Fiona Campbell CV
Born 1962, Nairobi, Kenya
Education
2018 MA Fine Art (distinction), Bath Spa University, UK
1994 PGCE, Art - Secondary, Exeter University, Devon, UK
1987 Fine Art, Sculpture (distinction), Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK
1981 Foundation Art (merit), West Sussex College of Art & Design, UK
Awards
2022/3 Arts Council England Grant, Developing Your Creative Practice (including Kenyan research trip)
2022 Eaton Fund grant
2021 Ingram Prize ‘21 finalist
2020 Red Line Art Works first prize
2020 Arts Council England/National Lottery Emergency Response Fund, Life in the Undergrowth
2019 Royal Society of Sculptors Gilbert Bayes Award
2019 Masterpieces in Schools, Art UK
2019 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, B-Wing
2018 Bath Spa University Enterprise Showcase Fund research fellowship, Ingruttati Palermo, Manifesta12
2018 Gane Trust grant
2015 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, step in stone
2014 Environmental Award, Devon Recycled Sculpture Trail
2012 Green Capital Residency (highly commended), Big Green Week, Create Centre & Arnolfini, Bristol
2011 Atkinson Gallery Summer Show first prize, Somerset
2009 David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 3-d winner, Mall Galleries, London
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Residency/Solo, Create@#8, Shepton Mallet
2021 Residency/Solo, The Loft, Heritage Courtyard Gallery, Wells
2019 Residency/Solo, Offenders, Cells, Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, Wiltshire
2018 MFA final show, Bath Spa University
2014 Outdoor Sculpture Programme, Sidcot Arts Centre, Somerset
2014 Voyages, Contains Art, Watchet, Somerset
2013 Garden Of Eden, site-specific, SAW/NGS Abundance Garden Trail, Somerset
2012 Precious and Primal, Casespace, Bruton Museum, Somerset
2005 Tobacco Factory Gallery, Bristol
Two Person Exhibitions
2017 Form & Fascination, with Ian Turnock, Courts Garden National Trust Estate, Holt, Wiltshire
2017 Ephemeral & Eternal, with Angela Morley, Black Swan Arts, Frome, Somerset
2013 Blurred Edges, with Kitty Hillier, Walcot Chapel Gallery, Bath
2011 Mystery and Mutability, with Kitty Hillier, Bridgwater Arts Centre, Somerset
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Wander_Land, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens & Gallery, Cornwall
2023 Hatch, Langport, Somerset
2023 Stone Lane Sculpture, Devon
2023 Darkness to Hope, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset
2022 Together We Rise, Chichester Cathedral
2022 Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, London
2022 Materiality, Walcot Chapel, Bath
2021/2 Transfiguration, International Biennal, NTCRI, Taiwan
2021 Ingram Prize ‘21, Unit 1 Gallery, London
2021 Wells Art Contemporary (installation), Wells Cathedral
2021 In Pursuit of Spring, Black Swan Arts, Frome
2020 Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, London
2020 Homegrown, Hauser & Wirth (online)
2020 Incendiary, Pound Arts, Corsham, Wiltshire
2020 Fifty Bees IV, Black Swan Arts, Frome
2019 Gilbert Bayes Award Winners Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors, London
2019 Incendiary, SVA, Stroud, Gloucestershire
2019 Re-formation, Bishops Palace, Somerset
2019 Marks Hall Sculpture, Essex
2018 Ingruttati Palermo (research workshop & exhibition), Danisinni Church, Manifesta Biennale, Sicily
2018 Visions of Science, The Edge, Bath
2018 Line and Point, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
2017 Fresh Air, Quenington, Gloucestershire
2017 Summer Sculptures, Glastonbury Abbey
2017 Black Swan Arts Open, Frome
2016 Hidden Garden Art Show/Chelsea Fringe, Maureen Michaelson Gallery, London
2016 step in stone, Salisbury Arts Centre, Wiltshire
2016 Outside In, Quartz Arts Festival, Taunton
2015 GROW London, Maureen Michaelson Gallery, London
2015 Art Parks International Sculpture Show, Guernsey
2015 Past, Present, Future, 44AD, Bath
2014 Hidden Garden Art Show/Chelsea Fringe, Maureen Michaelson Gallery, London
2014 Glastonbury Abbey Sculpture in the Orchard, Somerset
2014 Devon Recycled Sculpture Trail, Teignmouth, Devon
2014 The Hubcap As Art, Landfillart Exhibition, Museum of Shenandoah Valley, USA
2013 Art in the Gardens, Landhydrock National Trust Estate, Cornwall
2013 All Wired Up, Walford Mill Crafts, Dorset
2013 Delamore Arts, Devon
2013 Salvage, Architecture Centre, Bristol
2012 Delamore Sculpture Garden, Devon
2012 Art in the Garden, Sir Harold Hillier, Hampshire
2012 Rubbish Art Project, London
2012 Sculpture in the Gardens, Godinton, Kent
2011 Winter Sculpture, RHS Rosemoor, Devon
2011 Showborough Sculpture Garden, Gloucestershire
2010 Mythic Garden Sculpture Exhibition, Devon
2010 Treading Lightly, Yew Tree Gallery, Cornwall
2010 Joyride, Hybrid Gallery, Honiton, Devon
2009 Wildlife Artist of the Year, Mall Galleries, London
2009 Art in the Garden, Sir Harold Hillier, Hampshire
2009 Fire and Iron Gallery, Surrey
2008 Summer Show, Atkinson Gallery, Street
2008 Beaks, Tails, Paws and Claws, Delamore Sculpture Garden, Devon
2006-8 Co-operative member of Nunney Gallery, Somerset
2006 The Study Gallery, Poole
1993 Merz Contemporary Art Gallery, London
1993 Tobacco Art Gallery, London
1992 Gagliardi Gallery, London
1992 World Wildlife Fund Environmental Sculpture Exhibition, Millbank, London
1992 South London Art Gallery, London
1992 Art in the Park, Essex
1991 Doors of the Earth, Stanmer Park, Brighton
1990 Young Unknowns Gallery, London
Curated Projects
2022 Co-curater & artist The Gleaning: community art project; large textiles installations, events, Shepton Mallet
2021 Co-curater & artist Inch by IN:CH: travelling exhibition/events, 6 venues, South West UK
2019 Co-curater & artist B-Wing (ACE funded): site-responsive exhibition/events (included solo residency), Shepton Mallet Prison, Somerset
2015 Curater & artist step in stone (ACE funded): site-responsive artscapes in Mendip quarries, exhibition/events, 6 venues
2011 Co-founder Scraptors, co-curator & artist Beyond the Garden Gate sculpture trail, Stourhead National Trust Estate, Wiltshire
Selected Community Work
2023 Creation of costume, workshop & performance for Giant Puppet Sovereign Nature, Somerset
2021 Giant Octopus & Sealife wall & workshops, via SPAEDA, Eastover Primary School, Somerset
2021 All The Colours, Lenticular Chameleon community artwork for buses via Seed Sedgemoor
2018 SAW Young ProspectUs residency/workshops, Bridgwater & Taunton College, Somerset
2014 Collaborative artwork, workshops & exhibition, Litterarti, Big Green Week, Bristol
2011 Workshops & site sculpture, Larmer Tree Festival, Dorset
2011 Family sculpture workshops, work sited permanently, Springfield Park, Worcestershire
2010 SAW Intergenerational Sculpture Project, Carymoor Environmental Centre, Somerset
2010 Giant Spider community sculpture, Green Fields, Glastonbury Festival
Public Commissions
2023 Pangolin sculpture, Faber & Faber Books, UK
2022 Giant Snowdrops, Snowdrop Festival, Shepton Mallet
2021 Film commissioned by Art UK, in partnership with Culture Street & Royal Society of Sculptors
2019 Great Crested Newt sculpture, Carymoor Environmental Centre, Somerset
2016 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Viking Cruises; canopy focal piece, gold/best artisan garden, London
2016 Bishop Jocelyn sculpture, Bishops Palace, Wells
2009 Series of large insect sculptures, Dobbies Garden World, Somerset
Teaching
1994-23 Freelance Art Educator (Holburne Museum, Bath College, SAW, Frome Comm Ed, private..)
2008-18 Teacher of Art (p/t, extra curricular), All Hallows Preparatory School, Somerset
2000-09 Teacher of Art (p/t), Kings of Wessex School, Cheddar, Somerset
1994-99 Teacher of Art (f/t), Churchill Community School, Churchill, Bristol
Voluntary Posts & Memberships
Member Royal Society of Sculptors
Somerset Art Works member; Trustee (’23 -); SAW Rep (’13-’19)
Black Swan Arts Programming Group (’19-’23); BSA Trustee (’14-’17)
Mendip Creatives Rep (’12-’17)
CICC Director of Old Stores Studio, Somerset (’19-’23)
NADFAS Young Arts School Organiser (’06-10)
Films, Talks, Presentations & Publications
Creative Boom, feature ’23
Together We Rise, Chichester Cathedral catalogue & vox pop ‘22
Transfiguration, NCTRI, Taiwan exhibition catalogue ‘22
Greening Arts Resource Pack, Somerset Art Works ‘22
Ingram Prize catalogue & audio presentation, ‘21
Round Lemon ONE exhibition publication, ‘21
Somerset Reacquainted, podcast exploring the project with artists and curators
Online talk via Red Line Art Works, 25 March ‘21
Sculptors Techniques: Fiona Campbell, film commission, Art UK, in partnership with Culture Street & Royal Society of Sculptors ’21
Creating Spaces - The History of the Bath Schools of Art & Design 1853-2020, publication, ’20
Art and the Climate Emergency, Somerset Council/SAW, talk ’20
Live-stream in-conversation with Richard Tomlinson, part of Creative Network ‘20
Artist talk, Bath University, ‘19
B-Wing interview with Ben McGrail, ITV, ’19
Drawing on Dorset, publication, ’19
Join in the Conversation, Incendiary, ’19
PALAVR talk, Bath ’19
SoundBites talk, Absidia, Beatrix Potter, Hauser & Wirth Somerset ’18
Art from Scrap talk, Ocean Matters, Bristol ’18
Sunday Telegraph May ’16, Chelsea Flower Show commission
Antennae, issue 35, Spring ’16 step in stone
step in stone film & catalogue ’15
Of Form And Texture exhibition ’14
Landfillart – 1041 Hubcaps as Art publication ‘14
Common Threads Ignite Somerset ’13
Make, Create, Cultivate SAW symposium ‘13
Abundance Art in the Garden publication ’13
Summers Place/Sotheby’s catalogue ’12
Spaeda Featured Artist ’10
BBC website ’10
Somerset Life Magazine Featured Artist ’09
British Contemporary Art 1991, Gagliardi Gallery