Drawing inspiration from classic Japanese woodblock prints, Cressida Campbell combines painting and printmaking techniques to create artworks that celebrate the quiet beauty of the everyday.

In The lithographic studio (Griffith University) 1986, Campbell transforms the university’s print room — an environment dedicated to the production and manufacture of images — into an image itself. Made during a residency at Brisbane’s Griffith University, the work also depicts a series of windows that look out onto the surrounding Australian bushland. The windows, a recurring motif in Campbell’s practice, create tension from within the picture frame between interior and exterior space, heightening the sense of stillness. As with most of Campbell’s works, the artist is absent from her workspace, allowing the focus to remain solely on the image’s sense of place.