Lady Campbellafter John Everett Millais

John Everett Millais’s portrait of Lady Campbell belongs to the visual culture of late nineteenth-century British society, where portraiture was also a way of constructing and displaying social identity. Clothing, pose and decorative detail become as significant as the sitter herself. 'Lady Campbell' isolates this language of elegance and remakes it through contemporary digital production, replacing the material richness of Victorian portraiture with a monochrome fabricated surface. Within Industrija, the work looks at how changing systems of wealth and production find their way into images of taste.