Our regular art correspondent writer and critic Megan Dunn has an exhibition of her own just opened at Wellington’s Adam Art gallery, revealing another long standing obsession: mermaids.
Olivia Erlanger, Pergusa (Dark Blue), 2019, Silicone, Maytag MFR18/25PD, polystyrene foam, plywood, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist and DM Office, New York (PHOTO: Olivia Erlanger)
Megan Dunn and Shark (PHOTO: Brett Stanley)
Brett Stanley, Life on Hold, 2020, colour digital print, courtesy of the artist (PHOTO: Brett Stanley)
Julia Holden, Megan Dunn, Mermaid (after J. W. Waterhouse), 2021, colour photograph, collection of Megan Dunn (PHOTO: Julia Holden)
MeduSirena, The Wreck Bar, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2021–22, still from video, courtesy of Wendy Marina Anderson (PHOTO: Supplied)
Video still from Suzanne HUSKY, On the Proliferation of Mermaids in the Time of Shipwrecks, 2017, video, colour, sound, 25 mins 35 secs, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Alain Gutharc Gallery, Paris (PHOTO: Supplied)
Husky screenshot (PHOTO: Supplied)
Merman Jax (PHOTO: Supplied)
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