M A Y

B L U E B E L L

May Bluebell is the artistic practice of Manda Campbell, an artist whose abstract landscapes are informed by memory and inherited histories. Raised in a small mining town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Bluebell’s practice is deeply influenced by the red desert landscape and its enduring emotional presence. With a background in design and fine art, she works across painting, photography and printmaking to create landscapes that move between the physical and the imagined.

Bluebell’s work explores the relationship between memory and place, and the ways landscapes are reconstructed and transformed over time. Rather than representing landscape as a fixed geographical space, she considers it as fluid and psychological, shaped by experience and inherited stories.

Her practice occupies a space between Australian Gothic and inherited Scottish lineage, bringing together landscapes shaped by folklore, ritual and absence. At the centre of her work is the enduring symbolism of the stone. Across Scotland, standing stones are associated with ceremonial sites, ancestral presence, spiritual thresholds and portals between worlds. Gaelic folklore and migration stories intersect with the vast landscapes of her childhood.  A sense of displacement runs through her work, reflecting on belonging and raising questions around place, identity and the histories we inherit. 

Through layered and abstracted forms, Bluebell reimagines the stone as a marker of place and belonging. Her work becomes a meditation on identity, dislocation and on the desire to understand the histories we carry with us.