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Megan Dunn

Art/Writer
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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

The short story: this is the PowerPoint I made for my exhibition The Mermaid Chronicles. It tells the story of how Splash influenced a generation of freelance mermaids in very short quotes and images. Dive in! The long story goes like this…I went to art school in the late 90s. […]

Splash: The PowerPoint

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. What’s art got […]

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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