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CURRENT ACP EXHIBITIONS:

MY AUSTRALIA
SATURDAY 12 JANUARY TO SATURDAY 26 JANUARY 2008
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

GALLERY 3
In an era of fast travel and a shrinking globe it's easy to overlook the treasures on your doorstep. With a global reputation for outstanding photojournalism, TIME Magazine has partnered with Tourism Australia to present My Australia at the Australian Centre for Photography. This summer holiday exhibition includes images that have awed, intrigued or amused some of Australia's finest photographers.

Photographers in the exhibition include Peter Solness, Randy Larcombe, Robert Young, David Dare Parker, Arunas Klupsas, Andrew Quilty, Stephen Dupont, Andrew Campbell, Frances Andrijich, Andrew Chapman, Oliver Strewe, Russell Shakespeare, Narelle Autio, Ross Bird, Trent Parke, Lisa Hogben and Michael Amendolia.

All visitors to the My Australia exhibition receive a free My Australia 2008 calendar.
Presented by TIME, Tourism Australia and Ilford Paper

GIRL PARADE
FRIDAY 16 NOVEMBER TO SUNDAY 23 DECEMBER 2007
RE-OPENS: SATURDAY 12 TO SATURDAY 26 JANUARY 2008
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

GALLERIES 1, 2 AND FOYER

ANOUSH ABRAR IRAN & AIMÉE HOVING NETHERLANDS BIANCA BARLING SA ANTHEA BEHM NSW THE BROWN COUNCIL NSW KELLI CONNELL USA PILAR MATA DUPONT & TARRYN GILL WA KARINA GRUNDY SA E.J MAJOR UK BELINDA MASON NSW TATJANA PLITT VIC NARINDA REEDERS VIC TOMOKO SAWADA JAPAN JUSTENE WILLIAMS NSW

Curated by Bec Dean

With its tongue-in-cheek title referring to girlhood pageants and beauty competitions, Girl Parade gathers a host of Australian and International women artists and collaborations exploring female experience across the gamut of personal and social issues through portraiture, performance, costume and self-representation.

This young generation of artists working in photomedia and video explore themes and ideas following the threads of feminist discourse at its height: the commodification and use of women's bodies in advertising and propaganda, social standing and power, vocational aspirations and realities, the trials of motherhood, the complexity of sexuality and desire, and ageing as it relates to the maintenance of physical beauty and respect.

Pilar Mata Dupont & Tarryn Gill are supported by ArtsWA and the Australia Council.

GENERATION C
New Chinese Photomedia in an Age of Change

FRIDAY 1 FEBRUARY TO SATURDAY 8 MARCH 2008
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

GALLERY 1, 2 & FOYER

Curated by Alasdair Foster

Complex, contrary, creative: this exhibition showcases work by young photomedia artists from mainland China who reflect the ambivalence of their times. Born in the seventies they are the first 'me' generation - consumerist, connected and self-aware. They are vain yet vulnerable; wired yet lonely. They ride the rollercoaster of 'progress' while wistfully dreaming of the past.

Abandoning any notion of the photograph as a document of the real each work is a performance, a visual fable that finds its truth in imaginative resonance rather than hard evidence.

Playful yet earnest, while some artists wield satire like a sword others evoke a quiet melancholy for lost tradition. Others still, weighed down by the burden of duty to family, ancestors, community, state and the competitiveness born of consumerism, simply imagine what it would be like to fade into another world or fly away like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.

Generation C is supported by the City of Sydney Chinese New Year Festival

WILLIAM YANG - CLAIMING CHINA
FRIDAY 1 FEBRUARY TO SATURDAY 8 MARCH 2008
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

GALLERY 3

The internationally celebrated artist and performer William Yang was brought up as an assimilated Australian, with his Chinese side unacknowledged and denied. Here, in a series of acutely perceptive images with text, he reflects upon his experience of being and openly gay Australian an 'reclaiming' his Chinese heritage. While laced with the dry wit and incisive observation that are his signature, Yang's new work balances irony with a profound spirit of the Taoist philosophy he has come to embrace.

Claiming China is supported by New Mardi Gras 2008 and the City of Sydney Chinese New Year Festival

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About Australian Centre for Photography (ACP)

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.