The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art announces the artists featured in its latest exhibition

The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) has announced the nine emerging Australian artists selected for New16, an exhibition curated by Annika Kristensen that examines relationships between humans and their surroundings.

The projects use visual art as a form of storytelling, with this year’s pieces based on a theme of navigation and negotiation. The newly commissioned works not only explore the relationships between the artists and their creation, but also question the evolving relationship between visitors and art, and the connection between art and its surrounding environment.

ACCA is Melbourne’s leading contemporary art space, and the only major gallery in Australia that focuses primarily on commissioning rather than collecting. Max Delaney, former Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria, has recently taken up the post of Artistic Director of the exhibition space. Limelight’s online editor Maxim Boon spoke with Delaney about his curatorship of the NGV’s hugely successful Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei exhibition, his last offering at Victoria’s largest gallery before taking up the top post at ACCA.

The role call of artists Kristensen has assembled for New16 work in...