McGregor Art Workshops 2025
Cindy MacDonald
Portraiture
Charcoal
March 29 | 10am – 4pm
Registrations Close 21st March
Cindy MacDonald | Portraiture | Charcoal
Workshop Outline
Beginners | 15+
This is a one day workshop
March 29| 10am – 4pm | 12 people max
UniSQ Toowoomba, Q166
Join award winning artist Cindy MacDonald for this one-day workshop. Under Cindy’s expert guidance, you will navigate the nuances of portraiture in charcoal. Learn traditional drawing methods as you are introduced to the materials, methods and techniques that Cindy uses to draw a simple, realistic portrait in charcoal from scratch. Discover the ‘Andrew Loomis’ method of drawing; the concepts of values and edges, line, and shading; proportion; facial features; and what constitutes a good/poor reference. Some drawing experience preferred, but not essential.
BYO materials list: Approx $150 (you may already have some of the required materials)
Cost: $260
Bio
Award-winning artist Cindy MacDonald paints in a variety of styles and mediums. She considers animals, particularly birds, and humans to be her preferred subjects. Her art practice allows Cindy to express her phenomenological response to her lived experiences, her faith, and the world around her, ‘To find that essence, that divine spark that is within us all…’
Peta Berghofer
Thinking Through Clay: Handbuilding Techniques
Ceramics
Tuesday Evenings | May – June | 6pm – 9m
Registrations Close 4th April
Peta Berghofer | Thinking Through Clay: Handbuilding Techniques | Ceramics
Photography by Grace Yu/Studio Bitsy
Workshop Outline
Beginners to Intermediate | 15+
Tuesday Evenings: May 13, 20, 27 May, and June 3, 10 & 24, 2025, 6pm – 9pm (please note a 1-week break between lesson 5 & 6)
UniSQ Toowoomba, A229
Join Australian ceramicist Peta Berghofer for an in-depth exploration into hand-built ceramics. Learn to build ceramic objects unique to your own artistic interests, ideas and storytelling using a variety of ceramic handbuilding techniques and surface finishes.
Within the first two classes, Peta will guide you through fundamental ceramic hand-building methods including pinch, coil, and slab building techniques. With these new skills, under Peta’s guidance you will then be free to create objects of your own artistic vision. To follow, objects can be decorated with a selection of ceramic colours. At the completion of the course, you will have confidence in clay joining and finishing skills, leaving with several ceramic objects.
Cost: $660 – Registration includes tuition, materials, tools, use of studio space, and firing.
Bio
Based in Toowoomba, Australian ceramicist Peta Berghofer practices on Giabal and Jarowair lands. Her ceramic work sits at the intersection of still life and sculptural abstraction, employing hand-building techniques to reimagine everyday objects and structures. Through the distortion of domestic forms into ceramic assemblages, Berghofer explores the peculiarities of human-made realities, creating artifacts that suggest an altered perception of the familiar. Since graduating with First Class Honours in a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Southern Queensland in 2016, Berghofer has exhibited across Australia and internationally in France and Denmark. She has participated in numerous artist residencies abroad, and her work is held in both private and public collections.
Jane du Rand
Making Relief Tiles
Ceramics
14, 15, and 28 June | 10am – 4pm
Registrations Close 6th June
Jane du Rand | Making Relief Tiles | Ceramics
Workshop Outline
All Levels | 14+
This is a three-day intensive workshop
14, 15, and 28 June 2025 | 10am – 4pm | 12 people max
UniSQ Toowoomba, A229
Over three days, you will combine working with award-winning ceramicist and mosaic artist Jane duRand’s personal wood block stamp collection,
together with learning to carve surfaces and build up relief forms on the tile surface. You will look at: tile design; using stamps and making stamps; carving surfaces for decorative effect and sculpting; adding relief sculpture to clay surfaces; textures and surface decoration; and finally, colour and using underglazes, oxides and stains to decorate the tiles.
Cost (includes materials, use of tools, and firing): $1185
Bio
South-African born ceramic and mosaic artist Jane du Rand uses her art practice to document and better understand the world around her. Originally trained as an architect, du Rand’s practice also extends to large-scale ceramic and mosaic installations, with her intricate designs incorporated into the architecture of civic and private buildings around the world.
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