289 x 380mm, 16 pages, Colour printing, Unbound, Softcover, 2024

Abbott-Gribben and Camstein use the same methodology from their previous monograph, Jack Lavender: Yugen, starting with a series of interviews with Campbell. After discussing her subjects and working processes, Camstein and Abbott-Gribben adopt these as their own, using them as a means to explore Campbell’s work.

As Real As Anything combines images of Campbell’s work with that of other artists, graphic elements and text. The text includes excerpts from the interviews with Campbell and books and articles read at the time of writing.

The desired effect of this form of making-writing is to give the reader-viewer a novel access point from which they can experience the themes and processes running through Campbell’s work.

It is an attempt to create immediacy by being indirect.

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