Barbara Campbell

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

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

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

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

The curators of Chance Encounters invited ten Australian and international emerging and established artists who explore chance, the momentary and the unexpected and whose work disrupts or transforms perfectly ordinary situations and objects.

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.

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.

During her visit to Perth, Barbara made haiku from five -and seven-syllable lines she extracted from freshly printed in Western Australia’s city and regional newspapers.

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.

As a Macgeorge Fellow in 2002, Barbara Campbell was invited to undertake an activity that, in the terms of the bequest, would be for the benefit ‘students of the Faculty of Arts with special emphasis on those studying fine arts, literature, history of philosophy’.

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.

Was / Is, was a participatory work installed at Rio Vista Park (the old sculpture triennial site in Mildura).