open-ended – without fixed limits/ restrictions
-The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary – 1984
For this exhibition, no restraints were placed on the artists and the works presented. The exhibition title encompasses diversity and differing responses in art making practices.
It is an invitation to be experimental, intuitive, and enjoy the process of creating. Artists can either use concepts and ideas as a starting point to the creative process or allow non-linear thinking, instinct, and emotion to guide their art making. Mixed media, 3D and ceramics, printmaking, and textile art demonstrate the different mediums and styles within the group.
With no predetermined boundaries, the artists have been invited to submit works that reflect a sense of freedom, expansiveness, and spontaneity.
Borderline Regional Arts Association Inc (Borderline) had its beginning in 1994 as a cooperative with about twenty members from both sides of the Queensland/New South Wales border. Incorporated four years later, Borderline now boasts more than 50 artists from all disciplines – including but not limited to painters, sculptors, papermakers, printmakers, weavers and felters, fiber artists, and multimedia artists – hailing from the Granite Belt in Qld and NSW and further afield.
A community-based, not-for-profit organisation, Borderline encourages its members’ individual artistic development and skill-building with a culture of connection and collaboration through exhibitions, workshops, information and idea exchange, painting and drawing expeditions and social gatherings. Borderline members’ skills span all levels of expertise – from novices to intermediate to experienced and professional artists.
Works by Jennifer Gill:
By Jo Eagle
Rusting in the Paddock by Liz Powell