Megan Dunn
Megan Dunn was once a video artist, until she decided to become a writer. Neither of these ideas were good ideas. She graduated from Elam and was co-director of the artist run space Fiat Lux from 1997-2000. In 2006 she completed her Masters in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, graduating with distinction. Her art writing has appeared in numerous publications including: Art News, Circuit, Eyecontact, The New Zealand Listener and The Pantograph Punch. Her novella Tinderbox: Burning Fahrenheit 451 has been accepted for publication as an ebook by Galley Beggar Press, UK in late 2014, pending permissions from the estate of Ray Bradbury.
Everything By: Megan Dunn
Megan Dunn talks to Colombian artist Nicolás Paris, the latest international artist-in-residence at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. His exhibition ko ngā herenga kei waenga i a tātou, lo que nos une, what connects us is a perplexing display of plants, short videos and hanging canopies of driftwood.
Megan Dunn talks to the artist about his Walters win, cultural subcontracting, te reo and home.
Megan Dunn talks to the artist about mag po, Emily Dickinson and the “Forgotten Prince Charles Soap”.
Megan Dunn on the fin de siecle world of Auckland strip clubs. their patrons and their drinks of choice.
Currently on show at City Gallery Wellington alongside work by Grayson Perry, Kushana Bush's paintings are delicate, tragicomic, and surreal. Megan Dunn talks to the neatnik painter, who says she gets her kicks from art history and babysitting.
When Megan Dunn was seven, she, her mum and Western Barbie decamped to Huntly for a little while. Here, she remembers six months of smokestacks, churches, communion, and the things we take a long time to recognise.
Megan Dunn on the gradual and torturous process of Elam, your twenties, a thousand different guises, half a dozen bad desk jobs, and eventually emerging.
