Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Into the Blue, InSight Membership, What’s On, Gallery Café + Shop, Braemar Gallery, The Upstairs Gallery
MAR – JUN 2023
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.
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
16 Exhibition Feature: Q&A with Adrienne Doig
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18 What’s On 21 Meet the Team 22 Gallery Café 24 Gallery Shop 26 Braemar House & Gallery
The Upstairs Gallery
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Welcome
Just Below the Clouds
Paul Brinkman – Manager, Arts & Cultural Services
The Cultural Centre’s Autumn program brings a raft of opportunities to be inspired by the best visual arts of the Blue Mountains.
Exhibitions by Nick Stathopoulos The semblance of things and Adrianne Doig’s It’s All About Me!, present their take on the power of the portrait, while our team of volunteers have expertly selected works from the Cultural Centre’s very own Fine Art Collection in the exhibition An Inside View. This exhibition showcases some of the Cultural Centre’s most popular artworks and provides an insight into the value of this ever-growing collection.
Don’t miss the annual Collectors’ Edition #9 fundraiser auction. This is your opportunity to not only add to your own fine art collection but also support the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre in building its collection for future generations.
This year’s diptych format has brought a whole new level of artistic ingenuity to the exhibition. Come along to the opening event on Friday 14 April where you will have the opportunity to unveil your favourite artist’s work, and then again to the closing auction on Friday 28 April to place your final bids and take part in the excitement as the top artworks go under the auctioneer’s hammer.
For up-to-date information on all of our programs and events, sign up to our e-news via our website.
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A Place for Artists and Art Lovers
Our latest acquisition
Leanne Tobin
Ngalawan – We Live, We Remain: The Call of Ngurra (Country)
With the funds raised from this years’ Collectors’ Edition #9 we are seeking to purchase a work by respected Buruberong and Wumali artist, Leanne Tobin. Tobin is a multidisciplinary artist of Irish, English and Aboriginal heritage who has positively impacted local communities and institutions through her tireless activism and collaboration. Her art practice seeks to encourage an open and honest dialogue about the past and to nurture, respect, and care for Country, paying homage to our Old People and their legacy.
When speaking of the prospective acquisition, Tobin expressed, “by highlighting the ancient pathways the burra (eels) take, we acknowledge their survival and persistence. Despite (the) disruptions to the river flow resulting in dangerous blue-green algae bloom and the ongoing extraction of the rivers’ precious resources, the burra’s age-old life cycle continues. The intricate relationship with these primordial creatures is shared, not only by Dharug and other Aboriginal peoples, but also by other nations across the world.”
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LEANNE TOBIN Ngalawan – We Live, We Remain: The Call of Ngurra (Country) (detail), 2022, blown glass. Photo: silversalt.
InSight Membership
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.
YOUR INSIGHT MEMBERSHIP PLAN:
Individual Adult: $50*
Duo (2 adults, children 16 & under free): $70**
Concession: $40*
Individual Patron: $200
Business: $250
* 2 x complimentary guest tickets per membership.
**4 x complimentary guest tickets per duo membership. Complimentary tickets only valid when accompanied by an InSight Member.
HOW TO JOIN:
Visit our friendly staff at Reception or call 4780 5410 to join or renew. Staff can provide an InSight Membership Form where you can provide your details. This form can also be posted to;
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
InSight Membership Application
Locked Bag 1005, Katoomba NSW 2780
We now have online registration and renewals to make your InSight journey more convenient. Visit the InSight Membership page on our website for the link.
• UNLIMITED FREE entry to Blue Mountains City Art Gallery and Into the Blue
• DISCOUNTS on Cultural Centre public programs
• 10% DISCOUNT at the Gallery Shop and Gallery Café
• LIMITED complimentary tickets for guests *conditions apply
• INVITATIONS to exhibition openings and exclusive events
• INSIDER knowledge into the Cultural Centre Fine Art Collection
• SUBSCRIPTION to InSight Magazine, delivered three times a year
• SUBSCRIPTION to the Cultural Centre’s monthly e-newsletter
• ACCESS to InSight Members Lounge (Wednesday – Friday, subject to availability)
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Into the Blue
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.
The Blue Mountains Cultural Centre features Into the Blue (the Blue Mountains World Heritage Interpretive Centre). This high tech and interactive exhibition introduces audiences to the richness and wonders of the Blue Mountains World Heritage area. Explore the people and places of this unique area through stories which tell of the natural as well as the social landscapes.
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Blue Mountains City Art Gallery
Blue Mountains Portraits 2023
4 Feb – 2 Apr
Blue Mountains Portraits is the Cultural Centre’s annual celebration of the local community and its diverse members. The exhibiting artists portray the unique people that make up the cultural fabric of the Blue Mountains and tell the stories behind the person. Over thirty artworks in a broad range of styles and media such as painting, photography, drawing, collage and mixed media are exhibited along with a selection of local students’ work.
A Blue Mountains City Art Gallery exhibition
Sunset Portraits
Saturday 18 Mar
5 – 7 pm
A portrait drawing workshop led by artist Sean O’Keeffe. Includes a tour of the Gallery, drinks, antipasto, and live music!
All your drawing materials will be included in this social and creative evening of portraiture.
$66 / $55 InSight Members
Tickets via Eventbrite.
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Blue Mountains Portraits People’s Choice Winner 2022 CATHIE COX In the Garden 2021, mixed media on tissue covered linoleum, 82 x 41 cm.
The semblance of things: portraits by Nick Stathopoulos 4 Feb – 2 Apr
The semblance of things is a comprehensive survey of Nick Stathopoulos’ portraits from the past 30 years documenting the evolution of his hyper-real style. The artist delves beneath the painted surface, revealing psychological insights and reaching beyond the superficial likeness of a portrait. As well as the curated selection of portraits, the exhibition includes archival photographs, sketchbooks, and video clips. Subjects include celebrities Isla Fisher, David Stratton, Barry Crocker, Shaun Tan, Grahame Bond (Aunty Jack), Mr. Squiggle, and many more. This is the first time these portraits have been exhibited together, with works ranging in scale, from the blockbuster Archibald finalists to more intimate and personal work.
A Blue Mountains City Art Gallery exhibition curated by Rilka Oakley
IMAGE: Nick Stathopoulos (left to right)
Deng (detail) 2016, acrylic & oil glaze on canvas, 138 x 138 cm. Image courtesy Art Gallery of NSW. Jenny (detail) 2015, acrylic & oil glaze on canvas, 138 x 138 cm. Image courtesy the artist. The white shirt – portrait of Tané Andrews (detail) 2021, acrylic & oil on poly-cotton, 153 x 80 cm. Image courtesy Art Gallery of NSW.
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Blue Mountains City Art Gallery
ADRIENNE DOIG: IT’S ALL ABOUT ME!
11 Apr – 21 May
Through the lens of self-portraiture, Blue Mountains-based artist Adrienne Doig tackles the everyday with good humour and wit. Her survey exhibition Adrienne Doig: It’s All About Me! draws upon the past three decades of the artist’s practice, which fuses historical references and humour to respond to the everyday and reflect on now.
Using a variety of media, including embroidery, appliqué, sculpture and video, Doig playfully explores intimate aspects of her life, from having a cup of tea to performing mundane housework. Embedded within her practice are layered responses to universal themes that have social, environmental, and political narratives. By manipulating, reworking, and combining imagery from multiple sources, Doig records her own experiences within a larger context. Hence, It’s All About Me!
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A Bathurst Regional Art Gallery touring exhibition
ADRIENNE DOIG AD Gloriam 2011, embroidery on tapestry, 45 x 46.5 cm. Collection of Lloyd Harris and David Collins.
Artist Talk: Adrienne Doig
Saturday 15 Apr 11 am – 12 pm
Artist Adrienne Doig will lead you through her exhibition speaking about her inspiration, artistic process and what it means to have a touring exhibition.
$5.50 / FREE InSight Members
Tickets via Eventbrite.
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ADRIENNE DOIG Not Worth It 2012, patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on linen, 99 x 75.5 cm. Collection of Louise Mitchell.
Collectors’ Edition #9
14 Apr – 30 Apr
Now in its 9th year, this fundraiser exhibition supports the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre’s Collection Acquisition Fund. This year the format is changing to a diptych (2 hinged panels). Completed works will be folded and wax-sealed for the exhibition opening. These original artworks will be for sale through silent auction. Once a bid is placed on an artwork this will allow the wax seal to be broken, revealing the artwork inside. Take this opportunity to start your own collection while supporting the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre.
A Blue Mountains Cultural Centre exhibition
Collectors’ Edition #9 is supported by HopeTree Framing
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Blue Mountains City Art Gallery
Opening Night
Friday 14 Apr 6 – 8 pm
Come to the opening night to bid on your favourite artist’s work. Be the first bidder and you can break the wax seal and reveal the artwork within.
Closing Auction
Friday 28 Apr 6 – 8 pm
Don’t miss this final opportunity to bid for your chosen artwork and build your own collection.
The night will culminate in an exciting live art auction of the 5 artworks that have attracted the highest bids. Register during the exhibition or on the night to get involved in the fun.
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Blue Mountains City Art Gallery
An Inside View Collection works selected by our volunteers
6 May – 18 Jun
An Inside View is an exhibition of works from our permanent Collection chosen by our volunteers, many of whom have been with us since the Collection began. Our volunteers have selected works that they resonate with and have written a short explanation about what the work means to them.
A Blue Mountains City Art Gallery exhibition selected by our volunteers
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JULIE PATERSON Silver Top 2022, unique state stencil print using acrylic printing paste and bees wax finish on Belgian Linen, 120 x 180 cm. Commissioned for the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Collection by Rae Druitt 2022.
An insider’s view of the Collection
Saturday 6 May 11:30 am – 1 pm
This event is your opportunity to meet the volunteers who helped us select the works in An Inside View.
Discover the secrets behind their choices and learn a more in-depth view of the Cultural Centre. These volunteer chats are free with Gallery ticket and are open to all visitors.
For our InSight Members we have organised a special members only peak behind the scenes with our new Curator Hayley. Hayley will be stationed in the collection room to show you around and answer all your questions about how to manage an art collection.
Reservations will be essential for the members-only collection room tours. Bring a friend with you, each member will have the option to add a plus one upon booking.
FREE with Gallery entry / FREE InSight Members. Bookings for InSight Member tours essential via Eventbrite.
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ARTEXPRESS
27 May – 16 Jul
ARTEXPRESS brings together a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the artmaking component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts in NSW. The exhibition celebrates student achievement and aims to connect communities through the visual arts. The works provide insights into issues that are important to the young artists, such as cultural and gender identity, mental health, notions of home, social media, globalisation and climate change.
In 2023 we are showcasing the work of 43 students from across NSW including work by students local to our region.
ARTEXPRESS is a joint project between New South Wales Department of Education and New South Wales Education Standards Authority
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Blue Mountains City Art Gallery
GABRIEL MARTINS Identity death 2022, photomedia, 210 x 180 cm, Christian Brothers’ High School Lewisham. Courtesy ARTEXPRESS and the artist.
Ida Jaroš and Bette Misfud: Shifting Screens
24 Jun – 13 Aug
Shifting Screens is a collaboration between Ida Jaroš and Bette Mifsud containing over 60 urban and rural landscapes photographed from moving vehicles. It engages with the fleeting nature of human life, and the navigation of its uncertain terrains.
Ida Jaroš’ Commuter works are shot from Western Sydney trains. Her layered, impalpable and disconcerting urban landscapes contain transparent distortions and reflections. Bette Mifsud’s Breathing Rain is her requiem for the ravages of climate change, and recent personal loss, trauma and grief.
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A Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Altitude exhibition
IDA JAROŠ Commuter 2 2022, archival pigment print on Hahnmuhle photo rag, approx. 60 x 120 cm.
Q&A with Adrienne Doig
Artistic Program Leader, Rilka Oakley, chats with Adrienne Doig about her upcoming exhibition It’s All About Me! and learns how living in a World Heritage National Park influences her work and environmentalism.
Rilka Oakley: Your work is very self-referential. I know you do this playfully, but can you explain how this started? What are the benefits of portraying yourself?
Adrienne Doig: My focus on self-portraiture has evolved over time. Looking back, I realise I was making self-portraits before I was fully aware of that aspect to the work. Of course, most art is autobiographical in nature but I have dialled up the self-obsession! It’s like a gag that gets funnier each time you see it.
Also, through this repetition perhaps the work becomes less about me and more about you. How the viewer feels about the work, identifies and interprets, makes it about them.
Using a wide variety of mediums allows me to have fun and highlight the playful nature of the work. Experiments with ideas and materials show the changing nature of identity and can bring different interpretations.
RO: How does living in a world heritage area and the natural environment influence your work?
AD: The natural environment is very important in my work. I am aware of the great privilege of living and working on spectacular Dharug and Gundungurra country. Experiences in nature are part of my day to day.
My work includes the everyday and routine alongside more unexpected events like bushfires or encounters with wildlife. Quite often native species come into the picture bringing further awareness of environmental issues. Hopefully my imaginings allow viewers to recall their own experiences or feelings of being in nature.
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Exhibition feature
RO: You use a lot of recycled material to make work. Is this a form of environmental activism?
AD: I’m very conscious of using materials carefully not creating waste. Reusing, recycling and repurposing has become a feature of my work.
Happily a chance find can sometimes trigger a whole new interest or way of working. Discarded needlework tapestries became the series Picture Me, where I inserted myself into other people‘s work. More recently a bag of velvet scraps has been transformed into my Self-portrait as a Goddess works.
In the large installation of Everyday Me cut-out figures are made out of fruit boxes that come from Todarellos with the weekly shop.
These small acts of consciousness sometimes combined with imagery that relates to environmental issues can become a form of activism. I make the work using materials that come to hand and from my engagement with my surroundings.
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ADRIENNE DOIG Everyday Me 2017-2020 (detail), mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Martin Browne Contemporary.
What’s On
Blue Mountains Zine Fair
Saturday 25 Mar
10 am – 2 pm
Mtns Zine Club are partnering with the Cultural Centre to bring you the first ever Blue Mountains zine fair! Zines are self-published printed works around a theme that can include illustrations, poetry, writing, comics, or photography. We will have stalls from zine makers and creatives from around Australia and a zine-making station so you can even make your own zine on the day.
FREE event.
Fall Flicks Under the Stars
Friday 31 Mar
7 – 9 pm. Screening starts at 7:30 pm
Cosy up under blankets with your loved ones, enjoy some delicious hot chocolate and settle in for a night of local cinema under the stars. Join us in watching 10 short films created by Blue Mountains locals, curated by Riley Saxton and Helena Zadro-Jones. Featuring Bus Stop’s Head over Wheels and Mountain of Youth’s Soles. Pack a picnic dinner and bring along a chair, pillow or a rug!
$8 / $5 InSight Members. FREE popcorn with ticket purchase. Bookings essential via Eventbrite.
Urban Art Tours
Saturdays
10.30 – 11.30 am
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.
$15 / $10 InSight Members
Includes a free hot drink up to the value of $4.50. Bookings essential via Eventbrite.
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Photo: Aphrodite Delaguiado.
Upcycle Op-Shop Couture with Charlotte
Appleby
Saturday 1 Apr
10.30 am – 3.30 pm
Do you love op-shopping? In this fun and adventurous workshop Charlotte will take you on a fashion journey, recreating and embellishing your found fashion in new sartorial directions. Charlotte’s knowledge of beading, embroidery and construction will show you new and exciting ways to rework, revive and re-wear.
$130 / $120 InSight Members
Bookings essential via Eventbrite.
Minibooks with Jan Melville
Saturday 20 May
10.30 am – 3.30 pm
Artist books are a unique method used to tell stories and create beautiful artworks to fill your space. Jan will lead you in this workshop to discover ways to make minibooks and explore self-expression through collage, drawing and painting. This is suitable for beginners and intermediate students.
$130 / $120 InSight Members
Bookings essential via Eventbrite.
Winter Warm-up Wollemi Artisan Markets
Sunday 25 Jun
10 am – 2 pm
Our Winter Warm-up Wollemi Artisan Markets will again coincide with the Winter Magic weekend. On Sunday morning come to the Cultural Centre to stock up on local products made by our creative community. Mark the date in your calendar and plan for a cup of warming soup from the Gallery Café, find something special to take home and support our local makers.
FREE event.
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INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY EVENTS
Dream Alley Dream #6
Saturday 11 Mar
7.30 pm
Dream Alley Dream in collaboration with City of the Arts and Blue Mountains Cultural Centre presents DAD#6; Jasmine Guffond, Alexandra Spence and Gail Priest. DAD#6 celebrates women at the interface of sound, technology and performance.
$25, tickets available via Dream Alley Dream Eventbrite.
All About Women Festival Livestream
Iran: women, life, freedom
Sunday 12 Mar
11.45 am – 12:45 pm
Join us for a special satellite screening of a session from the All About Women Festival, live from the Sydney Opera House to our Seminar Room.
In this hour-long screening of Iran: women, life, freedom, Iranian-Australian women give an inside look at the woman-led revolution in Iran, the power of protest, and how Australians can be allies at this incredible moment in history.
FREE event however bookings essential via Eventbrite.
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IMAGES:
Gail Priest, copyright of the Artist Jasmine Guffond, copyright of Camille Blake Alexandra Spence, copyright of Lucy Parakhina
Meet the team
Introducing you to some of the newest team members you will see working in and around the Cultural Centre, we asked them why they love working here!
Hayley Zena Poynton Curator
Can you tell us a bit more about the career path that led you to this role as Curator?
My formal studies began in the painting studios at Sydney College of the Arts where I completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours). After my undergraduate study I started working in the industry as a practicing artist, participating in group shows and volunteering at any gallery that let me. Before relocating to the Blue Mountains I worked at the Art Gallery of NSW, and was a director at STACKS Projects, Potts Point and AIRspace Projects, Marrickville.
The end goal was always to curate, but it was important to me that my methodologies developed from an artist’s perspective and that I had a practice of my own. I then went on to study a Masters of Curating and Cultural Leadership at UNSW Art and Design, and under the direction of a few keys mentors I really started to develop my personal curatorial modus operandi.
What does an average weekend look like for you?
I usually spend the first half of Saturday and Sunday seeing friends over lunch alongside a gallery visit. If time permits, we either visit the local native plant nurseries or go for a bush walk. The afternoons are reserved for sacred gardening time and quality time at home.
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Gallery Café
The Gallery Café aims to operate with sustainability and environmentally friendly practices, providing a garden to table dining experience. The menu reflects these intentions through showcasing local and Indigenous produce as well as ingredients sourced from the Cultural Centre’s roof top garden.
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ROAST PUMPKIN AND COUSCOUS SALAD
For this InSight issue, we have selected a roast pumpkin and couscous salad which has quickly become one of our staple Autumnal dishes to serve in the Gallery Cafe.
INGREDIENTS – MAKES 4-6 PORTIONS:
1 x medium butternut pumpkin, roasted
2 x cups pearl couscous, cooked as per package directions
1 x cup salad greens of your choice
1 x small red onion, finely sliced into half-moons
Fresh parsley and coriander to taste
Olive oil
Method:
1. Combine the pumpkin, couscous, red onion and salad greens into a bowl and toss until mixed well.
2. Drizzle with olive oil and add salt and pepper to taste.
3. Garnish with the fresh parsley and coriander. Can be served warm or cold.
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Gallery Shop
Offering a unique retail experience, the Gallery Shop stocks a wide variety of quality gifts, books and homewares, with a focus on australianmade products, particularly those designed and made in the Blue Mountains.
InSight Members receive a 10% discount on items in the Shop and invitations to exclusive member sales throughout the year.
Saretta
Saretta Fielding is an award-winning Aboriginal artist of the Wonnarua Nation located in the Hunter Valley NSW. Her artwork versatility is seen across a wide range of public artworks and mediums including fine art, public installations, and fashion. Saretta’s unique art style combining traditional symbolism and storytelling alongside contemporary artform, and colour palette is fast becoming recognised nationally and internationally. Her flair for interpreting natural elements and mediums demonstrate her passion for country, instantly grabbing one’s attention, inviting the viewer to savour, connect and share in the rich and alive culture of Aboriginal Australia.
Saretta’s scarves and wraps are available for purchase in the Gallery Shop starting at $49.
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Peggy and Finn
Peggy and Finn design original prints for accessories and underwear. They are all about the matchy, matchy look! You’ll find matching ties, pocket squares, bow ties, kids bow ties, socks and even underwear in their range.
They proudly design original hand-painted and hand-drawn prints, employing local artists living by the Surf Coast of Victoria, Australia. The prints are unique and inspired by the flora of the coastline. You’ll find abstract versions of the Kangaroo Paw plant, the popular protea flower and the gorgeous grass tree, just to mention a few.
The Gallery Shop stocks a range of Peggy and Finn products including:
Cotton Bow Tie
$69.95 / $62.95 InSight Members
Cotton Tie
$74.95 / $67.45 InSight Members
Face Masks
$12 / $10.80 InSight Members
Socks
$24.95 / $22.45 InSight Members
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Braemar House & Gallery
Braemar House is home to the treasured Braemar Gallery, a Council operated community exhibition space for visual artists.
Thu – Sun, 10 am – 4 pm Free admission
See the Cultural Centre website for the latest on Braemar Gallery exhibitions.
Shape-Shifting
16 Mar – 9 Apr
Peta uses papier mache sculpture, mixed media and scrolls to explore shape shifting as a metaphor for physical and psychological change experienced through life cycle changes and illness.
16 Feb – 12 Mar
LOOKOUT encapsulates Jennie’s exploration and rediscovery of the natural landscape of the Blue Mountains from the time of pandemic lockdowns.
Abstraction and Ambiguity
16 Mar – 9 Apr
In Abstraction and Ambiguity, Laurent’s steel sculptures propose multiple possible interpretations – mostly along marine themes. All works are made from recycled steel, some of which has been scavenged from the bushlands of the Blue Mountains.
The Art of Foraging
16 Feb – 12 Mar
Foraging for fragments of the natural world, locally & beyond, is an absorbing activity for Louise and Cathie. Among the items collected are leaves, weeds, seeds, pods, discarded fragments and lifeless insects. These feature as tools for mark-making, dye sources, sculptures or images.
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Jennie Deane LOOKOUT
104 Macquarie Rd, Springwood
Louise Fox and Cathie Cox
Peta Hinton
LAURENT RIVORY Nautica 2021, recycled steel and oak, 56 x 51 x 30 cm.
Laurent Rivory
JENNIE DEANE Evans Looks 2022, acrylic on birchwood board, 30 x 38 cm.
Living in the Lower Blueys
16 Mar – 9 Apr
Betty shares her lived experiences of enjoyable times in the Lower Blue Mountains. Her painting style is described as naïve, and while depicting a good natured scene in her paintings, she creates a new perspective by distorting proportion.
11 May – 4 Jun
Wild is an exhibition of paintings that focus on remote landscapes that are visually full of drama and emotion. Frances wants the audience to be able to feel the beauty and awe that you can experience when immersing yourself in such a landscape.
Helen Shields
Trove – that which connects
11 May – 4 Jun
Trove – that which connects is a series of mixed media works on paper consisting of groupings of the artist’s letters, invitations, cards, photocopies, photographs and recent drawings.
Shadows and Light
11 May – 4 Jun
Shadows and Light represents responses to the terrain in different media including hand printed linocuts, oil paintings, mixed media and collage combining linocuts and photographs of bush textures.
Tipping Points
8 Jun – 2 Jul
This group exhibition serves as a reflection on climate emotions through visual arts. Each of these artists lived through the Black Summer and many serve as practicing psychologists and/or art therapists in this community. As a group they aim to represent the subtle difference between affect and emotion.
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FRANCES FEASEY Fedder 2023, acrylic on board, 30 x 30 cm.
Betty Smith
Ann Babinard
Frances Feasey Wild
Paul Rhodes, Annette Coulter, Jo Davies, Clare Delaney, Tim Newman and Martin Roberts
BETTY SMITH Family Frolics at Faulconbridge 2022, acrylic paint on canvas, 30.5 x 40.5 cm.
The Upstairs Gallery
The Upstairs Gallery is a new display space in Springwood, showcasing our vibrant Arts community with regularly changing exhibitions from Blue Mountains visual artists.
Level 1, Blue Mountains Theatre and Community Hub
9 am – 5 pm Monday to Friday, and when theatre is open
Adam Wolnicki: Tales of the City
21 Mar – 2 May
Adam’s latest project is a collage of blurry silhouettes, people in the distorted environment, radiating vibes, colours and shapes which represent their unique ways of living and personality. Their lives captured in the decisive moments, stripped of details and personal information, converted into intriguing emotional images, transformed and enhanced, creating a story: The Tales of the City. Adam is aware of the impact and relation humans have with their building environment. In his photos he wants to show the complexity of this process and the ways it effects our lives.
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ADAM WOLNICKI Please sir I want some more 2020, digital photograph printed on Canson Infinity Rag Photographique 310gsm paper, 29 x 36 cm.
ADMISSION:
Adults: $5.50
Australian concession card holders: $3.20
InSight Members: Free
Children under 16: Free
Your admission ticket allows entry to our permanent exhibition Into the Blue and the Blue Mountains City Art Gallery
We thank the dedicated volunteers at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre who provide valuable support to staff and visitors.
OPENING HOURS:
Monday – Friday: 10 am – 5 pm
Saturday + Sunday: 10 am – 4 pm
Closed public holidays
The Gallery Café opens 9.30 am weekdays. Café closed public holidays
BLUE MOUNTAINS CULTURAL CENTRE: Level 1, 30 Parke St Katoomba 02 4780 5410
info@bluemountainsculturalcentre.com.au bluemountainsculturalcentre.com.au
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