Janet Angus
Gallery 2
7 - 24 November 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 7 November
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 24 November
Exploring identity through painting and digital design, I am fascinated in the way we shape our environment and in the way it shapes us. Drawing from brutalist architecture for its monolithic and imposing characteristics, my aim is to capture a sense of the vast emptiness and isolation that is a key part of our modern world.
Over the years I have developed a style of work involving painted constructions that combine three-dimensional and two-dimensional configurations. I utilise straight lines, hard edges and simplified forms to create an illusion of deep space as well as a feeling of isolation and longing.
Janet Angus
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Petros Papoulis
Gallery 3
7 - 24 November 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 7 November
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 24 November
Papoulis has a long-held fascination with the water’s edge. Observing how we interact with it, how we use it, what happens there and how the elements can affect it.
Image: Petros Papoulis, Kingston Buoy, 2019, Crayon and Graphite On Paper, 76.5 x 60cm
Photo: Bruce Harley
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Kate Smith
Gallery 1a
17 October - 3 November 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 17 October
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 3 November
Smith is fascinated by the Australian landscape, particularly moments of change such as dust storms, mists and rain. In these moments, familiar landscapes become bewildering, disconcerting and awe-inspiring.
Image: Kate Smith, Sky, 2019, mixed media on paper, 42 x 29cm
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
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Diana McPhetres, Rodney Moss, Neil Lade and Trevor Sutton
Gallery 1b
17 October - 3 November 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 17 October
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 3 November
The rugged landscape near Lithgow inspired this series of imaginative and diverse paintings from four Canberra-based artists. The eight-day retreat in an isolated and breath-taking part of the Capertee Valley proved to be a perfect creative spark.
Image: Rodney Moss, En Plein air at Capertee, 2019, acrylic on canvas, detail.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
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Cait Wait
Gallery 3
17 October - 3 November 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 17 October
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 3 November
A collection of narrative portraits which illustrate and depict chosen people in a time and place. The oil paintings are a result of a collaboration between the artist and the subject, as they reveal their past, present future connections and memories.
Image: Wait Cait, Sal, oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm.
This exhibition is supported by the Regional Arts Fund and Country Arts SA.
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Frank Thirion and Graham Eadie
Gallery 1
26 September - 13 October 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 26 September
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 13 October
This exhibition of photographs and paintings re-examines the landscape genre and through its emphasis on mediation, offers a new sensory experience. The works based in time and space support and play off one another, while source material informs and re-orients the fixed gaze towards an unexpected aesthetic experience.
Image: Frank Thirion, Beyond the bounds of possibility, 2018 Photograph on bond paper, 600x400mm.
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Bec Bigg-Wither
Gallery 2
26 September - 13 October 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 26 September
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 13 October
In the fiftieth anniversary-year of the first moon-landing, this exhibition considers space exploration and terrestriality. It grounds these poles in a local perspective, using historical NASA public domain images and my own photographs of the site of the former Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station near Canberra, which helped track the Apollo moon-landing missions.
Image: Bec Bigg-Wither, Apollo 9 (detail), 2019. Inkjet print, 30.5 x 177.5 cm.Photo courtesy of the artist.
Marilyn Stretton and Helene Walsh
Gallery 3
26 September - 13 October 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 26 September
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 13 October
This series of works examines Fire, the last of the four elements in a series of exhibitions undertaken by Stretton over several years at M16 Artspace. Air, Water, Earth and Fire are held to be the physical manifestations of our psychological make-up. Ultimately an examination of the elements is a reminder that life’s force depends on all four and on the balance, or lack of it, that we achieve among them.
Image: Marilyn Stretton, Untitled #2, 2017, acrylic on canvas paper, 30x42cm, Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Kerry Shepherdson, Di Broomhall, Narelle Phillips, Leo Robba.
Gallery 1
5 - 22 September 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 5 September
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 22 September
Restoring the Balance is concerned with the idea that everything is intrinsically connected to nature. In this exhibition the artists have responded to their specific discreet relationships with the transitions between fabricated and natural milieu.
Image: Leo Robba, Split View with Red Hot Pokers, 2019, oil on linen, 126cm x 156cm
Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Benita Tunks
Gallery 2
5 - 22 September 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 5 September
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 22 September
An installation in response to the decline of the world’s bee population due to the continuing rise of corporate interests favoured over environmental and human needs.
Image: Benita Tunks, Installation detail, 2019, clay and wood.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Keith Bailey, Lex Beardsell, Ian Robertson, Alan Howard, Cherylynne Holmes, Jane Styles.
Gallery 3
5 - 22 September 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 5 September
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 22 September
The 2012 ConneXus group’s diversity will be demonstrated by the different media chosen such as painting, pottery, textiles and printmaking. The theme of SurroudUs is addressed by each of the artists to express involvement and experience of their personal surroundings, be it the beauty of natures’ variety or the complexity of the built environment. The artists hope that in the current world of negativity, conflict and fake news, this exhibition will present a feeling of calm, enjoyment and optimism.
Image: Keith Bailey, Flight of the Cockatoo. Gum Trees Dead and Alive. 2019. Watercolour and oil on canvas. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Gemma Bonshek Kane, John Hart, Jan Howlin, Saara March, Tiffany Karlsson, Anna Bonshek, Kyoko Imazu
Gallery 1a
15 August - 1 September 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 15 August
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 1 September
Our place in the world can be bestowed upon us, sought for, lost and even expanded beyond into a world of groundlessness. Seven artists share their connection to place and the place ‘less’ through painting, print media, sculpture and ceramics.
Image: Kyoko Imazu, Entomologist’s garden, 2019, Etching and aquatint, 60 x 54cm.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Phil Page
Gallery 1b
15 August - 1 September 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 15 August
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 1 September
The works in this exhibition follow a recent visit to Kyoto, and my long interest in Japan and Japanese woodcuts. The content explores aspects of Kyoto’s long history and the development of the physical form of the city and draws heavily on imagery gathered on my recent visit included through sketchbook images some of which are included in the exhibition.
Image: Phil Page, acrylic and acrylic ink on canvas, 122x 75cm
Photo Credit: Dorian Photographs.
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Rebecca Selleck
Gallery 2
15 August - 1 September 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 15 August
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 1 September
'Invasive is the latest work in Rebecca Selleck’s continuing exploration into Australia’s conflicting relationships with introduced and endemic species.
In this immersive installation, the gallery is transformed into the interior of a small home where time and space have uncomfortably entangled to embody hypocrisies evident within our notions of national identity.
You’re invited to interact with the work and animal forms activated by breath, body warmth and displaced movement. Using a complex mix of found objects, bronze casts, electronics and printed motifs, Rebecca overlays time and place to express the need for human accountability and the painful complexity of animal and environmental ethics in Australia. Through these physical expressions of internal hypocrisies she creates interactive spaces that, while uncomfortable, become their own questioning entities.'
Image: Firstdraft installation of Invasive.
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Noelle Bell, Julie Delves, Eva van Gorsel, Manuel Pfeiffer, Alan Pomeroy, , Peggy Spratt, Jenny Adams and Delene White
Gallery 3
15 August - 1 September 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 15 August
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 1 September
The over-arching element of this adventurous exploration, is to go beyond appearance. Space as a solid and as a metaphor, space as distance and time, space abstracted to bring them all closer. These are some of the offerings of group members with the viewer able to enjoy participating in each artist’s journey and come away with a raised awareness of the intrinsic value, significance or impact of abstracting space.
Image: Noelle Bell, Fangled, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 81x81cm Photo: courtesy of the artist.
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M16 Studio Artists' Exhibition
Gallery 1
25 July - 11 August 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 25 July
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 11 August
M16’s studio artists present their annual group exhibition. Representing a broad cross-section of Canberra’s artistic practitioners, the exhibition highlights the diversity of professional art practice at M16 through paintings, prints, drawings, jewellery and objects produced by both established and emerging artists.
Image: Hanna Hoyne, Model for The Peoples’ Voice, 2019, reclaimed cardboard, plastic, prayer-paper, varnish, 40x60x25cm.
Photo courtesy of the artist
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Michael Desmond, Peta Jones, Bryn Desmond-Jones, Ossian Desmond-Jones
Gallery 1
4 - 21 July 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 4 July
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 21 July
The exhibition brings together a family of four artists, all working in different ways, around the idea of ‘aerial’, that is of being ‘of the air’. Each artist has a unique understanding of what it means to them and differing means of expression that employ a variety of media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, photography and digital media.
Image: Image Credit: Ossian Desmond-Jones, Flight, 2019
Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Gallery 3
25 July - 11 August 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 25 July
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 11 August
This exhibition showcases works by Hands-On Studio members. The works explore story-telling and were all produced from Hands-On classes.
Hands-On Studio is an arts organisation at M16 Artspace which seeks to provide people with all abilities the access to an art education. One of the studio’s objectives is to provide these artists with as many opportunities as possible to exhibit in mainstream gallery spaces.
Image: Hands on Studio 2019
Photo Credit: Tilly Davey
Canberra Art Workshop
Gallery 2
25 July - 11 August 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 25 July
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 11 August
Showcasing recent original works created; and inspired in our Expressive Art, Classical Art and Fundamentals Plus Tutored Art classes.
Canberra Art Workshop is a thriving studio centre for the arts at M16 Artspace. They welcome all artists, from complete beginners to practicing professionals. This exhibition presents a range of work including life drawing, pastel, watercolour, portraiture, print making and others – all made in Canberra Art Workshop’s studio.
Image: Steve Tomlin, ‘Never quite letting go of the shore’, 2018. Photo: courtesy of the artist.
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Adina West
Gallery 2
4 - 21 July 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 4 July
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 21 July
This body of work attempts to address the contemporary cultural phenomenon of simulating historically valuable materials. Not Exactly What I Was Looking For takes reference from familiar structural forms and reproduced materials in order to emphasise the extent to which the “veneer” is so inherent in our personal and material lives. Does the veneer offer us an avenue toward elegance or will it forever reinforce Walter Benjamin's sentiments? This body of work is at once a challenge to-- and reinforcement of the definition of elegance, as understood by the likes of Paulo Coelho.
Image: Adina West, Not Exactly What I Was Looking For, 2019, oil and imitation gold leaf on canvas, 157 x 73 cm.
Photo Credit: Adina West
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Racheal Bruhn
Gallery 3
4 - 21 July 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 4 July
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 21 July
A collection of images that cycle through the idea of still life and the containment of life in wet specimen containers. Exploring the idea of life gone, live bustling, and potential held suspended, through light, flesh and liquid separating the viewer from the time, the life suspended.
Image: Racheal Bruhn, Mother and daughter, 2018. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Luke Aleksandrow, Jacqueline Bradley, Chris Carmody, Denise Ferris, Annika Harding, Ellis Hutch, and Shags
Curator: Annika Harding
Gallery 1
13 - 30 June 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 13 June
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 30 June
Elegy for Winter is a curated exhibition featuring artists’ responses to winter landscapes in a changing climate. Artists Luke Aleksandrow, Jacqueline Bradley, Chris Carmody, Denise Ferris, Annika Harding, Ellis Hutch, and Shags present new or previously unshown work that reflects on past experiences in the Snowy Mountains, New Zealand and the northern hemisphere. Featuring photographs, video, sculptures and paintings, Elegy for Winter laments the loss and entropy of winter landscapes as they melt and change at an alarming rate, but it also revels in snow and ice and places a hopeful emphasis on renewal.
Image: Ellis Hutch, Lake polish, 2016, still from performance on Lake Haukijärvi Finland
Photo Credit: Annika Harding
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Rachel Theodorakis.
Gallery 2
13 - 30 June 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 13 June
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 30 June
Rachel utilizes bones as icons of self. Creatively she draws upon intellect but is driven by an internal navigation focused on embodied life experience. Buddhist Philosophy grounds Rachel’s practice and she explores themes of impermanence, mortality, identity, transitions and culture. Her most recent work delves into the social context of domestic violence.
Rachel’s work is created through deeply personal narratives. Once in the public domain she intends to provide a platform for the viewers to consider their own journey. She gently guides viewers through her works by evidencing her themes through their titles.
Ελευθερία (Freedom) explores a journey of transition. The narrative is driven by fear as the bone fights to flee the darkness. Each bone narrates one year, they express not the events but the emotional response to the events. Out of the Mud evidences the triumph over fear as it transitions to empowerment. This series hero’s the darkness depicted by the 24 layers of weaving over the tiny bones.
Rachel shares within this exhibition the ‘place’ from which this work was created. A reflective place of Self, Identity, Fear, Evolution, Transition and ultimately Empowerment, Strength and Contentment.
Image: Rachel Theodorakis, Ελευθερία (Freedom), 2019. Bone, synthetic polymer paint, cotton thread, bees wax. Dimensions variable.
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Rachel Head
Gallery 1
23 May - 9 June 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 23 May
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 9 June
A thought-provoking exhibition aimed at shedding light on the plight of animals around the world that are now close to extinction. A percentage of the artwork sales will be donated to IAPF (International Animal Poaching Foundation).
The body of work includes detailed information about individual animals, leaving the viewer asking questions “how did it come to this?”
Image: Rachel Head, Gibbon, 2018, Quill ink drawing on paper, Image courtesy of the artist
Tom Buckland and Belle Palmer
Gallery 2
23 May - 9 June 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 23 May
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 9 June
“Excusez-Moi?” is an installation that relates to ourselves and how we interact with our inner voices. In this collaboration, Belle Palmer and Tom Buckland interpret their own childhood experiences that shape their present everyday lives. This sculptural installation invites the viewer to immerse themselves into a disarray of familiar objects that create a space for our own reflections and to seek comfort in the uncomfortable - a metaphor for those moments in which we succeed to control our own “inner saboteurs”.
Image: Belle Palmer & Tom Buckland, Memory Cavity :self destruction, 2019, found objects, dimensions variable .
Photo: Courtesy of the Artists and M16 Artspace.
Southern Highlands printmakers
Curated by Lynne Flemons and Kathy Orton
Gallery 1
2 May– Sunday 19 May 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 2 May
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 19 May
This exhibition draws on the diversity, skill, and professionalism of the 24 current members of the Southern Highlands Printmakers. It would provide a rare opportunity to showcase the quality of work being produced in the Southern Highlands in the field of printmaking to new audiences in Canberra.
Image: Margot Rushton, The Graveyard, 2019, 30 x 40cm, unique state: copper etching & chine colle.
Keely van Order
Gallery 2
2 May– Sunday 19 May 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 2 May
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 19 May
Keely Van Order has been grappling with how technology interacts with human perception both in her current research in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience and as part of her art practice. Van Order started on this line of thinking in 2017 with ink drawings, followed by depictions of colour to abstractly express how noise interference represents memory decay. Digitas explores understanding the ‘hardware’ of the human perception, and how identical information can manipulated and image can be recombined, rotated and redistributed.
Van Order is a multilingual software and art instructor currently researching at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. She has taught for a range of people including at University level, at Australian Parliament, the Government House, the Department of Defence and the Prime Minister’s Office. She has received numerous awards for her art including runner-up for the 2018 Ditmar Award ‘Best Artwork’ category and winner of the 2018 E.G. Harvey Award.
Image: Keely Van Order, 3 body problem, 2018, detail. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Shannon Donahue
Gallery 3
2 May– Sunday 19 May 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 2 May
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 19 May
The inspirations in my work come from nature and folklore, animals and nature are what inspire me, and I explore that through folk tales, from my family’s heritage and from the space around me.
Shannon Donahue, Woodland, 2019, install.
Photo courtesy of M16.
Graham Eadie
Gallery 1
11 April – Sunday 28 April 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 11 April
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 28 April
It takes a long time to acquire a pictorial language and learn how to communicate through it. Visual interest is created through a tension between material surface and illusions of depth and distance. The works have a balance of figuration and abstraction intended to stir the imagination of viewers.
-Graham Eadie
Image: Graham Eadie, Tower of Babel Red rag, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 300 x 300 mm
Photo: courtesy of artist
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Murray Kirkland
Gallery 2
11 April – Sunday 28 April 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 11 April
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 28 April
This body of work seeks to convey a more personal, intimate view of history through exploring the experience of an individual. Through this exhibition I seek to convey a more emotional perception of history, while questioning the motivation to understand the past?
Image: Murray Kirkland, Trench, 2018, oil on canvas, (detail).
Photo courtesy of the artist
Robert Bleyerveen
Gallery 3
11 April – Sunday 28 April 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 11 April
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 28 April
A series of paintings created through the artist’s own experience of feeling caught in one place, being prevented from painting by nerve injuries in his arms and slowly readjusted to painting smaller works, without physically roaming too far from home.
Image: Robert Bleyerveen, Neither Here nor There, 2017, Acrylic on Canvas Diptych, 1020 x 760 mm
Photo courtesy of the artist
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Skye Jamieson and Kendall Manz
Gallery 1a
21 March – Sunday 7 April 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 21 March
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 7 April
Activity Centres is a conversation between two artists that both explore the tentative and incessant position between the natural and the urban through abstract sculptures, paintings and space.
Image: Skye Jamieson, Blue, 2018, acrylic and Kendall Manz, White, 2018, porcelain, glaze. Photo: courtesy of artist
Chris Holly, Harvey Welsh, Tricia Woodhouse, Akka Ballenger Constantin, Curated by Chris Holly
Gallery 1b
21 March – Sunday 7 April 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 21 March
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 7 April
A Group show that will explore how a visual art practice flows in myriad streams. From source to destination, streams of thought, subject, approach and choice of medium ow as we move individually and collectively through a creative life.
“By immersing ourselves and creating these flows we seek to step into a shared stream and experience ever newer outcomes.”
Chris Holly
Image: Chris Holly, Where Once There Was, 2018, Giclee Print, 50x60cm
Julie Goodwin
Gallery 3
21 March – Sunday 7 April 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 21 March
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 7 April
This new body of work is entirely focused on the unique rural and suburban fusion around Mt Taylor, Canberra.
Image: Julie Goodwin, 2018, Menacing, Mixed media on board, 41 x 51cm.
Photo: courtesy of artist
Manuel Pfeiffer and Eva van Gorsel
Gallery 1
28 February – Sunday 17 March 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 28 February
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 17 March
One couple - two artists. One project - two media. One environment - two perceptions. One world - two interpretations. One exhibition - a thousand thoughts.
The Artists ask the question “We are all living on the same planet - or are we?” Our perception of the physical world can be quite different and even more so our interpretation of past and present events.
Image: Manuel Pfeiffer, Flooded trees (Mita Mita River), 2018, acrylic on canvas, 76 x 102cm.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Grace Costa, Mark Mohell, Fiona Scheidel, Aaron Pollock, Juliette Dudley.
Gallery 2
28 February – Sunday 17 March 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 28 February
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 17 March
Beauty in Difference, curatored by Grace Costa, shows mixed media work by five Canberra artists; Grace Costa, Mark Mohell, Juliette Dudley, Aaron Pollock and Fiona Scheidel. All artists are invited to express their interpretation of the theme; highlighting the difference in nature and how it challenges what is normal and beautiful.
Image: Grace Costa, Spotted series, Joker, Fine Art Giclee, Prints 58 x 40cm.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Susan Chancellor
Gallery 3
28 February – Sunday 17 March 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 28 February
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 17 March
Chancellor has created an immersive series of painterly monotypes evoking a sense of these oft repeated journeys between her regional home and the city of Canberra. This exhibition forms part of M16’s Regional Initiative in 2019.
Image: Susan Chancellor, Monaro, 2018, oil monotype on paper, 50cm x 35 cm (detail).
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Karin Barr, Evelyn Dunstan, Jon Doe, Mark Eliott, Alexandra Frasersmith, Jeff Hamilton, Gerry King, Jacqueline Knight, Laurel Kohut, Elaine Miles, Catherine Newton, Kate Nixon, Phillip Silverman, Vicky Small, Charles Walker, Madisyn Zabel
Gallery 1
7 February – Sunday 24 February 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 7 February
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 24 February
Interchange is a group exhibition featuring members of both Ausglass and the New Zealand Society of Artists in Glass (NZSAG). This exhibition is a satellite event to compliment the Ausglass/NZSAG COLAB Conference taking place in Whanganui, New Zealand; February 15th -17th, 2019.
The collaborative theme of the COLAB Conference has informed the theme of the exhibition. Artists from each organisation have been matched with an international or domestic counterpart to create cross-cultural collaborative partnerships.
Image: Jonathan Doe and Jeff Hamilton, Prayer to the iGod, 2018-2019, Mouth-blown and machine-made glass, lead, vitreous enamels, 137 x 80cm.
Photo credit: Titus Maclaren
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Jacqui Malins
Gallery 2
7 February – Sunday 24 February 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 7 February
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 24 February
Emotion washes through us, the weather of our minds and bodies. Some emotional states are clear and distinct, others mysterious and ungraspable. Neuroscience now suggests that our brains construct our emotions as we make meaning of the world. Through ceramic works, video and text, Jacqui Malins considers the current science of emotion in relation to the ebb and flow of felt emotional experience.
Image: Jacqui Malins, I disappear, Ceramic, detail. Photo courtesy of the artist
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Ruby Berry
Gallery 3
7 February – Sunday 24 February 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 7 February
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 24 February
Using basketry techniques to create organic forms that are open and soft or dense and weighted. Berry pushes the tactile contrast between materials of waxed threads and hand-spun wool to encourage the haptic gaze - how the works would feel through touch.
Image: Ruby Berry, Softy, installation shot
Photo: supplied by M16
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Christine Appleby, Ellen Gunner, Chelsea Lemon, Clare Solomon, Shags, Mercy McColl, Aishah Kenton, Honour Luckhurst, Abbey Jamieson, Estelle Briedis.
Curated by Lily Pedvin
Gallery 1
17 January - Sunday 3 February 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 17 January
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 3 February
This exhibition pays tribute to past female artists, female only galleries and their exhibitions.
Current female-identifying emerging artists and designers build on their legacy to celebrate their important contribution to the arts. By celebrating these contemporary emerging artists and designers, their incredible works and achievements, is to highlight how far we have come and the legacy that's been passed down.
Image: Estelle Briedis, 2017, Surface Design.
Photo credit: Lillian Pedvin
Bob Georgeson
Gallery 2
17 January - Sunday 3 February 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 17 January
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 3 February
Using found footage experimental film maker Bob Georgeson presents 5 films that explore 5 themes of memory, loneliness, alienation, disquiet and mystery. The films include collaborations with several avant garde musicians who, like Georgeson, work across the globe and almost exclusively in the Creative Commons.
This exhibition forms part of M16’s Regional Initiative in 2019.
Image: Bob Georgeson, Flying Underground, (video still) 2017
Photo: courtesy of artist.
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Elaine Camlin
Gallery 3
17 January - Sunday 3 February 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 17 January
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 3 February
Investigating the repetitive tension between internal and external structures in organic systems. Camlin highlights the emotional connection to our universe through printmaking, drawing, small sculpture and collage.
This exhibition forms part of M16’s Regional Initiative in 2019.
Image:Elaine Camlin, untitled, 2018, monoprint and watercolour drawing
Photo: courtesy of artist.
29 November - 14 December 2018
Opening 6pm Thursday 29 November until 5pm Friday 14 December
This highly acclaimed prize, which has been running since 2006, includes an array of work produced on paper or other surfaces using either traditional or non-traditional drawing materials and techniques. All entries are produced within the past 12 months and the exhibition seeks to examine, challenge and open up a dialogue concerning definitions and perceptions of what drawing can be.
The judges for this year’s prize are Dr. Christopher Chapman, Senior Curator, National Portrait Gallery and Alison Alder, Head of Printmedia and Drawing, ANU School of Art and Design.
Finalists
Surya Bajracharya, Emma Beer, Joshua Bollback Butler, Katharine Campbell, Susan Chancellor, Tony Curran, Frances Feasey, Lauren Guymer, Anahid Hagobian, Nicci Haynes, Waratah Lahy, Alex Lundy, Kathryn McGovern, Cat Mueller, Kellie O’Dempsey, Annika Romeyn, Kaye Shumack, Alice Turner, Kate Vassallo, Madisyn Zabel.
Winner of the M16 Drawing Prize
Waratah Lahy
Waratah Lahy, 2018, 5 days at Jigamy Farm, graphite, watercolour pencil, tinted charcoal, water colour and ink on paper, 14 x 160 cm
Winner of the Delta Cleaning Services Prize
Tony Curran
Tony Curran, 2018, Wiggly Grids, watercolour marker and gouache on paper, 118.8 x 84cm
Winner of the Framing Store Braddon Prize
Frances Feasey
Frances Feasey, 2018, Night Watch, charcoal and conte on paper, 59 x 79 cm
Image: Waratah Lahy, 2018, 5 days at Jigamy Farm, graphite, watercolour pencil, tinted charcoal, water colour and ink on paper, 14 x 160 cm
Bronwynne Jones
Gallery 1
8 - 25 November 2018
Opening 6pm Thursday 8 November
Fashion is so often the domain of the tall, pin-thin models. It’s sad but true that most designers see this as the perfect shape on which to ‘hang’ their garments.
Thunder Thighs Fashion believes every woman has the right to couture. Designer Bronwynne Jones focuses on shape as a feature, not a flaw.
This exhibition will showcase Thunder Thighs’ new collection of garments designed for the perfectly pear-shaped woman. The exhibition commences with a runway show on opening night Get to know more about the genesis of the label with a designer talk. A workshop will explore how to dress for a body shape that deserves a place on the runway. The studio will also be open from 12-4 on Saturday 10 November and by appointment during the exhibition.
Image: Thunder Thighs, Fashfest, 2017
Photo: Doug Hall, Studio Vita
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Jeremy Brown
Gallery 2
8 - 25 November 2018
Opening 6pm Thursday 8 November
This exhibition is a culmination of works that question the role of furniture and objects in everyday life. The practical functionality of these artefacts is challenged and an emphasis is instead placed on developing connections with users. Recurring geometricized shell-like motifs reflect upon the built and natural environments, playing with notions of hard/soft and permanent/impermanent to disrupt expectations. encouraging meaningful interaction and connection with the works allow users the opportunity to become lost in their own thoughts; thus entering into reverie.
Image: Repose In Solitude, 2018, American white oak, wool felt, 66 x 110 x 50 cm.
Image credit: Prue Hazelgrove
Alan Howard
Gallery 3
8 - 25 November 2018
Opening 6pm Thursday 6 November
Interested in making every day tableware Alan Howard is showcasing his latest experiments with different coloured and textured glazes.
Image: Alan Howard, Studio view, 2018. Photo courtesy of artist.
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Jodie Cunningham
Gallery 2
18 October - 4 November 2018
Opening 6pm Thursday 18 October
In the exhibition ‘Bloom’ artist Jodie Cunningham exhibits a body of works on paper that use the languages of geometric abstraction, colour and symbolism. They journal her experiences of conflict, anxiety and heartbreak; and the joys of connection, love, and gratitude. Like an alchemist she transforms the energy of complex and sometimes negative emotions into vibrating, ‘blooming’ compositions.
The process Cunningham has used to create these images has been developed in the context of her busy life as a single mother and educator. In the rare moments she has to herself, during the early hours of the morning when sleep evades her, she creates images as a way of processing emotions and thoughts.
On a daily basis she immerses herself in colour, shape and pattern in an almost therapeutic meditation – resulting in an eclectic collection of image ‘seeds’. Selected images are further developed and refined, then printed in archival inks on gorgeous cotton rag paper.
Image: Jodie Cunningham, 2018, A little much for me, Digital print on fibre rag 310gsm
Canberra Art Workshop
Gallery 2
27 September - Sunday 14 October 2018
Opening 6pm Thursday 27 September
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 14 October
Showcasing CAW Special Events Tutors and their
Influence on our Art Development.
Image: Lori Smith, Crayon Boy, 2018, oil on canvas, 39 x 49cm.
The Watercolour Group
Gallery 3
27 September - 14 October
Opening 6pm Thursday 27 September
The intimate relationship between humans and plants has, through the ages, been central to the development of civilisation. Plants affect every aspect of our lives; diet, economics, customs, healing practices and artistic endeavour.
From the earliest civilisations plants were the subjects of drawings and paintings. The painting of food became a popular genre for Spanish Renaissance artists.
This series of Still Life paintings worked in gouache on black gesso takes a more modern look at edible plants in art. Works are in gouache on black gesso and incorporate traditional geometric two point perspective.
Image: Arjen Romeyn, Edible Plants, Goauche on black gesso, 70cmx50cm
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Romany Fairall
Gallery 3
29 November - 14 December 2018
Opening 6pm Thursday 29 November until 5pm Friday 14 December
Showing the outcome of Romany Fairall’s residency at M16 as part of the ANU Emerging Artists Support Scheme.
Image: Romany Fairall, Split Gill Pollen,2018, detail
Kendall Kirkwood
Gallery 3
16 August - 2 September 2018
Opening 6pm Thursday 16 August
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 2 September
History is always a reflection of the present direction society is thinking of taking. Our perception of then reveals who we are now in relation their understanding of how they thought the World ought to be and this depth provides scope for more chapters. Women, throughout history, have been equally plunged in these depths. But they have only relatively recently started to inhabit those chapters. hold tight, tomorrow aims to contribute to this movement. To give Anon a name. To give thought to all those women who have been broken by a society which did not understand the immensity of their creative capacity as they were living so far ahead of their time. This is not a stable series about loss. Rather, it is a dynamic collection exploring the incredible presence which breathes in their absence. These women stood strong in their differences against so many defences they fought to follow such previously abstract notions into knowing we too must hold on through the difficult, even when things seem impossible. Tomorrow will come and so will perspective.
Image: Kendall Kirkwood, sometimes, 2018, photograph.
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Llewellyn McGarry, Dierdre Pearce, Isobel Rayson, Alison Moeller and Kate McCambridge
Gallery 1a
5 July - Sunday 22 July 2018
In singular archivists the artists are exploring ways of registering their everyday presence at different levels of proximity with the surrounding space: bodily, domestic, environmental and digital. The discovery of place, the experimentation of mark-making, record-keeping practices and engagement with their environments are evident in the exhibited work. As artists, they use a combination of performance and documentary practices including photography, drawing, digital archiving and physical objects which evidence their presence in each space and the traces they leave behind.
Image: Dierdre Pearce, Alison Moeller and Kate McCambridge, one of the series fragments of an imagined existence, 2017, digital photograph documenting performance, Domain de Boisbuchet, Lessac, France, August 2017.
Photo credit: Dierdre Pearce, Alison Moeller and Kate McCambridge.
Caroline Ambrus & Lucile Carson
Gallery 2
3 May - Sunday 20 May 2018
Opening 6pm Thursday 3 May
Exhibitions continues until 5pm Sunday 20 May
A collaborative effort between Carson and Ambrus has physically manifested in visual re-telling of the childhood classic, The Wizard of Oz. The artists use warped light and a clever fusion of flat and 3D perspective to create an immersive installation.
Image: Caroline Ambrus, False Perspectives, 2017, oil on board, 120 x 120cm
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
READYMADES
Gallery 3
1 March - Sunday 18 March 2018
Opening 6pm Thursday 1 March 6pm
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 18 March
Alex Asch, Adele Rae Cameron, Nigel Lendon
Curated by Jas Hugonnet in collaboration with Al Munro
This exhibition presents Readymades highlighting the alchemical skill of the artist to see inherent artistic merit in existing objects.
There is a hint of irreverence to the gallery context as these un-worked objects are elevated beyond the everyday and bathed in light.
Image: Nigel Lendon, Untitled Industrial Structure, 1970, Unlimited Edition. Unique artist’s copy, 50 x 51 x 17cm
Photo: M16 Artspace.