Steven Campbell (19 March 1953 – 15 August 2007) was a painter and printmaker, born in Rutherglen, Scotland. He worked as an engineer at Clydebridge Steelwork before commencing his studies as a mature student at Glasgow School of Art from 1978 to 1982. He was a leading figure in the group known as "The New Glasgow Boys", alongside Ken Currie, Peter Howson and Adrian Wiszniewski, who studied contemporaneously at the Art School.
Campbell's work has an immediate surreal quality made more profound by allusion to modern, mythical and art histories. The series of prints published by Glasgow Print Studio in 2004 for the exhibition titled Jean-Pierre Léaud explore themes of apprentice and master and the guise of character. These fictions are created through reference to Jean-Pierre Léaud, the associations of Rosslyn Chapel, Jekyll and Hyde and the artist’s own homage to past masters.
