Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Into the Blue, InSight Membership, What’s On, Gallery Café and Shop.
JUL – OCT 2022
The City of the Blue Mountains is located within the Country of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples. Blue Mountains Cultural Centre pays respect to Elders past and present while recognising the strength, capacity and resilience of past and present Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Blue Mountains region.
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IMAGE: EDDIE ABD Mother’s tongue 2022, two channel video projection (still). Courtesy the artist CONTENTS 2 Just Below the Clouds 3 A Place for Artists and Art Lovers 4 InSight Membership 5 Into the Blue 6 Blue Mountains City Art Gallery 18 What’s On 22 Gallery Café 23 Volunteers Out and About 24 Gallery Shop 26 Braemar House & Gallery Welcome
Just Below the Clouds
I take this opportunity to thank the many artists who contributed their work to this year’s Collectors’ Edition #8 fundraising auction in April. Thanks to the quality of the artworks on offer and the generosity of bidders we were able to raise the funds needed to purchase Anne Graham’s multipanel work Pagoda Country, for the Cultural Centre’s Fine Art Collection. This is a wonderful addition to the Collection and increases our holdings of contemporary female artists of the Blue Mountains.
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Paul Brinkman – Manager, Arts & Cultural Services
This winter edition of InSight Magazine is full of great opportunities for you to shake off the cold and wet and come into the Cultural Centre for an artistic fix. From our NAIDOC celebrations to our latest Cultural Centre Collection exhibition, we will be showcasing a diverse range of art and stories from across the Blue Mountains and beyond. In addition to local highlights we are looking forward to hosting The Archibald Prize 2022 Regional Tour in October. We are making some exciting updates to our InSight Membership program with new exclusive opportunities for members. Keep an eye out in this issue for some special members events and discounts!
In closing, a great new program that we have started at the Cultural Centre on Saturday mornings is our volunteer-led Urban Art Tours. I urge both locals and tourists to come along for a walking tour of the streets of Katoomba and learn about the many public art pieces that inhabit the nooks and crannies of our streets. I am sure you will be surprised and enthralled at what you discover!
Keep an eye on the Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival website for the release of their program.
Visitors to the recent Collectors’ Edition #8 would have noticed several pieces by renowned local artist Anne Graham on display. This year’s Collectors’ Edition raised money for the acquisition of a new artwork by Graham titled Pagoda Country.
New acquisitions
A Place for Artists and Art Lovers
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This artwork will be on display in the upcoming Collection show Above the Clouds: 10 Years of the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Collection.
Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival
Many exciting workshops and activities will be held at the Cultural Centre including writers and kids workshops, the Archibald In-Conversation, as well as a number of satellite programs such as our Urban Art InSightTours.Members will receive a $5 discount on festival day passes and a $10 discount on weekend passes.
ANNE GRAHAM Pagoda Country (detail) 2022, photography. Purchased through the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Collection Acquisition Fund 2022.
Anne Graham Pagoda Country 2022
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We are pleased to partner again with Varuna for this year’s Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival, to be held Friday 21 to Sunday 23 October.
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B ecome an InSight Member today and join our community of art lovers. By becoming an InSight Member you will receive invitations to exclusive events at discounted rates, gain insider knowledge into the Cultural Centre Fine Art Collection and are supporting us in continuing to deliver dynamic exhibitions and programs.
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre InSight Membership Application Locked Bag 1005, Katoomba NSW 2780
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In 2000, the Greater Blue Mountains area was added to the World Heritage List in recognition of the exceptional diversity and integrity of its eucalypt forest communities.
Into the Blue
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The Blue Mountains Cultural Centre features Into the Blue (the Blue Mountains World Heritage Interpretive Centre). A high-tech, interactive exhibition which explores the natural as well as the social landscapes of this unique area. Audiences are invited to navigate their way through these stories through an immersive exhibition experience, introducing them to the richness and wonders of the Blue Mountains World Heritage area.
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Blue Mountains City Art Gallery
This extensive collection survey features works acquired since the opening of the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre including several artworks commissioned for the Cultural Centre’s public areas. Since 2012 over 130 artworks have been acquired for the Collection in the form of donations, cultural gifts, and purchases through the Collection Acquisition Fund.
Above the Clouds: 10 Years of the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Collection 28 May – 10 Jul
ANDREW MERRY Burnt out walking track to the Grose Valley 2013, archival pigment print 1/10, 56 x 84 cm. Donated to the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Collection by the artist 2015.
The works in the Collection celebrate the cultural identity of the Blue Mountains and beyond. Mediums range from painting to photography, video, print, and installation. Artists represented in the Collection explore unique local natural and built landmarks, environmental themes, the diverse and creative community of the Blue Mountains as well as broader national and international contemporary themes.
A Blue Mountains City Art Gallery exhibition
Time will be provided for a lunch break in Blackheath village. Participants must arrange their own transport to artist studios.
A private InSight Members tour of artist’s studios inspired by the 10 Years Collection Survey exhibition
A second tour added due to popular demand! Join us for a journey to three local artist studios in Katoomba and Blackheath. This special InSight Members event is dedicated to artists from our Collection. Beginning with a tour of the Collection survey exhibition at the Cultural Centre, we will then visit the studios of Locust Jones, John Caldwell and Julie Harris.
Bookings are essential via Reception on 4780 5410. $25 all tickets.
Image: Julie Harris in her studio.
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Sunday 26 Jun 10:15 am – 2:30 pm
Members bring a friend! We are opening up bookings for InSight Members to bring up to two friends, ticket prices apply.
The Walanmarra Artists & Friends Group: Connections
25 Jun – 7 Aug
Participating artists are: Aunty Bev Eaton, Kerrie Miller, Linna King, Jade Bell, Serena Holman, Lynne Elliott, Pip Smith, Jan Groves, Jess Gemell and Sue Wildman.
The works in Connections tell the story about standing together. They reflect our true connection to culture and Country and together, like these artworks – even when we stand alone – we show our strength through our connection with others.
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Blue Mountains City Art Gallery
We Are Here – Nyaliya YinYam & Connections
These figures assembled onto the wall at the Cultural Centre and connected in some way emphasise the strength of unity. Despite our differences and physical ailments, working together and standing united helps consolidate our public voice.
Our group uses a mixture of different techniques on silk – wax, gutta, natural dyes and plant imprints.
We Are Here – Nyaliya YinYam
When we get up it is through our art, our storytelling and coming together which shows up the strength of our connections throughout all time.
For NAIDOC 2022 Blue Mountains City Art Gallery will feature exhibitions by two local art groups: The Walanmarra Artists & Friends Group and the Painting Up Country TAFE group. Both groups explore the 2022 NAIDOC theme Get Up Stand Up Show Up.
We Are Here – Nyalia YinYam represents that solidarity and strength.
Blue Mountains Aboriginal community participants in the Painting Up Country TAFE course have been creating outline cut-outs of themselves using MDF boards to be painted and filled with mixed media images, pertaining to their own personal cultural connections and childhood environments.
Family Workshops: Darren Charlwood Mind-map
Family Workshops tickets: $15 per adult / $10 InSight Members. When purchasing an adult ticket you may add on up to five children to the booking.
2.30 – 3.30 pm
Gallery Talk
Yarning Circle
1.30 – 2.30 pm
4.30 – 6 pm
11.30 – 12.30 pm
10:30 – 11:30 am
30 min classes with Darren Charlwood. Tickets are free, but essential via Eventbrite.
NAIDOC Community Day
Free admission to Gallery and Into the Blue for the day.
10.30 am – 12.30 pm
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Family Workshops: Cindy Laws Stories and Craft
Our Yarning Circle will be on the topic of Caring for Country. Join us around the warming fire for a chat, some damper and a cuppa.
The 2022 NAIDOC Community Day will be a full day of celebrations. See below for a program of events.
Chris Tobin, NAIDOC 2018. Photo: Ben Pearse
Lomandra Weaving
Wagana Dance Performance
4 pm
Learn how to make your own animal mask or clay echidna using bush leaves and sticks. Family Workshop tickets are essential via Eventbrite*.
Discuss environment, space & community, and create individual maps telling a story through symbolism. Family Workshop tickets are essential via Eventbrite*.
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Saturday 2 Jul
10 am – 6 pm
Floor Talk with exhibiting artists. Free event.
Abd: killer tongue, i love you
digital prints and object installation Abd works with her family to express these tensions through everyday instances of play and performance. Abd uses her own childhood collection of Martine picture books, narrated in French and acquired in Lebanon in the eighties, as a frame to explore language, family dynamics and representation. Viewed through a subversive lens, Martine’s much loved rosy adventures, become a ground for reflection on personal and wider cultural constructions.
16 Jul – 4 Sep
EDDIE ABD comeback in blue #4 2022, digital prints on archival rag art paper, 75 x 56 cm. Courtesy the artist.
killer tongue, i love you is a major new body of work by multi-media artist Eddie Abd. The exhibition opens a conversation around the idea of mother tongues as carriers of identity within the context of the artist’s personal experience of growing up in a French cultural hegemony in Lebanon and raising a family in colonised Australia. Reconciling the need to create a different understanding of the self beyond dichotomies, language as a cultural marker becomes open to an Throughexploration.video,
A Blue Mountains City Art Gallery exhibition
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with the idea of painting with light into the landscape, McEwan projected images of historical objects and photographs onto a canvas of naturally occurring fog, water and smoke. By engaging with the active materiality of place, they sought to examine human history and the consequences of past actions.
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Haunting is a body of photographic and video work made in collaboration with dynamic environmental conditions, contested histories, and our negotiations of a complex future. Artist Vic McEwan created the large-scale works while artist-inresidence at the National Museum of Australia in collaboration with Senior Curator George ExperimentingMain.
16 Jul – 4 Sep
Haunting is a travelling exhibition developed by the Cad Factory and the National Museum of Australia. Supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW, Sidney Myer Fund, Nelson Meers Foundation, W & A Johnson Family Foundation and assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program.
VIC MCEWAN Mary Gilmore 3: fog 2015, projection.
Space, Time, Light is an exhibition of new works by Blue Mountains artist Yvette Hamilton, based around her recent artist residency where she researched the Transit of Venus observation at Woodford Academy that occurred in 1874. This historical observation held great significance for astronomy and the photographic medium, but ultimately, was deemed a failure, and all photographic plates from this observation have been lost.
YVETTE HAMILTON Photoheliograph #1 2022, silver gelatin photograph, 50 x 61 cm. Courtesy the artist.
The works in the exhibition take a speculative response to these lost and failed images and draw together astronomy and photography with their shared anchor points of space, time and light probing the gaps between vision, image and knowledge. Moving across time and space and using methodologies from the past and the present, this expanded photographic installation explores the seen and the unseen.
Blue Mountains City Art Gallery
A Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Exposé Program exhibition
Yvette Hamilton: Space, Time, Light 13 Aug – 2 Oct
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Ever wanted to be able to get off “auto” mode and improve your photography? This workshop will teach you the fundamentals of manual photography, covering all the techniques and tricks you need to improve your landscape or portrait photographs. Bring your own DSLR that has manual functionality and really get to know your camera. Suitable for teens and up.
Getting off “Auto” mode with Yvette Hamilton
Bookings essential via Eventbrite.
Saturday 20 Aug 10 am – 12.30 pm
Bookings essential via Eventbrite.
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Botanical Cyanotypes and Lumen Printing with Yvette Hamilton
Be inspired by historic photographic pioneer Anna Atkins in this camera-less photographic printing workshop. Wander through the rooftop garden at the Cultural Centre and collect botanical specimens, or bring your own, to make beautiful compositions inspired by nature. Using both cyanotype and photographic paper, you will take home a series of beautifully coloured images and learn two fundamental camera-less processes.
$50 / $40 InSight Members
Saturday 20 Aug 1:30 – 4 pm
$70 / $60 InSight Members
Vicky Browne: Work/Play
Among other things, the exhibition asks a robot vacuum cleaner: “who is in charge of who and what part do we play in interrelated ecologies?” We understand things through language, the body, rituals and routines, and interconnected systems – these frame what we call things and how we know and understand things: the thingy-ness of things.
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10 Sep – 16 Oct
This exhibition explores our relationship to the actions of making and experiencing through the lens of being ‘at play’. Browne is interested in the dual complexities of work and play, and how our experience of the world is embedded in materiality which we express through our actions (work/play). Our connection to materials – and our own materiality – is central to the exhibition which experiments with material possibilities, creating encounters to be experienced, felt and contemplated.
VICKY BROWNE Cosmic Noise 2015, ongoing, mixed media, dimensions variable, Installation view of Material Sound at Plimsoll Gallery. Photo: Remi Chauvin.
A Blue Mountains City Art Gallery exhibition
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Saturday 10 Sep
VICKY BROWNE After the Gold Rush 2021, polymer clay with gold lacquer. Photo: Harry Klien.
11 am – 12 pm
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Vicky Browne Artist Talk
$5 / FREE for InSight Members
Ticket includes Gallery entry Bookings essential via Eventbrite.
Join exhibiting artist Vicky Browne in a talk about her creative process and exhibition Work/Play.
The Way We Live Now uses drawing and ceramics to explore the concept of ‘Bio history’ – the study of human situations, past and present, against the backdrop of life on Earth.
Blue Mountains City Art Gallery
Adrienne Richard: The Way We Live Now
Inspired by Stephen Boyden’s book The Bionarrative - the story of life and hope for the future, Richards has created an imaginary archaeological dig where the fragments and shards of humans’ material culture are juxtaposed with those of the rest of our living planet.
A Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Exposé Program exhibition
8 Oct – 27 Nov
Hand built ceramic forms, surface decoration and glazing techniques come together to highlight environmental issues, humans place on Earth and to question ‘the way we live now’.
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ADRIENNE RICHARDS Bionarrative Shards (horizontal) 2022, glazed stoneware and porcelain, dimensions variable. Image courtesy the artist.
InSight Members can purchase up to two tickets for their friends and family at the members rate of $10 for this Promotionalevent.
Saturday 22 Oct 11 am – 12.30 pm
22 Oct – 4 Dec
$15 Special Offer for Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival ticket holders
The Archibald Prize 2022 Regional Tour
The annual Archibald Prize is eagerly anticipated by artists and audiences alike. Judged by the trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW, the prize is awarded to the best portrait painting. Since 1921 it has highlighted figures from all walks of life, from famous faces to local heroes, reflecting back to us the stories of our times.
The Archibald Prize is an Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition Presenting partner ANZ
$20portraiture./$10InSight Members
Archibald In-Conversation
Special InSight Members Offer
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Archibald Prize 2022 finalist, Blak Douglas Moby Dickens, synthetic polymer paint on linen, 300 x 200 cm. Courtesy the artist, AGNSW, Mim Stirling. Sitter: Karla Dickens.
Join us for an in-conversation with local Archibald finalists and their subjects to discuss the people behind the portraits. This will be an insight into the complex process of creating a likeness and the relationships that develop along the journey of
codes for discounts will be communicated to InSight Members and Writers’ Festival ticket holders closer to the event.
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n a n t w a v e features a gallery up-late session celebrating three projection, light and sound installations by artists Eddie Abd, Yvette Hamilton and Vic McEwan.
What’s On r e s o n a n t w a v e Saturday 27 Aug
Afterwards, enter the central courtyard and become wrapped within four ethereal, atmosphere-driven soundscapes from diverse music genres, accompanied by a curated line up of contemporary visual artists presenting large scale projection work.
Image: visualisation of event by Illuminart.
Become immersed in light and sound at this mesmerizing after dark experience, where music and visuals coalesce and take over the Cultural Centre Gallery and outdoor spaces. The event coincides with Winter Magic Festival, drawing audiences from far beyond the blue tinged horizon to experience the region’s vibrant and cutting-edge arts and rmusic.eso
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This collaboration is presented by Blue Mountains City of the Arts, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre and Illuminart, and is supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative.
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Audio/visual performance in the Cultural Centre central courtyard.
Winter Wollemi Artisan Markets
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From 4 pm
Sunday 28 Aug 10 am – 2 pm
Join us in the Blue Mountains City Art Gallery for artist talks by exhibiting artists Eddie Abd and Yvette Hamilton.
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Gallery Up Late
From 6 – 9.30 pm
TilmanSonori Robinson
Deepsea Lights
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This Winter Magic weekend plan a trip on Sunday morning to the Cultural Centre for the Winter Wollemi Markets.
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be advised that venue capacity limits are in place.
Saturday 27 Aug
With a selection of artisan makers both inside and outside, you can stay warm and cosy on a wintery day. These markets will be a feast for the senses with live music, artisan makers, warming food and Glühwein from the Café.
Friday 15 Jul for ages 10 to 15 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Free event. BYO lunch. Bookings essential via Eventbrite.
Thursday 14 Jul for ages 5 to 9
Saturdays starting from 28 May 10.30 11.30 am
Mother Tongue Community Spheres is full day workshop all about having fun, expanding social spheres, and exploring issues important to young people in our community. This is about sharing stories, cultures, languages and ideas through dance, movement and visual arts, in sessions led by professional artists.
What’s On
Urban Art Tours
Street Art Walk, Beverly Place. Photo: Liam Foster.
Mother Tongue Community Spheres is a community arts program delivered by Annalouise Paul Dance Theatre. Workshop artists are Annalouise Paul and Thi My Le. Funding for Mother Tongue Community Spheres has been provided by the NSW Government, Adès Family Foundation and further supported by SEVA International.
$15 / $10 InSight Members
Includes a free hot drink up to the value of $4.50. Bookings essential via Eventbrite.
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School Holiday Workshop Community Spheres for young people
Join a volunteer guide from the Cultural Centre on an urban art trail around the township of Katoomba. The tour will visit over 15 artworks, some more hidden than others in the streets of Katoomba. Stretch your legs and discover the variety of artworks to be found; sculpture, installation, sound and light works as well as many murals.
$130 / $120 InSight Members
Saturday 17 Sep
Saturday 6 Aug
What’s On
10:30 am – 3:30 pm
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$190 / $170 InSight Members
Create a unique piece of enamel jewellery; Jane will show you how to make earrings, brooch or pendant and you will have the opportunity to create one or two pieces during the day. There will be a demonstration of various contemporary decorative techniques. Learn the process of enamelling beginning with the application of dry powdered glass enamels onto a copper base.
Composition is the foundation of a good painting. Join Tohby Riddle as he takes you through the process of setting up a painting from a photo, with careful attention to subject matter and its composition. The workshop includes identifying subject matter; framing and cropping photos; transcribing the composition and blocking in the initial areas of colour with an eye to palette and tonal values.
Bookings essential via Eventbrite.
Expressive Collage Making with Jan Melville
Enamel Jewellery with Jane Tadrist
10 am – 3.30 pm
Composing a Painting with Tohby Riddle
In this workshop Jan will demonstrate that in collage, having more is better; using magazine cut outs, photocopies, texts, soft fabric, textured papers, old drawings and paintings. Look at using colour, shapes, textures and image placement and the use of positive and negative spaces in composition. A variety of mixed media will be available for you to work into your collage. Examples of Jan’s works both on paper and canvas using many various mediums will be on show.
Bookings essential via Eventbrite.
$130 / $120 InSight Members
Bookings essential via Eventbrite.
10.30 am – 3.30 pm
Saturday 23 Jul
Salt and pepper to taste
1 cup roasted butternut pumpkin (or pumpkin of your choice)
Gallery Café
½ cup ricotta cheese
2 slices Swiss cheese
1 teaspoon mountain pepper spice (dill could be used as alternative)
3. Mix cooked pumpkin and ricotta together.
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Olive oil to taste
1. Season pumpkin with mountain pepper, salt and pepper, drizzle of olive oil. Roast in oven at 180 °C until cooked.
1 serve INGREDIENTS
2 roasted garlic cloves
METHOD:
2. Prepare the ricotta by mixing in 1 teaspoon mountain pepper, salt and pepper and a drizzle of olive oil. Mix until combined.
4. Divide the Swiss cheese evenly on both slices of brioche, spread the pumpkin/ricotta mixture on one side of the bread.
5. Place into a sandwich press or under the grill until the bread is golden and the cheese has melted. Serve immediately.
Enjoy!
MOUNTAIN PEPPER-SPICED PUMPKIN AND RICOTTA MELT
Offering some truly delectable house-made trans-seasonal delights from decadent baked eggs to warming brioche melts, our menu proudly features Indigenous flavours and locally sourced products.
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When I read that accommodation had recently opened at the property I jumped at the opportunity, booking in for the Easter weekend. Everything about Bundanon exceeded my expectations. The natural environment is stunning, bush covered hills rolling down to the serpentine Shoalhaven River. The Bridge, designed by architect Kerstin Thompson, is an eyecatching contemporary structure on tall metal stilts, spanning a deep grassy hollow.
The Bridge contains 32 rooms with three breezeway areas. A saw-tooth roof floats over the accommodation wing, guest dining room and café, linking the Bridge to the art gallery.
Cultural Centre Volunteer
The timber paneled guest rooms are elegant, simple and eco-friendly. A perforated sliding metal screen regulates light with wooden louvres regulating airflow.
Volunteers Out and About
The property was threatened by the 2019-20 bushfires necessitating the evacuation of the $40 million Boyd art collection. This collection is just being returned to the gallery. To avoid future threats the new fireproof art gallery has been built into a hillside.
One of the many highlights of my stay was watching the moon rise over the Shoalhaven whilst sipping a local BlueJillianwine.SalzMountains
For years I have wanted to visit Bundanon, the former property of Arthur Boyd, which he generously gifted to the Australian people.
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receive a 10% discount on items in the Shop and invitations to exclusive member sales throughout the year.
Photo: Liam Foster.
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Gallery Shop
Offering a unique retail experience, the Gallery Shop stocks a wide variety of quality Australian made gifts, books and homewares, with a focus on artisan products designed and made in the Blue InSightMountains.Members
Blue Mountains $15 / $13.50 InSight Members
Earrings start at $20 and come in a range of
Pepper Mountain earrings are handmade in the Blue Mountains using polymer clay and lots of love. The creator, Sharlea, comes from a background in colour and interior decoration and those skills definitely shine through into her jewellery. She frequently brings out new and exciting designs that are extremely lightweight and durable and range from statement stand-out pieces to styles that you can wear anywhere with any outfit. All of her creations are certain to start a conversation!
Loose Parts Press is an independent publishing company focusing on children’s books that are ethical, sustainable and beautiful. Made up of predominantly Blue Mountains writers, illustrators and designers, their current book range reflects their passion for the environment, local flora and fauna and encouraging creativity in children.
ABC Earthcare Poster $12 / $10.80 InSight Members
Pepper Mountains Designs
Loose Parts Press
P is for Permaculture $16 / $14.40 InSight Members
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CLARE DELANEY Decay Revealed I 2022, mixed media on recycled paper, 150 x 70cm.
See the Cultural Centre website for the latest on Braemar Gallery exhibitions.
7 Jul – 31 Jul
Braemar House & Gallery
In Corinne’s work you will recognise the expansive skies and vistas of the Blue Mountains, and be invited to contemplate both the ethereal beauty and mystery of nature, and your own interior world.
Best known in Celtic traditions, the Tree of Life is found in many of the world’s mythologies and religions. Jude explores the Tree of Life theme using Medallion knitting, producing flat knitted circular fabrics.
104 Macquarie Rd, ThuSpringwood–Sun,10 am – 4 pm Free admission
7 Jul – 31 Jul
4 Aug – 28 Aug
Life and decay intertwine with each other. One cannot live without the other. Clare’s suburban garden inspires this body of work, burying recycled paper and canvas in the compost, responding to the marks made by soil creatures, exposing works to rain and sun and slowly building up rich textural layers.
Jude Skeers Trees of Life
Corinne Loxton Spirit of Place
Braemar House is home to the treasured Braemar Gallery, a Council operated community exhibition space for visual artists.
Clare DecayDelaney
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Dallas’ work endeavours to change people’s perceptions of asking for help as a sign of weakness, and instead see asking for help as a sign of strength and
From Surreal to the Sea
1 Sep – 25 Sep
Louise DesertsHolmesFollow Man
Dallas Gardner From Broken Veteran to Photographic Artist
Tobin O’Bree
1 Sep – 25 Sep
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From Surreal to the Sea draws inspiration from the time Tobin spends in both mountain and coastal locations. It takes the viewer on a journey through the unexpected to the traditional, while combining precisionist and impressionist styles along the way.
Julia TransformationsButler
4 Aug – 28 Aug
This exhibition draws on the transformational nature of everyday materials such as wool, to produce felt objects and experimental sculptures as a way of exploring the changes involved in living with illness.
Govetts Leap 2022, photograph, 90 x 60cm.
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These mixed media paintings reflect a broad idea of the old adage that ‘deserts follow man’. For these works, composition evolved serendipitously, created by a visual stream of consciousness and intuitive responses to the formal structural elements.
1 Sep – 25 Sep
This exhibition explores mental health and PTSD experienced by veterans and first responders as well as anyone in the community.
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27 Oct – 20 Nov
Moving Mountains explores mindfulness and art and the way they resonate with individuals and the wider community. Anjum takes an expressive and playful approach, combining mark making, patterning and gestural application of colour.
29 Sep – 23 Oct
Captured Moments showcases still life pastel works, paintings and photographs which elevate the commonplace world around us into certainty, beauty and immortality.
Catherine invites the viewer to celebrate the unique beauty of the Australian landscape, the diversity of the native vegetation and its capacity to JOELregenerate.MITCHELL
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29 Sep – 23 Oct
Catherine Fox Captured Carbon
This exhibition explores the integration and cyclical nature of life and art. The rich journey of play, process, mastery, mistakes, coming full circle.
29 Sep – 23 Oct
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27 Oct – 20 Nov
Geoff Matthews Fluid
Through the fire 2022, grevillea robusta, 75 x 40cm.
Our landscape is fluid. Changing constantly. Ecosystems feel the impact of time, seasons, climate, human interaction and countless other influences. Geoff’s approach to landscape is fluid. He plays with the colours, shapes, textures and lines that enrich our natural world.
The Gallery Café opens 9.30am weekdays. Café closed public holidays
Artistic Program Manager: Sabrina Roesner
We thank the dedicated volunteers at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre who provide valuable support to staff and visitors.
ADMISSION: Adults: Australian$5.50concession card holders: $3.20
Café Coordinator: Jennifer Chapman-Paton
Design by Hannah Surtees, Studio ham.
Cultural Development: Katrina Noorbergen Olivia Wynne
OUR PEOPLE: Manager, Arts & Cultural Services: Paul Brinkman
Public Programs Coordinator: Sarah Emerson Gallery Technician: Mark Surtees
InSight Members: Free Children under 16: Free
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