Timeline

Born July 28, St Helena Island, South Atlantic

Leave St Helena Island
Boat journey to England
Live with Grandfather and step Grandmother, in Croydon, UK

Evacuated briefly to Brighton

Moved back to Croydon

Leave Ingram Senior Boys School at 14

Croydon School of Art
Drawing Examination board of Education
Industrial Examination (part 1)
(1945 Call up deferred for one year to complete examinations)
National Diploma in Design (lithography)

Accepted into RCA to study Graphics but had to complete Military service

National service RAMC, (Medical Corps)
BMH Khartoum Military Hospital, Sudan

Compassionate leave to visit mother, brother and sister in Capetown, South Africa

Re-apply to RCA to do painting and accepted
Croydon College of Art NDD Qualification

Chelsea Arts Ball, Christmas 1949 -1950
Help design float and invited to Liege, Belgium.
Nude on top of float caused national controversy.

Royal College of Art
Study Painting
Fellow students Jack Smith, John Bratby, Richard Crabbe David Gentlemen, Peter Excell
Tutored by Rodrigo Moynihan, Ruskin Spear, Colin Hayes

Group Exhibition
Young Contemporaries, London, UK

Group Exhibition
Young Artists of Fame and Promise, London, UK
Leicester Gallery, London, UK

Group Exhibition
Hanover Gallery, London, UK

Illustrated Swahili educational book Oxford University Press

Marriage to Jacqueline Stanley

Graduate Royal College of Art
Graduating work selected for Royal College of Art Collection (Ref RCA_cc509)

Merit Award for painting
Football and Fine Art
Football Association Competition
Touring Exhibition

Daughter Nichola born

Worked in Stanley Family business, managing China and Wallpaper Shop in East Street. Introduced Stanley family business to Festival of Britain Crown wallpapers.

Daughter Jane Born

Hospitalised with TB also daughter Nichola
(Convalescent till 1959)

Out of Hospital

Go to Buckwell Farm in Kent, Holiday, with Audrey and John Titchell and family. Other Artists Visit.

Woolwich technical college
Part Time Lecturer Anatomy / Roman lettering
With Jack Millar
Daughter Claire Born
Move to Egerton House, Egerton, Kent, UK with Audrey and John Titchell and family.

Notorious parties throughout early 1960’s
Many Artists visit including Carel Weight, Pam Izzard, Jack Miller, Alfred and Margot Daniels, Fred Cuming, Shirley Shepherd, Peter Blake, Alan Jones, Keith Lucas etc.

Group Exhibition
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Sally Scott Portrait

Croydon college of Art
Part Time Lecturer painting
With Charles Keeping, Bridget Riley, John Hoyland.

Do Brighton Series of Paintings

See films and photographs of 1922 and 1924 Everest ascent through friend Captain Noel
First of many visits to Southern Spain

Visit Plascassier, France hosted by Princess Anne Marie Callimachi and Costa Achillopoulos, neighbours in Kent.

‘Coldest winter of twentieth century in Kent
Move to London
Design record sleeves for Decca

Group Exhibition
Metropole, Folkestone, UK

Move to East Dulwich, London, UK
Work on Swimming Pool Reflection Series

Continue work on Brighton paintings series

Work on Swimming Pool Reflection Series
Visit Spain with Audrey and Fred Cuming

Senior Lecturer
Stoke on Trent, UK

paint Burslem Potteries series

Group Exhibition
Stoke on Trent City Gallery, UK

Solo Exhibition
Keele university, UK

Burslem Potteries six paintings destroyed in accident

Group Exhibition
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Exhibit Swimming Pool Reflection Orange reflected on water

Move to Forest Hill, London UK

Group Exhibition
Royal Academy Exhibition, London UK
Exhibit Mijas

Senior Lecturer in Painting
Canterbury College of Art and Design, UK

Work with Tom Watt, Ian Drury, Michael Craig Martin, John Bellany, Jennifer Durrant, Stass Paraskos

Solo Exhibition
Lipscombe gallery at Chilham, Kent, UK
includes Swimming Pool Reflection series
Reviewed Art International by Bernard Denvir

Move to Dublin, Ireland

Professor Fine Art
National College of Art Dublin, Ireland

Join Irish Contemporary Arts Society

Join AICA
Association International des Critiques D’Art (Ireland)

External Examiner for painting
National Council for Education and Awards, Ireland

Visiting Lecturer Studio Arts Minneapolis, USA
Stay In Mary Abbots Studio New York

Group Exhibitions
NCAD Staff-Students Show, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin

International Vice-President AICA
Association International des Critiques D’Art (Ireland)

Studio in Glenmalure, Wicklow

Curator
Contemporary Irish Arts Society Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland

Curator
‘Dublin-Edinburgh’, Edinburgh Festival, Scotland
(with Noel Sheridan)
Catalogue by Ciarin Carty

Curator
International Youth Year Exhibition, at Arnotts Dublin, Ireland

Judge
Arnotts National Portrait Awards

Group Exhibition and Curator
Decade Exhibition, National College of Art and Design, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin, Ireland
Wins Sunday Tribune award for best Exhibition and Catalogue

Irish President AICA
Association International des Critiques D’Art (Ireland)

Curator
Seven painters, National College of Art and Design, Coras Trachtala, Brussels

Curator
Critics choice, Association International des Critiques D’Art, Hugh lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Curator with Noel Sheridan
Twenty selected Amateur Artists, Bank of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

External Examiner
National Council Education Awards in Fine Art

Group Exhibition
Gateway to Art, Aer Rianta Dublin Airport, Ireland

Visit Australia
Paint Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia reflection series

Curator
Ireland-U.S.S.R Exhibition, Mansion House, Dublin, Ireland
Group Exhibition
Couples, Castletownsend, Cork

Group Exhibition
Gateway to Art Aer Rianta Dublin Airport, Ireland

Curator
Contemporary Irish Arts Society Exhibition

Curator
Living Landscape, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland

Selector with Brenda McParland
The Contemporary Irish Arts Society Members Exhibition

Group Exhibition
Gateway to Art, Aer Rianta, Dublin Airport, Ireland

Group Exhibition
Summer Exhibition Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

Group Exhibition
Living Landscape 1987-1996, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland

Group Exhibition
Gateway to Art Aer Rianta Dublin Airport, Ireland

Group Exhibition
Summer Exhibition RHA, Dublin, Ireland

Group Exhibition
Summer Exhibition RHA, Dublin, Ireland

Selector with Sandy Nairne
Iontas Exhibition, Sligo, Ireland

Chairman
Contemporary Irish Arts Society

Solo Exhibition
Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland

Selector
Scottish- Irish Exhibition Living Landscape west cork arts centre, touring Scotland

Solo Exhibition
Solomon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Curator with Catherine Marshall
‘SIAR 50’ Fifty years of Irish Art from Contemporary Irish Arts Society collections at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland
DVD and Catalogue

Elected HRHA

Group Exhibition
Drawing Exhibition RHA, Dublin, Ireland

Group Exhibition
Royal Hibernian Academy Re-opening Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland

Group Exhibition
With Fred Cuming RA, Jacqueline Stanley at Jorgenson Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland

Group Exhibition
RHA Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland

Group Exhibition
RHA Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland

Group Exhibition
RHA Christmas Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland

Joint Exhibition with Jacqueline Stanley
United Arts Club, Dublin Ireland

Group Exhibition
RHA Summer Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland

Group Exhibitions
RHA Summer Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
The Irish Scene, Gormleys, Dublin, Ireland
Interiors, Gormleys, Dublin, Ireland
Doswell Gallery, Ireland

Group Exhibitions
183rd Annual Exhibition Royal Hibernian Academy
Self Portrait in collection of The National Self Portrait Collection, Ireland

Campbell Bruce died on February 17th 2014, at St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.