Bayside Gallery

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Art Gallery funded by Bayside City Council, Victoria Bayside City Council reserves the right to remove any content at its discretion. Thank you

The Gallery @ BACC, located in the Brighton Town Hall, presents a series of high quality temporary exhibitions, public programs and visual arts events, in both conventional and new media. Supporting the work of local Bayside artists and arts organisations, as well as giving visitors the opportunity to engage with important work by non-local significant and established practitioners, The Gallery pr

ovides a space for people to engage with art at all levels. Open:
Wednesday to Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday & Sunday 1pm - 5pm

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28/08/2026

It is the final weekend to view ‘Max Dupain and Ansel Adams: In search of perfection’ in the only Victorian venue of its national tour. See the work of two of the twentieth century’s most influential photographers before it closes this Sunday 30 August. 👀📷

Max Dupain and Ansel Adams: In search of perfection is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of the Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program.

📅 On display until Sunday 30 August
📍 Bayside Gallery, Brighton
🕰️ Wed–Fri: 11am to 5pm, Sat–Sun: 1pm to 5pm
🔗 Learn more via link in bio

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

[Image credit: ‘Max Dupain and Ansel Adams: In search of
perfection’ 2026, installation view, Bayside Gallery. Photo: Mark
Ashkanasy. Image description: Installation view of framed black and
white photographs in a gallery setting.]

26/08/2026

🎨 Inspired by the practice of 2026 Billilla Studio Artist Eva Stimson Clark, this hands-on workshop invites you to explore the creative potential of recycled materials. Learn simple weaving and stitching techniques to transform cardboard into a vibrant abstract wall hanging while experimenting with colour, pattern and texture.

No prior experience needed, all materials provided.

📅Saturday 12 September
⏰ 10am to 12pm
📍Bayside Gallery, Brighton Town Hall
🔗$20, Suitable for ages 16+. Book here: https://pulse.ly/amg0i2n0yp

[Image credit: provided by the artist. Image description: Abstract artwork made from layered blue, turquoise, green and white rectangular pieces arranged in a textured, grid-like composition on a white gallery wall.]

19/08/2026

‘The practice of portrait photography is probably the most difficult and technically taxing of all the photographies. The sitter can present himself to be photographed with diffidence, indifference or sometimes with a poseur’s blatant openness. Willing or not the photographer’s main problem is one of human relationship and this is his responsibility alone.’ – Max Dupain

See this early portrait by Max Dupain as well as portraiture by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and David Moore in Max Dupain and Ansel Adams: In search of perfection is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of the Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program.

📅 On display until Sunday 30 August
📍 Bayside Gallery, Brighton
🕰️ Wed–Fri: 11am to 5pm, Sat–Sun: 1pm to 5pm
🔗 Learn more here: https://pulse.ly/admnv7iy0d

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

[Image credit: Max Dupain, ‘Portrait of Mrs Ackland’, 1935, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1976. Image description: A black and white photograph of a portrait of a woman in side profile wearing an outfit with a scalloped neckline and with her hair pulled back.]

15/08/2026

FINAL WEEKS! 📢

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to view the remarkable work of two of the twentieth century’s most influential photographers in ‘Max Dupain and Ansel Adams: In search of perfection’ closing Sunday 30 August ✨

Max Dupain and Ansel Adams: In search of perfection is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of the Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program.

📅 On display until Sunday 30 August
📍 Bayside Gallery, Brighton
🕰️ Wed–Fri: 11am to 5pm,
Sat–Sun: 1pm to 5pm
🔗 Learn more here: https://pulse.ly/trhggbd1d4

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

[Image credit: ‘Max Dupain and Ansel Adams: In search of
perfection’ 2026, installation view, Bayside Gallery. Photo: Mark
Ashkanasy. Image description: Installation view of framed black and
white photographs in a gallery setting.]

15/08/2026

👶🎨 Join us for Bayside Art Babies

Bring your little one along for a free weekly adventure of art, music, storytelling and sensory play. Designed for babies aged 0-18 months and their carers, these engaging sessions invite young minds to explore, discover and connect through song, storytelling and activities inspired by our current exhibition, all in a warm and welcoming gallery setting.

✨ Starting Monday 17 August

📅 Weekly on Mondays
⏰9:30am to 10am
📍 Bayside Gallery, corner of Carpenter and Wilson Streets, Brighton
🔗Free event. Learn more here: https://pulse.ly/0uwg0mzfju
👶 Suitable for babies aged 0-18 months

[Image description: A visitor with a pram views a display of framed artworks in a contemporary gallery space.]

14/08/2026

🎞️ See art come alive, frame by frame.

Our next exhibition celebrates hand-made animation by artists considered leaders in the field. Traditional mediums of sculpture, painting, collage and drawing are transformed into inventive and captivating moving image artworks by these award winning artists.

Visually daring, emotive and captivating, the works on display showcase the ingenuity, skill and dedication required by this distinctive, labour-intensive approach to artmaking. Featured artists include Adam Elliot (AUS), Deborah Kelly (AUS), Cat Rabbit (AUS), Allison Schulnik (USA), Tjanpi Desert Weavers (AUS), and Zhang Xu Zhan (TWN).

Still moves: Australian and international animation

📅 5 September to 25 October 2026
📍 Bayside Gallery, Brighton
🕰️ Wed–Fri: 11am to 5pm, Sat–Sun: 1pm to 5pm
🔗 Free entry. Learn more here: https://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/animation

13/08/2026

“There’s this mythic quality to their work. These are the photographs that remind you of being engaged in the world.”

Hear Anne O'Hehir, curator of photography at the National Gallery of Australia, on why the photography of Max Dupain and Ansel Adams remains so immediate, powerful and inspiring decades later.

'Max Dupain and Ansel Adams: In search of perfection' is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of the Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program.

📅On display until 30 August
📍Bayside Gallery, Brighton
🕰️Wed–Fri: 11am–5pm | Sat–Sun: 1pm–5pm
🔗Learn more via the link in bio

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

[Reel description: A video of a woman in an art gallery standing in front of and discussing photography]

11/08/2026

Writing in 1975 about this image for Dupain’s retrospective at the Australian Centre for Photography, fellow photographer David Moore, who had worked with Dupain in the late 1940s, saw it as a turning point in Dupain’s career, believing that here ‘his awareness of the strength of industrial forms was confirmed with confident authority … From this moment any return to sentimental Pictorialism was precluded’.

See this photograph and more in Max Dupain and Ansel Adams: In search of perfection is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of the Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program.

📅 On display until Sunday 30 August
📍 Bayside Gallery, Brighton
🕰️ Wed–Fri: 11am to 5pm, Sat–Sun: 1pm to 5pm
🔗 Learn more via link in bio

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

[Image one credit: Max Dupain and Ansel Adams: In search of perfection installation view, Bayside Gallery 2026. Image two credit: Max Dupain, ‘Pyrmont silos’ 1935, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1976. Image one description: A woman looking at framed black and white photographs in an art gallery. Image two description: A black and white photograph of a low viewpoint capturing the strong geometric lines and shadows of silos against a cloudless sky.]

04/08/2026

“For many of these works, this is the first time they’ve been shown.” – Anne O’Hehir

Curator Anne O’Hehir takes us inside 'Max Dupain and Ansel Adams: In search of perfection'📸

Featuring rarely seen works and photographs by early pictorialists, the exhibition explores the compelling relationship between Max Dupain's architectural photographs and Ansel Adams' iconic landscapes. As Anne O’Hehir puts it, the photographs are “having a lovely time talking to each other”.

Max Dupain and Ansel Adams: In search of perfection is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of the Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program.

📅 On display until 30 August
📍Bayside Gallery, Brighton
🕰️ Wed–Fri: 11am–5pm | Sat–Sun: 1pm–5pm
🔗Learn more: https://pulse.ly/dqsjpqwhsw

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

[Reel description: A video of a woman in an art gallery standing in front of and discussing photography]

02/08/2026

‘It was a simple affair. We were camping down the south coast and one of my friends leapt out of the surf and slammed down onto the beach to have a sunbake—marvellous. We made the image and it’s been around, I suppose as a sort of icon of the Australian way of life.’ – Max Dupain

See the iconic photograph ‘Sunbaker’ by Max Dupain and other remarkable works in Max Dupain and Ansel Adams: In search of perfection is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of the Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program.

📅 On display until Sunday 30 August
📍 Bayside Gallery, Brighton
🕰️ Wed–Fri: 11am to 5pm, Sat–Sun: 1pm to 5pm
🔗 Learn more via link in bio

[Image one credit: Max Dupain, ‘Sunbaker’, c. 1938 printed c. 1975, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, gift of the Phillip Morris Arts Grant 1982. Image two credit: Max Dupain and Ansel Adams: In search of perfection installation view, Bayside Gallery 2026. Image one description: A black and white photograph of a view of the head and shoulders of a person laying on the beach. Image two description: A photo of 2 people looking at black and white photographs in an art gallery.]

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