Jennifer Campbell

'Through my practice I nudge the painted image out of the contained boundary of the picture plane. By making visible the painting’s object-hood, I force it to exist in three-dimensional space. Yet this attempt to enter into the physical world is futile and incomplete; the image remains flat despite its materiality. By existing as an object the painting allows it’s territory to become interrupted by the outside world. This spilling-out of the frame relates to my interest in identity and the gap between self and other.
 

My paintings are aware of the gaze of the audience: they pose and show-off like a performer on stage. I treat paint as if it were garish make-up or icing on a birthday cake. Paint’s relationship to physicality, and its ability conjure up a skin-deep transformation via the coating of a surface, forms the basis of my exploration of the painting as an object.'

Short listed for ‘Griffin Art Prize 2014’ in November 2014.

BORN

1985

EDUCATION

MFA Painting (Distincion) – The Slade School of Fine Art, 2014

Moving Image Lecture Course – Arnolfini Gallery, 2010

BA Fine Art (First) – Norwich School of Art & Design, 2008

Art Foundation in Printmaking (Distinction) – Cambridge Regional College, 2004

City and Guilds Award in Mark Making – Cambridge Regional College, 2004

(Last updated 28.03.2016)