M16 Artspace is excited to announce we are now accepting applications for the first half of our 2024 exhibition program.

Applications close Friday, March 31st at 11:59pm AEST.

Submit applications to director@m16artspace.com

Applications in flexible formats or languages will be accommodated wherever possible. If you have accessibility requirements, please contact us via any of the details below.

Office: Wednesday – Friday, 12 – 5
Gallery: Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 5
For general enquiries: (02) 6295 9438
Email: director@m16artspace.com

Welcoming our New Studio artists and residents!

M16 Artspace is so excited to welcome our new residents and studio artists, through our various programs and initiatives!

Supported by Narrabundah Family Medical Practice, M16 Artspace provides two artists each with a six month residency in our Studio 22. This studio has long been dedicated as a space to help establish emerging artists, curators and arts writers and will enable M16 Artspace to provide the 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.

Photo of artist studio at the KEPK art space in Yeerongpilly QLD, 2022.
Image credit: Clementine Belle McIntosh

Clementine Belle McIntosh, Blanket in Place, 2022.
Image courtesy of the artist.

Photo of artist and work in Titjikala NT during the Aboriginal Art Centre Internship (AACI) awarded by the National Art School upon graduating in 2020.

Image credit: Clementine Belle McIntosh

Clementine Belle McIntosh

Clementine Belle McIntosh is an emerging rural artist based in Gilgandra NSW, the waterhole meeting place of the Wiradjuri, Wailwan and Kamilaroi peoples.

Her practice looks at collaboration, circular economies and site-responsive making to materialise local community dialogues and systems.

Clementine Belle McIntosh, Local Gifts, 2022.
Image courtesy of the artist.

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.

Jonathon Zalakos ,Ticks, 2021. Sterling silver, cubic zirconia. Image courtesy of the artist.

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

Jonathon Zalakos ,Ruby bug, 2021. Sterling silver, synthetic ruby.
Image courtesy of the artist.

Jonathon Zalakos, Emerald bug, 2021. Sterling silver, synthetic emerald.
Image courtesy of the artist.

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 miscommunication.

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.

Saskia Haalebos, Image credit: Mark Mohell

Saskia Haalebos, Score No. 0019 (Bauhaus Manifesto), 2019, installation shot. Image Brenton Mcgeachie.

Saskia Haalebos, Threshold, 2019. Image Brenton McGeachie

Saskia Haalebos, Satellites, 2018, installation shot. Image Brenton McGeachie

Welcoming our New Studio Resident

Image courtesy of Nathan Hughes.

Nathan Hughes

Nathan is an artist/filmmaker/musician with a diverse background in audio-visual narrative and site-specific immersive theater.

Encounters, the UK’s leading short-film festival described his work as ‘demonstrating a distinctive cinematic and artistic vision’, and it has been supported by Creative Europe, London Screenwriter’s Festival and the British Council.

His award-winning dramas, documentaries, and design fictions have screened internationally, and he has mentored young screenwriters to develop media resources to combat ideological radicalisation.