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Nana Ohnesorge, Monumental message stick,
Mixed medium, D150 X 150 cm, 2011

Zooplasty
Nana Ohnesorge, Emma Thomson, Monika Behrens & Rochelle Haley, Jonny Niesche, Drew Bickford, Adam Norton, Harriet Body and Ron Adams

Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne

Zooplasty brings together a group of eight artists and one collaborative duo associated with the Sydney artist-run initiative MOP Projects. ‘Zooplasty’ refers to the surgical grafting of animal tissue to a human. The Sydney artists showing in Zooplasty include Nana Ohnesorge, Adam Norton, Emma Thomson, Drew Bickford, Jonny Niesche, Ron Adams, Harriet Body and Monika Behrens & Rochelle Haley. As a group, these diverse contemporary practitioners more generally relate to the theme of ‘zooplasty’ through work that loosely riffs on ideas of transference and exchange. In ‘exchange’ for the creature comforts offered by Zooplasty, Helen Gory Galerie will also present a group exhibition at MOP in 2011.