Draft:Robin Woodsworth Campbell

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."