Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG)

A: 70-78 Keppel St, Bathurst, NSW Australia

P: +61 2 6333 6555

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) is a modern, celebrated regional art gallery which generates state-of-the-art exhibitions of contemporary art. Built in 1989, it was the first purpose-built regional gallery in NSW. It is a well-equipped and professionally staffed facility owned and operated by Bathurst Regional Council.

BRAG is a creator of quality in-house and touring exhibitions and operates the nationally renowned Hill End Artists in Residence Program.

From 1955, the BRAG collection has grown to include more than 2,000 works in a wide variety of media and is valued at more than $11.5 million. The collection features paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs and ceramics by 400 Australian artists, including significant works by artists such as Jean Bellette, James Gleeson, John Olsen, Lloyd Rees, Grace Cossington Smith and Fred Williams.

Collection strengths include post-1950s Australian art; the Lloyd Rees collection; Artists of Hill End 1945 to present; Australian studio ceramics and small sculptures.

The Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Society, affectionately known as BRAGS, aims to foster, promote and encourage membership of the gallery and to further the development of the arts in Bathurst. The Society provides valuable assistance in the acquisition of new works for the collection.
Members receive a discount at the gallery shop, invitations to all BRAG events and discounts for workshops. New members are always welcome.

The current membership pricing is: Individual $20, Family/Household $25, Corporate $35, Concession $15.

FACILITIES

Free guided tours
Gallery shop
Library
Onsite parking
Wheelchair access
Workshops & classes

FEATURED STORIES AND EXHIBITIONS

Heather Dunn: Found

June 30, 2026

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) presents Found by Heather Dunn in the Foyer Gallery. Found is less about the act of physically collecting objects and more about observation and presence within a landscape. A road trip in 2025 across the Nullarbor and through the outback of South Australia during one of the region’s most severe droughts in recent history formed the basis for the imagery in this body of work. Australia’s vastness is central to the experience: immense skies, cathedral-like quiet punctuated by birdsong, stark light and the beauty of the gloaming. The fragments of wire used in this exhibition were largely gathered from areas of abandoned settler infrastructure. Colonial expansion into the marginal rangelands and semi-arid regions of South Australia produced cycles of boom-and-bust exploitation of the land, leaving visible traces across the landscape. Ruined towns, farm complexes and transport infrastructure remain scattered across the Flinders Ranges, often well beyond the 300 mm rainfall line. Many of these developments emerged from speculative attempts to profit from the occasional favourable season, resulting in the occupation and transformation of unceded land. Even Wilpena Pound was not immune to this extractive approach, having been cropped for wheat for several seasons during the nineteenth century. Within this context, the small fragments and found materials in Found evoke vast and empty vistas, reflecting on the indifference of the natural world to human ambition and the marks left by settlement.

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG)

FEATURED STORIES AND EXHIBITIONS

Heather Dunn: Found

Elizabeth Day: The Fragility of Goodness: The Prison on the Landscape and Other Stories

Group Exhibition: Dhuluny, the war that never ended

Group Exhibition: A land for the living

Group Exhibition: Conflated

Group Exhibition: Archie 100, A Century of the Archibald Prize

Linda Jackson: Romance of the Swag