© copyright The Artist
FRONTISPIECE 1986
Steven Campbell (1953 – 2007)
Details
- Dimension
- 56 X 75.5 CM
- Media
- WOOD CUT
- Accession number
- P5451
Summary
Whilst in his final year at University Charles Booth-Clibborn published The Scottish Bestiaryunder his imprint The Paragon Press. Booth-Clibborn had invited the Orkney born writer George Mackay Brown to produce texts, in the form of poetry and prose, to accompany 20 prints by Scottish artists depicting 19 animals – real and mythological. Campbell contributed two works to the Bestiary: the frontispiece and a woodcut accompanying the poem to the Lobster. The artist elected to use the woodcut medium as it could be done at home and did not require any complex apparatus; the blocks were cut with a chisel.
Further reading:
Contemporary Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern and The Paragon Press, 1995, texts by Jeremy Lewison, Duncan Macmillan and Patrick Elliott
Glossary
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Imprint
In a bibliographic item, the name of the publisher, distributor, or manufacturer, and the place and date of publication.
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Medium
Refers to either the material used to create a work of art, craft or design, i.e. oil, bronze, earthenware, silk; or the technique employed i.e. collage, etching, carving. In painting the medium refers to the binder for the pigment, e.g. oil, egg, acrylic dispersion. The plural form is media.
