Jennifer Campbell Biography

Jennifer Campbell graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2014, where she received a full AHRC scholarship and gained an MFA in painting. She also holds a BFA in sculpture from Norwich University of the Arts (2008). Over the last decade she has regularly exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, as well as contributing articles to various publications, including Arty and Garageland magazine.

Jennifer uses paint as both image and substance. Her practice occupies the space between pictorial surface and physical object, with paint acting as a transformative medium. Her work explores the fluid nature of identity, deconstructing cultural ideas around gender, the continuity of the self and the sensation of being a physical body in space and time. She makes paintings on a variety of surfaces, often nontraditional, allowing the materiality of the surface to influence what she paints and how this imagery develops. She places importance on thinking through making, letting the painting lead the way forward and always allowing for interruption, chance and change. This approach is a way of destabilising any formulas that emerge and keeps her process in a state of perpetual flux.

Curriculum Vitae

Solo Shows

2019: Ever After Slices, hosted by Violet Biscuits, Atalante, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2018: G L A M O R O U S, OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich.
2015: Solo Show at The Viriconium Palace, Bristol.
2015: Power Puff Princess, Marcel Joseph Projects, London.
2010: Silver Ant Cycle, Hello Everything Gallery, Bristol.

Selected Group Shows

2020: Picture Palace, Transition Gallery, London.
2019: Beauty Salon, Centre for Research into the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge. 
2018: Manchester Contemporary with Square Art Projects
2018: Loose Certainties, a duo show with Paul Housley, Transition Gallery, London.
2017: Papercuts, Tripp Gallery, London.
2017: Outpost Members Show 2017, Outpost Gallery, Norwich.
2017: Swap editions Edition 2 -Trade, Set Space, London.
2017: Bow Open Show, The Nunnery Gallery, London.
2017: Odds, Assembly Point Studios, London.
2016: Miami Vice, Transition Gallery, London.
2016: The Conformist, at Belmacz Gallery, London.
2016: Jeune Creation 66th Edition, Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.
2016: The Names, Transition Gallery, London.
2015: 6GINS, the project space at The Royal Standard, Liverpool.
2015: Rosey Fingers, The Centre for Recent Drawing, London.
2014: The Griffin Prize Shortlist exhibition, The Griffin Gallery, London.
2014: Cocktail III, KARST Gallery, Plymouth.
2014: 14/55, Gemspace Gallery, Dalston Lane, London.
2013: Jamaica, part of the Glasgow Masters Series, Glasgow.
2012: The Thing In-Between, Changing Spaces, Cambridge.
2012: Ininland, Inland studios, Camberwell, London. 
2011: Eastern Pavilions, Bethnal Green Library, London.
2011: The Late Shift, via The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich.
2011: Versailles, The gallery in Redchurch Street, London.
2010: Silent Night, Centre for Recent Drawing, London.
2010: Rhizomatic, Departure Gallery, London.
2010: Hand Joy, Centre for Recent Drawing, London.
2010: Show and Tell, The Marlborough, London.
2010: The Stranger at the Party, Hand in Glove, Old Market, Bristol.
2009: Alternating Between the Two, Pebbledash Gallery, London.
2009: Kunstwerk Bazaar, OUTPOST gallery, Norwich. 
2008: Installation at Café Kino, Bristol.
2008: Invasion 8, The Pasinger Fabrik Museum, Munich

Education

2012 /2014: MFA Painting, Distinction, The Slade School of Fine Art.
2005 /2008: BA Fine Art, First, Norwich School of Art and Design.

Awards and Prizes

2015: Selected for the 2016 Catlin Guide. 
2014: Shortlisted for the Land Securities studio residency.
2014: Shortlisted for the The Griffin art Prize.
2013: The Jeremy Cubitt Prize Bursary.
2013: Materials bursary from The Institute of Making.
2013: Winner of Barbican Arts Group Trust Prize.
2012 – 2014: MFA Scholarship – Arts and Humanities Research Council Award

Collaborative projects and exhibitions

2017: Temporary Contact with the Ground – collaboration project with Ayse Kucuk and Emily Hawes, at Bow Arts Project Space, London.
2016: BISCUIT at Bow Arts Project Space, London.
2015: Grounded, with Chloe Manasseh, Transition Gallery, London.
2014: Topping, Barbican Arts Group Trust Project Space, London.
2014: Gazpacho, The summer School Residents show, The Slade School of Fine Art, London.
2013: Habits, Cleavages and Fractures, The Rock Room, UCL, London.
2013: Premonitions, TAP Gallery, Southend on Sea.
2011: Flat Pack, collaborative exhibition with Matilda Moors, Sauna Gallery, London.
2010: The Fellows Show, The University of the West of England, Bristol.
2009: Are we at a car boot sale?, Spike Island gallery, Bristol.
2009: Colour Matter, collaboration with Sammantha Horrobin for Outhouse, Norwich.
2009: Bagel Office, collaboration with Paul Kindersley for Outhouse, Norwich.

Residencies

2014: The Slade Summer Residency, The Slade School of Fine Art, London.
2014: Ceramics Residency with Stephanie Bergman, Morocco.
2013: Contemporary Art Society Kilcash Residency, Ireland.
2009: Outhouse, an off-site residency with OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich.

Publications and press

2020: Article in Arty Magazine issue no.43 Makeup.
2019: Article for ARTY magazine issue 41- Witches.
2018: Article for Garageland magazine issue 22: (Difficult) Women.
2018: Article for Arty Magazine issue 40 Dresses. 
2017: Article for The Drawer issue 14 Parade.
2017: Article for Garageland Magazine, issue 21, Urban Ghosts. 
2016: Article for Garageland magazine, issue 20, Remake and Remodel.
2016: Interview with TCP on Miami Vice exhibition.
2016: Article for ARTY magazine, issue 36, Encyclopedia of Red.
2015: Interview with Traction Magazine.
Interview with Studio International Magazine.
2014: Interview with Radio Cambridge for the Griffin Art Prize.
2013: Past Present Future feature for Photo Op.
2011: Article in Garageland Issue 12 – Fake.