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'Every Living Thing' by Marian Drew, ACP, Sydney (2008)

Venue: Australian Centre for Photography (ACP), 257 Oxford Street, Paddington, NSW
Exhibition dates: 25 July - 30 August, 2008

Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) in partnership with Queensland Centre for Photography presents the exhibition Every Living Thing by Marian Drew at ACP.

In Every Living Thing, Marian Drew embraces the formal properties of seventeenth century European painting in a series of works which contrast the violence of road-kill with the gentrified traditions of the still life. Draping lifeless corpses over the best linen, these images are as disquieting as they are seductive.

Drew's images refer in particular to the genre of vanitas paintings, which often featured human skulls or worm infested fruit as a reminder of the transience of life and a warning against overindulgence. Killed by cars, domestic pets or power lines; the animals in these photographs are casualties of urban growth and increasing consumption.

Marian Drew is represented by Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney; Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne; Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide and Hous Projects, New York.