Duncan Campbell Biography

The winner of the 2014 Turner Prize, Duncan Campbell's films are often controversial in subject. Mixing archive footage with newly shot material, Campbell contests the veracity of the documentary as a truth giving form. It for Others, which was originally created for the Scottish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, responds to the current climate of repatriation amongst museums, includes a dance interpretation of Marx's Das Kapital and examines how political subtexts are conveyed through imagery. Campbell has been described as a "consumate film-maker with a ferocious intelligence" whose work embodies a "rigorous journalistic approach, combined sometimes with mysterious forms."

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Beased in Glasgow, the artist is the fourth graduate of the Glasgow Schools of Fine Arts to be awarded the prize in the last decade. His films often centre on the profiles of public figures associated with Northern Ireland, leveraging the political and social histories ignored by mainstream media. Overlaying documentary truth with personal narrative, Campbell also questions the authority of cultural records and artefacts.

His recent solos shows include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2012; Belfast Exposed, 2011, Tramway, Glasgow, 2010; and Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2009.

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