Rebecca Campbell
Rebecca Campbell
LOVE
Jonathan Cooper
LOVE Love can be tough. It can be infuriating. It can be obsessive. Love has destroyed empires, and unraveled the best laid schemes of mice and men. And yet, and yet... Love fuels us. It provides a glimmer of hope in the darkness, the spark of joy that gives us a reason to get up in the morning. Love drives us through life. It has inspired painters and poets, musicians and writers, throughout the ages, and across the globe. To an artist as brimming with ideas and imagination as Rebecca Campbell, it provides endless opportunities to explore its multi-faceted influence on our lives. Love is both an all-encompassing and startlingly ambiguous word, a far cry from the varied and precise lexicon of Ancient Greek, with its Agape and Eros. The phrase ‘I love you’ can be a long-awaited milestone in a new relationship, or uttered without hesitation between friends and family.
This exhibition is a homage to the myriad forms of love, its universal and timeless reach, from the ancient world and Renaissance Italy to the golden age of Hollywood, through India and China. It is a journey through passion and despair, the agony and anticipation of courtship, and the bitter-sweet memory of lost love. Rebecca has travelled widely, and the rich pictorial language of her work testifies to its diverse cultural inspirations, from Mughal miniatures to contemporary art, literature and music. It began, as all love affairs do, with temptation: the first painting in this new series of work fittingly sets the scene in the Garden of Eden, with the perils of forbidden fruit, and ends with Signed, Sealed, Delivered, a tribute to love in the digital age. From familial love to illicit trysts, these paintings provide a visual soundtrack to our existence, and in them one message is clear: while the language of love might be changing, romance never dies.
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE oil on linen 50 × 61 cm | 19.5 × 24 ins 3
THE TEMPTRESS oil on linen 97 × 130.5 cm | 38 × 51.5 ins
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SAY IT WITH FLOWERS oil on linen 65 × 54 cm | 25.5 × 21.25 ins right
OBSESSION oil on linen 60 × 73 cm | 23.5 × 28.74 ins
MOONLIGHT TRYST oil on linen 65 × 81 cm | 25.59 × 31.88 ins
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FORGET ME NOT oil on linen 24 × 33 cm | 9.5 × 13 ins 10
CRAZY IN LOVE oil on linen 24 × 35 cm | 9.5 × 13.77 ins 11
OPPOSITES ATTRACT oil on linen 54 × 65 cm | 21.25 × 25.59 ins
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MORNING MANTRA oil on linen 55 × 46 cm | 21.5 × 18 ins
A DALLIANCE WITH DALI oil on linen 61 × 50 cm | 24 × 19.5 ins
THE ARTIST’S MUSE oil on linen 89 × 116 cm | 35 × 45.5 ins
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THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH oil on linen 73 × 60 cm | 28.74 × 23.5 ins right
THE KISS oil on linen 46 × 55 cm | 18 × 21.5 ins
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LOVES ME - LOVES ME NOT - LOVES ME oil on linen 65 × 54 cm | 25.5 × 21.25 ins right
THE COURTSHIP oil on linen 73 × 92 cm | 28.74 × 36.22 ins
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THE DUEL oil on linen 25 × 20 cm | 9.75 × 7.75 ins right
WE ARE FAMILY oil on linen 61 × 73 cm | 24 × 28.74 ins
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THE GODDESS oil on linen 54 × 65 cm | 21.25 × 25.5 ins
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DON’T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER oil on linen 45.5 × 35.5 cm | 18 × 14 ins
LITERARY LOVES oil on linen 65 × 54 cm | 25.5 × 21.25 ins
WINGS OF A DOVE oil on linen 54 × 65 cm | 21.25 × 25.5 ins
WHEREFORE ART THOU ? oil on linen 73 × 92 cm | 28.74 × 36.25 ins
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ETERNITY oil on linen 65 × 81 cm | 25.5 × 31.75 ins
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EXHIBITIONS SOLO 2016, 14, 12, 10, 08, 06, 04, 02 Jonathan Cooper, London 2015, 13, 11, 07, 05 Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, Oxfordshire 2010 Morton Kuehnert, Houston, Texas, USA 2008 Louis C Morton, la Casa de Subastas, Mexico City, Mexico 2005 Chelsea Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA
GROUP
REBECCA CAMPBELL
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2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2007 2006 2005
BADA, Jonathan Cooper, London 20/21 British Art Fair, Jonathan Cooper, London Art Toronto, Loch Gallery, Canada Celebrating 25Years, Jonathan Cooper, London 20/21 British Art Fair, Jonathan Cooper, London Celebrating 40Years, Brian Sinfield, Burford, Oxfordshire Coutts Bank, Oxford Brian Sinfield Gallery, Loch Gallery, Toronto Art London, Jonathan Cooper, London Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford, Oxfordshire BADA, Jonathan Cooper, London Byard Art, Cambridge Discerning Eye, Invited Artist, Mall Galleries, London Byard Art, Cambridge
PUBLIC
BOOKS/MAGAZINES/PRESS
2015 Travels To My Elephant, London 2014 RHS, Chelsea Flower Show, London 2012 BT Artbox, London Fabergé Big Egg Hunt, London 2011 Jungle City, Edinburgh 2010 Elephant Parade, London
Decorative Frames by Juliet Bawden Murals:Trompe l’Oeil and DecorativeWall Painting, by Lynette Wrigley Art Buyer (cover); Artists and Illustrators; BBC News, Scotland; BBC Homes and Antiques; BBC Radio 4; Books and Life, South Korea; Cassone; Country Life; Country and Town House; Fabric; The Foodie Bugle; Harpers & Queen; Homes & Gardens; Kitchens, Bedrooms & Bathrooms; Matchbox; Leisure Painter; Period Living; Southwest Magazine, London; The Sunday Telegraph; V&A Magazine; The Resident, The Lady; Oxford Times; Palo Alto Weekly, USA; Slightly Foxed (cover); De Tuin Exclusif, Holland; The Week Images have been used on several book covers.
AWARD AND HONOURS 2015 2005
Ambassador, Elephant Family Discerning Eye – Chairman’s Purchase Prize
COMMERCIAL COMMISSIONS The Art File, Art Group; Boots; Canns Down Press; Contrast Gallery, Hong Kong; Hall Barn Nursery; Henri Bendel, New York; The Fife Show, Scotland; Lotte Company Calendar, South Korea 2014; Mazepoint: McKinsey & Co., London; Museum & Galleries Publishing; Paperchase, London; Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon; Saks Fifth Avenue, New York; Shellys Shoes, London; Sheraton Hotel, Ethiopia; St Geroge’s Hospital Essex; Stewo, Switzerland; WHSmith; Woodmansterne Publishing
EDUCATION 1984 – 1987 City & Guilds of London Art School, London Illustrative Arts – Ist Class Honours
Commissions undertaken
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Introduction by Rebecca Wall Photographs of paintings by Andra Nelki Photograph of Rebecca Campbell by Ken Long Catalogue © Jonathan Cooper, London 2016 above
SIGNED SEALED DELIVERED oil on linen 18× 25.5 cm | 7 × 10 ins inside front cover and right (detail)
LITERARY LOVES oil on linen 65 × 54 cm | 25.5 × 21.25 ins 36
Jonathan Cooper 20 Park Walk London SW10 0AQ t: +44 (0)20 7351 0410 mail@jonathancooper.co.uk jonathancooper.co.uk
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Jonathan Cooper
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