For more than a decade, three of Townsville’s most accomplished artists, Margaret Crawford, Donna Beningfield and Ros Jones, have exhibited together as Group 6, offering audiences thoughtful, layered explorations of place, time and meaning.
Their latest exhibition, The Space Between, continues that creative dialogue, inviting viewers to pause and reflect on the moments, edges, and intervals that often go unnoticed.
The exhibition’s opening night will be held Friday, October 24, between 6pm and 7.45pm at Art at Jezzine.
The Space Between exhibition is not about separation or emptiness but about connection, a threshold between what is seen and unseen, what is past and possible.
The works explore the invisible rhythms that inhabit our daily lives: the distance between time and edges, between reflection and creation.
For Margaret, the exhibition has been an opportunity to slow down and consider her practice from a new perspective.
“This exhibition has given me the opportunity to revisit familiar forms, reworking and re-imagining them, drawing on techniques developed over the past year,” she said.
“In doing so, I’ve sought to create fresh dialogue between past and present, continuity and change, memory and possibility.”
Donna Beningfield continues her long fascination with slate, a material that holds the traces of ancient worlds within it.
Her works depict fossil remains of ferns, shells, and organisms, offering a quiet meditation on time.
“I was intrigued by this small fossil of a fern embedded in a tile,” she said. “It made me wonder just how old these tiles might be?”
The discovery led her to reflect on the enduring nature of both the material and the life it once contained.
“Evidence of past life is a reminder of our present life,” she said.
“It makes you contemplate the space between then and now.”
Ros Jones, meanwhile, explores the intervals that connect rather than divide.
Her works, created from recycled timbers and painted using the encaustic method, are built up in translucent layers of molten wax and pigment, each fused with heat.
“They divide and exclude, but they are also zones of contact and negotiation – where the space is not a void but a field,” Ros said.
“My works are built up in layers of molten encaustic medium and oil pigments with each layer being fused with a blow torch or a heat gun.”
Each piece balances precision with unpredictability.
“The space between execution and fusing is always one of tension, anxiety and possible surprise, as the extreme heat can take on a mind of its own,” she said.
On an intimate scale, the exhibition encourages close viewing, urging people to step near enough to see how time, texture, and technique converge.
As the artists remind us, the space between is never empty; it is alive with meaning, memory, and creative energy.
The Space Between’ exhibition opening will be held October 24 between 6pm and 7.45pm. All are welcome.
The exhibition will run until November 19 at Art at Jezzine, Jezzine Barracks (off Mitchell Street).