ACCA is pleased to present NEW Collective, a series of free monthly sessions for emerging artists and curators. NEW Collective provides an opportunity for emerging practitioners to meet informally with other creatives at a similar career stage and to hear from ACCA artists and arts workers. It’s a chance to share ideas, pool resources and create connections.
While this program is free, registration is required and spots are limited. Sessions are designed for dropping in, please feel free to join for multiple sessions or just one.
There will be three sessions to align with NEW26.
Session 2: Expanding Artistic Practice
Tuesday 27 October, 6-7:30pm
In this session, hear directly from ACCA exhibiting artists Caesar Florence-Howard and Diego Ramírez about their creative journeys.
Caesar Florence-Howard
Caesar Florence-Howard makes paintings and drawings that explore accumulation, transformation, and the instability of images. Florence-Howard has exhibited widely in Naarm/Melbourne. In 2021 he was awarded the NGVWA prize, the Valerie Albiston award in 2021, and the Irene Sutton award in 2022. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), and is co-founder with Grace Anderson of Strawberry, an artist-run gallery in Brunswick.
Diego Ramírez
Diego Ramírez is an artist with dreams, a writer with hopes, and a facilitator with beliefs. Ramírez has shown locally and internationally, and has curated projects at Gertrude Contemporary, Seventh Gallery and Dogmilk Films. Ramírez has completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at RMIT University and a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree with Honours at Monash University. Between 2018–2023 he was the director of Seventh Gallery, and across his career has been a member of many assessment panels for local, state and federal funding bodies.
