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Floral Surveillance & Recital

Megan Campbell
Margaret Dawson

Wednesday 09 August - 26 August

Floral Surveillance is a departure from Megan Campbell's signature late Victorian scenarios. Though the paintings remain nostalgic and sensorial in essence, they are now situated in the 1960s and a common theme remains: our interplay with flora and fauna. Various odd activities are recorded and the main source for these new images is a 1960s New Zealand Yates Gardening Guide.

Margaret Dawson's series of sepia-toned photographs entitled Recital feature images of her late uncle and her former tutor at the Canterbury School of Fine Arts, the late Dick Lovell-Smith, both acting in costume after the clown Pierrot inspired from Nadar's 1854 photographs. The figure in each photograph is like a ghost, an old man who gesticulates and remonstrates in the actions of a clown, he 'begs', 'pleads' and 'runs away' actions also of someone with dementia. But this is an act, a 'Recital'. These works examine the idea of performance, pose and attitudes.


Powerstation 2006

NZ ways with flowers 2006

From Recital series 1998