Draft:Robin Woodsworth Campbell

• Comment: This is referenced entirely to primary sources that are not support for notability at all, with absolutely no evidence shown of WP:GNG-worthy coverage about him. For instance, you do not make an artist notable by citing his works to the self-published websites of the galleries that hold them -- you make an artist notable by citing his works to third-party media coverage about them, such as a newspaper or magazine art critic reviewing his gallery shows.
  The notability test isn't "he exists", it's "the significance of his work has been independently validated by sources that don't have a vested interest in it" -- so his sources can't be gallery catalogues or "staff" profiles on the self-published websites of companies or organizations that he's directly associated with, and have to be independent third-party coverage about him and his work in newspapers, magazines and/or books. Bearcat (talk) 17:54, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: What Campbell wrote about a work of his is of little encyclopedic value. What would be of value are descriptions made by art journalists, art critics, art curators, art historians, and the like: all people independent of Campbell. Has there been no commentary in newspapers or art magazines or journals? Hoary (talk) 02:02, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

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Robin Woodsworth Campbell (July 10, 1949 – July 24, 2002) was a Canadian sculptor and painter who lived on Hornby Island, British Columbia. His sculpture work, mainly in bronze, stone, clay and cast resin, has been associated with Abstract Expressionism, and in particular the work of Constantin Brâncuși and Jean Arp.

Career

In 1975, Campbell worked on developing a film based on Shizuye Takashima’s book A Child in Prison Camp, the 1972 winner of the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award. The script and documents concerning this project about the Internment of Japanese Canadians were deposited at the Japanese Canadian National Museum, now the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, in Burnaby, British Columbia.

His best-known works include “The Circle of People”, showed during the 2000 International Sculpture Exhibition at Peace Arch Park, "Buddha and Child", part of the Shidoni Collection at Saatchi Art, "Abstract Female Torso", featured on MutualArt, and "When Humans Bleed”, which can be visited at the British Columbia Nurses Memorial, Vancouver General Hospital.

Reception

In 1994, Campbell made it into The Wingspread Collector's Guide. That same year, Michael S. Bell commented the following on his Tokyo exhibition, “Not Broken on the Wheel but the Wheel Itself: Bronzes”:

“Sometimes human form, the most classical of all artistic subjects, retains an embodiment of every possible work of art. So it is said. Campbell works in that complex arena, in balance with smooth and rough, shaping out from matter a sincere attempt to reveal what is most meaningful within us all."

In 1998, Professor Gordon Walter, University of British Columbia, wrote that “Campbell’s ability to experience the deepest pathos of human and world conditions and at the same time retain and express an exuberant joy in LIFE is evidence that is not only an advanced artist but also an advanced striver for higher consciousness."