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Joyce Campbell: L. A Botanical and Last Light
20 February –
9 May 2010
Installation view: Joyce Campbell: L. A Botanical and Last Light 2010
New Zealand artist Joyce Campbell exhibits L. A Botanical and Last Light – two bodies of work employing the historical photographic technologies of the ambrotype and daguerreotype.
New Zealand artist Joyce Campbell exhibits two bodies of work for Christchurch Art Gallery: LA Botanical and Last Light.
Campbell employs two historical photographic technologies – the ambrotype and the daguerreotype – to create arresting, otherworldly images.
In LA Botanical her delicate ambrotypes (negative images on glass that appear positive against a black backdrop) depict medicinal flowers and herbs that have the power to sustain or kill.
The daguerreotypes of Last Light are the results of Campbell's 2006 trip to Antarctica, and record a landscape that can be eerie and at times redolent of menace.
Exhibition number 837
My Gallery
Location:
Monica Richards Gallery
Tait Electronics Gallery
Exhibition number: 837
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Drift North
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Drift North features five artists, all graduates of the Canterbury University School of Fine Arts, who now live and practice in Auckland or Wellington.
Notes
Joyce Campbell: LA Botanical and Last Light
From this weekend, two bodies of work by New Zealand artist Joyce Campbell will be on display in the Gallery.