Alan Campbell (Born 1987) is a Glasgow based visual artist and printmaker, whose work primarily concerns literature, story-telling and word play, working from his studio at the Briggait and Glasgow print studio.
Inspired to make prints after collecting American screenprinted gig posters, he began producing his own prints: initially linocuts at home. Then screenprinting, completing the introduction to screen-printing evening class taught by Rosalind Lawless in 2011 at the Glasgow print studio, and then becoming a member and frequent user of the studio, Alan has shown as part of their featured artists program and as a part of For The Love of Print; Print Studio’s 50th anniversary exhibition at the Kelvingrove museum.
Alan’s work is bold, colourful and design centric, inspired by arts and craft movements like Wiener Werkstätte and Bauhaus. Play, experimentation and continued style development are very important to Alan.
His work has two main areas: Thinking and Feeling.
The Thinking element is based on books, mostly non-direct visuals inspired by the book‘s content. Alan is predominantly inspired by literature he enjoys, as well fiction that reflects world events and his own experiences. Recent prints have focused on work by Orwell, Tokarczuk and Voltaire.
The feeling body of work is more experimental and often feeds back to thinking work in the longer term, but usually takes the form of abstract screen prints displayed in non-traditional formats and shapes. In recent years this has included cutting and weaving prints; reassembled in new arrangements.
Notable projects include: gig posters for The Vaselines, Tortoise, Leticia Saider (Stereolab) and Tera Melos, alongside official licensed work for Monty Python, print releases with New York’s Bottleneck Gallery, beer labels for Bruma Brew (a Microbrasserie in the south of France).
The Glasgow Group 