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Exhibition: Pet Project Pet Project Curated by Bec Dean Media preview: 1-2pm Thursday 7 December 2006 Exhibition runs: Friday 8 December to Saturday 23 December 2006, reopens Saturday 27 January to Saturday 24 February 2007 Gallery opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 12-7pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-6pm Treasured and treacherous: Our non-human companions take over the newly renovated Australian Centre for Photography this summer. Pet Project, an exhibition of international and Australian photomedia art, looks at the personal bonds we forge with animals. With the total number of pets in Australian households fast outnumbering our own offspring (8 million pets : 4.8 million children) this exhibition is particularly poignant in unravelling our growing, curious and intimate relationships with our chosen companions from the domestic animal kingdom. With work that includes photographic studio portraits, staged tableaux, candid documentary photographs, photo-based installation and video, the artists selected for Pet Project reveal complexity and depth in animal companionship, from ideas of disconnection and species loneliness, to the dissolution of the animal/human divide. "The works in this exhibition variously challenge and consider notions of property and ownership, inter-species power dynamics, kinship, collaboration and the ways in which animals are used as evocative symbols and tropes in art - signifying altogether human themes, aspirations, hopes and fears," says curator Bec Dean. Artists include Donna Bailey (Australia), Roger Ballen (South Africa), Marco Bok (Australia), Yvonne Doherty & Justin Spiers (Australia), Patricia Driscoll & Tamsyn Reynolds (South Africa), Chris Fortescue (Australia) & Katharina Struber (Austria), Hayden Fowler (Australia), Su Goldfish (Australia), Petrina Hicks (Australia), Nicole Jean Hill (USA), Carol Jerrems (Australia), Aleksandras Macijauskas (Lithuania), Michael Northrup (USA), Carolee Schneemann (USA), Arthur Tress (USA), Michael Vale (Australia), Beverley Veasey (Australia), Hanneke van Velzen (Netherlands) and William Wegman (USA).      
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Established in 1973, the ACP opened the doors of its first gallery in Paddington Street, in 1974. In 1981 the Centre moved to Oxford Street where it remains today. It is now Australia's longest running contemporary art space.
It is the ACP's mission to promote and enrich the understanding of photo-based art in Australia and this is achieved through a dynamic mix of exhibition, education and publication. In its blend of activities and range of photographic media, the Centre is unique in Australia.
ACP opened a Workshop in 1976. Originally in a separate building, this is now housed within the Centre in Oxford Street and includes black and white and colour darkroom facilities, a digital suite, lighting studio and library. In 1983 ACP launched the journal Photofile. It is now the leading photo-based art magazine in Australia, available through newsagents and specialist bookshops nationally.
Currently located in the heart of Paddington, Sydney's gallery district, ACP houses two exhibition spaces; a foyer display area and a Project Wall for emerging artists; an extensive workshop with comprehensive curriculum and public access facilities; a specialist bookshop and library.
The ACP is a not-for-profit organisation supported by the NSW Government through the NSW Ministry for the Arts, the Australia Council, the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body, and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. The ACP raises over half of its revenue from non-government sources.
