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Barbara Campbell. The Grimwade effect
22 Oct 2003 to 14 Dec 2003
'History is an interpretive act, as is art making, but in the latter,
the act of interpreting is foregrounded. That’s what I aimed to do with
the Grimwade Collection. I allowed myself to be affected by it. It went
to work on me, and I on it.' (Barbara Campbell, 2003.)
Since
the early 1990s, Queanbeyan-based artist Barbara Campbell has
researched and produced projects in response to biographical material
held in public institutions. She has previously undertaken residencies
at the University of Sydney, Griffith University and ABC Radio.
Campbell describes institutions as ‘cerebral and physical
laboratories’.
In 2002, Barbara Campbell was the University of
Melbourne’s Macgeorge Fellow. Her research project, including the study
of works held in the Sir Russell and Lady Grimwade Bequest, centred on
the corporate and cultural activities of Russell Grimwade and his
relationship with the university. Amongst many various interests and
entrepreneurial ventures, Russell Grimwade (1879–1955) was renowned for
his passion for Australiana and native plants.
Campbell’s
exhibition and performance examined from a metaphorical as well as a
literal documentary perspective Grimwade’s fascination with the
eucalypt. Challenging the seemingly arbitrary nature of scientific
interpretation and human understanding, Campbell adopts her own unique
tools of measurement and assessment, to create a human laboratory, with
herself at the centre of the experiment.
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