Cas Campbell

Caspian Campbell's work explores the intersection of evolutionary & ancient history, mythology and queer culture through installation, painting & sculpture. 

Works draw from ecology and deep time - from the Cambrian explosion through to mass extinction events - where the idea of a stable natural order begins to loosen as species emerge, adapt, and disappear. Historical visual frameworks are borrowed, from saintly iconography to figures across science and the humanities, and repurposed to hold stories that have been overlooked or excluded.

Paintings and wall hangings, formed through intricate, transformative material processes, sit alongside ceramic sculpture to form installations. Some are formed through cyclical, ritualistic techniques: colour is applied from mineral pigments, oak gall ink, and gathered material, and old pieces are reworked and recycled into new ones.

Campbell (b. 1995) grew up in New Zealand and works between London and Brighton, UK. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2022), and a BA from the University of Brighton (2018). Campbell is a recipient of an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant (2022), an A-N Artist Bursary (2025) and was shortlisted for the John Ruskin Prize (2026) and the RBA Rising Stars Award (2025). Residencies include Studio Verde’s ‘Art and Ecology’ in Italy and Sachaqa Centro de Arte in the Peruvian Amazon.

Campbell has exhibited in the UK and internationally at spaces including Glyndebourne, Lewes, UK; Messums, London, UK; Royal Overseas League, London, UK; Sherbet Green, London, UK; Royal College of Music, London, UK, D Contemporary, London, UK and BWG Gallery, London, UK. Campbell’s work is included in the Zabludowicz Collection, Soho House Collection, and private collections in the UK, Italy & Thailand.