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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Megan Doherty

Blockbuster Cressida Campbell exhibition opens in Canberra, National Gallery acquires one of her works

Cressida Campbell at the National Gallery on Friday with, right, the work purchased by the gallery, Bedroom nocturne. Picture by Keegan Carroll

Canberrans are used to the pleasure of a summer blockbuster at the National Gallery of Australia but not when the work displayed is by a living artist.

In its latest headline exhibition, the gallery is honouring the more than 40 years of work by Australian artist Cressida Campbell who, curator Dr Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax, rightly told the launch crowd on Friday is "so wonderfully and gloriously alive".

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