Cressida Campbell is an Australian artist.

She was born in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 in 1960, and studied at East Sydney Technical College

National Art School

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 in 1978 and 1979.

Having developed an interest in woodblock printing

Woodblock printing

Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper....

, Campbell studied in 1980 at the Yoshida Hanga Academy in Tokyo

Tokyo

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.

She exhibited in London in 2001 (when Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century....

 introduced her at the opening) and 2003. As of 2006, her technique centers on painting her woodblocks in preparation for hand-printing with them. Margaret Preston

Margaret Preston

Margaret Preston was a well-known Australian artist. She was highly influential during the 1920s to 1940s for her modernist works as a painter and printmaker and for introducing Aboriginal motifs into contemporary art.-Early life:...

 is described as a strong influence on her.

Literature

• The Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell with an introduction by John McDonald, art critic of The Sydney Morning Herald
  The Sydney Morning Herald
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  and a foreword by Edmund Capon
  Edmund Capon
  Edmund George Capon AM, OBE, is an art scholar specialising in Chinese art. He has been director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales since 1978...
  
  , director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales
  Art Gallery of New South Wales
  The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...
  
  , 360 pps. Hardback.

External links

• Cressida Campbell web site
• Cressida Campbell at the National Gallery of Australia
  National Gallery of Australia
  The National Gallery of Australia is the national art gallery of Australia, holding more than 120,000 works of art. It was established in 1967 by the Australian government as a national public art gallery.- Establishment :...
  
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