The Rosemaur project exists with thanks to a generous donor who wishes to gift a significant collection of international art to a charitable Australian organisation to be viewed in perpetuity by the public. This purpose-designed facility has been crafted carefully to respond to the collection and the picturesque setting.

‘A strong incentive of opening a private museum is the owner’s wish to provide an alternative to the institutional setting’ Victoria Newhouse, Towards A New Museum.

Indeed, Rosemaur visitors will be treated to an exceptional whole-of-site experience that begins with sweeping views across foothills and to the distant coastline. The buildings have been designed in sympathy with the landscape and cascade lightly down its falling terrain.

Copper sheet is manipulated to create a textured ‘impasto’ façade that will weather with the seasons and over time. Three main wings make up the visible geometry and each has a distinct role; display, care and host. A large flexible exhibition space, intended for travelling shows is submerged beneath a green roof that lines the gallery entry court.

Rosemaur gallery has been designed to invoke a sense of discovery and curiosity; one can journey through the landscape, stopping by the large bird sanctuary, view masterpieces from a unique collection, encounter an exciting travelling show, discover a new artist-in-residence and enjoy hospitality from a perched restaurant across this sprawling estate.

Influenced by land art of the 1960’s and 70s, the Rosemaur buildings embed themselves into ground and use their volumes to draw attention to the contextual landscape qualities.

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