Brigid Hardy | Chair

Brigid Hardy doesn’t just think outside the box, she reimagines it, paints it in bold colours, and turns it into a creative force. As a Board Member at M16 Artspace, Brigid brings her sharp strategic mind, big picture vision, deep leadership experience, and a passion for fostering vibrant, artistic communities. 

By day, she’s the driving force behind Interaction Consulting, shaping strategy, capability, and change with a fierce commitment to excellence. She brings that same energy to M16 Artspace, championing its mission to uplift and showcase incredible artists. With a knack for making things happen and a love for the unexpected, Brigid ensures that creativity, connection, and community remain at the heart of everything M16 does. 

Brigid believes that great art deserves great support. She blends strategy with soul and spirit, art with action, and governance with a generous dash of fun, because the best ideas are the ones that dare to be different. 

Patrick Morgan | Secretary + Acting Treasurer

Patrick Morgan is a communications and engagement specialist with a background in the arts and events space. Leading the ACT Communications and Engagement practice at AECOM, he drives innovative strategies to connect with stakeholders and communities on major projects across Australia. At the Property Council of Australia Patrick led communications and membership engagement for the ACT Division. As founder of Blahnket, Patrick enriched Canberra’s arts scene by curating events featuring internationally acclaimed producers alongside local musicians and visual artists, which activated unique and unlikely spaces. His expertise in community engagement, project management, sponsorship and fundraising supports M16’s vision for a vibrant, inclusive arts community. 

Mark Mohell | Tenant Representative

Mark Mohell is an accomplished and passionate visual artist. Canberra-based, Mark draws much of the inspiration for his photography from his local surrounds, as he traverses and contemplates the capital region’s unique urban and natural landscapes. There, he has been the esteemed Imaging Services Manager at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) for over a decade, where he is known for his mix of irreverence and reserve; his flowing auburn locks (once famously deployed in propagandist lip-sync homage to Madonna); and immersion in his Finnish heritage, manifesting in a mild sauna and birch branch obsession. 

Proficient in both film and digital formats, Mark has exhibited widely, and his works are held by various national and regional cultural institutions. His 2012 portrait of inaugural NPG Director Andrew Sayers AM was acquired by the Portrait Gallery the following year. In 2015 a series of his photographs was purchased by the Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG), where they immediately featured prominently in the exhibition Urban Suburban. Mark’s work also formed part of that institution’s 2018 showpiece ‘Celebration: 20 years of collecting visual art at CMAG’. In the same year his collection of portraits, Taglietti People – featuring renowned architect Enrico Taglietti and the people who owned and were influenced by his designs – showed as part of ‘Design Canberra’ at East Hotel. Most recently he was a finalist in the 2021 Bowness Photography Prize, and – with his striking video work, Eupnea – winner of the 2021 York Botanic Art Prize in Western Australia. 

Rachel Peachy | Tenant Representative

Rachel Peachey is an interdisciplinary artist based in Canberra, Australia, whose work explores human and ecological systems through video art, performance, and installation. With a background in Fine Arts (Textiles) and Human Ecology from the Australian National University, her practice investigates the intersections of place, movement, and lived experience, often drawing on field research and collaborations with musicians, dancers, and communities. 

Rachel’s work has been exhibited and screened internationally, including at the Sydney Opera House, National Gallery of Australia, Marseille’s Friche la Belle de Mai, and the Biennale of Australian Art. She has undertaken numerous artist residencies across Australia, Europe, and Asia, and has received accolades such as the 2024 North Sydney Art Prize Site Specific Award and the Hidden Rookwood Films Prize. 

Committed to deep engagement with place and audience, Rachel frequently integrates site-specific elements and themes of environmental change in her projects. Her recent works, such as New Mountain and Weathering, exemplify her dynamic approach to art as both inquiry and experience. 

Tara James

Tara James is an experienced arts manager with over a fifteen years’ experience working in National Cultural Institutions in conservation, registration, and exhibitions roles. Tara has worked and studied within the arts for over 25 years in a wide variety of roles. 

She is currently the Senior Exhibitions Project Coordinator at The National Portrait Gallery of Australia and manages their extensive touring exhibitions program.  

With an academic history in Visual Arts, Museum Practise and Arts and Cultural Management she has exceptional arts administration skills, broad project management experience and a deep understanding of working with small and regional galleries.  

Tara is committed to improving accessibility to cultural experiences, artist led practises and fostering arts communities through dynamic periods growth and change. 

Amandeep Kaur

Amardeep Kaur (Amardeep Shergill) is a multidisciplinary artist and business manager based in Canberra, Australia. Her artistic practice delves into the reinterpretation of heritage through contemporary materials, exploring familial connections and traditional craft-making skills. Central to her work are themes of culture, identity, migration, and the complexities of belonging to multiple spatial environments. 

A graduate of the Australian National University's School of Art and Design with a focus on Sculpture in 2017, Amardeep has showcased her work in both local and international exhibitions. Notably, she participated in Whenua Ūkaipō: Connectedness in Wellington, New Zealand, in 2020. In 2022, her work featured in the Bush Diwan exhibition, presented by the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art at Benalla Art Gallery. This exhibition celebrated the history of early Sikh settlers in regional Victoria and later traveled to Bunjil Place in Narre Warren, contributing to the Sikh community's reclamation of identity in Australia.  

Beyond her artistic endeavors, Amardeep brings over a decade of experience in business management, contributing administrative expertise and a robust network of connections to her family-run enterprise. Additionally, she has been associated with the Drill Hall Gallery for the past six years, further bridging her artistic insights with hands on experience as an arts professional. In her work her focus has been contributing towards the annual Diwali festivities each year, which celebrate ongoing culture and tradition in the local Canberra Indian migrant community. Through her multifaceted career, Amardeep continues to inspire and influence the intersection of art and business, fostering cultural dialogues and community engagement. 

Rosalind Lemoh

Rosalind Lemoh (b.Sierra Leone) makes sculpture and object based works. After graduating from the ANU School of Art in 2007 with first class honours, she has gone on to be a national finalist and exhibit internationally. Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia and the UK. 

Lemoh creates sculptural objects, assemblage, light and text-based works that range from miniature to full-body scaled. Replicating parts of the body, fruits, vegetables and found objects using highly detailed silicone rubber moulds, Lemoh skilfully casts new forms in concrete, bronze and aluminium. Life-like casts such as concrete marrow bones and dead magpies conjure sombre meditations, that are drawn from a preoccupation with the still-life genre. In tandem with text-based works, they illuminate a stream-of-consciousness-style narrative. Underpinning her work are questions around the role of art as memorial and the personal as political.  

In 2024, she was awarded the Robert Foster Memorial Award by Capital Arts Patron and held a solo exhibition at Canberra Glassworks. In 2025 she will be exhibiting new works for solo exhibitions at Woollahra Gallery Sydney and Canberra Contemporary as well as undertaking a residency at Bundanon. Rosalind joins the M16 Board as an advocate for long term sustainable arts practices in Canberra that supports inclusion and diversity. 

Aaron Crowe

Aaron Crowe is a live music booker and promoter based in Canberra. He developed his passion for music and the arts after moving to the ACT in 2013, attending shows at The Phoenix and discovering artists like TV Colours.  

Aaron’s career in the arts industry began in 2022 at the iconic Canberra live music venue and nightclub, sideway, where he played a pivotal role in nurturing both emerging and established local talent. Working closely with artists and members of the Canberra DIY scene, he also brought renowned acts from underground music scenes across Australia and internationally to the city. 

Following sideway’s closure in 2024, Aaron continues to book and promote independent, punk, underground, and countercultural music events through Sonic Business Ltd, working across a variety of live music venues in Canberra. In addition to his promotional work, Aaron is the Program Manager at MusicACT and plays bass in the latest iteration of the unstoppable Canberra power-pop band, New Age Group. 

With a strong commitment to fostering Canberra’s vibrant scene and building sustainable communities, Aaron is dedicated to supporting the local arts community and its continued growth.