For March 2025, Zimmerman Art Gallery presents "New Day Rising!" - a series of eight paintings by Campbell Kneale.

Artist's commentary

"New Day Rising!" is a charting of intensity and experience, an embodied means of processing the daily triumphs and tribulations of weathering relationship detonations, insecure employment status, transience and permanence, and separation from friends and family as the artist moves to put down brand new roots in the strange places the path less travelled takes him.

Ear-worms, synchronicities, and recurring dreams lie heavily over these multi-faced and somewhat allegorical ‘self-portraits’ like a damp blanket, scratching a universal itch for understanding, belonging, and security amidst profound disorientation.

All works in "New Day Rising!" are acrylic on card, framed size 865 x 620 mm

Brief artist bio

Campbell Kneale is an internationally recognised sound artist.

He first came to critical attention in the late 1990s helping to create a blueprint for the liberties that the home recording format could offer. The next 20 years saw him record over 200 audio releases, as well as embarking on a relentless touring schedule that took him on near permanent rotation throughout Europe, USA, Asia, and Australia.

Campbell’s visual art practise initially found its way into the world through the democratic format of the album cover. His work has been exhibited in a range of New Zealand venues, from established public galleries to grungy artist-run spaces.

In the Covid years Campbell began painting cats - irreverent, house-bound, badly behaved cats, the popularity of which enabled him to relinquish formal employment for a time, to paint under the pseudonym CATMAN (@catmanlistens).

Campbell recently moved to Taihape, where he currently works as a high school Art Teacher.