Bonnie Camplin (born 1970) is a British artist and a fine art lecturer at

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, London. She was a

2015 Turner Prize The Turner Prize is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist, organised by the Tate Gallery. Named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, it was first presented in 1984, and is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious, but contro ...

nominee, nominated for the exhibition ''The Military Industrial Complex'', which was shown at the

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Education

Bonnie Camplin studied at

Saint Martins School of Art Saint Martin's School of Art was an art college in London, England. It offered foundation and degree level courses. It was established in 1854, initially under the aegis of the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Saint Martin's became part of t ...

, London for a BA in Fine Art Film and Video (1989–92), and a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Photography (1995–96).

Work

Camplin has worked across film and video, photography, sculpture, painting, performance, music and drawing. She broadly describes her practice as 'the Invented Life'. She has collaborated with artists including

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and

Paulina Olowska Paulina Olowska (born 1976, Gdańsk) is a Polish painter and photographer, who also works in the field of performance and video-art, social action and applied art. The areas of her artistic explorations are modernist utopias and research on the w ...

and was in the band DonAteller with

Mark Leckey Mark Leckey (born 1964) is a British contemporary artist. His found object art and video pieces, which incorporate themes of nostalgia and anxiety, and draw on elements of pop culture, span several works and exhibitions. In particular, he i ...

, Ed Laliq and

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Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

* 1993 ''What About My Innocence'', Maximus Nightclub, London *2000 ''Now We Are Five'', Plank Gallery, London *2011 Galerie Cinzia Friedlaender, Berlin *2012 ''STW,'' Michael Benevento in Los Angeles *2013 ''No More Car Sick,'' Cabinet, London *2014 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool *2015 ''The Military Industrial Complex,''

, London *2017 ''Bonnie Camplin'',

Camden Arts Centre Camden Art Centre (formerly known as Hampstead Arts Centre until 1967 and Camden Arts Centre until 2020) is a contemporary art gallery in the London Borough of Camden, England that hosts temporary exhibitions and educational outreach projects. T ...

, London

Selected group exhibitions and screenings

* 1999 ''The Lux'', London * 2001 ''Roll Yer Own'',

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, London * 2001 ''Electric Blue'', The Barbican, London *2002 ''The Difference Between Us'', Five Years Gallery (Saatchi East), London *2009 ''When the Wind Blows Up You'',

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, London *2011 ''Madame Realism'', Marres Centre for Contemporary Art, Maastricht *2012 ''Sound works'',

, London *2013 ''Assembly, A survey of Recent Artists Film and Video'' ''in Britain'' 2008–2013,

Tate Britain Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in ...

, London

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