Meet the Artist with Jacqueline and Dane Scotcher
Where: Northern Rivers Community Gallery - 44 Cherry Street Ballina
Date: Sat 7 February 2026
Time: 11am - 11.30am
Age: Open to all
Cost: Free to attend. No registrations required.
Meet exhibiting artists Jacqueline and Dane Scotcher, for an informal tour of their exhibition Boundary Rider. The artists will provide insights into their creative process, the why and how of making the work, and their experience collaborating as artists and siblings.
Free to attend, no registrations necessary.
Dane Scotcher has a decade-long career in video editing and motion design and has recently turned these skills to creative practice, making atmospheric time-based simulations that reflect his multisensory experiences in natural landscapes. Dane was selected a finalist in the Wollumbin Art Prize and Lethbridge Landscape Prize and completed an Advanced Diploma of Multimedia, Swinburne University. He currently lives and works in Lennox Head, on Bundjalung land.
Jacqueline Scotcher is a local artist whose studio practice is primarily abstract painting, working on themed series based around time, place and movement. She has presented solo exhibitions at Logan Art Gallery, Revival Art Gallery, Newstead Studios, Kick Arts Contemporary Arts Cairns, and Cairns Art Gallery, been selected as a finalist in the Wollumbin Art Prize, Lethbridge Landscape Prize, Byron Arts Magazine BAM Art Prize, and has had work commissioned for Crystalbrook Art Series Hotel Cairns. Her practice is studied as part of the QLD Senior Visual Arts Curriculum, and she holds a Doctorate in Philosophy (Creative Arts), Hons. Creative Industries and a Bachelor of Visual Arts.
Jacqueline Scotcher and Dane Scotcher’s exhibition Boundary Rider is on display at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery from 7 January to 1 March 2026.
For more information visit nrcgballina.com.au or contact the Gallery on 02 6681 0530.
NRCG is a wheelchair accessible venue. Please contact us ahead of time if you have accessibility needs you would like us to be aware of.
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Image: Threshold, Still from video, 2024, Dane Scotcher; Jacqueline and Dane Scotcher, 2025, image supplied; Jacqueline Scotcher in the studio, image supplied, 2025