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Realms of Knowledge

Collection: Grays School of Art Collection
Object Type: painting
Artist/Maker: Campbell, Kai
Date: 2020
Media/Materials: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: overall: 60 cm x 90 cm
Awards: RGU Drawing and Painting Purchase Award
Classification: Fine Art: Painting BA (Hons)

Description:

Juxtaposed landscape and interior scenes with architectural details and monstera deliciosa climbing plant. Also features a candlestick.

Kai Campbell’s practice is, first and foremost, an exercise in mediation, using his enjoyment of making art to counter the allure of the mass media and ensuing plethora of ‘engrossing’ entertainment. Secondly, it is an attempt to involve the viewer in what can best be described as an analogue expression of the digital experience.

In the complex realm of online mass media, Campbell’s paintings remind us that we are sliding through drifts of unrelated, and unregulated, information more regularly than ever before. Deploying a plurality in both style and approach, he mimics the journey that our eyes and minds take as we sift our way through incoherent fragments of information in the world wide goldfish bowl of social media.


Kai Campbell’s practice is, first and foremost, an exercise in mediation, using his enjoyment of making art to counter the allure of the mass media and ensuing plethora of ‘engrossing’ entertainment. Secondly, it is an attempt to involve the viewer in what can best be described as an analogue expression of the digital experience.

In the complex realm of online mass media, Campbell’s paintings remind us that we are sliding through drifts of unrelated, and unregulated, information more regularly than ever before. Deploying a plurality in both style and approach, he mimics the journey that our eyes and minds take as we sift our way through incoherent fragments of information in the world wide goldfish bowl of social media.
Object Number: ABDRG2021.1