Get to Work

WORK/SHOP, developed by Laura Couttie, engages four artist practitioners and collaborators (Debris Facility, Get to Work, OK YEAH COOL GREAT and Paradise Structures) who have developed conceptual retail projects for the ACCA bookshop...

At the time of this exhibition Aleks Danko was working with topics drawn from his own life experience as the son of migrant Ukranian parents born into the uniformity of suburban Adelaide. Themes of alienation, melancholy and displacement were confronted with humour in this exhibition which...

Glasgow-based artist Alan Currall’s new interactive work Encyclopædia used reality television, with its fly on the wall format, as its point of departure to create a kind of social experiment or observation with participants who analysed the everyday and ordinary...

...train station. The point of view within the video projection presented at ACCA was presumably that of the viewer searching for the work; getting on and off trains, walking underground, collecting clues, before finally witnessing someone else taking (snatching) the painting. The clues found within...

During Greater Together, ACCA will present WORK/SHOP, a corresponding project developed by Laura Couttie in the form of a relational retail space in ACCA’s foyer. Engaging four artist practitioners and collaborators who have developed conceptual retail projects, WORK/SHOP...

...a project that explores the commodification of creative output as well as new photography and sculptural works.Week 1: 14 – 18 October: Lucie McIntosh engages with techniques of abstraction and explores the materiality of print to create...

...eight individuals to participate in her artwork. Sydney-based, the artist will engage in weekly phone conversations with each participant, getting to know more about them and their opinions through inquiry and conversation. The resulting work will be a series of full-page headlines published weekly...

Lucy Guerin's major durational performance installation, NEWRETRO, draws on 21 existing dance works from the past 21 years, re-imagined by an ensemble of 21 dancers. The performance unfolds over an extended three-hour duration, inviting audiences into a space at once intimate and spectacular.

Malinowska, Patrick Staff. WORK/SHOP: Debris Facility, Get To Work, OK YEAH COOL GREAT, Paradise Structures. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art 111 Sturt Street...

...of finding it easier to write about other people’s work than their own and how to deal with failure. They ask the hard question; ‘What happens as you get older and your body can’t perform in the same way anymore?’...

Educators are invited to join us to celebrate the end of the school year and get the very first look at ACCA's summer exhibition Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism. As the last works are hung and finishing touches added, ACCA’s Artistic Director...

Making dreams come true: A conversation with visual artist Maree Clarke How important is it to visualise your work coming to life? How well do you know your self, your history and your place in the world? Tai and Maree get pretty heavy and emotional in an electric conversation about making...

Making dreams come true: A conversation with visual artist Maree Clarke How important is it to visualise your work coming to life? How well do you know your self, your history and your place in the world? Tai and Maree get pretty heavy and emotional in an electric conversation about making...

...nbsp; Read more about the work here »  How to get there: Shuttle Bus: Meet at ACCA by 7:15pm (no bookings required, limited seats available...

Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, a work which represents a striding figure who appears to be coming apart at the seams, has become an icon of the Italian avant-garde movement known as ‘Futurism’. In 1913, the time...

...or as worthy of veneration'. A word once reserved for religious images or symbols is now overused and abused by designers, marketers, and in contemporary media. But what does and doesn’t constitute an iconic work of design?Annemarie Kiely is the Melbourne Editor...

...18 March, The Age, Melbourne gets a $128m square deal, and one that really works27 August, The Age...

...but by permanently rescinding my artistic identity by joining with Jacqueline Riva and whoever we worked with, as A Constructed World. This distancing from the medium of painting was the only way to get out of the impoverished transcendence mentioned above.  To begin some kind of material account of what...

...occupy the built realm. Every building has a sensorial profile, but some are highly considered, tailored to evoke particular experiences and memories. At the pinnacle of such work stands Peter Zumthor, a Pritzker Laureate and winner of the 2013 RIBA Gold Medal Award. Slowly crafting cinematic...

...will explore the exhibition A Biography of Daphne before undertaking an interactive silicone cast workshop informed by artist Lauren Burrow's work A stick developing eyes 2020-2021. This is the third in our year-long series of fun, and relaxed hands...

Butler and Alexandra Peters, each workshop will introduce participants to new approaches and techniques related to the development of the artists' new work. This series is open to all and is an ideal professional development opportunity for educators and tertiary students...