During exhibitions the gallery is open daily from 10am - 4pm
CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
iava - the whimsical echoes of nature
Thursday 22 May - Tuesday 3 June
Opening Saturday 24 May at 2pm
Margaret Dubowski
Joan Harvey
Whimsical Echoes of Nature’ showcases a wide range of paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings inspired by the natural world. Based in the Illawarra and far South Coast, the exhibiting artists have used their chosen mediums to produce expressive, visually rich and diverse art works. The exhibition will take you on a journey across various environments in both abstraction and realistic viewpoints. In collaboration, we share with viewers a celebration of creativity and contemporary art at its very best.
The established exhibitors are also well-respected members of The Illawarra Association for the Visual Arts (IAVA), whose aim since 2011 is to cultivate and promote outstanding contemporary visual art.
Everyone welcome!
artworks by pigment artists
Thursday 5 June - Tuesday 10 June
Opening Saturday 7 at 2pm
“Art works (previously known as Pigments) is a group of artists who have met weekly for over 20 years to share their love of painting no matter the style, medium or subject. This group has exhibited their annual work, (enhanced by the knowledge of various tutors throughout the year) over the long weekend in June and is an eclectic and colourful collection not to be missed.”
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Come along and see for yourself.
Opening with the artists Saturday 7 June at 3pm
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Everyone Welcome!
waterbrook drawing prize
Saturday 14 June - Sunday 29 June
Opening Friday 13 June at 6pm
Winner 2024 Sue Meredith
All That's Left
Commended Fiona Fudge
Texting with Brandywine
The Waterbrook Drawing Prize is a bi-annual exhibition generously sponsored by Waterbrook Bowral. This exhibition is open to all artists, local and interstate to exhibit drawings of various interpretations, styles and mediums. Without fail, this is an outstanding exhibition of high quality and varied works. Works on show vary from hyper realist styles which are mind bogglingly accurate to wildly abstract and everything in-between…
The judge for 2025 is practising artist, Noel Thurgate and curator Kim Shannon. Noel will have the challenging task of selecting the finalists and prize winners.
Visitors to the exhibition will have the opportunity to select their People’s Choice Award. This award has been kindly donated by Frame Today in Mittagong.
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Come and see the work for yourself and see if you agree with the judge’s choices. Remember to cast your People’s Choice.
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Official Opening & Prize Presentation Friday 13 at 6pm.
Everyone welcome and entry to the exhibition is free.
home and away
by ian fleming
Thursday 3 - Tuesday 15 July
Opening Saturday 5 July at 3pm
Bridge
Japan
"The exhibition title is a play on the fact that the works exhibited span a range of styles and approaches, suggesting the work of a variety of different artists, when in fact, as a full-time rural artist, I have no friends – it’s all me. This also challenges the demand for a contemporary artist to have a trademark style and cohesive portfolio.
This Exhibition is a culmination of two plus years work and reflects many stylistic experiments and aesthetic moods. My art is very largely aesthetically and technically focused as is opposed to being concept driven. The primary focus is on traditional representational oil paintings responding to my love for the countryside around my home near Gundaroo outside of Canberra.
In recent years I have had the opportunity to enjoy the aesthetics and ambiences of Europe and Asia. Drawing on these overseas wanderings has become another focus for my art and this exhibition includes various scenes from trips to Europe, Taiwan and Japan as well as some taken from old polaroid style photographs of my parents’ trips abroad.
A fair bit of my time is spent in Canberra, stimulating some more whimsical, more introspective experimental paintings. Some of these are less representational whilst others are dabbling in Fauvism to make up for the lack of playfulness in Canberra's aesthetic". Ian Fleming
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Opening Saturday 5 July at 3pm
Entry is free and everyone is welcome.
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pulse
lucinda mcdonald
Thursday 17 - Tuesday 22 July
Opening Saturday 19 July at 4pm
Snug
Dance of the Misfits
England Born Artist Lucinda McDonald`s abstract, experimental sculptures continually strive to create balanced, playful compositions. Constructing sculptures from offcuts and discarded pieces of steel. She works principally with recycled steel or found objects with an acute appreciation of revitalising existing forms, pushing the medium creating surfaces & compositions that belie the material.
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Expanding her process to include collage and painting, McDonald utilises a broad aesthetic approach to composition across disciplines and dimensions. Organic in her process, Lucinda subconsciously draws on her past with a childhood spent in South Africa and then returning to the UK attending the Chelsea School of Art and Design and then going on to work as a welder for fabrication companies in London. She moved to Australia in 2000. Her cultural heritage is integral to her work.
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Seven years since her last solo exhibition at Bowral Art Gallery, PULSE is about the rhythm of creation. The energy that shifts between past and present works.
PULSE is the dialogue between older and newer works and potentially how the rhythm changes over time.
The tension between stillness and motion and the echo of past and present.
Step inside and feel the pulse…
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Opening with Lucinda and friends on Saturday 19 July at 4pm.
Everyone welcome!
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Thank you to our generous 2025 Sponsors
