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Steven Campbell (1953–2007) was a painter from Scotland. ==Biography== Campbell was born in Glasgow and worked as an engineer before studying at Glasgow School of Art as a mature student, from 1978 to 1982. Initially he studied the then still new subject of performance art, but quickly gave this up for painting.〔Bill Hare, Obituary to Steven Campbell, in ''The Independent'' (London newspaper), 4 September 2007〕 At the end of his studies he was awarded the Bram Stoker gold medal, and gained a Fulbright Scholarship which he used to go to New York to study at the Pratt Institute.〔Obituary to Steven Campbell, in ''The Times'', 21 August 2007〕 This move resulted in many of his early exhibitions taking place in New York, including his first solo show, in 1983, at the Barbara Toll Gallery.〔John Russell, 'Summertime Discoveries at the Galleries', in ''The New York Times,'' 24 June 1983〕 There is some dispute as to whether Campbell was one of the core group of students nurtured by the artist and tutor Alexander Moffat at Glasgow School of Art, including Peter Howson and Ken Currie,〔Angus Calder claims not in Angus Calder, 'Art for a New Scotland', in ''Circa'', no. 64, Summer 1993, pp.27-8〕 but Campbell was certainly included by Moffat in the 1981 group show ''The Vigorous Imagination'' at the New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, later known as the Fruitmarket Gallery, which was the first public showing of this group. He was also included in the seminal exhibition at Glasgow's Third Eye Centre entitled ''New Image Glasgow,'' again curated by Moffat,〔, Alexander Moffat, ''New Image Glasgow'', exh. cat. (Glasgow: Third Eye Centre, 1985)〕 which is still regarded as an exemplar in how a non-metropolitan centre can promote art and culture on the international stage. In this exhibition Moffat presented Campbell and other Glasgow artists as a 'New Scottish School'.〔See Angus Calder, 'Art for a New Scotland', in ''Circa'', no. 64, Summer 1993, p.26〕 He was also included in the 1985 Hayward Annual exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London,〔Calendar, in ''The Burlington Magazine'', vol. 127, no. 987, June 1985, p. 422〕 and had a joint show with the British Pop Artist Colin Self at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh.〔Calendar, in ''The Burlington Magazine'', vol. 127, no. 982, January 1985 p. 64〕 Campbell returned to live in Glasgow in 1986, and that same year his painting ''The Dangerous Early and Late Life of Lytton Strachey'' was acquired by The Tate.〔Tate Gallery image ref. T04137〕 The following year he was included in a group show, also called ''The Vigorous Imagination New Scottish Art'' held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh Festival, at which he cemented his elevated status within the new Scottish art world by being one of the most prominently displayed artists.〔Angus Calder, 'Review of The Vigorous Imagination: New Scottish Art', in ''The New Statesman'', 14 August 1987.〕 1987 was also the year of his first exhibition of paintings with the London art gallery Marlborough Fine Art.〔Tony Godfrey, ''Steven Campbell'' (London: Marlborough Fine Art, 1987)〕 This was only Campbell's second solo show in London, the first having been at the Riverside Studios in 1984.〔Richard Shone, 'Selected Recent Exhibitions of Twentieth-Century Art' in ''The Burlington Magazine'', vol. 129, no. 1010, May 1987 p. xxxi〕 In 1988, Campbell's painting ''A Man Perceived by a Flea,'' painted in 1985, was acquired by the Scottish National Gallery,〔National Galleries of Scotland image ref. GMA 3049〕 Further works were acquired by state collections in Britain, including ''Napoleonic Silhouettist Cutting the Progress of the War'' by the Arts Council in 1987,〔Arts Council of England image ref. GMA 3049〕 ''Painting on a Darwinian Theme'' by the British Council in 1988,〔British Council image ref. P5483〕 and ''Three men of exactly the same size in an unequal room'' by Leeds City Art Gallery in 1989.〔Leeds Museums and Art Galleries image ref. 17/1989〕 In the late 1990s Campbell withdrew from public life with worries over his health. It was not until 2002 that he exhibited again, with what proved to be his last major show, at the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh.〔Phil Miller, 'Glasgow Boy Campbell dies at 53', in ''The Herald'' (Scottish newspaper), 17 August 2007〕 Campbell died of a ruptured appendix on 15 August 2007, aged 54. He was married and had three children.〔 Campbell's Estate is represented by Marlborough Fine Art, London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steven Campbell (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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