Andy Butler
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Exhibition
Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions
Remains brings together works by Kim Ah Sam, Andy Butler, Teelah George, Alexandra Peters, Joel Sherwood Spring, Nicholas Smith and Salote Tawale. Collectively, these artists engage with a broad range of historical reference points, from family stories and lore, the annals of pop-culture and industry...
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Program
Winter Workshop: Andy Butler
Join exhibiting artist Andy Butler for a relaxed, approachable participatory workshop exploring writing as a generative creative process for artmaking and idea formation...
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Program
Artist Talks: Andy Butler, Alexandra Peters and Nicholas Smith
Join artists Andy Butler, Alexandra Peters and Nicholas Smith for talks in the gallery, on their new works presented as part of Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions.
Future Remains: The 2024...
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Video
Artist Interviews for Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions
...www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8q75qdoX9Q&ab_channel=acca_melbourne
Watch our interview with artists Andy Butler, Nicholas Smith and Salote...
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Artist Talks: Andy Butler and Nicholas Smith...
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Program
Opening Celebration of Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions
Sam, Andy Butler, Teelah George, Alexandra Peters, Joel Sherwood Spring, Nicholas Smith and Salote Tawale, Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions...
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Program
School of Reflexxx: Raising Cinema – Filmmaking workshop with Garden Reflexxx and Andy Butler
...to exhibitions and screening opportunities. Artist and writer Andy Butler will join the workshop to discuss process and involvement as it relates to their video commission currently showing at ACCA as part of the 2024 Macfarlane Commissions. Open to all educators...
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Winter Workshop Series
Join ACCA Education for a series of three practical art-making workshops developed alongside our exhibition Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions.
Led by exhibiting artists Nicholas Smith, Andy...
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Program
Family Art Day – Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions
Macfarlane Commissions is the fourth edition of a multi-year partnership that supports ambitious new projects by emerging to mid-career artists. This edition showcases seven artists from across Australia – Kim Ah Sam, Andy Butler, Teelah George, Alexandra Peters, Joel Sherwood Spring, Nicholas Smith...
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Teacher Professional Learning
Winter Workshop: Alexandra Peters School of Reflexxx: Raising Cinema – Filmmaking workshop with Garden Reflexxx and Andy Butler...
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Publication
Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions
...and a curatorial introduction by curator and editor Dr Shelley McSpedden.
Future Remains brings together works by Kim Ah Sam, Andy Butler, Teelah George, Alexandra Peters, Joel Sherwood Spring, Nicholas Smith and Salote Tawale. Collectively...
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Product
Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions
Shelley McSpedden.
Future Remains brings together works by Kim Ah Sam, Andy Butler, Teelah George, Alexandra Peters, Joel Sherwood Spring, Nicholas Smith and Salote Tawale. Collectively, these artists engage with a broad range...
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Program
Writing in the Expanded Field: A Public Forum
The program participants are: Nicole Brimmer, Andy Butler...
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Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions Exhibition Kit
...and the Macfarlane Fund which supports ambitious new projects by emerging to mid-career artists.
This edition showcases seven artists from across Australia – Kim Ah Sam, Andy Butler, Teelah George, Alexandra Peters, Nicholas Smith, Joel Sherwood Spring...
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Program
Winter Workshop: Alexandra Peters
...by exhibiting artists Nicholas Smith, Andy Butler and Alexandra Peters each workshop introduces 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...
Press Release
Future Remains
...father’s Kalkadoon Country.
A major moving-image installation by Andy Butler that irreverently responds to the Henry Otley Beyer archive held by the National Library of Australia...
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Program
Winter Workshop: Nicholas Smith
...by exhibiting artists Nicholas Smith, Andy Butler and Alexandra Peters each workshop introduces 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...
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Artist Bios
...by Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne.
Andy Butler
Born 1987 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia...
Press Release
2024 ACCA Artistic Program
...1 September 2024
Artists: Kim Ah Sam, Andy Butler, Teelah George, Alexandra Peters, Nicholas Smith, Joel Sherwood Spring and Salote Tawale
Future Remains: The 2024...
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Writing in the Expanded Field: Program Participants
Nicole is also a current volunteer at ACCA.
Andy Butler is a writer, curator and artist. His writing has been published widely, including in Overland, Art+Australia, Vault and Runway. In 2017 he undertook the BLINDSIDE emerging...