Steven Campbell was best known for his large figurative paintings and is among the most well-known Scottish artists of his time. Born in 1953 in Glasgow, Steven Steven graduated from the Painting Department of Glasgow School of Art in 1982, winning the Bram Stoker Gold Medal. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and travelled to study at the Pratt Institute in New York in 1982. Steven exhibited extensively and his work is in numerous public collections including: the National Gallery of Scotland, the Tate Gallery, London, the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA.
Steven emerged as one of the young Glasgow school of artists and his international reputation was established while working in New York in the mid ’80s.
His highly original paintings evolved from an eclectic range of personal and literary sources creating narrative paintings, which provided surreal and trenchant comment on man in the modern world.
Steven Campbell died August 15 2007.
1953 Born in Glasgow
1978-82 Glasgow School of Art
1990 Artist in Residence, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2004 Lived and worked in Kippen, Stirlingshire
2007 Died 15 August
Selected Publications:
Duncan Macmillan, The Paintings of Steven Campbell: The Story so far, Mainstream, 1993 Selected Articles: Guardian Obituary Frieze Article Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Campbell_(artist)
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Campbell’s Estate is represented by Marlborough Fine Art, London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1983 Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York
John Weber Gallery, New York
1985 The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1987 Marlborough Fine Art, London
1990 Rex Irwin, Sydney, Australia
Steven Campbell: On Form and Fiction Travelling exhibition; Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno; Marlborough Fine art, London; Aberdeeb Art Gallery; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester & Southampton Art Gallery
1993 Pinnocchio’s Present, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; Marlborough Fine art, London & South London Gallery
1996 Chesterfield Dreams, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney
1997 Chesterfield Dreams, Marlborough Fine Art, London & William Hardie Gallery, Glasgow
2002 The Caravan Club,Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh & Marlborough Fine
Art, London. Catalogue introduction by Duncan Macmillan.
2004 Glasgow Print Studio
Books & Catalogues
Duncan Macmillan, The Paintings of Steven Campbell, Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh & London, 1993
Duncan Macmillan, Scottish Art 1460-2000, Mainstream Publishing Edinburgh & London, 2000
Murdo Macdonald, Scottish Art, Thames & Hudson, London, 2000
Public Collections:
Arts Council of Great Britain, British Council, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool
The Steven Campbell Trust 