ACCA puts NGV, especially Ian Potter, to shame. If you haven't been your shit. Not only does it showcase some of the most innovative contemporary art in Melbourne, it is always a beautiful gallery with wonderful, helpful staff (and more often than not, volunteers).
I checked out the NEWO8 exhibition a couple of weeks ago and found it incredibly inspiring. I had that moment, when you look at a piece of artwork or design and think "that's it, that's how i can do it! YES!"
ACCA runs NEW every year, their major exhibition to boast how brilliant Australian artist are. Two of the standouts this year were Daniel Argyle and Matt Hinkley.
Daniel filled a room with old 12" record sleeves which he had intricately cut patterns out of. Each cover not only worked beautifully independently, but as a collection they were breathtaking.
Matt Hinkley's work focused on intricate detail and unbelievable precision. One of the staff had to explain to me, that what appeared to be a room of blank, perhaps grubby, framed paper, was actually fine drawings of lines and dots to create shadow and the appearance of toner residue. I found this idea appropriate in that although using a pen by hand to create patterns and 'colour', these area's appeared to be computer generated (or perhaps computer mistakes) graphics.
Alas, I can't find any good examples of his work that show this amazing skill...SO JUST GO TO THE EXHIBITION!!
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