ABOUT CINDY:

Translator of Emotion | Painter and Ceramicist | Creator of Layered Memories and Moments

Cindy Campbell is an artist whose current creative practice is concerned with bringing her feelings and perspectives into form through the mediums of oil painting. With a Diploma of Fine Art from Meadowbank TAFE and an Advanced Certificate in Photography from Ultimo Technical College, she has built a career over 20 years across the disciplines of painting, photography, craft and design.

Her intention to connect people with ideas, to create community and explore the boundaries of her medium has seen her exhibit work in public and commercial gallery spaces, participate in heritage restoration and collaborate with partners in enterprise. Cindy’s painted works have been acquired into private collections and incorporated into public art projects within Australia and abroad. Cindy lives on Wurundjeri Country (Yarra Valley), after time in Sydney, Central Australia and Southern Tablelands, now making work from her studio with a view to the hills.

Cindy Campbell is a Yarra Valley-based ceramic artist working from her studio on Wurundjeri Country. She came to clay after a Diploma of Fine Art in painting and printmaking, discovering the clay medium while living in Central Australia — and has been captivated by it ever since.

Cindy designs each piece flat, as two-dimensional drawings, before hand-building it into a three-dimensional vessel — an approach that carries the same discipline and symmetry she brings to her painting practice. The result is fine, refined tableware: bowls, cups and tiles made to be touched, lived with and used every day.

Artist Statement

Translating the embodiment of emotion into a contemplation on canvas, Campbell uses paint to reflect her state. Campbell’s inner landscape and an interpretation of her surroundings, her paintings work in harmony, humming with layers of colour and feeling, inviting close inspection while rejecting distraction and chaos.

Employing colour to communicate a state of being, Campbell pairs repetitive brushstrokes with tonal layers to convey how the experience of a moment is composed of many moments gone before. In memory, in our body, in our environment: our present is a coalescence of the past.

Mediums: Oil Painting, Photography, Ceramics