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Goondiwindi’s only Art Gallery, Fairway Studios exhibits outstanding works by local and regional artists. Established and emerging artists are represented with an ever changing range of artforms including soft watercolours, luscious oils, local Euraba handmade Paper and stunning 3D’s.

If you are looking for the perfect gift, we have a unique range of locally handcrafted homewares, prints, jewellery and much more.

All artworks are available for purchase and regular exhibitions are held each year.

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Credit card or direct deposit is available for your convenience and Greyhound Bus Freight is our prefered way of transporting artworks across Australia.

Featured Artists

SCOTT BRIDLE

Scott Bridle’s early years were spent at Erambie, his family’s grazing property in the Glenmorgan District of south-west Queensland, where he first became absorbed with and developed a passion for the land. Scott’s landscapes capture the raw beauty of outback Australia from vantage points seen by few. His portraits breathe empathy for his subjects who seem to be wrought from the tough country in which they live and work. The images are brought to the viewer here so they may share in his intimate knowledge and enjoyment of this unique country.

: “A yard full of steers “Brunette Downs” NT”

: “Breeders on their way to Churchill Bore “Lake Nash” NT”

: “Oil bore yards “Armraynald Station”Gulf Country QLD”

: “Sunrise on the windmill”

: “Claypan in the desert “Tobermory” NT”

: “Lake country “Rockhampton Downs”, NT”

: “Wemadinga Salt Arm, Gulf of Carpentaria QLD”

To view more of Scott’s amazing work, please click here!

SONIA BORDER

Goondiwindi artist Sonia Border brings a lively element to her artwork. The semi-abstract style of these ‘fun’ paintings in charcoal and acrylics is a contrast to Sonia’s typical conventional style of those depicting the quieter side of our lifestyle. “One part of me wants to jump for joy and the other to stop and smell the roses.”

: “Evening”, Acrylic, 120mm x 760mm, $550

: “Sitting with Grandad”, Acrylic, 710mm x 710mm, $300

: “Trephina Gorge”, Acrylic, 920mm x 920mm, $300

BINNIE DONOVAN

The richness and depth of Binnie Donovan’s bitumen paintings brings imaginary people, angels, cupids, fairies and moth-people to life. “I have always been fascinated by faces and hands, and the expressions of both,” Binnie said. “I like to capture people unawares, and paint subjects not as they would pose but as a “fly on the wall” peek at their everyday doings and actions.”

: “A pear for a pair”, mixed, 510mm x 510mm, $400

: “Tea and Lace”, Mixed media, 760mm x 300mm, $400

: “Through rose tinted”

: “Through the window”

CHRISTINE PORTER

Formerly of Goondiwindi, Christine is a painter and printmaker living and working in Lismore, NSW. She has received more than 100 awards and prizes for her artwork including the 2006 McGregor Fellowship ( for overseas travel) from the University of Southern Queensland. A full time practicing artist , she has artwork in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia ; the International Watercolour Museum, Mexico City ( representing Australia) ; the Brisbane City Council as well as many smaller public, corporate and private collections worldwide . She is an elected member of both the Australian Watercolour Institute and the Royal Art Society of New South Wales. She has , since 1990, exhibited regularly in Brisbane, Sydney, regional centres , and in 2007 and 2008 : Edinburgh, Scotland.

: “Saddle”, Limited Edition, 350mm x 350mm

: “The long yard”, limited edition, 350mm x 350mm

WIN ASH

Win Ash is passionate about Goondiwindi, it’s people and it’s history. Winifred’s life long love of local history and bush landscape has been a recurring subject in her artwork particularly so in the last thirty years. Milestones exhibition in 2009 marked Winifred’s 86^th year and is a continuation of her lifelong journey as a painter of subjects of historical interest and of the landscape in which she has always lived – it is also an artists very appropriate response to this important anniversary of Queensland history.

: 11 Draught Horses

: Carting Cotton 1923

: Customs House Watercolour

: McIntyre Bridge

: Remembrance Gum

: The Wool Clip

: Victoria Hotel

: The 720

JANE DONALDSON

Jane Donaldson began painting in 2008 with the entry of her youngest child into primary school. Her initial efforts to reinvent her life as a stay at home mum have flourished as her work is now held in private collections and is commissioned throughout the eastern states of Australia. Jane currently resides on rural acreage near Stanthorpe in southern Queensland with her husband and three children and divides her time between creating with her family, on the canvas, the garden, and in the kitchen.

: “Dream like me”, acrylic canvas, 910mm x 910mm

: “Marionette me”, Canvas, 760mm x 1000mm, $1100

: “Taking heart”, Acrylic Canvas, 760mm x 1000mm, $1000

To view more of Jane’s amazing work please, click here!

MAX BUTLER

Besides the usual snaps of people and historical gems, I take hundreds of photos of the land, usually from a high vantage point. I search for the right colours to place beside others in order for the painting to come alive. A boring vista of dead grass on a dry, salt-bush plain provides an opportunity to place splashes of bright yellow and blue together on a base of brilliant red and orange. The paintings are not true representation of what really exists which is why I do not call my paintings “West of Boulia”, “Vineyards at Denman”, “Canefields near Ingham”, and so on. I simply call them “My Country” and have numbered them in order of execution since I began this series in May 2003.

For some, these paintings will be too bright. I do not apologize for this, if we look hard enough, those colours are right there in the landscape of our country. I have included in this exhibition scenes from the lavender fields of Tasmania, the vineyards of the Hunter, North Queensland, the outback and the coastal areas. It is my dearest hope that the images will remind you of places you have been and perhaps in your future travels, you will find places that remind you of my paintings. How bold is that!