24 May - 6 July 2008

CHILDREN'S GALLERY / REGIONAL ART SPACE

BLOODLINES: ART & THE HORSE

This important exhibition explores the relationships and fascination between the horse and Australian society, history and culure. Exhibition curator Peter Fay has sourced works from some of Australia's most notable artists including John Brack, Hans Heysen, Noel McKenna, Fred Williams, Ken Whisson, Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka and Richard Goodwin. The exhibition also incorporates a number of emerging and outsider artists who have been commissioned to create works specifically for the show.

From the historical black and white photographs depicting the often fraught life of the horse, drawn from a number of Australian archives to the whimsy of Slim Barrie's cardboard 'Masterpieces', John Brack's studies of life at the track to Louse Hubbard's beautifully absurd film depicting a small rubber horse being put through its paces. BloodLines: Art and the Horse is sure to bemuse, provoke, delight, and enchant.