Megan Dunn

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Megan Dunn

Art/Writer
  • About
  • Media etc
  • My Books
  • Art Writing
  • Essays
  • Professional Mermaid
  • Fiat Lux Archive
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1. Titles are important. Well, they are to me. This one is an optimistic title, because it assumes I’ve learned something—anything at all—and at art school of all places, where I am quite sure I went to learn nothing—and got close—when I think back to art school and what it […]

Things I Learned at Art School: an incomplete list

The Mermaid Chronicles: A Midlife Mer-moir is my latest book published by Penguin Random House New Zealand on August 13, 2024. Listen to my feature interview with Kathryn Ryan on RNZ Nine to Noon. The Mermaid Chronicles is about my mid-life calling to meet the real mermaids. It’s been a […]

The Mermaid Chronicles: my new book out now!

A couple of years ago a girlfriend said to me over a Pint, “You know what I’d like you to write about next?” “No.” I sipped my beer, wiped the froth from my lips. “God,” she announced. God is a painting by Julian Hooper that I recently fell in love […]

Little Ditty about God…

Please enjoy Julian Sharp’s short and informative interview with me for TVNZ’s Seven Sharp, in my exhibition The Mermaid Chronicles at Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi. This segment features wonderful footage of the show, including stellar performances by some of the world’s leading professional mermaids: Hannah Mermaid, MeduSirena, Julie […]

The Mermaid Chronicles: Seven Sharp interview

For my exhibition The Mermaid Chronicles at the Adam Art Gallery, we ran a series of film screenings: Splash (1984), Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) and I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987). Before each screening, I interviewed a relevant speaker about mermaids in culture. Below are my edited Zoom interviews with […]

The Mermaid Chronicles: Interviews

What’s art got to do with it? is the loose title —thanks Tina Turner—that I cribbed for my occasional art segment on RNZ’s Saturday morning show with Kim Hill. I discuss the intersection of art and life, hoping to look at art beyond gallery walls when possible. Worshipping art: on […]

On Kim Hill

Megan Dunn: The Mermaid Chronicles with works by Andrew Brusso, Olivia Erlanger, Julia Holden, Alexis Hunter, Suzanne Husky, Brett Stanley, Lena Maria Thüring, and featuring Annette Kellerman, MeduSirena, Hannah Mermaid, Merman Jax, and Julie Atlas Muz  21 October – 18 December 2022, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington. The Mermaid Chronicles explores writer Megan […]

The Mermaid Chronicles

MY PUBLISHER SAYS: From the writer who brought you Tinderbox, a book about a woman trying to write a book, comes Things I Learned at Art School, a memoir by a woman who has never kept a diary. Part memoir, part essay collection, Megan Dunn’s ingenious, moving, hilariously personal Things I Learned at […]

Things I Learned At Art School

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