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# Project Description

Dreaming In Concrete Woodlands

Skai Campbell

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I'm Skai Campbell, an illustrator based across South London and Kent. Owing to my background in Biology and Natural History, I create work which engages with the natural world. My practice centres around comics, printmaking, and murals. I have developed a particular fascination with screen pinting, Risograph, and relief printing.

I'm Skai Campbell, an illustrator based across South London and Kent. Owing to my background in B...

College Camberwell College of Arts

Course MA Illustration

Graduation year 2025

Final work

The Kings Woods

A three colour Risograph print (Blue, Fluorescent Pink, and Yellow), this piece explore the fantastical aspects to the wood. The characters seen playing are King Alfreds Cakes, a common fungus which feeds on dead wood. In this version of the woods, through feeding on ancient trees they gain knowledge of the histories of the woods, and become storytellers.

A Firecrest Landed

A three colour Risograph print (Blue, Fluorescent Pink, and Yellow), this piece is drawn from the story that I have developed, which features a firecrest and King Alfreds Cake as protagonists. Here, they encounter two dominant species within the urban woodland: parakeets, and dogs.

Things That Were Here

A three colour Risograph print (Blue, Fluorescent Pink, and Yellow). Inspired by natural history illustrations, this piece documents some of the many species that have lived in the area we now call South London.

Research and process

Here are some of the sketches involved in my process of designing the King Alfreds Cake character.

My process is heavily print based, and so here are some experiements that I worked on throughout the year. I had a particular fondness for relief and screen printing, although for my final work I decided to jump to Risograph.

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What does it mean to be a forest in South London? Who called this city home before we gave it a name? What remains of the ancient woods that were felled for urban expansion? Looking at its past and present through a fantastical lens, this project explores Sydenham Hill Woods, the...

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## Official page
- https://ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk/project/671875/cover

## External
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/skai-campbell-866793212/
- https://www.instagram.com/skhoshbell
- tel:07730341735
- mailto:skaikjc@outlook.com
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