about
ACAB collective (Zinzi Kennedy and Ben Johanson) are graduates from Monash University and based in Melbourne. Together 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.
Education
2010 Monash University Honours of Fine Art (Ben Johanson & Zinzi Kennedy) 2014 Monash University Masters of Fine Art (Zinzi Kennedy)
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