Cressida Campbell
Bedroom nocturne

Creation date: 2022

Cressida Campbell

born Gadigal Nura/Sydney 1960

Bedroom nocturne 2022

Gadigal Nura/Sydney

watercolour on incised plywood

Purchased with the assistance of the Gordon Darling Australia Pacific Print Fund in celebration of the National Gallery of Australia's 40th anniversary 2022 2022.45

This exquisitely detailed woodblock conveys the intimate mood of a private space. Behind the bedhead is a salon hang of paintings, prints and drawings by some of Campbell's favourite artists. The large scale and round format of the work is a marked departure from the artist's earlier domestic vignettes-a culmination of her experiments in placing forms within a hard circular edge to create dynamic compositional energy.

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