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Cressida Campbell (born 8 July 1960)[1] is an Australian artist.

Cressida Campbell
Born	(1960-07-08) 8 July 1960 (age 62) Sydney, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Spouse	Peter Campbell ​ ​ (m. 1983; died 2011)​

She was born in Sydney in 1960 to Ruth and Ross Campbell, her older sister is actress Nell Campbell. She studied at East Sydney Technical College in 1978 and 1979.[2]

Her husband Peter died in 2011. She lives in the Sydney suburb of Bronte, in her home studio.[3]

Career

Campbell spent several weeks at the Yoshida Hanga Academy in Tokyo in 1985.  From this she learned how to lead the eye around the picture plane using composition.[4]

She exhibited in London in 2001 (when Germaine Greer introduced her at the opening) and 2003. As of 2006, her technique centers on painting her woodblocks in preparation for hand-printing with them.[5] She is described as following in the footsteps of Margaret Preston and Thea Proctor.[6]

Literature

• The Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell with an introduction by John McDonald, art critic of The Sydney Morning Herald and a foreword by Edmund Capon, director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 360 pp. Hardback.

In Collections

Her work is held in the following collections: Art Gallery of New South Wales (9 works),[7] the National Gallery of Australia (4 works).[8]

References

External links

• Cressida Campbell web site
• Cressida Campbell at the National Gallery of Australia database
• Cressida Campbell: A Profile
• AGNSW: Cressida Campbell (with images of the 9 works held)
• Google Images: Cressida Campbell and her works

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