1st Prize - Lynne Flemons, Meander, Valley of Creeks (Gudgenby), 2025, Acrylic on Canvas, 120 x 180 cm. Valued $4,000

Opening | Lynne Flemons, Nick Offer, and Madeline Cardone, and Savanhdary Vongpoothorn.

What: Exhibition opening
When: Saturday 2 August, 3pm – 5pm.
Where: Civic Art Bureau, Unit 1/78 Alinga St, Canberra ACT 2601
Cost: Free

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In celebration of the 40th anniversary of M16 Artspace, the M16 x CAB 40th Anniversary Satellite Show commemorates M16’s legacy of high-calibre studio artists and the thousands of artworks that have been produced and exhibited at M16 over the past 40 years. This show brings together the work of three accomplished M16 Studio artists; Lynne Flemons, Nick Offer, and Madeline Cardone, and esteemed Studio alumni Savanhdary Vongpoothorn.

'Meander, Valley of Creeks (Gudgenby)', was painted by Lynne Flemons in response to her time spent in the Gudgenby Valley, in Namadgi National Park. This work is an energetic exploration of Lynne’s observations during her Craft and Design Residency in Namadgi National Park. She reflected;

‘Whilst an AIR I spent time walking and drawing around the Gudgenby Valley. This painting is a compilation of those walks that took me into the landscape from the Gudgenby Read-Cut Cottage, around granite outcrops, over and around creek and wetlands. In the valley, there are many creeks that cross and converge, meandering onward, and there is much work done by National Park Rangers that stay in the homestead, also depicted, to maintain and improve this beautiful and significant landscape.’

Nick Offer’s 'Portrait of a Dead Tree' combines his dual interests in landscape and portraiture and reframes his figurative depiction of a dead tree within a landscape as a humanised subject matter presented in portrait format. This work signals his contemplation and memorialisation of life and death cycles in the everyday.

These themes are also explored through the language of abstraction with Madeline Cardone’s glass wall piece 'Slick' in which an undulating, skin-like texture has been captured in iridescent, kiln-formed glass. The work embraces the posthuman with material playfulness, teetering between the human and non-human – the effect is both dazzling and unsettling to grasp.

Savanhdary Vongpoothorn’s 'Timbre III' is an abstract intaglio print edition the artist produced in 2005. This work is an exploration of undulating colour layers, composed of hundreds of dots in a gridded composition. This work is consistent with the artist’s decades long fascination with the grid as a compositional tool and theoretical approach to abstraction. Consistent with Vongpoothorn’s longstanding body of work, Timbre III utilises the grid as a site of meditation, enabling her to explore Buddhist concepts through abstraction.

Artworks in this exhibition have been kindly donated to the 40th Anniversary Fundraiser by the artists and are available to be yours in the online raffle fundraiser. The raffle will be drawn on Saturday 1 November at 7.30pm at M16 Artspace.

The M16 40th Anniversary Fundraiser Project is kindly supported by the exhibiting artists, Civic Art Bureau, The Framing Store, Living Arts Canberra and Brenton McGeachie Photography.

Exhibition runs from 2 August to 17 August

Prizes

From top to bottom:
1st Prize - Lynne Flemons, Meander, Valley of Creeks (Gudgenby), 2025, Acrylic on Canvas, 120 x 180 cm. Valued $4,000. Brenton McGeachie Photography.
2nd Prize - Savanhdary Voongpoothorn, Timbre III, 2005, Intaglio, plate-mark 34.7 h x 29.4 w cm, sheet 61.2 h x 46 w cm. Valued $2,500. Brenton McGeachie Photography.
3rd Prize - Nick Offer, Dead Tree, 2024, Oil on aluminium composite board, 41 x 60cm. Valued $1,600. Courtesy of the artist.
4th Prize - Madeline Cardone, Slick, 2025, Kiln formed glass, 230 x 250 x 30mm. Valued $1,500. Courtesy of the artist.