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Jennifer Caroline Campbell, Into Glamour, 2019
Polystyrene, acrylic paint, glass paint, found image, pins, paper pulp, silk clay, glitter, 75 x 46 x 8cm
Image credit: Kate Anglestein
Jennifer Caroline Campbell, Vitamin Renewal, 2019
Acrylic paint, silk clay, found magazine image, analogue photograph taken by the artist, scrunchie, polymorph plastic, polystyrene, wood dowel, plasticine, string, artificial sand, found bottle, 90 x 60 x 50 cm
Image credit: Kate Anglestein
Bio
Jennifer Caroline Campbell completed an MFA in Painting at the Slade School of Art and a BA in Fine Art at Norwich School of Art and Design.
Recent solo exhibitions include:
Ever After Slices, Atalante, Gothenberg (2019)
Glamorous, Outpost Gallery, Norwich (2018)
Recent group exhibitions include:
Fabulation, All Saints Church Cambridge (2022)
Picture Palace, Transition Gallery London (2020)
Manchester Contemporary with Square Arts Projects (2018)
Loose Certainties, Transition Gallery, London (2018)
The Conformist, at Belmacz Gallery, London (2016)
Miami Vice, Transition Gallery, London (2016).
Jennifer teaches art at various institutions including Arts University Bournemouth and East Sussex College, Hastings.
Statement
Campbell’s ever-shifting practice fluctuates between painting and sculpture. Her paintings have bodies like slithers of substance and her sculptures have hand-treated surfaces, as if slathered in stage make-up. Through a playful approach to materials, she cultivates a studio process that allows cultural ideas - frequently, but not limited to, those around gender and identity - to be deconstructed, chewed on and rearranged through a visual storytelling and retelling. When presented to an audience, such as in a gallery setting, her works often play up to the gaze of the spectator, sometimes showing off and becoming excessive.