Barbara Campbell b. 1961

  • Artist (Performance Artist)
Performance artist. For the final work of her residency at the University of Sydney's Centre for Performance Studies, Campbell inscribed her body with motifs that were only visible under ultra-violet light. She revealed them by sweeping a palm-leaf fan with a concealed UV light across her body. It was designed as a counter-work to the the university's Macleay Museum's exhibition 'Adorned.'
Tags: Birds, Electronic poetics
participated in
Matinaze 1990
Date
10 March 1990 - 24 March 1990
Description

Matinaze 1990: Premieres and Rare SigntingsDomain Theatre, Art Gallery of NSWA selection of Australian film and video art  presented by Sydney Super 8 Film Group inc and assisted by the Australian Film Commisison …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/955
Note
Included in
participated in
An Original Idea From S.I.N.
Date
1991
Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/3533
Note
Included in
exhibited at
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to now Part 1
Date
14 November 2020 - 4 July 2021
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Know My Name is an exhibition in two parts at the National Gallery of Australia. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of work by women, presented in a thematic rather than chronological form. It reveals relationships between the present and the past, relationships between artists, and common concerns.

Tags
Women artists, Feminism, Modernism, Indigenous, Painting, Video art, Multimedia, Photo-based art-work, Sculpture, Embroidery
Website
https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/australian-women-artists-1900-now/
exhibited at
Refer to Source
Date
27 May 2011 - 18 June 2011
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

Refer to Source connects two artists who use age-old stories to reflect on contemporary geo-politics. Ali Baba Aurang is Afghanistan’s finest advocate of siamask or ‘practice in black’ calligraphy and Barbara Campbell is a well-regarded Sydney-based performance artist.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/128-refer-to-source-ali-baba-aurang-and-barbara-campbell
exhibited at
May Day: The Return of Art & Politics in the 21st Century
Date
6 May 2006 - 3 June 2006
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/221-may-day-the-return-of-art-a-politics-in-the-21st-century-6-may-to-3-june-2006
exhibited at
May Day: The Return of Art & Politics in the 21st Century
Date
6 May 2006 - 3 June 2006
Place
The Cross Art Projects, 8 Llankelly Place, Kings Cross, Sydney, 2011, Australia
Description

The exhibition reflects on these sorry days of government manipulation of unions and the introduction of divisive industrial laws, on the curbing of civil liberties and the strangling of access to information. It also identifies a strong neo-conceptual critical and aesthetic strain within contemporary Australian art practice that interacts with global concerns and local political topics.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
The Cross Art Projects
Website
http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/221-may-day-the-return-of-art-a-politics-in-the-21st-century-6-may-to-3-june-2006
exhibited at
Barbara Campbell: the Grimwade effect
Date
2003
Place
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

In 2002, Barbara Campbell was the University of Melbourne’s Macgeorge Fellow. Her research project, including the study of works held in the Sir Russell and Lady Grimwade Bequest, centred on the corporate and cultural activities of Russell Grimwade and his relationship with the university. Amongst many various interests and entrepreneurial ventures, Russell Grimwade (1879-1955) was renowned for his passion for Australiana and native plants. Campbell’s exhibition and performance examined from a metaphorical as well as a literal documentary perspective Grimwade’s fascination with the eucalypt. Challenging the seemingly arbitrary nature of scientific interpretation and human understanding, Campbell adopts her own unique tools of measurement and assessment, to create a human laboratory, with herself at the centre of the experiment.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/art_past_exh.aspx (28/05/04)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Performance, Installation
exhibited at
Flesh winnow: Barbara Campbell: six peformances 1997-2001
Date
2002
Place
Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney
Description

A 'retrospective’ of Barbara Campbell’s performances from 1997 – 2001. The catalogue contains essays by 7 prominent art theory and art history writers, including Joan Kerr.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
State Library of QLD catalogue; National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Flesh winnow: Barbara Campbell: six performances 1997-2001. Sydney: Power Publications, 2002
ISBN 1864875178

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Performance
exhibited at
(Performance of Inflorescent)
Date
14 April 2000 - 15 April 2000
Place
Gorman House, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, ACT
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Women at Australian Galleries
Date
6 March 1995 - 1 April 1995
Place
Australian Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description

[not listed in PastPresent]

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
curator of
Performance on Screen
Date
26 May 1994
Description

This selection of works brings together screen interpretations of performance spanning a 23 year period …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/3752
exhibited at
Backwash
Date
1993
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Performance
participated in
Third International Symposium on Electronic Art (TISEA)
Date
9 November 1992 - 13 November 1992
Description

TISEA: Cultural Diversity in the Global Village
The Third International Symposium on Electronic Art (TISEA) was held in Sydney, 9-13 November, 1992 …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/3896
exhibited at
The diamond necklace affair
Date
1992
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Performance
curator of
Eclipse
Date
25 November 1990 - 28 November 1990
Description

Eclipse
A program of film and video art curated by Barbara Campbell and Andrew Frost …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/873
participated in
Attitude
Date
1 September 1989 - 30 September 1989
Description

Attitude
Film & Video Event Presented by the Sydney Super 8 Film Group Inc …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/3952
Note
Included in
curator of
Soundworks
Date
9 May 1986 - 11 May 1986
Place
Performance Space, Sydney, NSW
Type
Performance
Tags
Biennale of Sydney
curator of
In almost every case...
Date
3 July 1985 - 21 July 1985
Place
Performance Space, Sydney, NSW
Description

Installed works

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Contemporary Art and Feminism
curator of
Mike Parr
Date
1983
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Performance