NEW05
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14 March - 15 May 2005
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ACCA’s annual NEW exhibition, a showcase for the very best and latest in contemporary Australian art, returns in 2005 with six major new commissions from a selection of outstanding young Australian artists. Since its launch two years ago, NEW has rapidly established itself as one of the stellar events on the contemporary exhibitions calendar, revealing ‘who’s hot’ in Australian contemporary art.
This year, guest curator Max Delany, known for his work at the seminal Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, and now as Artistic Director at Monash University Museum of Art, together with ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg, have selected an exceptional group of artists including Mutlu Çerkez, Destiny Deacon, Mira Gojak, James Lynch, Kathy Temin and Stuart Ringholt.
As with previous NEW exhibitions, artists are encouraged to develop new work of sophistication, ambition and scale, pitched to extend the scope and opportunity for their work. Whilst the exhibition brings together six artists of diverse and divergent positions, Delany suggests that each are united by an engagement with personal history and memory which then animates larger consideration of social history, community and contemporary experience:
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"Woven through the exhibition are images and objects of psychological intensity and projection. It is not surprising that artists respond with emotion and empathy, and sometimes even absurdity, in the development of new images to account for the strange days in which we live."
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NEW05 continues ACCA’s commitment to developing and encouraging artistic growth for younger Australian artists. Works from previous NEW exhibitions have been exhibited extensively interstate and internationally, following their ACCA showing.
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