2026

Saskia Haalebos /  by Exhibitions

Saskia Haalebos, FLOOD, 2018, paint marker on glass, child’s camouflage hunting-suit, using an excerpt from The Lake by author Jane Rawson, duration 12 hours 30 mins. Performed at Contour 556: Canberra’s Public Art Biennial, East Space, curated by Neil Hobbs. Image Sean Davey.

Saskia Haalebos (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who works with audio, book-arts, coding, performance-drawing, printmaking, film, text—whatever the idea needs around themes of time, empathy, and mis/communication.

Her highlights include: the National Gallery of Australia asking her to create a family program for their building’s 40th birthday; being a guest artist for the EXTRA! EXTRA! residency as part of the AGNSW’s Kaldor Public Art retrospective; being a sessional lecturer at the National Art School in Sydney; and having solo exhibitions with Goulburn Regional Art Gallery (NSW), Sawtooth ARI (TAS), Sydney Non-Objective (NSW), Canberra Contemporary Manuka (ACT), and Megalo Print Studio and Gallery (ACT).

In 2023 Saskia was the recipient of the inaugural M16 Studio Residency Program..


 

Odette Elix England /  by Exhibitions

Odette Elix England, Untitled, from the series 'The Long Shadow'. Credit: the artist.

Odette Elix England was raised in rural South Australia and now teaches photography in Australia and the USA. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, her work blends autobiography with photographs to explore place, gender, and rituals of loving and leaving. She has published six award-winning books. Her first novella Isn’t X Beautiful was published in 2026. She is currently working on her second novella, Once I Was A Photograph, and an experimental re-telling of Susan Sontag’s book On Photography.

 

Greg Stoodley /  by Exhibitions

Greg Stoodley, Greg and Orbit, 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.

Greg Stoodley is a photographer and artist who enjoys playing with aesthetics and materials from photography’s past and integrating them with digital media. He has a distinct love for black-and-white photography and analogue processes. The overriding theme of his work explores the relationship of the photographic image to time, especially as that relates to culture and its relationship to photography.

 

Stefanie Schulte /  by Exhibitions

Stefanie Schulte, Fading Away Into Nothing, 2024. Image courtesy of Brenton McGeachie

Dr Stefanie Schulte’s painting practice treats the studio as a colour laboratory, shaped by extended processes of mixing, testing and layering. Working across multiple canvases, she explores dynamic relationships between colours, balancing intuition, structure and surprise.

She also teaches visual arts, photography and German at Saint Francis Xavier College, Florey. A German artist, Stefanie studied Visual Arts in Spain and holds four degrees in the field: a Spanish Licentiate degree (BFA + MFA), a Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (Honours Degree), and a PhD. She also holds a Master of Secondary Teaching.

Stefanie has exhibited her work in Australia, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and The USA, with recent solo exhibitions in Canberra and Melbourne. Her work has been included in major group exhibitions, international curated shows, prize finalist exhibitions and museum acquisitions.

 

Elisa Crossing /  by Exhibitions

Elisa Crossing’s M16 Artspace Studio, 2025. Image courtesy of Cassia Abraham.

Elisa Crossing lives and work in Canberra on the custodial lands of the Ngnunawal and Ngambri people. A graduate of the ANU and Canberra School of Art, her professional career as a visual artist spans three decades with ten solo exhibitions and over 30 group shows exhibiting paintings drawings and 3D installation works, both locally and nationally. Crossing has been an innovative and enthusiastic arts educator for over twenty-five years, developing and delivering original content through practice-led teaching, as a lecturer at the ANU, School of Art & Design.

 

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Julie Pennington /  by Exhibitions

Julie Pennington in her M16 Artspace studio, 2025. Image courtesy of Cassie Abraham

Julie Pennington is a Canberra based ceramic artist whose work explores the subtleties and complexities of pattern and texture. Her hand built vessels and sculptural works are characterised by a distinct coiling and construction technique whereby the interior and exterior of the form are resolved simultaneously. This approach is not dissimilar to basketry and weaving which is a significant source of inspiration, as is building with small components in the manner of brick or stonework. A slow meditative process of repeated gestures creates a rhythm that is carefully balanced to embrace imperfection and show the hand of the maker. Observations and emotional responses to the natural environment and experiences in textiles, drawing and printmaking also influences the way in which Pennington interprets the world around her.

Pennington’s career in the visual arts began in the field of textile design, before pursuing her interest in ceramics and completing a Diploma of Ceramics at Moss Vale TAFE in 2010. Pennington has exhibited nationally and internationally and has been a finalist in several major ceramic competitions. She received the Scott Brickworks Award in the North Queensland Biennial Award in 2018 and the Significant 3D Award in the Stanthorpe Art Award 2016. Pennington has undertaken artist residencies in Australia, Spain and most recently at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park Japan in Nov/Dec 2024.


 

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