Timeless: The art of Cressida Campbell

MUST CLOSE SUNDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2009

 

UPDATED: Click here for Public Program/Artist Talk

DUE TO PUBLIC DEMAND – SPECIAL LATE NIGHT OPENING HOURS for the LAST WEEKEND of exhibition SATURDAY 21 & SUNDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2009 11.00 AM – 8.00 PM (last admissions 7.30 pm) Trust Cafe will open late for light refreshments (last orders 7pm).   Please note: Due to the overwhelming popularity of this exhibition, there is limited on-site parking available only during opening hours.

 

The work of Cressida Campbell is renowned for its depiction of subtle beauty in the everyday and commonplace. After studying abroad at the Yoshida Hanga Academy in Tokyo which enhanced her skills in manipulating the woodblock medium, Campbell developed a new technique of mono-printing from hand painted wood-blocks. Drawing on the tradition of Japanese printmaking and using colour, texture and composition Campbell produces detailed still lives, intimate interiors and sweeping landscape panoramas. She is an uncompromising artist whose work is imbued with subtlety and sensitivity and inspired by the imagination. Her art comes from close observation, skilled drawing and composition and captures the most simple and complex objects and forms in domestic interiors and the landscape. The unique woodcut prints and wood blocks created by Cressida Campbell hold an aesthetic dimension in which even the most commonplace object transcends into an image of great beauty. This comprehensive survey exhibition will explore her oeuvre from 1980s to the present and will be a celebration of harmony and colour and the compulsion to make art.

A major publication on the artist published late 2008 has sold out of its first and second print run. A limited selection of Cressida Campbell postcards are available from the S.H. Ervin Gallery Shop - selling fast!

The exhibition will tour to the Queensland University of Technology Art Museum 5 March - 19 April 2009.

 

Image:

Cressida Campbell
Plums with Indian Cloth 2004
Woodblock Print,
 58.5 x 62.5 cm
Private collection
© the artist. Licensed by Viscopy

Exhibition sponsor:

 

National Trust S.H. ERVIN GALLERY	(End of) Watson Road, Observatory Hill, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW 2000 GPO Box 518 Sydney, NSW 2001
GALLERY HOURS:	Tuesday - Sunday 11am – 5pm.  Note: Last admissions 4.30 pm. Closed Mondays & Public Holidays
General enquiries/recorded information:	PH: 02 9258 0173   shervingallery@nsw.nationaltrust.org.au
Introductory exhibition floor talks:	Tuesdays at 12 noon
Public Program:	Sundays at 3pm All Gallery talks subject to speakers availability and may change without notice.
Education Officer/Group Bookings:	PH: 02 9258 0122
Media information:	PH: 02 9258 0150 lhaynes@nsw.nationaltrust.org.au Selected images available for media use.
The Trust Café:	Hours: Tuesday-Friday 11am-3pm Saturday & Sunday 1pm-5pm PH: 02 9258 0175 Bookings strongly advised.