Residency Programs

ANU Emerging Artist Support Scheme

M16 Artspace is pleased to announce that Narrabundah Family Medical Practice is supporting two six month residencies in our Studio 22 for 2023. This studio has long been dedicated as a space to help establish emerging artists, curators and arts writers.

Narrabundah Family Medical Practice will provide two emerging artists with the opportunity to develop their artistic practices in a supportive and professional environment.

The residencies are awarded to two graduates from the ANU, as part of the ANU Emerging Artists Support Scheme and in 2023, Jonathon Zalakos and Clementine Bell are the awardees.

In 2016, the estate of the late Pete Smith generously donated $2600 to fund M16’s Emerging Artist Residency Program. The recipients were Clare Solomon, a mixed media artist; and Mei Wilkinson, who specializes in painting and mixed media.

If you are interested in supporting the studio program or the exhibition program at M16 Artspace please contact the Director, Dr Kirrily Jordan on (02) 6295 9438 and/or email: director@m16artspace.com

Here’s what Romany Fairall had to say about her residency with us in 2018

Being awarded a residency at Studio 22 was exactly what I needed as a freshly graduated emerging artist.
Having a work space kept me grounded whilst navigating the post-art school world, and allowed me to continue the creative momentum I gained during my Honours year.
24 hour access to the studio meant I could paint around my casual jobs, or whenever I was itching to make something. A studio made preparing for exhibitions much smoother, and introduced me to new artists and creative opportunities.
Studio 22 truly helped me find my footing in the art world, and I am infinitely grateful for the support and extended opportunities it has afforded me.

2023 Emerging Artist Support Scheme Recipients

Clementine Belle McIntosh

Clementine Belle McIntosh is an emerging rural artist from Gilgandra NSW, the waterhole meeting place of the Wiradjuri, Wailwan and Kamilaroi peoples. Through collaborative methods in circular systems, McIntosh produces predominantly textile-based, site-responsive installations representing her learnt sense of place.

Her process-based practice focuses on the act of mark-making to record local dialogues, exchanges and relationships connecting herself with others (strangers and/or the nonhuman). After art display, McIntosh's works are returned to local nonlinear systems as they are composted in the garden, gifted to a neighbour or repurposed into usable objects. Underpinning this methodology is a departure from the mainstream art market and its problematic hierarchies of care ie. the tendency to preserve cultural artefacts produced from a place but not preserving the place itself.

Jonathon Zalakos

Jonathon Zalakos is an emerging artist and contemporary jeweller based in Canberra, Australia, on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. He seeks to integrate traditional goldsmithing materials and techniques with contemporary practices and philosophical thought. His work takes the form of jewellery, interactive objects, digital media and installation. Jonathon is particularly interested in how meaning is co-produced through the processes of expression and perception.

This drives exploration into the visual language of cultural phenomena including contemporary pop jewellery culture, online viral media and the two-way relationship between the human and manufactured worlds. These concepts are deconstructed and reassembled so as to consider the different worlds we occupy with our bodies and minds.

Portrait of Jonathon Zalakos in studio. Image credit: Tracey Nearmy

NEW 2023 Residency Program

A Warm welcome and congratulations to our 2023 Residency Program recipient Saskia Haalebos!

M16 Artspace latest residency initiative, providing one successful applicant with a free studio onsite at M16 for 9 months in 2023 and a following exhibition in 2024.

During their residency , M16 will provide the support, resources and facilities to enable the selected artist to develop their artistic practise and produce a body of work, which they may exhibit in their own show in 2024.

This year, we welcomed applications from a broad constituency of cultural producers including artists, collectives, collaborators, writers and curators at all career levels.

We were blown away by the caliber of applications we recieved, from a wide range of practicing artists, working in mediums including painting, sculpture, installation, sound, performance, film, and video works!

Saskia Haalebos

Born on Ngunnawal Country, Saskia Haalebos is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with text, humour, film, melancholy, performance, printmaking—whatever the idea calls for really. With an existentialist heart and autism, most of her work is about memory, mortality, empathy or mis/communication.

Saskia has exhibited in local and interstate galleries; been awarded residencies with Megalo, CCAS and The Unconformity (TAS); and has work in various collections, including the NLA. Alongside this, she has created workshops for the NGA, Belconnen Arts Centre and Goulburn Regional Art Gallery; taught Book Arts at the National Art School; and currently works for the National Portrait Gallery.