The inaugural South West Biennial 2026: Tracework exhibition, centred at the Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, extends across to the six partner venues throughout the south western regions of Australia. Conceived as both a cartography and a crossroads, the Biennial functions as a mapping of the region’s creative landscape and a meeting point where local and visiting artists intersect.
Published 23 March 2026
Encouraging visitors to explore the visible and invisible threads that bind the region together, BRAG partners with Albany Town Hall, Arts Narrogin, Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix, Margaret River HeART, Southern Forest Arts and Vancouver Arts Centre.
Holmes à Court Gallery at Vasse Felix Winery, Margaret River
3 April – 28 June 2026
Time to Burn
Curated by Christine Gregory, artists explore the issue of forest management, particularly the current practice of aerial prescribed burning, within the Great Southern and South Western Regions. The exhibition aims to promote a positive shift in the approach to fire management and bring awareness to the irreversible damage that current practices are creating.
| Opening event: | Sunday, 12 April 2026 |
| Location: | Tom Cullity Dr & Caves Rd | Cowaramup WA |
| Website: | holmesacourtgallery.com.au/exhibition/time-to-burn |
Margaret River HEART
28 May - 28 June 2026
The Memory of Trees
Heloise Roberts and Moira Fearby will exhibit in the HEART’s Mezzanine Gallery. A series of collaborative landscapes that evoke notions of memory and sense of place. The artworks are crafted on drawn and painted wood tiles, using drawing and painting to represent the ever-changing nature of the environment.
| Opening event: | Thursday, 4 June 2026 |
| Location: | 47 Wallcliffe Rd | Margaret River WA |
| Website: | artsmargaretriver.com/event/the-memory-of-trees |
Vancouver Arts Centre
12 May – 19 June 2026
An exhibition in the main gallery will be shown as a ‘works in progress’ exhibition with individual studios and artists invited to work from the gallery and share their work processes with our audience. Thematically, it will be an extension of the artists' works in the BRAG exhibition.
Albany Town Hall
11 November 2026 – 12 January 2027
BRAG Meets Albany
The completed presentation of the artworks from the ‘works in progress’ exhibition at Vancouver Arts Centre. Featuring artists from the Great Southern & collaborators: Sam Dennison, Margaret Sanders,
Marcia Leonard, Rachel Falls Williams, Elisa Markes-Young, Ruth Halbert, and Melissa Boughey.
Arts Narrogin
11 April – 2 May 2026
The Spaces Between
This solo exhibition by artist Nichole Lubcke engages with labour, materiality, and feminine identity through ceramics and paint-based works.
| Location: | Park St & Fairway St | Narrogin WA |
| Website: | artsnarrogin.com.au/exhibitions |
Southern Forest Arts
15 May - 28 June
Remnants
Solo exhibition by Marcia Leonard in the Painted Tree Gallery.
Holmes à Court Gallery
8 August – 5 September 2026
A survey exhibition showcasing works by 28 artists from Australia’s southwestern regions. The exhibition broadly explores the notion of the trace - a line drawn across paper, the press of a fingertip into clay, the imprint of one life upon another - a record of contact, memory, and care. With Bunbury at its epicenter, these connections ripple outward throughout the regions. This exhibition will tour to Holmes à Court after the exhibition at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery.
