Steven Campbell - Unoriginal Sins

GENERATION. 25 YEARS OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN SCOTLAND. 2014. TWO VOLUMES IN SLIPCASE.

paul robertson — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 13:47:44 +0000

Glasgow: Glasgow Museums, 2014

Two volumes. Uniformly 22 x 16cm, 220 and 168pp respectively in printed cardboard slipcase. Exhibition catalogue and guide to Glasgow Museum's somewhat flawed (and West Coast centric) survey of 25 years of Scottish contemporary art. First volume is entitled Guide and has individual sections on artists such as Charles Avery, Clare Barclay, Beagles & Ramsay, Christine Borland, Martin Boyce, Steven Campbell, Graham Fagen, Katy Dove, Douglas Gordon, Kenny Hunter, Callum Innes, Jim Lambie, Tessa Lynch, Jonathan Monk, Toby Paterson, David Shrigley, Alison Watt, Richard Wright amongst others. Each artist has a text and one colour imag33e of a work. The second volume is entitled Reader and contains essays and original texts by the artists. Both VG+ in like slipecase.

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CHESTERFIELD DREAMS. 1997.

paul robertson — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:45:38 +0000

London: Waddington Galleries, 1997

30 x 25cm, 28pp plus pictorial card covers Exhibition catalogue on the suite of paintings the new Glasgow Boy Campbell produced after the death of his father. Lying on a Chesterfield sofa, the artist decided to create these 27 large scale works. 19 works reproduced in colour including Canal Story which we hold in this collection. VG+.

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THE PAINTINGS OF STEVEN CAMPBELL. 1993.

paul robertson — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:40:38 +0000

Edinburgh: mainstream Publishing, 1993

28 x 20.5cm, 118pp plus boards and printed dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue and monograph on the work of Steven Campbell. Illustrated in colour throughout - 86 colour plates of fantastic paintings by the new Glasgow Boy and a meh essay by Duncan MacMillan. VG+.

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‘… WRETCHED STARS, INSATIABLE HEAVEN” NEW WORK 2006 – 2007. 2008.

paul robertson — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:29:01 +0000

Glasgow: GSA/Glasgow Print Studio, 2008
21 x 21cm, 12pp plus card covers. Posthumous catalogue for a show of the artist's last works. Fourteen works in full colours reproduced. Essays by Neil Mulholland and John Mackechnice. Fine.

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A TRIBUTE TO EDWIN MORGAN. 2001.

paul robertson — Sun, 17 May 2020 15:10:55 +0000

Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 2001.

25 x 8.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a exhibition in honour of one of Scotland's greatest poets with work by Stephen Campbell and Ron O'Donnell. VG.

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THE HUSK. FROM OUTSIDE RIGHT AT THE SUNSET GATE UNIQUE PAINTING. 1994.

paul robertson — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:30:34 +0000

Unique painting 1994 - oil on paper. One of the last of the paintings from the series inspired by the true life story of former Spurs / Tottenham Hotspur (and much more importantly former Falkirk Football Club footballer) John White who died from a lightning strike while sheltering under a tree on a golf course. Campbell belived that the footballer had died at 7pm on the 7th of the seventh month (the date of death was approximately correct), had worn the number 7 shirt and used the imagery of the moment of death to create 91 different paintings some specifically displaying elements of the tragedy, others using the idea of coincidence to illustrate the artist's own life and interests. This painting is of the footballer after death - his body no more than lifeless meat (Campbell had recently had to come to face the mortality of those you love through the death of his own father - an event that caused him to paint several momento mori like this one). Fine in artist's chosen frame. Signed on the back of the sheet. Ref: "Outside right at the sunside gate" published by William Hardie Gallery 1995- reproduced on the dustjacket bottom right.

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THE CLOUD. FROM OUTSIDE RIGHT AT THE SUNSET GATE UNIQUE PAINTING. 1994.

paul robertson — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:24:11 +0000

Unique painting 1994 - oil on paper. 31 x 21.5cm. One of the last of the paintings from the "Outside right at the sunset gate: series inspired by the true life story of former Spurs / Tottenham Hotspur (and much more importantly former Falkirk Football Club footballer) John White who died from a lightning strike while sheltering under a tree on a golf course. Campbell believed that the footballer had died at 7pm on the 7th of the seventh month (the date of death was approximately correct), had worn the number 7 shirt and used the imagery of the moment of death to create 91 different paintings some specifically displaying elements of the tragedy, others using the idea of coincidence to illustrate the artist's own life and interests. This painting is of the footballer's moisture (Campbell was clear on this - this was not a ghost) after death leaving his body while his dying hand is raised to the sky. (Campbell had recently had to come to face the mortality of those you love through the death of his own father - an event that caused him to paint several momento mori like this one). Fine in artist's chosen frame. Signed on the back of the sheet. Ref: "Outside right at the sunside gate" published by William Hardie Gallery 1995- reproduced on the dustjacket bottom right.
NB. A small additional conincidence - this painting was purchased originally without any knowledge of Campbell's inspiration. Paul Robertson who purchased this work for the Heart Fine Art archive had been a lifelong Falkirk FC supporter.

And John White's nickname was "The Ghost".

Come On Ye Bairns.

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CANALSTORY. UNIQUE PAINTING AND SCULPTURAL WORK. 1995.

paul robertson — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 19:13:23 +0000

Unique work. 1995. Oil paint on padded canvas, metal rivets, painted and sculpted plaster of Paris, glass, metal fittings, wood. 170.8 x 125.2 x 65cm (approx) large painting displaying the sad (suicidal) death of a Scottish woman who was found in a canal by children and, later, reported in the local paper (at which point Campbell mourning the recent death of his father used this image as a momento mori).

The scene is being viewed by "the emotional detectives" who chameleon-like are disguised (literally) as wall-flowers - these are figures that emerge in other paintings by Campbell whenever a strongly emotive scene occurs. The water flora and fauna are lightly and delicately painted with some skill while a painted plaster cat sits halfway between life and death (Schroedinger's cat anyone?) after being thrown in the water to die by an unknown sadist.

Not a cheery painting one may gather but despite that a late masterwork by Campbell produced as part of his "Chesterfield Dreams" series initiated by personal loss and his tendency to mull over dark thoughts while lying on a Chesterfield sofa in his studio (hence the padding and rivets on the final work).
Campbell himself suffered an early death due to alcoholism and suffered depression in his later years but (to our view anyway) still he was the best by far of the so-called second coming of the "Glasgow Boys". In fine estate.

Reproduced in Chestefield Dreams Catalogue (1996) (offered joint with this item to any purchaser) and exhibited at both Marlborough Fine Art London and Williasm Hardy Glasgow in 1996.

Price on request

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THE CARAVAN CLUB. 2002.

paul robertson — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 19:08:13 +0000

Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery, 2002
9 x 9cm, 4pp. Invitation card to opening of the retrospective of works by the Glasgow Boy. Vg.

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THE CARAVAN CLUB. 2002.

paul robertson — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 19:06:36 +0000

Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery, 2002
15 x 15cm, 4pp. Invitation card to opening reception of the retrospective of works by the Glasgow Boy. Vg.

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