Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions

This publication accompanies ACCA’s exhibition Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions, the fourth edition of a multi-year partnership with The Macfarlane Fund that supports ambitious new artworks by emerging and mid-career artists.

The publication features new texts by Freja Carmichael, Angela Hesson, Tiarney Miekus, June Miskell, Jazz Money, Audrey Pfister and Aubrey Wang, and Azza Zein on the work of commissioned artists, along with full colour documentation of the exhibition, 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 Collectively, these artists engage with a broad range of historical reference points, from family stories and lore, the annals of pop-culture and industry, art and architectural genealogies, to state archives and collections. These works, by turn, honour and critique, celebrate and thwart the legacies they address, inviting us to contemplate the gifts and burdens of that which we inherit.

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