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In her final years of high school, and during her time at the East Sydney Technical College in the late 1970s, Cressida Campbell found herself resisting constraints. At the Tech, they wanted students to paint like Cezanne, using big paint brushes. “I was completely not suited to the way they were trying to make me work,” she recalls. “I got self-conscious and was doing these dreadful paintings. They certainly didn’t look like Cezanne’s; it was quite depressing.” She tried printmaking.

Her work