30-year future: ACCA celebrates with talks

Rather than looking back, ACCA looks forward on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.
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Established in the early 1980s under the Cain Government, and after much lobbying from the local arts community, Melbourne’s contemporary arts space ACCA has been a defining institution for thirty years. With its origins in a 19th century gardener’s cottage in the Botanic Gardens, it has become an iconic force today – both for its imposing building and its flexibility for exhibitions, and a vision that has been led by Juliana Engberg, curator of this year’s 19th Biennale of Sydney, in recent years.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina