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Jennifer Caroline Campbell graduated from the Slade in 2014 with an MFA (First) in painting and a full scholarship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has taught at Camberwell College of Arts UAL, Arts University Bournemouth, East Sussex College and the University of the West of England.
Recent solo exhibitions include Cake Options and Escape Options, Transition Gallery, London (2024), Ever After Slices, Atalante, Gothenberg (2019) and Glamorous, Outpost Gallery, Norwich (2018).
Recent Group exhibitions include Blusher, Leicester Gallery (2025), The Look, Transition gallery London (2024), Witch Marks, The Minories, Colchester (2024), Soft Façade, Gerald Moore Gallery, London (2022), In Gratitude For all Times we Start Over, Flatland Projects, Bexhill (2022).
STATEMENT
A bag of mixed fragments contains many jostling potentials, keen for conversation, combination and cultivation. The dance is one of incessant process and addictive, risky shifts. Textures and stories build up like mineral crystals, navigating without a map, snowballing into unmethodical multicoloured slices, oscillating lumpily. This process is both childish muddling and serious questioning. It is honed in order to expose the unseen and inhabit multiple characters.
Bright liquids pour and congeal, and chromatic pastes are pushed into new shapes. The making, marking, pressing, layering, slathering, dabbing, clumping and brushing weave a space between story and fragmentation. This slither of space is then wedged open, folding out into an arena, an ever-emerging playground and a stage with liquified edges.
The search is restless, grasping at each turn for untrodden routes, hidden networks and side-steps. A perpetually reinvented language rebuilds from the drained terrain. Pockets of relief and gossip unfurl, and rigid prescriptions unravel and dissolve. Pools of glistening provide cooling, gleaming and mutation. Treading water, they brush each other's hair, remove the stage make up and replace it with the next scene’s costume. Surface colour is an impulsive choral performance. Bright blue eye shadow, glossy green nail varnish and cherry scented balm is shed and applied, scattered pile upon pile, layer upon layer. Contamination and exchange provide sustenance, quenching vitamin renewal on the rotting road.