Antoinette Karsten
Gallery 3b
26 November - 5pm Friday 11 December 2020
Limited RSVP Opening 6pm Thursday 26 November
Showing the outcome of two M16 Studio residencies awarded to two graduates from the ANU, as part of the ANU Emerging Artists Support Scheme. The emerging studio at M16 is supported by Narrabundah Family Medical Practice.
image: Antoinette Karsten, Do not tumble dry (detail), Reclaimed clothing, household paint, 35 x 50cm
Gallery 1
26 November - Friday 11 December 2020
Note open to the general public from 12 noon Friday 27th November
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Friday 11 December
The M16 Drawing Prize is an annual exhibition, focussing on works on paper (or other surfaces) using either traditional or not-traditional drawing material. The prize and associated exhibition seeks to examine, challenge and open up a dialogue ‘what is drawing’? The Prize attracts interstate and international entries. In 2020 it will be in it’s 15th year, running since 2006. All works must be produced in the year prior to the exhibition.
The judges for this year’s prize are Deborah Clark, Independent curator, writer and editor, formerly Senior Curator, Visual Arts at the Canberra Museum and Gallery and Gordon Bull, Art Historian, formerly Head, ANU School of Art.
This year all entries will be eligible for the online exhibition unless otherwise notified. Selected finalist will be displayed in Gallery 1, 26 November to 11 December.
Finalist Prizes
• The M16 Drawing Prize $5,000 (Main Prize)
• M16 People’s Choice award $1,000
• The Delta Cleaning Services Prize $ 500
• The Framing Store, Braddon Prize ($500 framing voucher)
Finalists announced Wednesday 11 November
Artwork delivery deadline Thursday 19 November 5pm
Exhibition opening and prize announcements Thursday 26 November 7pm
M16 People’s Choice award announcement Wednesday 9 December noon
Exhibition closes Friday 11 December 5pm
John Wiseman
Gallery 1
5 November - 22 November 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 5 November RSVP only
Note open to the general public from 12 noon Friday 6th November
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 22 November.
RESPECTFULLY INTRUDING 11 is an exhibition of images by John Wiseman Wildlife & Nature photographer.
The collection of images that have been selected are captured from a number of different countries which include, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Kenya Botswana, South Africa, India and Namibia.
“Evolving basically from landscape to wildlife photography really has worked for me and being able to photograph the stunning colourful hummingbirds of Ecuador/Costa Rica and appreciate how the images became aesthetic for most who viewed them.
The exhilarating emotion that is connected to photographing the wildlife in countries like Kenya,Botswana and Namibia is immeasurable and the rewards can be extraordinary in many ways including fulfilment of my dreams from many years ago .To be able to view a number of images in an exhibition is the pinnacle for me.
John Wiseman.
image: John Wiseman Green-crowned brilliant Hummingbird. 2015 Open edition. Image courtesy of the artist.
Manuel Pfeiffer and Eva van Gorsel
Gallery 1
15 October - 1 November 2020
Note open to the general public from 12 noon Friday 16th October
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 1 November.
After traveling from the Kimberleys, south to Perth and back to Canberra via the Nullarbor plain, artists Manuel Pfeiffer and Eva van Gorsel set out to capture the many facets of this magnificent continent.
Image: Eva van Gorsel, Fowlers Bay 3, 2020, Archival inkjet pigment print on Ilford smooth pearl paper, A2
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Al Munro
Gallery 1
Thursday 4 February until Sunday 21 February 2021
Limited RSVP Opening 6pm Thursday 4 February
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 21 February.
Pattern/Pleat is a continuation of Al Munro's investigation into patterns, folding and the relationship of abstract painting to textile design. Through the inclusion of folds or pleats in the artwork's physical structure, Munro activates the spatial experience of the painted surface. As one shifts around each work, areas of pattern are either revealed or hidden, enabling the co-existence of different forms based on the alignment of the viewer.
image AL MUNRO Square Fold 2, 2020, acrylic paint on constructed wood panel, 40x40cm, photo courtesy of the artist.
Ellen Shields
Gallery 1a
25 September - 11 October 2020
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 11 October.
Shields’ work examines the relationship we have to a universe that is agnostic to our own existence. Using elements of abstract expressionism and realism, Shields transports the viewer 7500 light years from earth to the Carina Nebula, where individual ego is dwarfed by chaotic beauty.
Image: Ellen Shields, Eagle Nebula, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 1100 x 850 cm.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Amy Powell
(EASS award)
Gallery 2
12 pm Friday 15 January- Sunday 31 January 2021
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 31 January
Stumbling across something unexpected can be exciting and challenging. Oasis attempts to bombard the senses with colour, shape, tone and detail to express the feeling of utter delight when being faced with a new environment or situation. Inspired by the stark disparity of stone and tile that make up the streetscape of Malta, Oasis is all about capturing life’s hidden treasures. Sometimes when faced with unexpected situations, we are forced to take a step back and look at the ‘bigger picture’, while others draw us in and make us analyse all of the details closely. Made up of 270 ceramic tiles, this work invites the audience to consider each tile as its own separate identity but also draws on the concept of capturing beauty from a single moment in time.
Showing the work from an awarded graduate of the ANU, as part of the ANU Emerging Artists Support Scheme. Powell was selected for this exhibition by the Chair of M16 artspace, Vasiliki Nihas.
Image: Amy Powell, Oasis (detail), 2019, acrylic paint, 91.4 x 76 x 1.3 cm. Photographer- Brenton McGeachie.
Kirsten Biven
Gallery 2
25 September - 11 October 2020
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 11 October.
In a world that values speed and perfection, Bivens’ art embraces slowness and imperfection. Her work explores the interconnection of things through patterns.
image: Kirsten Biven, 3 Introducing Yellow, ink on paper, 30 x 21cm
Phil Page
Gallery 3
12pm Friday 15 January- Sunday 31 January 2021
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 31 January
Phil Page continues his explorations into Australia’s urban environments, focussing this occasion on Melbourne and the way cities have developed as urban palimpsests.
image: Phil Page, Melbourne Hidden Gold Three , 2020, acrylic ink and metal leaf on prepared board, 31 x 23 cm.
Photo Credit: Dorian Photographs.
Brenton McGeachie
Gallery 3
25 September - 11 October 2020
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 11 October .
Mcgeachie’s work has explores the built/personal landscape of Canberra and other environments, photographed typically with a blend of natural and artificial light. It explore thes ‘ignored’ spaces of cities and suburbia.
image: Brenton Mcgeachie, Untitled no. 002, pigment ink on hahnemuhle paper, 600 mm X 430 mm.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Leonie Andrews
Gallery 1
3 September - 20 September 2020
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 20 September.
In 2019 Leonie Andrews invited people, via social media, to provide a square of cloth with one or two sets of stitches on it. Using whatever was sent by the contributors and then adding her own threads and stitches Andrews has responded to the squares given to her. This body of work continues Andrews exploration of developing work in a rules-based framework.
Contributions have come from people across Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, Scotland and the USA.
image: Leonie Andrews, stitch with opening stitches by Liz Lawrie, Coloured Vectors, 2019, 21.5 cm x 18.5 cm, Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Jess Higgins
Gallery 3
13 August - 30 August 2020
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 30 August.
OVER HEAD is an exhibition of Jess Higgins’ most recent work. These works are a visual response to the horrific bush fire season in Australia that spanned from July 2019 to February 2020. Jess’ home on the South Coast of NSW was amongst some of the many towns on the Australian East Coast heavily affected by this bushfire season. Jess has used charcoal that has washed up on the beach in her hometown Tuross Head and collected from the burnt bush land at Nerrigundah NSW. The works she has created explore themes of trauma experienced by the land and the people. She explores the sense of sacredness the charcoal holds and the importance of the materials used is reflective of the particular moment in time.
image: Over Head #4, (detail shot) 2020, charcoal from one tree beach on hahnemuhle paper
Clare Martin
Gallery 3
5 November - 22 November 2020
Note open to the general public from 12 noon Friday 6th November
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 22 November.
This series explores the paradox of mapping ‘nowhere’ via visual metaphors and erasures. Martin is pairing concepts from the domains of ‘maps’ and ‘nowhere’. The series progresses from well-defined representation towards minimalist abstraction.
image: Clare Martin, Desire Lines, 2020, white marking pen on tracing paper, 70 x 69 cm
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Jodi Woodward
Gallery 3
15 October - 1 November 2020
Note open to the general public from 12 noon Friday 16th October
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 1 November.
A large-scale installation made of hundreds of blackened wooden tiles, exploring expanded and contemporary drawing practices. The installation considers the relationship between trauma and chronic illness, questioning if tolerated pain, discomfort and suffering can be embedded in an artwork.
image: Jodi Woodward, Make It Darker, 2020, tile surface charcoal powder, oil stick, paint, thread, detail.
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Chris Holly
Gallery 1b
25 September - 11 October 2020
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 11 October.
What do we reveal when we scan nature around us?
Scanning across select elements of flora in a different light invites you, the viewer to observe in different ways.
The retinal and memory vestige of each scan will encourage us all to see again what is overlooked or perhaps even what may be previously unseen.
This work is part of the lifelong biome series, exploring and documenting our biological surrounds on the planet which sustains and supports us.
image: Chris Holly, Scan 03, 2019, type C print, detail
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Justin Wasserman
Gallery 2
27 February – 15 March 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 27 February
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 15 March.
Trajectories brings together a series of abstract drawings that trace their origin to visions of Daedalus and Icarus’ mythical escape from the Labyrinth. As the series evolved, I became less concerned with the detail of the original myth, and more focused on an exploration of line, form and colour, and how to balance increasingly intricate and colourful trajectories against a stylised landscape background. These drawings continue my ongoing interest with ancient Greek mythology and more modern allegories like Dante’s Divine Comedy. These classic tales of life, death and the hereafter provide a rich and enduring visual starting point for my work and have filled several projects with increasingly abstracted and symbolised representations of their mythical characters.
image: Justin Wasserman, Trajectory-33.1, 2019, oil pastel and graphite on paper, 35 x 45cm.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Caroline Ambrus and Annette Schneider
Gallery 3
27 February – 15 March 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 27 February
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 15 March.
"Cease and desist" means to stop what you are doing and don't do it again. Caroline Ambrus depicts this edict in respect to male cruelty towards women, and likewise, Annette Schneider focuses on animals and the environment.
image: Caroline Ambrus, Cease and desist.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Canberra Art Workshop members’ annual exhibition
Gallery 1
13 August - 30 August 2020
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 30 August.
CAW latest group exhibition will be centered around themes of Environmental Health and Human Health. The exhibition seeks to become a platform for change.
image: Ilona Lasmanis, Magpie Dreaming No 4, 2020, relief print on paper, 23x57cm
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
Dan Power and Luke Hadland
Gallery 1
16 January – 2 February 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 16 January
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 2 Feburary
An investigation into the anthropogenic erosion of biodiversity in the natural world. It explores the disruption of ecosystem structure and impact of invasive species by illustrating the story in a personal way.
Image: Dan Power, Boarskull, 2019. Pen and Ink on BoarSkull, 15x25x20cm
Photo: courtesy of artist.
Justine McLaren
Gallery 2
13 August - 30 August 2020
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 30 August.
In this body of work multiple scientific glass tubes sustain individual ecosystems for the native rushes that grow within. Flameworked glass roots have been welded onto the base of the tubes in veinous shapes, hinting at a likeness to human veins and capillaries. The tubes provide the basic foundations for the plants to seek out nutrients, put down their tiny roots and develop.
Each tube is a small capsule that allows the plants to display their nature, an opportunity for the viewer to reflect on the strength and fragility of plant life.
image: Justine McLaren, Receptacle 2, 2019, glass, coated copper wire, ash, japonica, h45cm x w14cm x d14cm.
Photo: Lean Timms
Sian Watson
Gallery 2
16 January – 2 February 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 16 January
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 2 February
Migration is an investigation into the movement and environmental displacement of humans and birds. Watson uses sculpture and photo mediums to explore the human/animal figure in contrasting and sometimes extreme environments. Through varied landscapes, Watson shows the seemingly inhospitable habitats utilised by necessity in the current global climate.
Part of M16’s Regional Initiative where regional artists receive a fully supported exhibition and links to Canberra.
Image: Sian Watson, Snow Flight, 2019, Digital Print
Photo: courtesy of artist.
Brenda Goggs
Gallery 3
16 January – 2 February 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 16 January
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 2 Feburary
This body of work comprises 31 woven tapestries, that provide glimpses of iconic Australian moments and explore Australian Identity.
Image: Brenda Goggs, And did those feet in ancient time, 2018, mixed media tapersty. Photo: courtesy of artist.
Sally O’Neill
Gallery 2
12 Noon Friday 20 March - 5 April 2020
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 5 April.
There’s Nothing to See Here is a series of self-portraits, including acrylic paintings on canvas and one stop motion animation video.
O’Neill gives the mundane new emphasis, compelling my audience to consider the value of the ordinary in their own lives. Her personal narrative therefore, is a shared experience; a contemporary story.
image: Sally O’Neill, what makes the world go around, acrylic on canvas.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Domenic Mico
Online Gallery 1
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 5 April.
Glimpses of the universe by Domenic Mico OAM, arts identity and founder of the National Multicultural Festival. Mico is no astronomer but the challenges posed by the celestial spheres have allowed him to experiment with colour while also capturing the minutiae of the extra-terrestrial formations. This series of large formation oil paintings conjure cosmic clouds, nebulae and constellations.
image: Domenic Mico, Untitled, 2019, acrylic on canvas, detail.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
M16 Artspace presents Welcome to Leopard Beach the one night exhibition and performance by Omar Musa.
Wednesday 18 December 2019
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Tickets $15
Tickets can be purchased HERE through eventbrite.
Leopard Beach is a place I invented in my head to escape to once when I was feeling depressed. In Leopard Beach, the weather is sweet as a kiss. " It is plastic free, hater free and 100% body positive!" The endagered clouded leopard of Borneo flourishes here, the ocean is full of fish and the laksa is free-flowing. Come visit this tropical little utopia and have a noodle soup and a pineapple juice on me. I’ve made woodcuts about Leopard Beach combining poetry and pop iconography with techniques I learned back in my homeland of Borneo, East Malaysia, where woodcuts are a popular artform, especially in the punk rock scene.
Welcome to Leopard Beach focuses on longing and escapism in a way that is hopefully poetic, at times moving and mostly tongue-in-cheek. Is escapism a merely a distraction, a suppresant, a fearful response to the brutal, banal reality of our lives? Or is it expansive, something that can be used to set the templates for social/environmental change and imagine worlds in the way they could be?
DJ Roshambo will be playing a tropical themed music set. I will be doing a 30 min set of poetry and music. It will be catered and there will be pina coladas.
Omar Musa
Image: Omar Musa, Welcome to Leopard Beach, woodcut print. Photo courtesy of artist.
The M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, established in 2006 has become highly acclaimed and sought after, attracting a record number of high calibre entries nationally and internationally. A wide array of work is submitted on diverse surfaces and using diverse media, both traditional and non-traditional materials and techniques. The annual exhibition seeks to examine, challenge and open up a dialogue concerning definitions and perceptions of what drawing can be.
The 2019 Judges
Karina Harris and Neil Hobbs
Landscape Architects, Collectors and Curators of Contour 556
Awards include:
The Philip Leeson Architects’ Prize of $ 5,000 (Main Prize) http://www.philipleeson.com.au/
Winner: Nicci Haynes, mad walk, animation, 2mins 16secs (still), 2019.
The Peoples Choice Award $ 1000
Winner: Catherine O'Donnell, Sirius -a study in concrete Charcoal on paper 46 X 151 cm 2019
The Delta Cleaning Services Prize $ 500
Winner: Carolyn Craig, bacterial nervosa, sound loops, bacteria, petrie dishes, MP3players 2 shelves each 50cm x 20cm, 2019.
The Framing Store, Braddon $ 500 voucher
Winner: Andrea Wilson, CBD Gothic, charcoal on paper, 53 x 56cm, 2019.
Image: Catherine O'Donnell, Sirius -a study in concrete, Charcoal on paper 46 X 151 cm 2019
Madeline Young
Gallery 3
12 Noon Friday 20 March - 5 April 2020
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 5 April.
Click Here for the Online Gallery opening on Thursday 19 March.
This body of work is an ode to the bush and the landscape that surrounds my home in Orange, NSW and is a reflection of my obsession with eucalyptus trees. Their uniqueness and resilience, to me, is beautiful and something to be celebrated. After the recent bushfires in our area I’ve taken many field trips into the landscape just to admire the form and colours of the blackened trees. I drive through this landscape every day. The moments of quiet when you manage to escape the white noise of civilisation are precious to me.
image: Madeline Young, After The Fire, 2019, oil on canvas, 62x62cm.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Ziggy Davey and Kayla Piris
Gallery 3
28 November - 15 December 2018
Opening 6pm Thursday 28 November until 5pm Friday 15 December
Showing the outcome of Ziggy Davey and Kayla Piris’s 6 Month residencies at M16 as part of the ANU Emerging Artists Support Scheme.
Image: Kayla Piris, Waiting for the last bus. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 26.25 cm x 60 cm
Bob McKendry, Kris Kerehona, Lisa Mattiazzi, Mark Mohell and Prue Hazelgrove
Gallery 1
7 - 24 November 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 7 November
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 24 November
There is profound liberation in the unpredictable, instinctive nature of simply experiencing the world – alive – away from the strictures of life’s routines and minutiae, social shackles cast aside. It is something that transcends any conscious outlook: to imbibe without limitation; to feel without rationale; to simply be and bear witness.
Image: Bob McKendry, River 1, 2018, 1390cm x 2010cm, Photo courtesy of artist.
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Tin Shed Art Group
Jenny Adams, Noelle Bell, Julie Delves, Eva van Gorsel, Manuel Pfeiffer, Alan Pomeroy, Peggy Spratt and Delene White.
Curated by Manuel Pfeiffer
Gallery 1
6 February – 23 February 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 6 February
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 23 February
This Group exhibition creates a series of works where light is featured as the focal point in their chosen medium and practice. Illumination is examined and explored through painting, sculpture and photography.
image: Eva van Gorsel, Light playing with Kelp 1 (of a series of 6), 2019, Inkjet pigment print on Ilford smooth pearl paper - 21.7 x 38.6 cm.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Alicia Gilchrist
Gallery 2
6 February – 23 February 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 6 February
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 23 February
Abstract paintings evoking emotions through use of colour and composition.
image: Alicia Gilchrist, The Sheriff, 2018, acrylic paint and 300 gsm paper, 70 cm x 50 cm.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Dörte Conroy
Gallery 3
6 February – 23 February 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 6 February
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 23 February
To be opened by Helen Maxwell.
Conroy creates playful sculptures that respond to the architectual building process. “Paddle pop sticks revealed themselves to be a very charming but also surprisingly challenging material.”
image: Dörte Conroy, untitled, 2018, paddle popsticks and glue, 15 x 15 x 5 cm.
Photo: courtesy of the artist
Students from the Indigenous youth artist development program.
Gallery 3
13 - 30 June 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 13 June
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 30 June
Gatherings is a project that is investing in long-term relationship building with youngIndigenous artist and the studio artists of M16. As the program progresses the students will begin exploring these relationships by creating preliminary works that will be displayed in this exhibition.
Image: Bryd, locality agrigator, 2019, enamel stencils (70 layers) on board, 40cm x 40cm
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Artists Society of Canberra
Gallery 3
23 May - 9 June 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 23 May
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 9 June
Same time, same place explores a sense of identity, connection, meaning, longing and attachment to a particular place. By allowing the artist to examining the passage of time by returning or re-connection to the well-known or familiar.
Image: Steve Tomlin, The harbour (detail), 2019, acrylic and collage on canvas.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Emilio Cresciani
Gallery 2
21 March – Sunday 7 April 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 21 March
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 7 April
Through the delicate patterns of the shattered glass we see the dark nature of rampant consumerism and the devastation of our environment that is required to sustain it. Both the cars and our road networks become redundant. The black and white references our impaired perception of what we are doing to our world: For now we see through a glass, darkly.
A car-recycling yard in western Sydney houses hundreds of smashed cars, row upon row. Their bonnets up, car-lovers stroll through the landscape to purchase spare parts. As I cut out the glass sheets from the cars the safety glass stayed intact and formed interesting patterns. The cracks look like streets seen from above.
Image: Emilio Cresciani, Fragment #13, Through a glass, darkly, 2017, chromogenic print, 23 x 35cm