Get to Work

Exhibition

Greater Together

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...
Exhibition

Aleks Danko: What are you doing boy?

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...
Exhibition

Alan Currall:
Encyclopædia and other works

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...
Exhibition

Gail Hastings: Mission – Untitled (blue) and Setting the Scene for Nobody

...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...
Program

WORK/SHOP

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...
Exhibition

Upstarts

...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...
Exhibition

ART#2 ACCA REGIONAL TOUR: Horsham

...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...
Exhibition

Lucy Guerin: NEWRETRO

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.
Press Release

Greater Together

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

A World of One’s Own: Her Life in The Nude — Maude Davey

...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?’...
Program

Educator Preview: Unfinished Business

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...
Podcast

A World Of One’s Own: Making dreams come true — Maree Clarke

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...
Podcast

A World Of One’s Own: Making dreams come true — Maree Clarke

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...
Program

Karaoke Performance 3: Hoang Tran Nguyen: Work, Worker

...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...
Program

ICONS: Umberto Boccioni, ‘Unique Forms of Continuity in Space’ 1913

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...
Program

ICONS: ‘The Icon’, its use and abuse in the modern age

...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...
Text

Also this year

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

Rewind: Geoff Lowe: Collaborations 1980 -1992

...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...
Program

ICONS: Peter Zumthor, ‘The Therme Vals’

...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...
Program

A Biography of Daphne Professional Learning Program for Teachers

...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...
Page

Winter Workshop Series

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...