Menagerie

Sat 13 Dec 2014–
Sun 1 Mar 2015

ACCA Main Exhibition Gallery

Menagerie explores the human tendency to anthropomorphise through animals and their behaviours as a process of metaphoric discovery of the self. Curated by ACCA Artistic Director Juliana Engberg, the exhibition features works by international and national artists including Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Joseph Beuys, Thomas Binks, Thomas Blinks, Rosa Bonheur, Basil Bradley, Mircea Cantor, Maurizio Cattelan, Henry Coombes, Herbert Thomas Dicksee, Annika Eriksson, Elliott Erwitt, Fischli & Weiss, James Giles, H. Hall, Benjamin Herring Jnr, Robert Gligorov, Lucy Gunning, Deborah Kelly, Anastasia Klose, Loretta Lux, David Noonan, Michael Parekowhai, Patricia Piccinini, John Nost Sartorius, Sinibaldo Scorza, William Strutt, Ricky Swallow, Shannon Te Ao, Caroline Tisdall, Peter Wächtler, Amelie von Wulffen, Paul Wood…and historical works.

MENAGERIE FOR KIDS

Kids will be master drawers, spot creatures and create their own animal characters and so much more with the MENAGERIE Kids Adventure Trail. $2 at ACCA Bookshop

There are plenty of toy animals, books and games to play with in the MENAGERIE Kids Zone. Hours of howling (meowing, hooting, tweeting) fun this summer! FREE in the ACCA Foyer.