South West Biennial

Bunbury Regional Art Gallery proudly presents South West Biennial 2026: Tracework, a landmark new exhibition that positions the South West as a vital centre for contemporary art.

Anchored at BRAG and extending across six partner venues throughout the regions, the Biennial invites audiences to move through a connected cultural landscape shaped by place, memory and making. Conceived as both a map and a meeting point, Tracework brings together artists from across Australia’s south-western regions alongside nationally and internationally recognised practitioners. The exhibition explores the idea of the trace — as mark, imprint, memory and connection — revealing how every creative gesture carries evidence of encounter: between artist and material, people and place, past and present.

With BRAG at its epicentre, these connections ripple outward throughout the regions – between communities, generations, and their environments. Tracework encourages visitors to explore the visible and invisible threads that bind the region together.   Curated by Dr Michael Bianco and Dionne Hooyberg, the Biennial includes a major survey of works by 28 regional artists, alongside solo and collaborative projects by Jacobus Capone, Olga Cironis, Amber Cronin and Tom Borgas, Sharyn Egan, and Andy Quilty. 

As part of the Biennial and as one of six partnering venues, Margaret River HEART – Nala Bardip Mia will showcase works by Heloise Roberts and Moira Fearby from 28 May to 28 June 2026. Experience a series of collaborative landscapes that evoke notions of memory and sense of place. The artwork is crafted on drawn and painted wood tiles, using drawing and painting to represent the ever-changing nature of the environment.