SAW Greening Art Project

SAW Greening Art Project – Workshop with Fiona Campbell

22nd April 2022 (Earth Day) 

The workshop investigated artists’ environmental responsibilities, looking at key concepts of Climate Change and the role of the arts: how we can make our practice more sustainable.

There was a presentation, discussion and practical workshop covering a range of 2d and 3d activities using homemade, recycled and found materials. Participants were able to create something to take away, and now have permanent access to an online resource pack full of relevant information around Greening the Arts.

About Fiona Campbell:

Based in Somerset, Fiona is a visual artist, educator and curator, passionate about art and the natural world.  She creates mixed media artworks often blurring boundaries between sculpture, drawing, textiles and installation. At the root of her practice is the notion of interconnectedness throughout nature, line as energy, and transformation.  Increasingly, environmental concerns about human exploitation of nature and over-consumption inform the content, taking her work into the realm of artivism.  Fiona’s work is labour-intensive and her use of found, discarded, recycled materials relates to waste, our relationship with matter, nature, and ourselves.

Fiona holds an MFA and PGCE. She received a RSS Gilbert Bayes Award, 2019 and was an Ingram Prize 2021 finalist.  Recent exhibitions include Ingruttati Palermo, Manifesta12, Italy; Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral 2021, residency/solos in The Loft, above Heritage Courtyard Gallery, Wells, 2021, and ‘Offenders’, in the Cells, Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, 2019.  Fiona was highly commended for her Green Capital Residency, culminating in exhibitions at Create Centre and Arnolfini, Bristol, 2012.

Alongside her practice, Fiona works in the community. She curated step in stone, artscapes in Mendip quarries, 2015; and co-curated B-Wing, Shepton Mallet Prison, 2019 and Inch by IN:CH – a travelling project, 2021.

Image: Fiona Campbell, Glut 2018, recycled and found materials

Published on March 17, 2022 // Hannah Earl