Biography
Liza Campbell was born in the Highlands.
Moving to London aged 17, she studied art at Chelsea, worked in CCA art gallery, became a freelance journalist and was generally disturbed and alienated on a private level.
She defaulted while on holiday in Kenya and stayed there, living on an isolated island off the coast for 3½ years. It was here that she came across soapstone engraving and started studying this traditional African craft.
In 1993 she returned to London where she started engraving soapstone plates full-time and her first two shows at All Saints Gallery and then at the Sladmore Gallery were both sell-outs.
She moved from engraving to collage & exhibited her new work at the Michael Naimsky gallery before developing her sardonic 'Dark Boxes': small 3D dioramas featuring small dolls engaged in awkward social predicaments. The Dark Boxes show in 2011 at the Gallery Space, Great Western Studios was also a sell out. After this she started diversifying into Subversive Sewing and her Other Worlds maps of the heart. In her next show in October 2017 she will be featuring her latest work at Rebecca Hossack Gallery, 2a Conway St, Fitzrovia, London W1T 6BA. Dates: October 6-21, 2017
For further information, please email [email protected]
Liza Campbell was born in the Highlands.
Moving to London aged 17, she studied art at Chelsea, worked in CCA art gallery, became a freelance journalist and was generally disturbed and alienated on a private level.
She defaulted while on holiday in Kenya and stayed there, living on an isolated island off the coast for 3½ years. It was here that she came across soapstone engraving and started studying this traditional African craft.
In 1993 she returned to London where she started engraving soapstone plates full-time and her first two shows at All Saints Gallery and then at the Sladmore Gallery were both sell-outs.
She moved from engraving to collage & exhibited her new work at the Michael Naimsky gallery before developing her sardonic 'Dark Boxes': small 3D dioramas featuring small dolls engaged in awkward social predicaments. The Dark Boxes show in 2011 at the Gallery Space, Great Western Studios was also a sell out. After this she started diversifying into Subversive Sewing and her Other Worlds maps of the heart. In her next show in October 2017 she will be featuring her latest work at Rebecca Hossack Gallery, 2a Conway St, Fitzrovia, London W1T 6BA. Dates: October 6-21, 2017
For further information, please email [email protected]
