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This satellite exhibition features works by Lynne Flemons, Nick Offer, Madeline Cardone and Savanhdary Vongpoothorn in the Civic Art Bureau window gallery. Exhibition opening: Saturday 2 August 3pm - 5pm
Exhibition runs: Saturday 2 August - Sunday 17 August 2025
Gallery opening times: Civic Art Bureau Window Gallery is available for viewing 24hrs a day. The upstairs gallery is open Thurs - Sat 12pm-5pm, Sun 2pm - 5pm or by appointment.
Address: Unit 1/78 Alinga St, Canberra ACT 2601
Founded in 1985, M16 Artspace is an inclusive organisation that supports a thriving arts community of emerging and established artists. Located in Griffith, Canberra, M16 runs three gallery spaces, manages 30 artist studios and houses five arts organisations that offer art classes.
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of M16 Artspace, the M16 x CAB 40th Anniversary Satellite Show commemorates M16’s legacy of high-calibre studio artists and the thousands of artworks that have been produced and exhibited at M16 over the past 40 years. This show brings together the work of three accomplished M16 Studio artists; Lynne Flemons, Nick Offer, and Madeline Cardone, and esteemed Studio alumni Savanhdary Vongpoothorn.
'Meander, Valley of Creeks (Gudgenby)', was painted by Lynne Flemons in response to her time spent in the Gudgenby Valley, in Namadgi National Park. This work is an energetic exploration of Lynne’s observations during her Craft and Design Residency in Namadgi National Park. She reflected;
‘Whilst an AIR I spent time walking and drawing around the Gudgenby Valley. This painting is a compilation of those walks that took me into the landscape from the Gudgenby Read-Cut Cottage, around granite outcrops, over and around creek and wetlands. In the valley, there are many creeks that cross and converge, meandering onward, and there is much work done by National Park Rangers that stay in the homestead, also depicted, to maintain and improve this beautiful and significant landscape.’
Nick Offer’s 'Portrait of a Dead Tree' combines his dual interests in landscape and portraiture and reframes his figurative depiction of a dead tree within a landscape as a humanised subject matter presented in portrait format. This work signals his contemplation and memorialisation of life and death cycles in the everyday.
These themes are also explored through the language of abstraction with Madeline Cardone’s glass wall piece 'Slick' in which an undulating, skin-like texture has been captured in iridescent, kiln-formed glass. The work embraces the posthuman with material playfulness, teetering between the human and non-human – the effect is both dazzling and unsettling to grasp.
Savanhdary Vongpoothorn’s 'Timbre III' is an abstract intaglio print edition the artist produced in 2005. This work is an exploration of undulating colour layers, composed of hundreds of dots in a gridded composition. This work is consistent with the artist’s decades long fascination with the grid as a compositional tool and theoretical approach to abstraction. Consistent with Vongpoothorn’s longstanding body of work, Timbre III utilises the grid as a site of meditation, enabling her to explore Buddhist concepts through abstraction.
Artworks in this exhibition have been kindly donated to the 40th Anniversary Fundraiser by the artists and are available to be yours in the online raffle fundraiser. The raffle will be drawn on Saturday 1 November at 7.30pm at M16 Artspace.
The M16 40th Anniversary Fundraiser Project is kindly supported by the exhibiting artists, Civic Art Bureau, The Framing Store, Living Arts Canberra and Brenton McGeachie Photography.
Acknowledgement of Country:
M16 Artspace operates on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people. We honour and pay our respects to their traditional custodians. We acknowledge this land always was and always will be the country of Australia’s First Nations People. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Accessibility:
Public transport: This gallery is located next to the Alinga St Light rail stop and is a short walk from the Civic Bus Interchange.
Please go to https://www.transport.act.gov.au/ to view timetables as they are subject to change.
Parking: There is limited public parking in this area.
Wheelchair access: There is a small lift and staircase to access the upstairs gallery, however this can be too narrow for some wheelchair users.
Bathrooms: There is one wheelchair accessible and gender-neutral bathroom located in Upstairs Smiths Alternative.
If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to reach us at [email protected]
Image credit: Lynne Flemons, 'Meander, Valley of Creeks (Gudgenby)', 2025, Acrylic on Canvas, 120 x 180 cm. Brenton McGeachie.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Civic Art Bureau, 78 Alinga St, City ACT 2601, Australia, Canberra
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