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Our regular art correspondent Megan Dunn has an exhibition of her own just opened at Wellington’s Adam Art Gallery, revealing another long standing obsession: mermaids.
For two years Dunn interviewed women worldwide who perform as mermaids. Now she’s curated an exhibition which not only features several mermaid performers but also artefacts (yes, there are tails), painting, sculpture, photographs, and videos by artists and professional photographers.
Megan Dunn is an author and a self-described reformed video artist. She is the 2022 Writer in Residence at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters, working on a memoir about motherhood, menopause and mermaids.
For details on The Mermaid Chronicles go here.
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)
