Broken Hill City Art Gallery is thrilled to present three powerful new exhibitions opening Friday 15 August, alongside the 2025 Pro Hart Outback Art Prize. Featuring the work of local artists Aimee Volkofsky and Ann Mitchell, as well as Isabella Seraphima Rose, these exhibitions invite audiences to reflect on memory, environment, and the unseen stories that shape our world.
"These three exhibitions are incredibly diverse in form and subject, yet all share a deep sense of care, for people, place, and the natural world. It's wonderful to see such strong work coming from both local and national artists. This will be a very special opening night."
- Kathy Graham, Gallery and Museum Manager
We Were Women Before Our Time - Aimee Volkofsky
Set against the striking backdrop of Wilyakali Country, this immersive multimedia installation gives voice to generations of women living in and around Broken Hill. Through sound, video, archival material, and diary excerpts spanning over a century, Aimee Volkofsky weaves together a layered portrait of girlhood, feminism, identity, and survival in a remote mining town. The result is a moving chorus, sometimes harmonious, sometimes dissonant, of voices often unheard in the shadow of the slagheap.
Going, Going, Gone - Ann Mitchell
A poignant tribute to endangered and extinct species, this new series of watercolours by Broken Hill artist Ann Mitchell is both beautiful and sobering. Each animal is painted with quiet attention and accompanied by a note on its conservation status, encouraging viewers to reflect on the fragile state of our ecosystems and the urgency of conservation.
Outback Dreamscapes - Isabella Seraphima Rose
Blurring the line between realism and fantasy, Outback Dreamscapes reimagines the colonial terrace house within grand natural landscapes. Echoing early photographic theatre and sublime landscape painting, Isabella Seraphima Rose presents surreal visual contrasts that challenge nostalgia and question the dominance of constructed culture over wild places.
EVENT DETAILS
Join us on opening night from 6pm, Friday 15 August.
Enjoy live music, light refreshments, and bar facilities as we also unveil the 2025 Pro Hart Outback Art Prize exhibition and announce this year's $20,000 winner. All welcome. Free entry.
