Cressida Campbell (born 8 July 1960) is an Australian artist. She was born in Sydney in 1960 to Ruth and Ross Campbell. She studied at

East Sydney Technical College The National Art School (NAS) is a tertiary level art school, located in , an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school is an independent accredited higher education provider offering specialised study in studio arts ...

in 1978 and 1979. Her older sister is actress

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. Her first husband Peter Crayford died in 2011. She married Warren Macris in April 2022. She lives in the Sydney suburb of Bronte, in her home studio.

Career

Campbell spent several weeks at the Yoshida Hanga Academy in Tokyo in 1985. From this she learned how to lead the eye around the picture plane using composition. She exhibited in London in 2001 (when

Germaine Greer Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the radical feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Specializing in English and women's literat ...

introduced her at the opening) and 2003. As of 2006, her technique centers on painting her woodblocks in preparation for hand-printing with them. Campbell's technique is based on 'white line' printmaking, a technique pioneered by Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt in 1914. She is described as following in the footsteps of

Margaret Preston Margaret Rose Preston (29 April 1875 – 28 May 1963) was an Australian painter and printmaker who is regarded as one of Australia's leading modernists of the early 20th century. In her quest to foster an Australian "national art", she was al ...

and

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Literature

''The Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell''
with an introduction by John McDonald, art critic of ''

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'' and a foreword by

Edmund Capon Edmund George Capon (11 June 1940 – 13 March 2019) was an art scholar specialising in Chinese art. He was director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1978 to 2011. He was also the chair of soccer club Sydney FC from 2006 to 2007. Ea ...

, director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 360 pp. Hardback.

In Collections

Campbell’s work is held in the following collections: Art Gallery of New South Wales (9 works), the

National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in th ...

(4 works).

References

External links

Cressida Campbell web siteCressida Campbell
at the

database
Cressida Campbell: A ProfileAGNSW: Cressida Campbell (with images of the 9 works held)Google Images: Cressida Campbell and her works
1960 births Australian women artists Living people Artists from Sydney National Art School alumni {{Australia-artist-stub