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Cressida Campbell

Exhibition
24 Sep 2022 – 19 Feb 2023
Wheelchair Accessible
A coloured illustrative print of Japanese Hydrangeas

Cressida Campbell Japanese Hydrangeas 2005 Private collection © Cressida Campbell

‘My main inspiration comes from what is directly around me... I remember combinations of colours I see in houses, pictures, gardens, buildings or sculptures here and round the world.’

Cressida Campbell

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About


Cressida Campbell with her work Japanese Hydrangeas, 2005, private collection © Cressida Campbell, 2022

Cressida Campbell is among Australia’s most significant contemporary artists working with painting and printmaking. Directly inspired by her surroundings, for over 40 years the Gadigal/Sydney-based artist has transformed commonplace experiences from her life into single edition prints and painted woodblocks.

Combining keen observation with a delicacy of line, Campbell’s woodblock paintings and prints capture the overlooked beauty of the everyday. Through her views of a working harbour or burnt bushland, an arrangement of nasturtiums or a plate of ripening persimmons, the artist celebrates the transitory moments of life.

The survey exhibition will present the depth and virtuosity of Campbell's work, extending from intimate interior views through to panoramic coastal landscapes. It will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue that features writing from curators, artists, poets and other voices.

Cressida Campbell is a Know My Name project.

Curator: Dr Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax, Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings

Tickets


Cressida Campbell, Night interior, 2017, Private collection, image courtesy Warren Macris © Cressida Campbell

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Exhibition ticket prices
National Gallery Members $17
Adult $22
Concession* $20
Child (5 to 16 years) $6
National Gallery Member Season $34
Adult Season $44
Companion ** Free
Mini Members (5 to 16 years) Free
Child (4 years and under) Free

* Valid concession types: Government issued concession cards and full time students. List of valid concession types.


Events

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  • Guided Tours

    Private Tours  – Cressida Campbell

    Past Event

    24 Sep 2022 – 19 Feb 2023
    Daily: 1–4pm

    Wheelchair Accessible
  • Art Chats

    Art Chats – Cressida Campbell

    Past Event
    Young woman stand in gallery space, with pale blue walls and seven round works of art

    24 Sep 2022 – 19 Feb 2023
    Daily: 10.30am & 11.30am

    Wheelchair Accessible
  • Kids & Families

    Cressida Campbell: drop-in and draw

    Past Event
    Photograph of two young girls sitting at a white bench drawing. Cressida Campbell exhibition in the background.

    24 Sep 2022 – 19 Feb 2023

    Wheelchair Accessible
  • Guided Tours

    Tours – Cressida Campbell

    Past Event

    24 Sep 2022 – 19 Feb 2023
    Daily: 11am & 2pm

    Wheelchair Accessible
  • Workshop

    Cressida Campbell: Woodblock printmaking workshop

    Past Event
    Print of an etching studio with a large black press in the foreground.

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Grazing in the Garden


Cressida Campbell, After lunch 2002, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Gift of the Margaret Hanah Olley Art Trust 2009. Image courtesy Art Gallery of New South Wales © Cressida Campbell Image © Art Gallery of New South Wales

Inspired by Cressida Campbell’s love of gardens and shared food between friends, the National Gallery invites you to Grazing by the Garden. Escape the everyday and enjoy a light lunch in the Gallery’s dining room with scenic views of the Sculpture Garden and Lake Burley Griffin.

Open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 2.30pm throughout the exhibition. Make a booking for your timed session or pop-in during your visit to check availability.

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Audio Tour


Cressida Campbell, Bedroom nocturne, 2022, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra purchased with the assistance of the Gordon Darling Australia Pacific Print Fund in celebration of the National Gallery of Australia’s 40th anniversary, 2022 © Cressida Campbell

Take a journey with Cressida Campbell through the exhibition and hear her personal stories about works in the exhibition, and her unique practice.

Audio Tour

Publication


Cressida Campbell celebrates the career of an exceptional Australian colourist who has worked between painting and printmaking for over forty years. Combining keen observation with rigorous design, Campbell uses an innovative process to create woodblock paintings and unique woodcut prints that take direct inspiration from the everyday. Moving between still-life arrangements, domestic interiors, gardens and coastal panoramas, her stylised compositions intertwine life and art. These formal meditations on ordinary beauty are testament to Campbell’s astonishing attention to detail and technical virtuosity.

This book offers new insights into Cressida Campbell’s artistic vision, featuring original research and reflections from curators, artists, poets and writers, as well the artist’s own autobiographical notes. Generously illustrated, the publication will locate Campbell within the lineage of significant Australian contemporary artists.

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2022
264 pages
300 x 245 mm
Full Colour | Hardback
RRP A$89.00*
ISBN 978 0 642 33501 2

*Members discount available for publication purchases made at the Gallery in the Art Store only.

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Colour photo of the Cressida Campbell Catalogue cover and spine
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Close up colour photo of Cressida Campbell catalogue content
Close up colour photo of Cressida Campbell catalogue content
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Close up colour photo of Cressida Campbell catalogue content
Close up colour photo of Cressida Campbell catalogue content, showing a photo of the young artist and her family

The Kitchen Shelf

Published to accompany the exhibition Cressida Campbell at the National Gallery of Australia this beautiful colouring book, featuring Campbell’s extraordinary work The Kitchen Shelf, is suited to aspiring colourists young and old. Packaged between beautiful cloth covers, twenty beautifully concertinaed pages unravel to reveal a full colour, 1.8-meter reproduction of The Kitchen Shelf. On the other side, a simple line drawing of the work invites you to create your own colour story. This beautiful product is a must have for winding down in the summer season.

PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2022
20 pages
300 x 245 mm
Full Colour | Hardback
RRP A$39.99*
ISBN 978 0 642 33502 9

*Members discount available for publication purchases made at the Gallery in the Art Store only.

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Stay


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Our Major Partner Qantas offers domestic flights to Canberra from most major Australian cities including multiple daily domestic flights to and from Sydney and Melbourne.

Featuring Cressida Campbell’s Ginkgo, 2016, Cressida collaborated with our Supporting Partner Archie Rose, to create a limited edition gin in celebration of the exhibition.

Accommodation packages

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BOOK – Deco Hotel
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BOOK – Avenue Hotel
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BOOK – Pavilion on Northbourne

Film


Video of still of the back of a woman wearing a floral pattern shirt with hair in ponytail, looking at a work of art in a gallery of an home interior scene

Watch documentary about Cressida Campbell.
13 mins

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Partners and Donors


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Stories & Ideas


  • Family matters
    Cressida Campbell

    Two smiling women sitting on a couch with a collection of artworks hung on a wall behind them

    Australian artist Cressida Campbell is interviewed by her actress sister, Nell Campbell, about art, life and her recent brush with death.

    Read Time 28 minutes
  • Cressida Campbell: in her own words

    Insights from the artist ahead of the opening of Cressida Campbell.

    Read Time 9 minutes

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