Barbara Campbell

“Principally, what we’re doing here is drawing an analogy between art and law.

While I was resident at the American Academy in Rome (AAR) in 2022, I had access to small, ancient objects in the collection drawers there.

Greeks and Romans was the first time Barbara Campbell and the late Neil Roberts had shown together.

Group exhibition including works by (Pisces) artists: Jack Ball, Barbara Campbell, Julie Fragar, Tina Havelock Stevens and Cat Hope, and Ronnie Van Hout.

Night 1001 remediated some of the physical traces of the last story of Barbara Campbell’s online durational performance 1001 nights cast (2005 – 2008) and honours all the storywriters who kept Barbara and the project alive for its 1001 night duration.

Multi-disciplinary artist Barbara Campbell takes inspiration from the journey of shorebirds that migrate every year from one end of the globe and back along ancient flyways in ex avibus.

My research into hollow-ware votive figures of the 6th to 2nd century BCE began in 2019 with a short residency at the American Academy of Rome to view and photograph the small but indicative number of female figures in the AAR archaeological collection.

Birds & Language brings together Australian artists who explore the language of birds.

The series of works on paper, To Fill the Hollow, was shown alongside its UR work, the large acrylic and graphite work AAR_079, itself derived from a terracotta votive figure in the collection of the American Academy in Rome.

Cognitive Dissidents inquires into the meaning and politics of dissidence through its exploration of the value of the experiment, and the possibilities of aesthetic and social politics.

This letterpress project brought together Barbara’s passion for print techniques, haiku, libraries, and birds.

The saying ‘once the dust settles’ is essentially optimistic.

This watercolour series, based on written descriptions of the bill colours of adult Eastern Curlews banded in the field at Corner Inlet, Victoria in 2014 was arranged according to a single image of a departing flock of Curlews from Roebuck Bay, WA in 2012.

A group exhibition based on the many ways artists choose to interpret “the field”: as noun and adjective; across the areas of photography, art, sociology and research.

ephemeral traces provides the first comprehensive analysis of artist-run practice in Brisbane during the final decade of the conservative Jo Bjelke-Petersen government.

"In her new project, ex avibus [Latin: from the birds], Barbara Campbell has researched and experimented with various ideas of performance.

The curatorial project that is LANDSEASKY: revisiting spatiality in video art, was born of a desire to revisit, clarify and extend video as a fine art tool, a medium to be understood and expressed fundamentally as a sculptural experience rather than a cinematic narrative.

Exploring the influence Australian and Aboriginal artists have had in shaping our culture and understanding, A Time and a Place: Landscapes from the Griffith University Art Collection features contemporary and historical artworks acquired since the early 1980s.

far and wide: Narrative into Idea explores how five Australian artists — Barbara Campbell, George Egerton-Warburton, Michael Lindeman, Alex Martinis Roe and Tom Nicholson — infuse their conceptual processes with narrative.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the J W Power bequest in 2013, this exhibition brings together five major mid-career artists who have held the Power Studio in the last decade — Barbara Campbell, A D S Donaldson, Alex Gawronski, Michelle Nikou and Tony Schwensen.

Return to Sender is an exhibition of works by artists who left Queensland in the late 1970s and early 1980s, largely in reaction to the political and cultural milieu of the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era.

New Work Old Tricks brings together a selection of Campbelltown Arts Centre’s major new work commissions from across its program.