Braemar Gallery
Braemar House and Braemar Gallery's Sculpture Garden. Sculptures by Laurent Rivory.
BRAEMAR HOUSE IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR ROUTINE MAINTENANCE. WE WILL REOPEN OUR DOORS WITH NEW EXHIBITIONS FROM THURSDAY 24 JULY.
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Braemar House is part of the Blue Mountains Theatre and Community Hub precinct. It is home to Braemar Gallery.
Opened in 1988, Braemar Gallery is a community non-commercial gallery operated by Blue Mountains City Council to support local visual artists, with ongoing guidance from the all-volunteer Braemar Gallery Reference Group. We charge no exhibition fees, welcome proposals annually, and do not handle sales or collect any commission.
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.
Anna Di Mezza | Favourites
COMING SOON: 24 Jul - 24 Aug
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 26 July.
Favourites is Anna's artistic homage to movies and television shows. She has a fascination and admiration for cinema which took root in her childhood and continued with her work as an artist for Walt Disney Animation. In this body of work, she has depicted moments from films in her paintings. She has tried to capture the emotion in the actors' faces and added some graphic twists of her own at times.
ANNA DI MEZZA We're not in Kansas anymore - Wizard of Oz (1939) 2024, acrylic on canvas paper,45.5 x 62.cm
Lesley Kinney The Opal Hearted Country, Aerial Views of Australia's Desert Places
COMING SOON: 24 Jul - 24 Aug
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 26 July.
Lesley feels a close affinity with the Australian desert, having been born in Alice Springs. A NASA photograph of Lake Eyre in flood formed the main inspiration for this exhibition. Then, on a flight to Perth, Lesley was fascinated by the Western Australian salt lake potholes she viewed out of the plane window on the way. She has included paintings of iconic landforms such as Kata Jutta and Uluru.
LESLEY KINNEY Pithara Salt Lake Potholes, WA 2025, oil on canvas, 1020 x 1020 cm
Catherine McCorkill | Echoes of Light
COMING SOON: 24 Jul - 24 Aug
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 26 July.
Echoes of Light showcases Catherine’s love of portraiture and nature: to capture something of the essence of a state of being in time and space. Her art explores how, with the gift of sight, we can endlessly interpret and express our world of existence, energy and atmosphere. Catherine’s painting of Ivor Houston received the 2023 Blue Mountains Portrait “People’s Choice’ award. Since then, she has obtained her Masters from the Florence Academy of Art.
CATHERINE McCORKILL Echoes of Light, Arianne (detail) 2025, oil on linen, 18 x 24 in
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
2025-2026 EXHIBITION PROGRAM
Coming soon
28 Aug - 14 Sep 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 30 August
Annual Braemar Gallery Volunteers Exhibition
Katoomba TAFE Visual Arts Student Show
18 Sep - 19 Oct 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 20 September
Helen Shields - Contours
Bronwyn Newman - After the Margarets (Preston & Olley) There is Still Life
23 Oct - 23 Nov 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 25 October
Luba Bosch, Peta Hinton, Louise Kerr, Adrienne Richards and Kate Robinson - Right Here, Right Now
27 Nov - 21 Dec 2025
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 29 November
Blue Mountains Mosaic Collective - Grounded
Byron Kinnaird - Poems for Independence
SUMMER CLOSURE: 22 Dec 2025 - 8 Jan 2026
8 Jan - 8 Feb 2026
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 10 January
Mounted ARI - Let the part tell the whole
Sandi Lucock - There and not there
12 Feb - 15 Mar 2026
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 14 February
Susie Summers, Katrina Bodey & Anita White - cotton, clay & canvas
19 Mar - 12 Apr 2026
Official opening event at 2pm on Saturday 21 March
Judy Thistleton-Martin, Jeannie McInnes, Christine Hyde, Robyn Cook - Inspired by Birdwood Gully
Jennifer Gardiner with Louise Fox - Intangible Legacies