Acquisitions

Every year the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Fine Art Collection grows through donations and purchases. Our most recent acquisitions include works by: Vicky Browne, Bette Mifsud, Peachey & Mosig, Michael Shirley, Anne Smith, and Leanne Tobin.

IMAGE: ANNE SMITH Artist’s Garden, The Barbeque (Wentworth Falls) 1997, coloured etching, 20 x 25 cm. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Anne Smith 2023

There will be an exhibition of ‘New Acquisitions’ at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre from the 19th October, which will include Anne’s work.

The Cultural Centre is at 30 Parke Street, Katoomba. Hours are 10am to 5pm weekdays, 10am to 4pm weekends.

**Nathalie Hartog-Gautier**, *Looking for Paradise*, 2021, 12 books, unique state.

The twelve books comprising Nathalie’s work Looking for Paradise have been purchased by the State Library of NSW and should be available for viewing next year.

Congratulations, Nathalie.

This work looks at past and present policies that different governments instigated to help or deny entry to people in need of a ‘Safe Haven’.
This project is a reminder of Australia’s responsibility as a first signatory of the United Nation Human Rights Charter.
Over 12 books, Nathalie brings the stories of these refugees, often relegated to the margins of society, to the centre of the page.
The books are presented in a barbed wire cage alluding to the restrictive movements imposed on refugees.
In parallel to the fate of many refugees, drawings of the Australian bush and botanical specimens are referencing the First Nation people often equally displaced from their lands.

Anne Smith’s work acquired by Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Nathalie Hartog-Gautier’s work acquired.