Kristina Neumann
Gallery 3a
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.
In Art and Home, Imogen Racz says “[o]bjects become ballast that people bring with them to provide a sense of continuity between the past and the future”. Because millennials are moving more often, objects which are small and meaningful help to maintain identity and a sense of belonging. Jewellery, due to its personal nature, portability and familiarity, is ideal in serving this role.
In Australia, due to extremely high cost of living, young adults experience anxieties with respect to housing when leaving the family home. My piece engages with themes that respond to these experiences of the ‘home’ for Australian millennials. My practice-led research establishes a visual language through experiments with materials and forms taken from my past and present homes.
Bio:
Kristina Neumann is an early career artist & designer-maker from Canberra. Neumann’s work has been recognised nationally and internationally through a number of awards and prizes including the Talente 2020: International Craft Exhibition Prize, at the Handwerkskammer in Munich, Germany, the Toowoomba Regional Gallery Contemporary Wearables Emerging Artist Prize and the CAPO Robert Foster Memorial Award. She graduated from the ANU School of Art Jewellery & Object Workshop with honours in 2019.
Image: Surface Portrait 2019, 925 silver, dryer lint, silk, adhesive Photo by Simon Cottrell
Angharad Dean
Gallery 3
25 February - 14 March
Limited RSVP opening 6pm Thursday 25 February
Exhibition runs until 5pm Sunday 14 March
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Angharad Dean presents a series of solar plate etchings of a naked woman standing in poses calling halt to exploitation, a halt to violence and halt to the idea that the only form of female beauty is young and slim.
Dean’s woman is depicted in a series of quickly drawn poses, showing her body as strong and that with age comes wisdom, strength and a supple round body.
image: Angharad Dean, This is Rest, 2020. Solar plate etching on paper, 30 x 21 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Gallery 1
M16 Studio Artists
Open to the public from 12pm Friday 24 July
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 9 August.
The humble pizza box is the catalyst for 2020’s M16’s studio artists’ exhibition. Each artist was given a pizza box as the starting point to a work. The box could be painted, deconstructed, reassembled, incorporated into an installation or used as packaging. M16 Does Pizza will represent a broad cross-section of Canberra’s artistic practitioners, the exhibition aims to highlight the diversity of professional art practice at M16 though a shared medium.
Curator: Jas Hugonnet, Director, M16 Artspace
Image: Lani Shea-An, Moss, mist, fog, headlights, 2020, acrylic and pizza box on wood, 26x33cm
David Hempenstall
Thursday 15 October
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 1 November.
Note open to the general public from 12 noon Friday 16 October
Gallery no.2
Hempenstall brings together a long standing rephotographic interest with some recent, tentative steps into the new materiality (for him) of the sculptural form. He is finding a pseudo "cabinets of curiosities" delight in the potential melding of the differing efforts along what is becoming a singular vein of interest.
Image: Untilted (Baghdad 2006) detail. Image courtesy of the artits
Abstract works by M16 Artists curated by Jas Hugonnet/ Director/ M16 Artspace
Gallery 1
27 February – 15 March 2020
Opening 6pm Thursday 27 February
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 15 March.
Kate Vassallo
James Lieutenant
Tony Curran
Fiona Little
Sanne Koelemij
Di Broomhall
Derek O Connor
Kerry Shepherdson
Andrea McCuaig
Mark Making focusses on the nexus between gestural mark making the creation of depth within the picture plane. A key aspect of these works is how texture and the juxtaposition of colour play a vital role. Collectively the exhibition highlights the power of the viewer to inhabit abstraction through the minds’ eye.
Image: Kate Vassallo, Autumn, 2018, coloured pencil on paper, 80 x 56cm
Naomi Zouwer
Gallery 2
3 September - 20 September 2020
Exhibition runs until 5 pm Sunday 20 September.
”In the first month of ISO I began a new ritual of making a painting in one sitting every day. I started picking things from my sewing box which holds my collection of nostalgic remnants such as; ricrac, Glomesh, sequins, beads and braid and then added the occasional leaf, rock or seed pod picked up from my daily walk with my family.
With each painting, I played with compositions to reflect the social distancing regulations as they were changing from groups of 10 people outside, then to 5 people, then to staying at home with your ‘cluster’. These simple items can be seen as metaphors for these strange times of touching and not touching, staying at home, being inside and separated from others. “
image: Naomi Zouwer, Strange Days Indeed, 2020
Photo: courtesy of the artist.
UK Frederick
Gallery 2
17 October - 3 November 2019
Opening 6pm Thursday 17 October
Exhibition continues until 5pm Sunday 3 November
Fan Mashups, is a series of videos made by editing and reassembling ‘found’ online covers of popular songs. Each mashup is a new rendition made from the collective voices of ordinary people. They comprise personal interpretations, tributes, or imitations of a well-known song, performed by people in the sanctuary of their bedrooms and lounge rooms and then posted through video channels to an anonymous global audience.
Fan Mashups was first screened at M16 as part of the exhibition Faded Crush, an exhibition of video and photomedia-based prints exploring fandom, celebrity and desire expressed through popular music cultures. Fan Mashups, like the show Faded Crush, focuses on the personal experiences and emotions that underpin the mass-production and consumption of popular music. It reflects on the relationship between fame and anonymity and the iconic and mundane by engaging with ideas of fandom and the vernacular expressions generated through the listening experience.
Image: UK Frederick, Fan Mashups: Ziggy Stardust, Crimson and Clover, Because the Night, 2016, video stills.
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