NEW 13

Overview

To choose the life of an artist means choosing canned tuna dinners, free beer at openings across the city and what is often a constant battle between maintaining artistic integrity whilst trying to put those aforementioned cans of tuna and that free beer on the (dirty share house) table every night.

Each year, in association with the philanthropic Balnaves Foundation, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art gives a handful of Australia’s most exciting emerging artists a massive leg up, inviting them to create site-specific pieces for the annual NEW exhibition. NEW 13 is curated by ACCA’s associate curator Charlotte Day and features the work of Benjamin Forster, Jess MacNeil, Alex Martinis Roe, Sanne Mestrom, Scott Mitchell, Joshua Petherick and Linda Tegg. The vastly divergent offerings include a sculpted weeping woman that cries actual tears, the ghosts of imaging technology captured and a piece that sheds sunlight on previously overlooked crevices of ACCA.

Image — Alexis Martinis Roe, The Practice of Doing, 2013