Braemar Gallery

In her everyday life, artist Julie Scifo regularly commutes along the Great Western Highway between Lithgow and Emu Plains. Over the last couple of years, she has documented the sights and experience in acrylic paint on canvas. Since March of this year, that commuter experience has taken on heightened significance: the closure of Victoria Pass has forced detours and lengthy delays, turning the idea of documenting the everyday into politically charged subject matter.

IMAGE: JULIE SCIFO, Stuffed Crust, 1028 Great Western Highway, 2024, acrylic paint on linen, 50 x 65cm

Prompted by mending an inherited bedspread passed down through her family, artist Marnie Tomczyk presents repair as an act of excavation: a destruction in service of preservation, and a way of returning to what has been lost. Through prints, textiles and an artist book, A Tender Archaeology is both a personal ode to love and loss and the vehicle for wayfinding through those depths.

IMAGE: MARNIE TOMCZYK, Layer 2026, monoprint with chine collé, 38 x 28 cm

The exhibition is a collaboration of three artists with a love of drawing, mutually inspired by their natural world. They share their experience of the environment, using both two dimensional and three-dimensional forms for their drawing surfaces, and strive to communicate their love and awe of the many faces of nature with friends, family, and the Blue Mountains community.

IMAGE: KERRIE LANDER Desert Survivor (Welwitschia Mirabilis, Namibia) 2026, coloured pencil and pastel, 50 × 40 cm

This exhibition is an exploration and celebration of mark making. There will be an emphasis on using natural materials at hand to create a stronger connection between the subject and the artworks - sticks, dirt, mud, rock, water, leaves etc. from the local Blue Mountains National Park.

IMAGE: TIM NEWMAN Ochre 2026, mixed media on paper, 57 x 72 cm.

Attentive : Still Life is an exhibition that celebrates the resurgence of ‘still life’ in the contemporary Australian art world. Through painting and pottery, five local artists encourage you to enjoy a moment of stillness and introspection in our increasingly intrusive attention economy, while meditating on the beauty of the overlooked objects of our daily lives. You will even have the chance to create your own still life composition.

IMAGE: TARN CASTAING Pia 2026, oil on linen, 2026, 32 x 32 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, Eloise Short, Ruby Rain, Anne Edwards, Tarn Castaing
Attentive: Still Life
12 Nov - 13 Dec 2026
Exhibition opening event at 2pm on Saturday 14 November.