PAST PROGRAMS

Featuring energetic highly key coloured explorations made in response to Sidney Nolan’s 1966 Eureka Stockade mural.

This display features a first edition copy of Raffaello Carboni’s self-published book, ‘The Eureka Stockade’, alongside other rarities. During BRHAE Opening Hours: Monday - Thursday 10am - 4.30pm

This display highlights books of poetry and prose from that transitional time by some of Australia’s best loved writers and illustrators. During BRHAE Opening Hours: Monday - Thursday 10am - 4.30pm

Suspended blue aprons enclose and entangle the viewer as a metaphor for the selfless investment of heart and soul by women across time. 

While the world was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Thomas K. Lee worked on a series of cityscape photographs documenting his personal response to life during lockdown.
 

At a distance of more than 30 years, the speed and scale of change in Ballarat East is made apparent in this series of photographs.

Curated by Sara Lindsay, 'Constellation: forming the flag' includes new work by Donna Blackall, Amanda Ho, Sara Lindsay, David Pearce and Gosia Wlodarczak in response to the formal and material qualities of the Flag of the Southern Cross, also known as the Eureka Flag. 

Ballarat has a long history of newspaper publishing, and this display features a selection of Victorian-era titles. 

‘Weaving a New Life’ is an exhibition curated by Sara Lindsay of tapestries by Cha Mai Oo, Mu Naw Poe, Paw Gay Poe and Shuklay Tahpo, from the Karen community of Australia.