A small but significant exhibition opens Friday at Maitland's Art & History Museums. Taking over Gallery 4 (Galleries 1-3 are still showing James Casey's Equine Sculpture show) is Anna Tomczak's Animalia, a group of large-format Polaroid transfers. Conflating photography, painting and collage, Tomczak's highly manipulated images portray still-life tableaux of found objects; they're a unique fusion of technology and the handmade, sharing a mysterious emotional quality with home prayer shrines or the boxes of Joseph Cornell.

> READ MORE