Barbara Campbell

Campbell used text as the starting point for her large-scale installation Conradania, based on Joseph Conrad’s acclaimed 1899 novel The Heart of Darkness set on the Congo River in Africa. Francis Ford Coppola based the film Apocalypse Now on Conrad's novel.

Campbell's influences come from peers working in the Sydney Super 8 Film Group, 60s minimalists film makers such as Stan Brakhage. Campbell also recognises the influence of French film semioticians Metz, Baudry, Bazin, Baudrillard and Bellour. In 1987 Campbell took a course in Super 8 at the Tin ShedsArchitecture Faculty, University of Sydney and conducted numerous workshops organised by Sydney Intermedia Network with artists/peers such as Andrew Frost, Anthony Foot, Nick Meyers.

When Campbell read Notes (1979) written by Eleanor Coppola, the wife of Francis Ford Coppola, which records her observations of the making of the film, she noted that her daughter's reaction to the film set in the Philippines was like Jungle Cruise Disneyland.

Barbara Campbell (born 1961) is an Australian performance and installation artist.

Campbell was born in Beaudesert, Queensland in 1961. Since 1982 Campbell has worked with the specific physical and contextual properties of a given site, be it art gallery, museum, atrium, tower, radio airwaves or on the World Wide Web, in developing and presenting her works. Campbell studied film under Alan Cholodenko, Rex Butler and Keith Broadfoot at Power Dept of Art History, University of Sydney 1987. She completed a Master of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney in 1998.