Cressida Campbell
Join Cressida Campbell on a tour of her life's work including personal reflections and insight into her unique artistic practice.
In each room, the works are organised by theme and you can hear a description of these themes from Curator, Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax.
Stop 8 of 24
Kitagawa Utamaro
Sogo no Goro Tokimune and Kewaizaka no Shosho
Creation date: c. 1798–99
'In 1985 I won a grant from The Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Trust to study in Tokyo at the Yoshida Hanga Academy. There I was taught the traditional Japanese woodblock-printing technique by the grandson of National Treasure Tōshi Yoshida. I still preferred my own method of using one block and painting with a paintbrush, rather than using a scrubbing brush to ink multiple blocks.
Creating a picture is like making a scientific experiment or a recipe—you’ve got to keep moving things around or putting different ingredients together until the eye is completely satisfied.'
—Cressida Campbell
