Tracing traces in the South West Biennial, 2026
On a dreary Sunday, I made my way down on the ever-reliable Transwa Australind coach service to Bunbury, a southwest port city, to visit the Bunbury Regional Art Gallery (BRAG). The Gallery is housed within a distinctively pink heritage building, which was first home to a Convent of Mercy in the late nineteenth century, before serving a civic function as an art gallery from 1987. In the same way that Bunbury acts as a service and infrastructural hub to other regional spokes (evidenced by a strip of big box hardware, supply and service outlets littered along the otherwise charming road into the town), BRAG is inarguably central to the network of southwest culture.
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