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Visual Tension

Arkley, Marianne Baillieu, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Peter Cripps, Richard Dunn, Maria Kozic, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Linda Marrinon, John Matthews, John Nixon, Stieg Persson, Robert Rooney, Gareth Sansom, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, John Young...
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ICI Contemporary Art Collection

Jenyns, David Larwill, Lindy Lee, Hilarie Mais, Stewart McFarlane, John R. Neeson, Elizabeth Newman, Bronwyn Oliver, Ian Parry, Stieg Persson, Rodney Pople, Jacky Redgate, Caroline Williams, Victor Rubin, Imants Tillers, David Wadelton, Peter Westwood, John Young...
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Above and Beyond: The Asian Connection

Curated by Clare Williamson and Michael SnellingExhibiting Artists: Kate Beynon, Neil Emmerson, Simryn Gill, Emil Goh, Joan Grounds, Pat Hoffie, Lindy Lee, Alwin Reamillo, Kevin Todd, Judy Watson, Guan Wei, Ah Xian, John YoungPublication...
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NEW06

...and painting, the exhibition showcased the diversity and verve of Australia's visual arts talent.     Exhibiting Artists: Makeshift Collective, Giles Ryder, Helen Johnson, Darren Sylvester, Shaun Wilson, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Laresa KosloffCommissioning...
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Off the Wall / In the Air: A Seventies Collection

...to characterise the main ‘alternative’ developments in art in the period spanning the early to mid 1970’s. Guest curated by Jennifer Phipps Coordinated by Jenepher Duncan Exhibiting Artists: Micky Allan, Hilary Archer, Howard Arkley, John Armstrong, George Baldessin, Jonas Balsaitis, Vivienne Binns...
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Australian Visions: 1984 Exxon International Exhibition

Australia Council. Opened by Manning Clark.Curated by Diane Waldman, Guggenheim Museum of Art, and presented in conjunction with Monash University Gallery.Exhibiting artists: Peter Booth, Dale Frank, John Nixon, Vivienne Shark le Wit (at ACCA); Jan Murray, Mandy Martin, Susan...
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Imaging AIDS

Long, Mathew Jones, Deborah Kelly, Dale Knight, Anne Macdonald, Lutz Presser, Stewart MacFarlane, John Mackinnon, Sally Mannall, Lewis Miller, Michael Pearce, Sarah Pears, Kenton Penley, Catherine Phillips, Trevor Pullen, Randelli (Robert Randall and Frank Bendinelli), Bernhard Sachs, Sally Smart...
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Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art

Juliana Engberg In Conversation With Hannah Mathews & Agatha Gothe - Snape PERFORMANCES Roman Ondák Teaching to Walk (2002) A young woman is invited to come to the gallery with her one-year-old boy to teach him to walk there. The performance is repeated every day...
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Rewind: John Dunkley-Smith: Perspectives for conscious alterations in everyday life

...rsquo;, Perspectives for conscious alterations in everyday life, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 1992. Original version published in ‘Textbook’, John Nixon & John Young (eds), Kerb Your Dog, no 12, Sydney, 1992.2. John Dunkley-Smith, 1992.3. John Dunkley-Smith, 1992.
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Rewind: Above and Beyond: The Asian Connection

...in the Above and Beyond Exhibition, eight of the artists had a previous, parallel or subsequent involvement with Asialink projects.  Simryn Gill, Emil Goh, Pat Hoffie, Lindy Lee, Kevin Todd, Judy Watson and John Young have...
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Rewind: Visual Tension

...in South Yarra such as Howard Arkley and Linda Marrinon, and from Reconnaissance Galleries in Fitzroy such as Marianne Baillieu and Paul Boston. There were also folk I had met in Sydney such as John Lethbridge, John Young and Richard Dunn.  Chaos is a polite term for this exercise, my first...
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1984

...amount of seed funding through Arts Victoria. In February 1984 ACCA’s inaugural director, John Buckley, commenced his artistic program, presenting three projects while the cottage was being prepared for its official opening on 17th September. Buckley’s staff included a young Sue Cramer who held...
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1988

During 1988 ACCA continued its focus on the presentation of work by emerging and established artists from Melbourne, interstate and overseas. Programming innovations for that year included Site of Execution, a series of week-long exhibitions by 28 young and emerging...
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Education Space: Creating Art in Public

A final key section of the space is designated for the exhibition of artworks created by students and young people during visits to Who’s Afraid of Public...
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Rewind: Geometric Abstraction

...especially stands out in my memory. It subversively coupled a text sheet by MacPherson with a fantastic abstract painting by a little known artist, Silvia Holmes, which he had found in an op shop.In my essay I described Nolan, Harper and Wilson (the latter founded and ran Store 5) as ‘the young...
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An eye on the future: ACCA and Next Wave

...of international peers into conversation with young Australian artists.Flower Show, an exhibition curated by Melbourne artist John Meade in 1996, was presented in the gardens surrounding ACCA and included sound and installation works by David Chesworth, Noni...
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Celebrating 40 years of art at the deep end and 21 years in our iconic building

...a celebrated history of achievement – in commissioning artists to make new, risk-taking and career-defining work; creating education programs that change the way young people think about art; and presenting new art and ideas that reflect upon and connect deeply with the world in which we live...
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Public Programs, Education and Events

...and easily accessible web-based magazine.  It was intended to reach a variety of audiences with the inclusion of diverse articles and reviews.  Not only did the ACCAMag include articles by some of Australia’s pre-eminent curators and critics but it also provided an opportunity for young...
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Rewind: Grazia Gunn – ACCA’s third director with an experimental vision

In late 1989 Grazia Gunn, former curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Australia, returned to Melbourne to take up the position of Director at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Gunn’s vision was to develop ACCA into a multidisciplinary centre for young artists...
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Power to the People

...at ACCA, with youngtoddlers taking their first steps within ACCA’s galleries.Artists: Peter Friedl, Olaf Nicolai, Dora García, Roman Ondák, Fiona Macdonald, Jonathon Monk, Kirsten Pieroth, Stuart Ringholt, Ján Mančuška, Nathasha Johns-Messenger, Seth Price, Mario Garcia Torres, Goldin...
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A Conversation with Jenepher Duncan

...to expand the critical interpretative range, including Carolyn Barnes, Naomi Cass, Natalie King, Judy Annear, Robert Owen, John Meade, Jennifer Phipps, Charles Merewether, Claire Doherty, Ben Curnow, Kevin Murray, Damon Moon, Dooley Le Cappellaine, Edward Ward, Sunil Gupta, Lisa Young and Nicholas Zurbrugg...