole George & Sharron Mountain: Quiet Lines
Kumari Abeydeera, Mareike Gronwald & Liz Bryan: Unseen
Darius Guilford: Between Here and Here
1 May - 1 Jun 2025
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
Corinne Loxton: Wild and Precious
A Creative Collective: EcoAesthetics’: Nature’s influence on Art and Design
Janet Saunders: Go placidly(?)