Cressida Campbell
Join Cressida Campbell on a tour of her life's work including personal reflections and insight into her unique artistic practice.
In each room, the works are organised by theme and you can hear a description of these themes from Curator, Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax.
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Cressida Campbell
Shell collection
Creation date: 2010
'Growing up I visited the famous shell shop at The Rocks in Sydney. When you entered it was like walking under the sea. Mum and I would go and buy the odd shell. She would secretly wedge some of them in rockpools up at Pearl Beach, where we holidayed once a year. Then she would say, ‘I think I saw something glinting in that pool,’ and suddenly I would find an empty dark-brown and cream spotted cone shell. On later examining the shell book I would find that the shell came from New Guinea and was terribly poisonous. When I wondered how it came to be at Pearl Beach, she would casually say, ‘Oh darling, remember that huge storm we had last week’.'
— Cressida Campbell
