See works by over 28 emerging and established artists from across the country in this vibrant exhibition showing recently acquired pieces in dialogue with artworks from the JW Power and MCA Collections.

Celebrating the diversity of art making in Australia, New Acquisitions in Context 2013 features a range of media from painting and photography through to installation and the moving image and draws together multiple themes and ideas through a collection of very different artworks.

Investigate dream states, nightmares and the influence of Surrealism with works by Nicholas Folland, Peter Booth and Louise Weaver. Explore landscape in its various forms, real and imagined, sacred and suburban in works by Tracey Moffatt, Judith Wright, Imants Tillers, Simryn Gill, Fiona Lowry and Shaun Gladwell and see works about light by artists Stephen Birch and Emma White.

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Nicholas Folland
Anchor (1-5), 2008
installation view, MCA Collection: New Acquisitions 2009,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
chandelier, ceiling rose, light fitting, wood, steel
Museum of Contemporary Art,
purchased with funds provided by the Coe and Mordant families, 2008
Image courtesy and © the artist