BORDERLINE EXHIBITIONS 2025 :

“Borderline at SRAG” at Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery – our major biennielle exhibition : 1st of May – 22nd of June

“Borderline at the Richard Randall Studio Gallery” at Mt Cootha Brisbane 31th July – 3rd August

“Borderline at Texas Regional Art Gallery” : 2nd of August – 12th of September

“Borderline at Ceramic Break Sculpture Park” at Warialda Sept 4th – Oct 12th

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2025 WORKSHOP SERIES “REGENERATION REIMAGINE RENEW”

applications are now open!

Acrylic Painting with Lizzie Connor – visiting tutor from Gympie, at Tenterfield Railway Museum : March 8th & 9th

Figurative Animals in Ceramics with Lyndell Pteresen – visiting tutor from Brisbane at Stanthorpe Pottery Club : May 17th & 18th

Figurative Sculpture in Fibre with Dr Jean Bennett – visiting tutor from Malany at Wallangarra School of Arts: July 5th & 6th

Etching with Aluminium with Lizzie Connor – visiting tutor from Armidale at Wallangarra School of Arts : October 11th & 12th

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BORDERLINE 2026 EXHIBITIONS EMERGING FROM OUR WORKSHOP SERIES “REGENERATION REIMAGINE RENEW” :

Gunnedah Bicentennial Creative Arts Gallery March 27 – April 30

ACS Gallery Tenterfield June (with dates to be confirmed)

Surat on Balonne Gallery September – October (with dates to be confirmed)

We Still Have 2 Spots Left In One Of Our Upcoming Workshops – Is It Yours?

EVERYDAY NATURE SKETCHBOOKS – with Deb Mostert

September 2-3, 2023. Girraween National Park. 10am start

$220 for members, $255 for non-members (this included a $35 membership fee). Limit 10

This course will involve getting into a daily habit of nature drawing in the context of a sketchbook. With a simple kit of materials, you can carry everywhere, you will discover that you can be opportunistic about drawing from the natural world, and this can help get us into daily creative habits of observation, discovery and wonder.

We will explore the use of sketchbooks as an incubator, a sentimental keepsake, a mind clearer, a list holder, an idea launcher, a best friend, a personal, intimate, and honest playground. We will discover that we CAN draw and that any time is a good time to build our creative habits!

Deb holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Qld College of Art and has had 18 solo shows and been involved in more than 70 group shows in both regional and commercial galleries. She has won several prizes and been a finalist in many National art prizes including the Bale Painting Prize, the Salon de Refuses, Jacaranda Drawing Prize, and Marie Ellis Prize for Drawing.

She has over 18 years of teaching experience with workshops and artist-in-residencies. Deb is committed to a daily sketchbook practice and loves to share the potential that is within everyone to carry a sketchbook and use it to record life.

Contact Sue Jurd sjurd@halenet.com.au

BORDERLINE WORKSHOPS FOR 2023

• EXPERIMENTAL FELTMAKING – with Sheryl Wright

July 1-2, at the Engine Driver’s Barracks, Tenterfield. 10am start

$160 for members, $195 for non-members (this included a $35 membership fee).

The emphasis will be on exploring texture, both on 2D and 3D pieces. Students will play with colour choices and the fundamentals of wet felting. All materials supplied.

• BOTANICAL ART – with Nola Sindel

July 15-16, at the Engine Driver’s Barracks, Tenterfield. 10am start

$220 for members, $255 for non-members (this included a $35 membership fee). Limit of 8

This workshop will include Observation of plants, layout and composition, shading and tone in graphite and painting.

• EVERYDAY NATURE SKETCHBOOKS – with Deb Mostert

September 2-3. Girraween National Park. 10am start

$220 for members, $255 for non-members (this included a $35 membership fee). Limit 10

This course will involve getting into a daily habit of nature drawing in the context of a sketchbook. With a simple kit of materials, you can carry everywhere, you will discover that you can be opportunistic about drawing from the natural world, and this can help get us into daily creative habits of observation, discover and wonder.

• CHARCOAL DRAWING for beginners and more advanced – with Lizzie Connor

October 14-15. at the Engine Driver’s Barracks, Tenterfield. 10am start. Location may alter during course.

$160 for members, $195 for non-members (this included a $35 membership fee). Limit 8

Students will investigate the various types of charcoal available and how to use them.

The workshop will also look at different paper and even canvas surfaces that can be used with charcoal. The class will also create textured surfaces on paper. The course will offer different ways of approaching your drawing and increase and/or refresh your drawing skills.

• ECO FRIENDLY ETCHING – with Liz Powell

Nov 18-19, at the Engine Driver’s Barracks, Tenterfield. 10am start

$220 for members, $255 for non-members (this included a $35 membership fee). Limit of 6 

The aim is to have fun and to expand the understanding of the potential of metal plate etching. The quality of line and the potential for tone is unique to metal plate that has been etched rather than engraved or scratched, and it can be done without harmful acids or too many specialized tools. All materials supplied.

Our workshop series continued in April with two days with talented Artist Deb Mostert.

On day 1 participants explored the possibilities inherent in an Artists Journal in beautiful Girraween National Park – a traditional method of developing concepts, recording subjects and exploring new ways of viewing the world.

Day 2 was spent designing, sculpting and casting a combination of small found objects and handmade low relief sculptures. Artists will be able to reuse the moulds many times – results will be revealed in our travelling exhibition ‘Journeys on the Border’ later in the year.

Deb Mostert holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Queensland College of Art and has had 17 solo shows and been involved in more than 65 group shows in both regional and commercial galleries. She has won several awards and been a finalist in many National art prizes including the Bale Painting Prize, the Salon de Refuses, Jacaranda Drawing Prize, and Marie Ellis Prize for Drawing. 

Our 2022 Workshop Series, which will culminate in our travelling exhibition ‘Journeys on the Border’ later in the year, began February 21 and 22nd.

Artists had a fabulous two days in in our new home at the Tenterfield Railway Museum Engine Drivers Cottage extending their self-portraiture skills with Gympie Artist & Teacher Joolie Gibbs.

Borderline Artists will be showcasing their artisan talent at the Summit, right next door to the Alpaca Artisans Shop.

Works for sale cover a wide variety of mediums.

Meet the makers all weekend, discuss their techniques, and buy a piece of local artwork.

There will be ongoing short workshops by experienced tutors every day, an ideal time to have a “taster” of what is available for later full workshops, right here on the beautiful Granite Belt. A full description of the workshops available can be seen at the GBART Website.

Reflections from the Mokolito Workshop with Sam Sosnowski 6/7 March

Borderline Regional Arts are honoured to have secured the expertise of 4 expert Printmakers for their series of workshops running March through June 2021. Watch for details of the travelling Exhibition that is planned to follow this series.

March 6th and 7th kicked off the series with SAM SOSNOWSKI sharing the intricacies of MOKOLITO, a Japanese printmaking process. www.samsosgallery.com

Mokulito is a revelation as it manages to combine the graphic qualities of Japanese woodblock with the tonality of stone lithography. Mokulito enables the blending of litho tones and sharp woodcut marks on the same piece of substrate using a wide range of drawing materials directly on the surface of the plywood without the use of acids, etches or turpentine.

Space is now available for PHOTO SILK SCREEN PRINTING with ANNE LEON on April 17th and 18th. www.anneleon.com.au

To book contact Liz at  studio13paper@fastmail.com.au spaces are limited.

Discover the joy of designing and printing your own images onto fabric, paper or timber, over a weekend. This workshop is suitable for beginners, or the more experienced artist who wishes to explore the medium further. A comprehensive range of processes for screen-printing will be covered, including the art of hand-cut stencils, photo-emulsion application, stripping your screen, and printing with solvent-free inks onto your choice of substrates: from  t-shirts and textiles to  paper and  plywood. We will also include a demonstration of transferring screen-printed decal images onto ceramics! Once you have made your screen and stencils, the fun begins!

10/4/21 … BOOKINGS NOW OPEN !!!!

May 22nd and 23rd Borderline will host MONO PRINTING AND DRYPOINT with SANDRA PEARCE. www.sandrapearce.com.au

In this 2 day workshop, we will work with two different printing techniques to create unique and complex imagery.

On the first day we will explore monotypes using plants, stencils and other found materials to create one-of-a-kind and often unexpected images, experimenting with colour and mark -making.

On the second day our focus will be using Drypoint plates to create imagery to compliment our monoprints from the first day, layering and playing to achieve meaningful and diverse prints.

When: 22^nd and 23^rd May 2021

Where: Wallangarra Hall, Wallangarra QLD

Costs:    Members $190

               Non Members $220

Limit of 10 People. All materials  provided. Non members fees automatically entitles them to become members of Borderline for one year.

For enrolments please email Krishna Heffernan or contact her at 0408221771

And June 12th & 13th will bring WAYNE SINGLETON to us to share LINO PRINTING. www.waynesingleton.com.au

No prior knowledge of printmaking is required. Linoleum printing, as a form of relief block printing, is one of the most accessible and direct of all the printmaking methods. Linocuts can be simple and graphic, or as intricately detailed as you want. It’s a subtractive process, meaning that you cut away – or subtract – the areas you do not want to print with ink. You should feel confident in your ability to undertake this workshop and expect to enjoy yourself while learning or expanding your understanding of the printmaking technique.

Borderline Regional Arts Assoc Exhibitions

Borderline Exhibition : From Here To There – Warwick Regional Art Gallery – Opening 22 January with Mary Findlay of SRAG as our opening speaker, continuing to March 6th.

 Borderline Bi-Annual SRAG Exhibition : Beyond The Mask – Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery : opening 29th April 2021 and continuing to June 13th.  High Tea opening May 8th.

AND!  Borderline Bi-Annual Stanthorpe Exhibition 2023 confirmed for Feb 23 – April 2 (pending final confirmation).

You can also catch the work of our members at ….

… Artists Collective Studio Gallery in Tenterfield : Encore Exhibition running till 10^th January 

… Bernie Regional Gallery Print Exhibition and Award 15^th February. 

… Stanthorpe Art Prize Opening 19th Feb, 2021. SRAG – Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery.

… SRAG Recovery and Resilience Market February 2021.

… Artists Studio Gallery, Tenterfield : Australiana 9″x5″ Art Prize Exhibition. Exhibition coincides with Oracles of the Bush in Tenterfield and runs through March 2021 – entry forms available early 2021.

… SRAG Wearable Art March 2021