Briony Campbell
Briony Campbell’s practice spans filmmaking, photography, creative facilitation and research. Her visual stories reveal how our interactions form our identities. She collaborates with arts, education, health and research organisations, as well as their service users, to tell stories which build connections and enhance empathy. Familial relationships, cultural integration, and grief have been recurring themes in her career. Though her subjects can be heavy, her work is full of light.
Project examples include: The Dad Project, a collaboration with her father in the last months of his life, which was awarded, exhibited and published internationally; Love in Translation, about British/African families in East Africa & UK, with Arts Council England funding. Academic collaborations include: mentoring terminally ill people to make films in an AHRC funded study; a film about differing belief systems within close relationships, commissioned by a Kent University’s Understanding Unbelief study; and working with autistic adults to explore their relationships during lockdown, in a Trellis knowledge exchange partnership with a UCL psychologist and an autistic artist. This year she will collaborate with a UCL neuroscientist to understand more about Familial Inherited Alzheimer’s disease.
Briony’s work is included in the curricula of institutions such as Central St Martin’s, University for Creative Arts. She is a regular guest lecturer and delivers workshops internationally, from London to Lagos.
