Fiona Campbell

Born and brought up in Kenya, I now live and work in Somerset, UK. I have an MFA (distinction), Bath Spa University. I was an Ingram Prize finalist ’21, recipient of a Royal Society of Sculptors Gilbert Bayes Award ’19, and received the Red Line Art Works Award ’20 for my environmental sculptural installations Glut, Accretion, Snakes and Ladders. I exhibit throughout UK and internationally, am a member of Royal Society of Sculptors, and trustee of Somerset Art Works. 

I create mixed media assemblages, blurring boundaries between sculpture, drawing and installation, often large-scale and immersive. There is an overriding message of sustainability, with environment at heart; a passion for nature rooted in the notion of life’s interconnectedness, cyclical persistence, transformation. I am interested in tentacularity; the complex web of relationships from micro to macro. I see these rhizomic connections as metaphors for life, vitalism and regeneration. Life as line, energy, is an ongoing ‘doing’ thing - matter in a process of becoming. The work focuses on concerns about climate breakdown, human exploitation of nature and over-consumption, which has led to catastrophic mass animal/plant extinctions. My approach is a form of suturing, ...

Foundation Art (merit), West Sussex College of Design; Fine Art (Painting) at Newcastle Polytechnic; Fine Art Degree (Sculpture, distinction), Byam Shaw School of Art, London (’87); PGCE, Exeter University (’94), MFA (distinction) Bath Spa University ('18).

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Residency & Solo, Create@#8, Shepton Mallet
2021 Residency & Solo, The Loft, above Heritage Courtyard Gallery, Wells
2019 Residency & solo, Offenders, Cells, Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, Wiltshire
2014 Outdoor Sculpture Programme, Sidcot Arts Centre, Somerset
2014 Found, Now Missing, Voyages, Contains Art, Somerset
2012 Green Capital Residency (highly commended), Bristol’s Big Green Week, Create Centre & Arnolfini
2012 Precious and Primal, Casespace, Bruton Museum, Somerset
2005 Tobacco Factory Gallery, Bristol

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Wander_Land, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens & Gallery, Cornwall
2023 Stone Lane Sculpture, Devon
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 (installations), Wells Cathedral
2020 Gilbert Bayes Award Winners Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors, London
2020 Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, London
2019 Incendiary, SVA, Stroud, Gloucestershire
2019 Re-formation, (site-responsiv...