Friday 10 August 2012

Tender - by Megan Campbell

Collage of TENDER

Painter Megan Campbell returns to Wellington in August after being in Dunedin for three months as the inaugural Caselberg Trust Creative Connections Resident.

Her latest paintings focus on the Seacliff Hospital and specifically the work done by Truby King with his visionary approach to plantings in the garden and the introduction of flowers and plants to the bleak interior of the hospital.

Campbell’s work is, as always, influenced by historical fact, but in the transposition to her own unmistakable hand, she seems to be able to conjure up a wry sense of humour and remove any sentimentality
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