Safety Gear for Small Animals Bill Burns, Director (December 4 - January 29, 2006)     The exhibition surveys a decade of work by Toronto-based artist Bill Burns, “the largest safety gear for small animals producer in the world.”  The Art Gallery will be transformed into a natural history museum to display the bookworks, objects, installations, photo and multi-media works that provide an amusing critique on notions of scientific progress. Burns humorously juxtaposes his tiny rescue and safety items for endangered animals with helpful information that guides viewers through the exhibition.   The exhibition is curated by Annette Hurtig, Doryphore Curatorial Collective, who comments: “While providing sound scientific fact, the exhibition functions also as a kind of cautionary tale, as a moral fable, an apologue, if you will, and as a visual allegory, offering lessons and pragmatic advice for those interested in the plight of animals.”   Co-produced by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, California State University, Dunlop Art Gallery, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Liane and Danny Taran Gallery of the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Tom Thomson Art Gallery.