Wunderkammer & After-Life, Animal Stories from beyond the Grave

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15 July – 4 September 2016

Imagine the Gallery filled with real wild animals including a zebra, a lion, penguins, antelope, fox, fawn, fish, rabbits, a baboon and a polar bear! This veritable ‘cabinet of wonders’ brings together sculpture and installations using taxidermy, skeletons and plant material various media to discuss a broad range of conservation issues, from climate change to big game hunting. Says artist/curator, Rod McRae: Each work explores an animal ‘issue’ using real preserved animal bodies (taxidermy) to tell their stories. Using the real thing creates art that is both authentic and empathetic. I argue that sculptures of animals rendered in resin, plastic, stone, wood or metal cannot speak as directly to us as the real animal. Each work touches on a different aspect of the human-animal relationship including biodiversity, pollution, climate change, conservation and stewardship. Each work asks us to examine our responsibilities as fellow travellers on this planet.

Please note all the animals in Wunderkammer have been ethically sourced.

Also on exhibition After Humans. An exhibition of work produced by Diploma of Illustration Students at the Award Winning Design Centre Enmore, Sydney TAFE.

Have you ever imagined what the earth would look like without humans - who would feed the cat and walk the dog? How would our pets evolve without our selective breeding and over-protectiveness? Can you imagine the descendants of your pets ten thousand years from now?

The students have imagined our pets into the future and produced 2D renderings and 3D models of their creations.

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