Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Looking for health
A visitor to the gallery over the weekend reminded me that Megan Campbell's latest work explores human notions of imperfection. Her paintings are full of figures looking for health - physical and mental - and ideas that will make them 'happy'.
In some paintings they look in places where nothing satisfactory is to be found - the past, the bottle - and in others parks, gardens, and domestic settings provide 'comfort'.
Nature and the natural world are important characters and backdrops in this nebulous search.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Megan Campbell and the art of breathing deeply
Megan Campbell's exhibition Health & Religion includes some intriguing images associated with obsolete health practices. The woman above is using a fifties asthma inhaler, but who knows what the men in black are up to...
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