For some time now the Glasgow-based, Irish artist Duncan Campbell has mined the image banks of Northern Ireland for his animated film collages, featuring footage of youth and sub cultures in the bleak suburbs of Belfast or excerpts from documentaries paying tribute to the life of human rights activist Bernadette Devlin. His latest work is a more playful homage to German artist Sigmar Polke. With recent exhibitions at the ICA and Hotel in London and the Kunstverein in Munich, Duncan Campbell’s work is finally getting the attention that it deserves. On the eve of his solo exhibition at New York’s non-profit Ludlow 38, Duncan Campbell took some time to speak about early radio experiments and his film works Falls Burns Malone Fiddles (2003) and Bernadette (2008) and Sigmar (2008).
