Ross Andrews, SCARP 001, 2026. Image courtesy of the artist.
M16 Artspace Studio Artists
Gallery 1
Opening Thursday 14 May, 2026, 6-8pm
Friday 15 May - Sunday 7 June
Ross Andrews | Louise Allerton | Di Broomhall | Elisa Crossing | Thomas Crowhurst | Liz Faul | Lynne Flemons | Val Gee | Saskia Haalebos | Nathan Hughes | Mark Mohell | Peachey & Mosig | Al Munro | Melissa Nickols | Stefanie Schulte | Kerry Shepherdson
Curated by Eason Lin
The Quiet Between is a group exhibition bringing together M16 studio artists, aiming to create a space that is not predefined, presenting artistic practices that engage with diverse dimensions of landscape, material, memory, and perception. The exhibition cultivates a quiet and open environment in which meaning gradually emerges through attentive viewing, encounters with artworks, and sustained observation.
This exhibition approaches artistic practice as a space that unfolds between individuals and their environments, between perception and interpretation, and between the visible world and inner reflection. Rather than a fixed state, this “between” is understood as a condition of ongoing relation, where meaning gradually emerges through experience rather than being predetermined.
In a time when large-scale forces accelerate beyond our capacity to fully comprehend or respond, experience is increasingly compressed into immediacy. Artistic practice, in contrast, offers a different rhythm. It creates a quieter interval in which perception can slow down, allowing space for observation, contemplation, and making. Within this interval, the individual is able to re-enter into a relationship with the world.
The exhibition brings together artists whose practices are grounded in sustained attention to landscape, material, memory, image, and form. Their works operate between experience and expression, where meaning does not appear instantly but unfolds over time through encounter.
In The Quiet Between, audiences will encounter works by artists including Ross Andrews, Thomas Crowhurst, Elizabeth Faul, Val Gee, Al Munro and Dr Stefanie Schulte, alongside many other studio practitioners. Through diverse media-based artistic practices, their works respond to relationships between landscape, material and environment, allowing meaning to gradually emerge through intuition, experimentation and sustained observation.
Informed by phenomenological thought—particularly Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of perception as relational and embodied—the exhibition considers artistic practice as a way of inhabiting the space between sensing and understanding. Rather than presenting fixed interpretations, The Quiet Between invites audiences to engage with works through duration, attention, and lived experience.