ACCA Gallery Excursion

On Tuesday the 27th, Year 10 Contemporary Art students went to visit the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) and the Blindside Gallery in the city. 

Students made their way to ACCA in the city where they explored the Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions exhibition. This contemporary exhibition allowed students to interact with large scale installation artworks utilising a range of unconventional materials including truck tarp, textiles, cardboard, and even BluTac! Students discussed the themes depicted in the works on display with the support of Gallery Educators at ACCA. Following this group discussion, students were then able to make their own artworks in response to the works they had seen in the gallery. This artmaking focused on using the same unconventional materials and techniques as artist Teelah George.

After visiting ACCA, we then walked down to Blindside Gallery, where students were able to see an artist installing their work in the space for an upcoming exhibition. This unique opportunity allowed students to have a firsthand experience of the important role that artist-run spaces play in the representation of contemporary art in Melbourne. 

Students were incredibly well behaved throughout the excursion and consistently demonstrated the College values. Although some of the artworks were a bit confusing at first sight, the students were able to engage with the themes and conceptual ideas represented in the works and challenge their opinions about what art is.

We can’t wait to see what artworks our students will make in the future using their new understandings of contemporary art.  

- Grace Whiteley (Visual Art Teacher)