We have now filled our exhibition program for 2025.
A gallery as part of a garden centre is a great way to bring art, and individually crafted products to a wide range of people who would not normally visit an art gallery, as well as giving local artists an outlet for their products.
We want to know your ideas for an interesting exhibition in this space, and also new art and craftwork for our gallery and shop in the leadup to Christmas.
Proposals due by end of August 2024
Ceramics by Jack Latti, Naoko Coghlan, Helen Sparrow, Manuela Bortot
As well as the changing exhibitions in the Bolin Bolin Gallery you can find a lot of art and handcrafted works throughout Bulleen Art & Garden, 
28th November to 26th January.
We have set up our Summer/Christmas exhibition, filling the Bolin Bolin Gallery (and the Garden Gallery and shop) with lots of new work from some of our favourite artists and also some new artists.
Pottery and sculpture for the garden in clay and copper by the Yow Yow Sisters.
Andrea Tilley, Sue McCormick and Sharon Edwards
28th Sept. To 21 Oct. 2019
An exhibition by The Hills Ceramic ArtistsBabette Bruders; Amanda Christians; Glenn England; Lee Goller; Claire Johnson, Lynne Lindsay; Heather Thomas; Jenny Rowe; Sharon Twining; Juliet Widdows.
28th June to 11th August 2019
Exhibition Opening: 2-4pm Saturday 29th June 2019
The exhibition ‘Seasoned’ contemplates the turning of nature’s seasons: - from winter’s scarcity and the budding enthusiasm of spring, to summers lazy heat and autumnal festivity.
7th to 23rd June 2019
We’ve got a very creative, as well as capable team at Bulleen Art & Garden. This exhibition showcases their talents in areas we nay not have been aware of. 
"Metal Transformations"
An Australian themed art exhibition by Darren Gilbert of new black ink artwork and rusty metal sculptures.
26th October to 18th November
Bolin Bolin Gallery at Bulleen Art & Garden
6 Manningham Rd W., Bulleen. 88503030.
Sculpture by Melissa Thomas
25th September until 21st October 2018.
An exhibition of sculptural and functional wood by Andrew Potocnik
9th March to 8th April Exhibition Opening 6-8pm Thursday 8th March Andrew is a local artist who uses various techniques such as turning, carving and meticulously applying interesting surface treatments to recycled wood to create his art.
BAAG'S 50thBirthday Party, Sculpture Garden Launch and Exhibition Opening were all celebrated on Thursday 30th November 2017 with Drinks, music, nibbles, speeches, stories and birthday cake.
There is a new sculpture Garden outside the Garden Gallery (the old gallery), and also bordered by the sculpted front fence. This is an outdoor space to show garden sculpture to advantage.
The following is the story of the development of this garden so far.
Neen Arthur works with wire to weave her sculptures and wall hangings, often giving written messages, usually about creativity and love in the natural world.
“Classroom Creative”
– an exhibition of works by participants in the BAAG art workshops and their teachers
14th July to 14th August 2017
Art Afternoon in the gallery 2-4pm Sunday 31st July 2017
19 May to 9 July
An Exhibition of
Paintings and Glass by
Jennie Williams Culic
14 April to 14May
"Meet the Artists" Saturday 22nd April 3-5pm
Over recent years I have developed a love of pottering in the garden. Although not a spectacular green thumb the garden continuously evolves and includes a variety of small statues, sculptures by other artisans and a couple of old sculptures I created in years gone by. It has become a sanctuary – a place where I lose myself in the moment – clear my head.
Make sure you look up next time you are walking in to Bulleen Art & Garden.
The second installment of “Still Life with Fruit” by Lachlan Plain www.lachlanplain.com has now been installed in large baskets clustered around the Bulleen Art & Garden sign.
This exhibition focusses on succulents. Metal sculptures enhance our conceptual ideas of these interesting plants and oil paintings express the textures and colours of the beautiful succulents that give us so much joy.
A joint exhibition by two makers: Lene Kuhl Jakobsen & Andrew Potocnik
24 March-24 April 2016
We opened our brand new gallery on August the 13th 2015 and at the same time we celebrated the Bolin Bolin's gallery 20th Birthday.
In 1995, at the urging of urged by staff member, Claire Nailer we decided to set up a gallery.Now, 20 years later we are moving and upgrading our exhibition space.
10 April to 23 May, 2015
Justin Purser was commissioned to produce some exciting new signage for the front. He has made large, decorative individually hand-crafted metal lettering which make up the Bulleen Art & Garden sign over the shop entrance.
Make a traditional melon basket.
Bookings at https://weteachme.com/bulleenartandgarden/melon-baskets-workshop
An artwork which celebrates homegrown local food and is a visual testament to BAAG's commitment to food gardening. The sculpture, Still Life with Fruit by sculptor, painter, award winning author and puppeteer Lachlan Plain, www.lachlanplain.coml. At ten times the fruit's original size this fibre glass sculpture towers over the entrance of Bulleen Art & Garden.
"Still Life with Fruit "
5.30 to 7.30pm, Thursday 18th September, 2014
Homegrown food and art both feature prominently at Bulleen Art & Garden. See what can happen when they collide. The sculpture, Still Life with Fruit by Lachlan Plain, is a painterly rendition of the food gardener’s fruit bowl. At ten times the fruit’s original size this fibre glass sculpture will tower over the entrance of Bulleen Art & Garden, testament to BAAG’s commitment to food gardening.
We have gathered an interesting selection of ceramic and metal sculpture, mosaics, ceramics and baskets by a number of our favourite artists.
Artists include Sandra Bain, Mark Cowie, Raine Edwards, Glenn England, Anne-Maree Gentile, Nicola Hoyle, Anne Jackson, Lene Kuhl Jakobsen, Robyn Norris, Meredith Plain, Graham Robertson,Angelique Van Schie, Liz Walker
Limestone sculpture workshops
Jenny takes the limestone sculpture workshops at Bulleen Art & Garden. She is a natural teacher who loves to communicate her passion or sculpture, as well as the techniques needed to carve limestone.
11 October to 5 November, 2013
Next Exhibition
To find out current workshop dates, or to book, click here, or go to https://gallery.baag.com.au/?page_id=
To read more about Jeanette Carter and view some of her work head to https://gallery.baag.com.au/?p=207
A wedge tail eagle, has landed on our habitat tree!
He is looking over the Bulleen Art & Garden from his perch.
I am a Stone Sculptor - 'a carver of stone'
"Beginning with a boulder or a sometimes 'unwilling' lump, I am guided by the colour, texture, shape and size of the raw material . . . . it is my passion to release the form that I see lying hidden within."
- Jenny Whiteside, April 2008
- a collection of works in reclaimed metal and wire, ceramic and silver exploring the significance of birds on the relationship between man and the natural world.
Avis Gardner and Liz Walker
February 15 to March 17
The ambitious 11 x 5m mural by Lachlan Plain tells the story of wily adventurer, Pedro Piscator, whose ship is powered by melody, charting a sonata through the sky and towing a floating island upon which he’s collected the most singular of species, rescued from a sullied Earth.
On Thursday 23rd of February 2012, as part of Melbourne’s Sustainable Living Festival, Bulleen Art & Garden and more than 100 guestscelebrated the Earth’s life support system, ‘Gaia’, in a night of discussion, performance, song and art whilst raising funds for Sustainable Gardening Australia. This was an evening to launch a large new mural and open an exhibition, but included much much more - music, puppets, theatre, speakers, gourmet nibbles, walks and much good cheer!
It was a perfect evening - Gaia was certainly smiling apon us!
These workshops will teach you how to make baskets using a variety of traditional different techniques. You will also Learn how to collect fibres, how to store them, dye them and dampen them down for use.Learn what is suitable for weaving and what is not suitable.
The tortoise, oops, turtle has once again found its way to Bulleen Art & Garden, presumably it has wandered up from the river! which watched over the entrance to Bulleen Art & Garden from the direction of the adjoining parklands.
There has been a turtle at this site, next to the park, but the turtle has had another reincarnation, and is now named Rose.
Artist Lachlan Plain, (lachlanplain.com )who has been involved in a lot of the artwork around Bulleen Art & Garden has been busy creating a new turtle, with the help of colleague Colleen Bourke. Rose is a lady turtle with lots of personality. She is now in colour and has been crafted in fibreglass.
Installation was 21st September 2010.
The Raising of Rose
Jeanette has been giving basket workshops at Bulleen Art & Garden for a number of years, as well as selling and exhibiting her work here.
More information on the basket workshops https://gallery.baag.com.au/?p=1564 and free form baskets https://gallery.baag.com.au/?p=1576
CLAY AND FIBRE
I have always been interested in the Visual Arts and enjoyed working in clay and fibre.
I started work in advertising at the age of seventeen and then went on to study two Diplomas at RMIT, one in Graphic Design and the other in Ceramics. I then went to Melbourne State College and completed a Diploma of Education.
Two of the areas I studied which I enjoyed most were textiles and ceramics. Textiles included spinning, weaving, tie dye and batik.
I am currently teaching Ceramics, Drawing and Visual Communication and Design at Eltham High School to levels 7-12.
In 1986 I was awarded a teacher exchange to Pennsylvania USA for a year. It was here that I was introduced to basket weaving- Melon Baskets, Egg Baskets, Potato baskets, Heart shaped Baskets and many other designs.
