THE National Gallery has announced the acquisition of “Bedroom Nocturne, 2022,” a new work by artist Cressida Campbell, acquired to mark the Gallery’s 40th anniversary.
The circular woodblock painting offers an intimate night-time view of the bedroom she shares with her husband, Warren Macris.
Campbell is the subject of a retrospective opening tomorrow (September 24), which features more than 140 of her woodcut prints and woodblock paintings that span from her earliest to newest works.
NGA curator, Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax, says, said: “Exquisitely detailed, ‘Bedroom Nocturne’ attests to her experimentation in recent years with circular works that play with centrifugal compositional energy and offer a slightly voyeuristic glimpse into her private world.”
Director Nick Mitzevich says, the work has been acquired with the support of Marilyn Darling and the Gordon Darling Australia Pacific Print Fund.
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