2017 Bridges Conference Nominees' Gallery
Stephen M Campbell
Artists
Stephen Maxwell Campbell
Artist
The Puzzle Factory
Manchester
Statement
Networks and non-euclidean geometry were the ‘gate way drugs’ for me to plunge into Mathematics. My paintings have always come about from wondering ‘what will happen if I apply this method?’ or ‘how can I make sense of this?’ In this way I use Mathematics as a frame work for approaching a subject or as a tool to solve a problem, such as “what would this look like through the back of my head?”, “what if the surface of my eye was bigger than the thing I am looking at?” Being relatively new to the world of Mathematics I have to say my Mathematical tool box is rather meagre, but the more I learn the more I find myself asking “what would this look like?”
Artworks
![Image for entry 'Prime numbers and cylinders'](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubmit.bridgesmathart.org%2Frails%2Factive_storage%2Fblobs%2Fproxy%2FeyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NTYwNSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ%3D%3D--8fc1100a463ef3e5283628e6bd442b4746b391cd%2Fcylinders_and_prime_numbers.jpg&w=1536&q=75)
Prime numbers and cylinders
91 x 61 x 3 cm
Oil on canvas
2017