Education
2010
Monash University Honours of Fine Art (Ben Johanson & Zinzi Kennedy)
2014
Monash University Masters of Fine Art (Zinzi Kennedy)
about
ACAB collective (Zinzi Kennedy and Ben Johanson) are graduates from Monash University and based in Melbourne. Togther they produce installations and sculptures that manipulate light whilst reinventing everyday materials. ACAB was recently showcased in a dLux Media Art event (Is This Art?) are part of the Spectrum Now Festival 2016, in the odradekAEAF at the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide 2015 and SafARI festival 2014. Their work has been won the Cooks River Alliance Small Sculpture Award as part of the GreenWay Art Prize 2015, second place in Sculpture in the Vineyards 2014 and the People’s Choice Award as part of the Substation Art Prize 2012.
Publications
2014
SafARI 2014 Catalogue, Liz Nowell & Christiane Keys-Statham
2014
Arkin Magazine, #2, ‘ACAB collective’ feature piece on New Pyramids
2013
Modern Ruin Catalogue, Aaron Martin & Michael Brennan
2013
Central Highlands Art Atlas, ‘Collaboration in the Visual Arts’ Wilson, Kent
2012
Acclaim Issue 27, ‘ACAB Collective: Inanimate Intimacy’ Miralles, Christine
Awards
2015
Cooks River Alliance Small Sculpture Award
2014
Second Place, Sculpture in the Vineyards Awards
2013
Judges, Small Worlds: recycled art competition, City of Maribyrnong 2013
2013
Highly Commended, Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards
2012
People’s Choice, Substation Contemporary Art Prize
Exhibitions
2017
Deep Time Derby
ACE Across (ACE Open’s project space), Adelaide, SA
2016
Is This Art? dLux MediaArts event for The Spectrum Now Festival
Create or Die, Marrickville, NSW
2015
GreenWay Art Prize curated by Christiane Keys-Statham
Art Est. Art School & Gallery Leichhardt, NSW
2015
Sculpture in the Vineyards
Wollombi Wines Hunter Valley, NSW
2015
Hefty Fab curated by Christiane Keys-Statham
Cessnock Regional Art Gallery & Old Fire Station Hunter Valley, NSW
2014
Neon Playground
Strawberry Fields Festival, Tocumwal, NSW
2014
Sculpture in the Vineyards
Undercliff Winery Hunter Valley, NSW
2014
Artists Emerge @ WTC curated by Andy Dinan
World Trade Centre in association with Mars Gallery Melbourne CBD, VIC
2014
Entry Exit Points curated by Matthew Perkins
Glen Eira Council Gallery Glen Eira, VIC
2014
All At Once, All Of The Time curated by Stacy Jewell, Elysheva Elsass, Nick Rebstadt
RMIT Design Hub Carlton, VIC
2014
SafARI Festival curated by Liz Nowell & Christiane Keys-Statham
Conductors Project Museum & St. James Station, SYD
2014
In + Out curated by Project QUAD
Brightspace St Kilda, VIC
2013
Modern Ruin curated by Aaron Martin & Michael Brennan
The Substation Newport, VIC
2013
Fruitless Archeology
Five Walls Footscray, VIC
2013
New Pyramids
New Low Carlton, VIC
2012
GastroPorn
NG Art Gallery Chippendale, NSW
2012
Beams Arts Festival
NG Gallery Chippendale, NSW
2012
The Substation Contemporary Art Prize
The Substation Newport, VIC
2012
Brisbane Festival’s Under the Radar program
Metro Arts, Brisbane CBD, QLD
2012
Thoroughfare
Platform Public Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne CBD, VIC
2012
The Rave Cave with live performance
At the Vanishing Point Contemporary Art Inc, Newtown, NSW
2012
exURBAN Screens Festival curated by Matthew Perkins
Frankston City Council, Frankston CBD, VIC
2012
The Rave Cave of Psychotropic Nightmares
Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne CBD, VIC
2012
No thing after another
Trocadero Art Space Footscray, VIC