Andersch, Joerg Poetry and Mirth The Mercury 14 October, 2006 p.8

Poetry and Mirth
Colville Street Gallery, Battery Point
Price range: $60 to $6000

Showing their artwork at Colville St are painter Denise Campbell, sculptor Tricia Swanton and printmaker Gaby Falconer.

It has been a while since Hobart audiences have seen Campbell 's fine paintings; her last solo showing was nearly a decade ago. Represented in this exhibition with a beautiful body of work, Campbell seems to explore her relationship with the sea.

There are no vistas of water crashing onto rocky shores but the visual impressions of her living space in relation to the sea. It's about objects and forms interposing the more distant view of the water, or simply a pattern of shapes strongly related to a marine environment.

Worked in pencils and oils, her paintings have an attractive texture that lends great subtlety to her work. Add to that her audacious balancing act with form, colour and weight, and you have some great work on hand.

Swanton's zany plastic sculptures are a riot. Created from found objects, these beautiful assemblies are toy-like, mostly in brilliant primary colours. Robots they may look like, but with their endearing quality of toys, a Terminator label would not suit them.

Falconer's prints speak of human relationships and have an endearing quality. There is a lovely sensitivity in her vision and product that makes her artwork always a pleasure to view.