Artist refocuses on her passion
anthea.gleeson@thechronicle.com.au AFTER 13 years of teaching other people how to paint, artist Cheryl Moggs is hoping to refocus on her own creations.
Ms Moggs has taught indigenous art skills and techniques to inmates in prisons and students at universities, TAFE and schools.
The experiences have helped refine her own art and inspire others to pick up a paintbrush.
“It takes a certain type of person to work in a prison,” she said.
“You can’t be judgemental. You are there to do a job.
“The art that has been produced in prison has been beautiful and the guys have been good to me.”
Ms Moggs has joined the Songline Creatives artist collective that works out of a previously vacant shop front in Wilsonton Shopping Centre.
The working gallery features art from indigenous and non-indigenous artists.
It is a concept that Ms Moggs said hasn’t been seen in Toowoomba before.
“It’s an opportunity for people to come in, meet the artists and get the story behind the work,” she said.