Mr Baillieu said the exhibition cemented the gallery’s role as the leading regional arts institution ... After Ballarat, the exhibition will travel to the Newcastle Art Gallery, which has ...

THE Art Gallery of Ballarat is the exclusive Victorian venue for the touring exhibition of the 2016 Archibald Prize. Two Leader readers have won major Ballarat getaway prizes and 34 readers have ...

John Balderston was a fifth-generation Scottish baker who arrived in Ballarat in 1851. On a rise by the diggings he set up the first bakery and sold bread and mince pies to hungry miners.