For more than a decade, three of Townsville\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The exhibition\u2019s opening night will be held Friday, October 24, between 6pm and 7.45pm at Art at Jezzine.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The works explore the invisible rhythms that inhabit our daily lives: the distance between time and edges, between reflection and creation.<\/p>\n
For Margaret, the exhibition has been an opportunity to slow down and consider her practice from a new perspective. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis exhibition has given me the opportunity to revisit familiar forms, reworking and re-imagining them, drawing on techniques developed over the past year,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn doing so, I\u2019ve sought to create fresh dialogue between past and present, continuity and change, memory and possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n
Donna Beningfield continues her long fascination with slate, a material that holds the traces of ancient worlds within it. <\/p>\n
Her works depict fossil remains of ferns, shells, and organisms, offering a quiet meditation on time. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was intrigued by this small fossil of a fern embedded in a tile,\u201d she said. \u201cIt made me wonder just how old these tiles might be?\u201d <\/p>\n
The discovery led her to reflect on the enduring nature of both the material and the life it once contained. <\/p>\n
\u201cEvidence of past life is a reminder of our present life,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes you contemplate the space between then and now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ros Jones, meanwhile, explores the intervals that connect rather than divide.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey divide and exclude, but they are also zones of contact and negotiation – where the space is not a void but a field,\u201d Ros said. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Each piece balances precision with unpredictability. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
On an intimate scale, the exhibition encourages close viewing, urging people to step near enough to see how time, texture, and technique converge. <\/p>\n
As the artists remind us, the space between is never empty; it is alive with meaning, memory, and creative energy.<\/p>\n
The Space Between\u2019 exhibition opening will be held October 24 between 6pm and 7.45pm. All are welcome.<\/p>\n
The exhibition will run until November 19 at Art at Jezzine, Jezzine Barracks (off Mitchell Street).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more than a decade, three of Townsville\u2019s most accomplished artists, Margaret Crawford, Donna Beningfield and Ros Jones,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[134749,64,63,134746,134742,134743,134752,134739,134751,14240,134745,134747,134748,68058,134741,134736,134737,50938,134750,134738,134740,134744,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-221528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-accomplished-artists","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-creative-dialogue","12":"tag-creative-energy","13":"tag-donna-beningfield","14":"tag-encaustic-method","15":"tag-enduring-nature","16":"tag-exhibition-opening","17":"tag-extreme-heat","18":"tag-hidden-connections","19":"tag-intimate-scale","20":"tag-inviting-viewers","21":"tag-joined-forces","22":"tag-layered-explorations","23":"tag-margaret-crawford","24":"tag-molten-encaustic-medium","25":"tag-opening-night","26":"tag-quiet-meditation","27":"tag-recycled-timbers","28":"tag-reimagined-forms","29":"tag-ros-jones","30":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}