NEW14

Overview

Each year the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art offers up some of the country's brightest emerging talent on a platter, commissioning a series of original work that captures the diversity of contemporary practice. Now that ACCA have given such an enormous amount of support to these young artists we get to swoop in and reap all the benefits with a fantastic free showing of all their work.

Danae Valenza and Kenny Pittock are just two of the artists presenting work in NEW14. Valenza works primarily in music, often collaborating with artists across other forms to explore a notion of “visual musicality”, while Pittock has won numerous awards for his self-aware brand of painting. Even more impressively, Pittock claims to have once used his left foot to kick an apple through a basketball ring from half court. For the exhibition, Valenza is creating a colour organ out of a grand piano and coloured lights, with accompanying photographic “portraits” of the performances played on it; Pittock will showcase a large number of drawings and videos of Melbourne passengers in transit. Get along and spot yourself looking bored on the 112 tram!

NEW14 will be overseen by veteran independent curator Kyla McFarlane from the Centre for Contemporary Photography, and other artists on show include Taree Mackenzie, Charles Dennington, Daniel McKewen, Andrew Hazewinkel and Jelena Telecki.

Image credit: Taree Mackenzie, White Light Shadows: Circles (detail) 2014. Courtesy of the artist.