Ruby Campbell b. 1888

  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Furniture Designer / Cabinetmaker),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, etcher, wood-carver and pyrographer. Apart from a brief stint in Melbourne in the early 1920s, Ruby Campbell spent her entire life on her family's remote cattle property outside Biloela, Queensland. There she produced a substantial collection of decorated furniture and undertook a Diploma in Commercial Art by correspondence from the School of Applied Arts in Michigan.

Citations

  • 'Ruby Campbell papers’, Brisbane, Qld : Queensland Art Gallery.

See also

  • 'Heritage: Section 9, plate 390'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book