Two unique and exciting exhibitions run from Thursday 5 January  - Sunday 12 February 2012

Gradation - inks, oils and watercolours

by Chris Fletcher

Artwork: 10 Mile Creek by Chris Fletcher

"It is my hope that people who view my paintings are able to share in the serenity that I experience creating them."

Form Fire and Fruition

by Master Potter Geoff Crispin

Form Fire and Fruition Geoff Crispin: a regional practice in clay examines the interactions between an artist and local and remote communities with in Australia and overseas.

Form Fire and Fruition,  is a Grafton Regional Gallery touring exhibition that is supported by Visions of Australia, the Gordon Darling Foundation and Arts NSW. 

Gallery Opening Hours:

10am - 4pm Tues to Fri • closed Mondays
10am - 1pm weekends
Weeroona Park, corner Lock and Marsh Streets, Stanthorpe

free admission, a $2 donation is appreciated

Previous Exhibitions from 21 April 2011

17 November - 1 January 2012

Cory Rossiter - Up close and Very Personal

Self Portrait

Up close and Very Personal is a collection of extraordinary portraits of some of  Stanthorpe's characters.  Quirky and confronting, these photographs by Cory Rossiter are refreshing in a world where image is often everything.  

You have seen these faces.  You may not have seen this side of their soul .....

6 October - 13 November 2011

QUILT! curated by Barbara Macey and Glenys Mann PLUS Of the Land by Judy Wilford

QUILT! This exhibition of contemporary art quilts by internationally respected Australian artists gives the viewer a glimpse into their personal worlds. Their works incorporate new practices, but also refer to time-honoured quiltmaking traditions, extended and interpreted in a host of new ways. The result is a body of unique and striking works that incorporate a variety of concepts relevant to the life and time of each artist.

Judy Wilford - Of the Land

Judy references the natural world in its many and varied aspects: from the wide scale landscape to the intimacy of the habitats of birds and small animals as well as the minute patterns and elements of nature.

25 August - 2 October 2011

State of Flux - Borderline Arts Association Inc

The members of Borderline Arts association Inc. have taken up the challenge of addressing the fascinating theme of ‘Flux’. This exhibition incorporates many mediums and strands of interpretation, and invites the viewer to explore their own response to their inner most  feelings about a world of accelerating change.

14 July - 21 August 2011

Gaye-Deanne Fraser - Small Offerings, Tiny Treasures

Ron McBurnie - Metal as Anything

2 June - 10 July 2011

Tom Spence - Recent Drawings of the Inner and Outer Landscapes

Evan Hollis - Views from the Saddle

Evan Hollis, Great Ocean Road - Lorne, 2010, Hard Ground Etching on Rag Paper

This body of work is an exploration of the feelings of independance, isolation, revelation, transience, serendipity, exhaustion, enlightenment, sometimes despair but overall a sensation of fulfilment. Evan shares with the viewer some of the amazing experiences only possible when touring across country on a motorcycle. Printmaking techniques are such an involved method of image making, they suit this kind of narrative perfectly!

21 April - 29 May 2011

Liz Powell - Armchair Traveller

Liz Powell, Aunty Ol' Goes Abroad

Dealing with journeys of the imagination as well as the physicality of travel, Liz Powell’s “Armchair Travel” examines how different peoples layer the landscape and interact with it, often dragging their cultural expectations with them. Her recent works have focused on the varied navigational and mapping vehicles employed by dissimilar groups and how these reflect cultural paradigms. Using whatever techniques and media she feels are necessary for the transmission of her ideas, Powell creates works ranging in scale from wall sized installations to palm sized, hand-bound books and 3D forms.

Allan English, Lois Strickland & Norman Clayton - With a  Little Help From My Friends

Norman Clayton, Sands of Time

These three artists have compiled a display of locally inspired subjects, using various mediums, and combining influences from their countries of origin, i.e. England, Australia and New Zealand. Their exhibition is the result of many happy hours spent together exchanging ideas and knowledge, searching for, and discovering, subject matter and painting together. They continue to develop their own styles whilst being open to constructive (or otherwise!) mutual feedback. The viewer is invited to judge whether their personal interpretations of the subjects reflect the influences of the individuals artist’ homelands.

The Stanthorpe Pottery Club - Towers Teapots and Fire

Tall piece Peaceful Abode, Dianne Whitford
Mountain Retreat, Trish Crampton

Under the guidance of the award-winning, accomplished tutor, Suvira McDonald, members of the Stanthorpe Pottery Club held a seven day workshop with the aim of making creative works to be exhibited in the Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Upon completion, the goal was to fire the works in club's wood-fired and gas kilns, in order to become more familiar with the intricacies of these firing processes. The members benefited from Suvira’s expertise and will continue to explore his techniques. The club members are proud to be exhibiting their efforts

Nadia Kliendanze and Neville Field - Bucolic Extant

Neville Field, Asplenium Australasicum, 2010, Oil on canvas

This point exhibition by Kliendanze and Field explores the Australian landscape in ways which reflect each artist’s view of the art of landscape and traditions. Kliendanze’s detailed work comprises many layers which demand close inspection in order to engage with the imagery. She combines material from several sources to create new images which blur the perceptions of the read and the imagined. Field’s many years spent in the Northern Territory, learning from indigenous ways of seeing and respecting the land, influenced his development as an artist and print-maker. His works are a personal response to those few largely-unshaped areas of land which remain.