Going in search of the lost ornamentation in Nicholas Hawksmoor’s design of Berwick Barracks, during her residency Campbell will explore both Hawksmoor’s architectural language, and the everyday lives of those who lived and worked at the barracks. Examining uniforms, medals, and personal archives to uncover layers of ornamentation beyond architecture, Campbell’s research will manifest in new artworks with and for Berwick.

Cath Campbell is known for her large-scale public installations, sculpture, drawing, film and participatory projects. Campbell’s practice is dominated by an ongoing enquiry into the status, meaning and fabric of architecture. Taking Modernism as a point of departure Campbell re-appropriates architectural imagery from memory or imagination to create works that reinvent our associations with the built environment.  

Participatory projects include Cine Window Winsford, a community film project space in Winsford, Cheshire, UK, Mural Project, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and Kingsmeadow School, Gateshead. Commissions include Trellis, Cambridge University, (Cambridge, UK); 21 Arches instead of a gate, Walthamstow, (London, UK); Marathon, Yards Park (Washington DC, USA).