菲奥娜•坎贝尔

菲奥娜是一位视觉艺术家、教育家和策展人，热爱艺术和自然。她在肯尼亚长大，现在住在英国萨默塞特。菲奥娜创作混合媒介艺术作品，经常模糊雕塑、绘画和装置之间的界限，有时是大规模的组合。线条如同空间中的图画，延伸成3d形式。菲奥娜也在电影行业工作，也涉足表演。她在社区内工作，合作和策划涉及社会参与的艺术项目——通常是在艺术意想不到的地方。她的实践的根源是贯穿自然的相互联系的概念，线作为能量，生命的循环坚持和转变。关于人类对自然的剥削和过度消费的环境问题越来越多地反映在内容中，使她的作品进入了艺术主义的领域。菲奥娜对触手感兴趣——从微观到宏观重复的线性生命形式。她将这些根状茎的连接视为生命、活力和再生的隐喻。 'Tentacularity is about life lived along lines ... a series of interlaced trails’ (Donna Haraway). Materiality and process are central: Fiona's work is labour-intensive and her use of found objects, discarded and recycled materials relates to waste, our relationship with matter, nature, and ourselves. Collecting materials is an intrinsic part of the process. Throughout, there is an underlying theme of sustainability. Fiona gained an MFA from Bath Spa University in 2018 and a BA from Byam Shaw School of Art, London in 1987. Alongside her own practice, she teaches art and brought up her son. In 2019, she won a Royal Society of Sculptors Gilbert Bayes Award culminating in RSS GBA Winners exhibition, London & becoming a Member of RSS. She was selected for Ingruttati Palermo workshop and exhibition, part of Manifesta12, Italy, where she made a performative piece Gift of Water. Residency solos include Offenders, Cells, Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, '19; Found, Now Missing, Voyages at Contains Art, Watchet '14; and she was highly commended for her Green Capital Residency, Big Green Week, culminating in exhibitions at Create Centre and Arnolfini, Bristol, '12. Fiona was awarded Arts Council funding for her ambitious project ‘step in stone‘, involving site-specific artscapes in Mendip quarries with 14 international artists, in 2015. She curated and featured in the multidisciplinary event, which linked culture, environment and the community. She also co-curated and featured in ACE-funded B-Wing, Shepton Mallet Prison, a site-responsive project with 8 artists/writers and community events. She is currently working on an artist-led travelling project around South West UK - Inch by IN:CH, 2021. Commissions include a 4m hand woven canopy as a focal piece for Sarah Eberle’s Viking Cruises Mekong Garden, Chelsea Flower Show, 2016, which won gold and best artisan garden. Other awards include Round Lemon, ONE exhibition, first prize '21; Red Line Art Works Award, '20; Environmental Award, Devon Recycled Sculpture Trail ’14, Atkinson Gallery Summer Show, first prize ’11, and David Shepherd Foundation 3-d Wildlife Artist of the Year, ’09. A film about Fiona's work was commissioned by Art UK, in partnership with Culture Street & Royal Society of Sculptors in 2021. Fiona was Rep for Somerset Art Works, served on the Board of Trustees at Black Swan Arts, and is now on the BSA Programming Committee. www.fionacampbellart.co.uk萨默塞特