ACCA is pleased to relaunch the influential NEW exhibition series after a decade in hiatus. Celebrating the most compelling emerging artists from our region through bold and ambitious new commissions, NEW offers a vital platform for the next generation of Australian artists to experiment, take risks, and present major new work within a public institution.
NEW26 presents the work of seven outstanding artists from across the country, at the forefront of contemporary art practice: Amanda Bell, Amanda Bennetts, Nicholas Currie, Naveed Farro, Caesar Florence-Howard, Diego Ramírez and EJ Son. Through their work, this exhibition captures the pulse of creative practice now, bringing together distinct bodies of work that reflect, question, and reshape artistic and social preoccupations of our time.
Spanning painting, moving image, ceramics, sound, installation, writing and architectural intervention, NEW26 engages with some of the defining questions of our current moment, including the accelerating influence of technology and AI, identity and subjectivity, the ongoing legacies of colonialism, the continuing expressive potential of traditional art mediums, the roles and responsibilities of cultural institutions.
Presented biennially, NEW26 is the first instalment in this revitalised series which originally ran at ACCA from 2003-2016, reaffirming ACCA’s commitment to fostering experimental and critically engaged contemporary art, revealing the dynamic conceptual and material investigations shaping artistic practice today.
Artists
Amanda Bell
Amanda Bennetts
Caesar Florence-Howard
Diego Ramírez
EJ Son
Naveed Farro
Nicholas Currie
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