In 2023, ACCA celebrates two important milestones – 21 years in our award-winning building designed by Wood Marsh and 40 years as a leading producer of contemporary visual art and culture in Australia.
ACCA was established in 1983 with a commitment to creating a space for the presentation and interpretation of contemporary art that might ‘not easily occupy a place in the normal exhibition system’.
Forty years later that commitment remains at the heart of everything we do. Today, ACCA has 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 in.
Anniversary Video:
Watch our anniversary video featuring interviews with artists Callum Morton, Patricia Piccinini, Yhonnie Scarce and Paul Yore. This video was produced by Guilty and Positive Ape to celebrate ACCA’s anniversaries – 21 years in our award-winning building designed by Wood Marsh and 40 years as a leading producer of contemporary visual art and culture in Australia.
ACCA acknowledges with deep appreciation, the support of Jason Byrne, Josh and Emma Robbins, Yianni Rowlands, Mick Turner, and Trudy Hellier, among many others who helped to realise this video project for ACCA’s anniversary.
Concept: Josh and Emma Robbins
Producer: Jason Byrne
Director: Yianni Rowlands
Music: Mick Turner
Production Manager: Jack Davies
Sound Recordist: Ahmad Ebrahimi
B Camera Operator: Isaac Brooks
Editors: Yianni Rowlands and Georgia Taylor
Colour: Martin Greer
Sound Mix: Paul Shanahan
Voice over: Trudy Hellier
Archive Footage: Gatherer Media, ACCA Archive
Still Photography: ACCA Archive, John Brash, Andrew Curtis
Artist Edition by Callum Morton
Callum Morton, Museum Studies #3: The eyes have it 2023 Limited edition
Callum Morton’s Museum Studies #3: The eyes have it 2023 is a new limited edition lithographic print generously developed in support of ACCA’s 21/40 anniversary celebrations. Continuing the artist’s ongoing Museum Studies series, the work wryly explores the psychological demeanour of ACCA’s architecture and its anxious yet aspirational perspective on the world.