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.

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...