ÉABHA

Éabha Campbell is a queer Irish artist from County Down. Campbell studied Fine Art at Belfast School of Art, specialising in sound-based performance, traditional oil painting and the expanded practice of sculpture and video installation. Campbell is the recipient of the Catalyst Arts Graduate Award, the PS² Graduate Award, as well as the Royale Arcade People’s Choice Award and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Campbell’s work explores the intersection of the abject and queer identity, Irish mythology and decoloniality. Their work integrates a variety of sensory material, including auditory, olfactory, visual, and cutaneous elements, exploring the contiguity of attraction and repulsion, the weird and the grotesque. Their recent body of work ‘The True Sea is Cold and Black’ involves a variety of methods and processes, incorporating analogue synthesisers, oil paint, and biological matter, deconstructing and transforming images and sound