The Burra Quilters have 24 members and between them have put together this wonderful exhibition of 50 articles. Their membership range in age from 10 to nearly 80.  The youngest member Stella won first prize in last year’s Festival of Quilts in Adelaide.  It is these precious young people we have to nurture. From hand […]

Launch 2pm Sunday 22 March

Opening 5.30pm Saturday 21 March

All are welcome to attend Burra Gallery’s first exhibition for 2015 – “Artists of Note” – Gerhard Ritter and Alan Ramachandran in the Main Gallery and Annex, and Gerald Moore in the Bence Room. All three are popular and talented “artists of note”, much in demand as teachers of drawing and painting in a diverse range of mediums. To enhance the theme even further, baritone Bruce Donald will perform at the opening at 5.30pm Saturday 14 February.

From Wall to Wall
27 November to 24 December 2014 –

A SALES SPREE OF PRE LOVED WORKS
FROM WALL AND STORE ROOM –
Showing a marvellous mix of 2D image-making techniques, this is a stimulating exhibition and fundraiser for the gallery. When it comes to the point, “the books must balance”. However, this intriguing display of artworks is the best surprise of all.

A WALK AROUND THE GALLERY WITH CARMINE AND BJ Having the two categories – traditional and alternative – presents a judging challenge for works that could belong in either category. As most of the work submitted is traditional, having an alternative prize represents a good opportunity for those entering this category: something for artists to […]

Tough(er) love is not a survey or thematic exhibition of art from Eyre Peninsula. It is the end result of a curatorial process which supported each artist in critiquing and extending their practice. From the perspective of the curator and artists it is this element of critical evaluation and support that mattered above all. – John Neylon

To allude is to make a more or less indirect reference to a person place or event; to connote or hint at an experience. Once alluded the viewer makes their own personal connection generating new meanings, the nature of which cannot be predetermined by the artist. In Allude Janice Lane and Simon Smith explore how […]

Burra Gallery’s On Identity – what makes us tick, what turns us on? The major questions of our time deftly sidestepped with hints, innuendo and supposition by some remarkable artists. Lisa Smedley’s “Bum Titty Bum” is showing in the Annex of Burra Regional Art Gallery, together with Russell Philip’s “By the Side of the Road”. […]

A celebration of women’s creative endeavours
PAINTINGS – PORCELAIN – BASKETRY – STITCHERY – MOSAICS – GIFTS – PHOTOGRAPHY
Beautiful, inspiring, food for thought, one-off art to surprise and delight!