Joyce Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist whose recent work utilises anachronistic photographic techniques such as daguerreotype and ambrotype, as well as conventional analogue and digital photography, video, film and sculpture to examine the collision of natural and cultural systems. Her interest in biological and physical systems has led her to develop a set of photographic techniques that render visible the minute and incremental emergence of complex form, be that the growth of a microbial colony, crystals in the process of formation, the migration of glaciers into the ocean or of silver from an electrode into colloidal suspension.
Joyce Campbell received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury and a Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) from the University of Auckland. She is currently undertaking her PhD at the University of Auckland.