Artist Interviews for Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions
Watch our interview with artists Andy Butler, Nicholas Smith and Salote Tawale, discussing their new commissions as part of ACCA’s exhibition Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions showing until 1 September 2024.
Future Remains presents seven commissions by artists from across Australia who variously reclaim, restage and reframe specific material, cultural or ideological inheritances in an effort not only to better understand the past and present but to generate new possibilities for the future.
Artists: Kim Ah Sam, Andy Butler, Teelah George, Alexandra Peters, Joel Sherwood Spring, Nicholas Smith and Salote Tawale
Curator: Shelley McSpedden
ABOUT THE MACFARLANE FUND:
The Macfarlane Commissions is supported by The Macfarlane Fund to encourage the production of ambitious new work by emerging to mid-career contemporary artists. Each artist is offered a generous artist fee and production budget, with the intention of commissioning a major new body of work especially for the exhibition. The Macfarlane Fund is a philanthropic initiative established in 2017 to honour the life of respected Melbourne businessman Donald (Don) Macfarlane, who throughout his life took immense pleasure in the arts. The Macfarlane Fund’s primary focus is to offer financial support across the career span of artists, with programs developed to support graduate, mid-career and senior artists. Underpinning the development of The Macfarlane Fund is a rigorous approach to decision-making, and a commitment to being flexible, effective and responsive to artistic practice and initiatives in a way that challenges established modes of giving and serves as a role model for contemporary art philanthropy.
Video produced by Gatherer Media
Soundtrack: Salote Tawale, Constellation 1976- 2024 (detail). Sound designer: Michael Toisuta; Andy Butler, Living truthfully in invented circumstances 2024. Music and sound design: Daniel Jenatsch. Courtesy the artists.
