Trowbridge Gallery was established in 1982 and is the only antique print Gallery in Western Australia. The Gallery specialises in selling original prints from the 17th to 20th century. Subject areas are wide and varied including early maps, charts and prints of Western Australia, flora and fauna including ‘The Birds of Australia’ and ‘The Mammals of Australia’ by John Gould, architecture, legal, medical, musical, sporting and decorative prints to name a few.
The Gallery is owned by Steven Marcuson who scours Europe searching out these old works on paper whilst keeping up with any new advances in conservation framing.
Trowbridge Gallery also has its own workshop specialising in conservation framing and is a Government Preferred Provider.
Our Team
Steven Marcuson
Owner
Steven was born in Glasgow, Scotland and came to Australia in 1983 while still in his early twenties. The business was established later that year in Old Theatre Lane, Claremont. Over the next few years the business grew and in 1989 moved into its present premises. Steven’s passion is history so searching out of old maps, charts and rare lithographs is, for him, the best job in the world. In 2016 Steven’s first novel The Bunting Quest was published by Hybrid Publishers in Melbourne and reprinted the following year.
Bronwyn Maurice
Gallery Director
Bronwyn was born in Perth, Western Australia. She spent her twenties and early thirties in London and New York working with interior designers advising them on art and framing. Returning to Perth in 1995 she joined Steven as the Artistic Director of the Gallery. Her creative insight led the Gallery into the design space adding to its historical antique base. With Bronwyn’s guidance the Gallery’s reputation for quality framing and presentation is unsurpassed in Perth.
Chris
Whittle
Master Framer
Chris Whittle joined Steven in 1990. Chris was trained as a picture framer by his father, the legendary Bert Whittle. Chris’s expertise in the craft of bespoke framing has spread far and wide guaranteeing a constantly busy workshop. Whether it is a rare oil, watercolour or a simple degree or map, clients to the Gallery are well served by this Master Framer.