Family therapy 2009 by Megan Campbell

30 March 2009

Health & Religion

Family therapy 2009 by Megan Campbell

Paintings about obsolete health cures and sham religion feature in Megan Campbell’s new exhibition at Mary Newton Gallery, opening Wednesday 1 April.

Entitled Health and Religion the exhibition meditates on both of these ideas with regard to self-help texts. A 1950s Home Medical Companion, NZ Ways with Flowers, and various religious manuals for enlightenment were Campbell's sources for the new work.

She explains "My interest in these ideas expresses itself in the little narratives portrayed in the work. Figures dot the paintings doing salutes to the sun and who knows what - highlighting the dogmatic and prescriptive nature of the self-help industry, but also the shift in ideas over time. What was once considered useful in a self-help sense is often now laughable, and Esoteric texts kept secret and inaccessible are now freely available online.”.

Health and Religion runs until 25 April 2009.

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