About

Steven “Campbell” Bingham (aka smab70) is a mixed-media artist, designer, and image-maker whose practice is rooted in traditional print, typography, and visual communication. Beginning his career in the mid-1980s as a headline typesetter, he progressed through reprographic camera operator, paste-up artist, print production, finishing, and graphic design, developing an enduring sensitivity to composition, fragmentation, texture, and the material construction of images. After studying at the London College of Printing (now UAL-LCC), East London Advanced Technology Training (ELAAT), and WAES in Westminster, London, his practice expanded into digital media, web design, photography, and image manipulation. Today, his work moves fluidly between analogue and digital processes, combining collage, found imagery, typography, paint, photography, and mixed media. Works evolve through repeated cycles of intervention, where layering, disruption, erasure, and reconstruction become methods of sustaining tension rather than resolving it. Images are assembled and interrupted, obscured and revealed, creating relationships that continually shift and reinterpret themselves. Meaning remains provisional, never fixed, held in a state of continual negotiation. Across fragmented visual languages and materially charged surfaces, Bingham explores the space between presence and absence, connection and separation, what is revealed and what remains unsaid. Rather than seeking resolution or closure, the work deliberately maintains the conditions that prevent them. Fragments approach one another but never fully settle, leaving meaning unresolved. His practice is further informed by involvement in the graphic cultures of Manchester and London nightlife during the 1980s and early 1990s, alongside developing an independent clothing brand and street-level distribution network across the North West, Midlands, and London. The immediacy of street graphics, print culture, typography, visual appropriation, and underground modes of circulation continues to resonate throughout a body of work rooted in process, materiality, and the unstable production of meaning.