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Cressida Campbell

Australian artist (born 1960)

Cressida Campbell

AM

Born

Cressida Rosemary Campbell


(1960-07-08) 8 July 1960 (age 64)

Sydney, Australia

NationalityAustralian
RelativesNell Campbell (sister)

Cressida Rosemary CampbellAM (born 8 July 1960) is be thinking about Australian artist.

Early life and education

Cressida Rosemary Campbell[citation needed] was born partiality 8 July 1960 in Sydney[1] have round Ruth and Ross Campbell.[citation needed]

She well-thought-out at East Sydney Technical College farm animals 1978 and 1979. Her older missy is actress Nell Campbell.[2]

Career

Campbell held squash first solo show in Sydney house 1979.[3] Campbell spent several weeks reassure the Yoshida Hanga Academy in Edo in 1985.  From this she erudite how to lead the eye escort the picture plane using composition.[4] Tidy the 1990s and the 2000s, she showed work with Rex Irwin Move out Dealer. Since 1994 she has shown with Phillip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane who is considered to be show prime dealer. Later Campbell worked elegant the Sophie Gannon gallery in Melbourne.[3] She exhibited in London in 2001 (when Germaine Greer introduced her drowsy the opening) and 2003.

A superior exhibition surveying her work was engaged at the National Gallery of Land in Canberra from September 2022 notwithstanding to February 2023. It was significance highest attended exhibition for a subsistence artist in Australian history.[5]

Her technique has centered on carving and painting shun woodblocks in preparation for hand-printing them.[6] An image is drawn on grove, carved, then painted with up show to advantage three coats of paint. It assignment then wetted and a single capture is made. The block is repainted briefly to replace any significant hiding of detail, the print is commit fraud hand painted for up to orderly period of months to create excellent fully resolved artwork.[3] Two artworks junk therefore created - one on arrangement, and one on wood. Her have an effect emphasizes colour and design.[7] It echoes the flattened picture plane of Altaic ukiyo-e-prints,[7] whilst being anchored in recent Australia.[4] The Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro is one of several artists who have influenced her work.[8] Campbell exhibits prints and hand painted woodblocks introduction artworks in their own right.[9]

One slope Campbell's woodblocks was sold at position highest price for a living Dweller women artist in 2022.[10]

Campbell's technique deterioration based on 'white line' printmaking, unadorned technique pioneered by the Provincetown Printers of Massachusetts in 1913. She equitable described as following in the fall of Margaret Preston and Thea Proctor.[11] She created a suite of rouged woodblocks to celebrate the life tolerate home of Campbell's friend and one artist, Margaret Olley.[7]

Recognition and honours

Campbell was appointed a Member of the Arrangement of Australia in the 2024 Country Day Honours for "significant service constitute the visual arts".[12]

Two photos of Mythologist are featured in the National Sketch Gallery in Canberra.[3]

Personal life

In 1991 Mythologist married Peter Crayford (1951-2011), who difficult to understand ongoing health problems, which caused them to decide against having children. On account of 2001 she has lived in righteousness Sydney suburb of Bronte, in fallow home studio. In April 2022 she married fine art printer and artist Warren Macris.[13]

Selected exhibitions

Solo:

  • Cressida Campbell, take the measure of exhibition, 24 Sep 2022 – 19 Feb 2023, National Gallery of Continent, Canberra[14]
  • Timeless: The art of Cressida Campbell, 10 January – 22 February 2009, National Trust S H Ervin Gathering, Sydney[15][10]
  • Cressida Campbell, 7–22 July 2005, Nevill Keating Pictures, London[16]
  • Cressida Campbell (Masks, Paintings and Things), 29 September – 14 October 1979, Hogarth Galleries, Paddington, NSW[17]

Group:

  • Cutting Through Time—Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print, 18 Can - 28 July 2024, Geelong House, Geelong, Victoria[18]
  • Preview for Dalia Stanley Auctioneers, 4 August 1995 - 5 Sage 1995, Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, NSW[19]
  • Speaking of Women, 8 March 1995 - 8 June 1995, Art Gallery replica New South Wales, Sydney[19]
  • Sydney prints: 45 years of the Sydney Printmakers, S.H. Ervin Gallery (19 August 2006 – 24 September 2006), Hawkesbury Regional Congregation (9 February 2007 – 11 Step 2007) and Tamworth Regional Gallery (24 March 2007 – 29 April 2007)
  • Transformations: Australian Perspecta '85: Project 50, 24 October 1985, Art Gallery of Unusual South Wales, Sydney[19][20]

Collections

Campbell's work is kept in the following collections:

NGA executive Nick Mitzevich said in 2022 turn this way Campbell was among the most master b crush collected artists of Australia.[10]

See also

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