Fred Levine Gallery is delighted to announce Caspian Campbell as our first Artist in Residence.
Her research and work will centre on two geological SSSI sites, Bruton Railway Cutting and Godminster Lane Quarry, where Victorian railway construction once exposed distinct evolutionary zones of Jurassic ammonites. Campbell will investigate how this excavation revealed deep geological time while simultaneously transforming local trade networks and reshaping perceptions of distance and connection. Through structured research at Bruton Museum, the Somerset Earth Science Centre, and the SSSI sites themselves, she'll study fossil classification, Victorian systems of categorisation, and the labour histories embedded in the railway's construction. Alongside this, Campbell will develop layered "paper paintings" from recycled paper and mineral pigments, incorporating ethically gathered local sediment, stone, and plant material, connecting geological, industrial, and personal histories with Bruton's contemporary landscape and community.
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.
Fred Levine will hold an exhibition of new work with Cas Campbell October 2026