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.