NEW010 is a little bit NEWER – PRESENTED BY THE BALNAVES FOUNDATION
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For the past eight years ACCA has offered six/seven promising Australian artists the opportunity to make a new work and have it shown in the annual NEW exhibition.
This year NEW010 will shake things up a bit.
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ACCA’s curatorial team has joined with prominent Melbourne architectural and interior design company Nexus Designs to recreate, re-vision and refresh the exhibition galleries. The designers have turned the space into seven individual sites, each with their own new intervention –plinths have been introduced, walls cut into and ceilings expanded.
The artists selected to participate in NEW010 were each given a site and invited to create a work that responds to the altered gallery space.
This year the exhibition has been created by several individual curators, so the process has been one of constant collaboration – between artists, curators and designers (there’s also a horticulturalist, a physicist, and an eco-friendly builder thrown in for good measure) in what is a fresh approach to the popular and influential NEW series.
NEW010 has been curated by Juliana Engberg, Hannah Mathews, Anna MacDonald and Rebecca Coates.
The NEW010 artists are Fiona Connor, Alicia Frankovich, Agatha Gothe-Snape. Lou Hubbard, Susan Jacobs, Raafat Ishak and Arlo Mountford.
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SO STAY TUNED……AND WATCH THIS SPACE
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NEW010 -18 March to 23 May, 2010.
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 111 Sturt Street, Southbank.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm, Weekends 11am–6pm. Mondays by appointment.
Tel: 03 9697 9999. Admission: Free. www.accaonline.org.au
For further media information: Katrina Hall on 03 9697 9999,
mobile 0421 153 046 or email kathall@ozemail.com.au
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The Balnaves Foundation supports eligible organisations that aim to create a better Australia through education, medicine and the arts with a focus on young people, the disadvantaged, and Indigenous communities.
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