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Around this time Campbell met two Spaniards in Dublin, Ángel Ancunción Goñi
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and
José Antonio Sierra,
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who became part of his group of friends. Antonio Sierra became
Director of the Spanish Cultural Institute and was focussed on promoting links between
Ireland and Spain.
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Sierra and Campbell coordinated the exhibition, ‘Spain by Irish Artists’
at the Kenny Gallery, Galway, 1978, inviting Spanish Ambassador, Emilio Pan de Soraluce
(fig. 194) to officially open the exhibition.
Campbell was prolific from 1971 to 1973. He held two solo exhibitions with Hendriks, 1971
and 1973; a solo show in Cork at the Lavitt Gallery, 1971; two solo exhibitions with Tom
Caldwell, Belfast, 1972 and 1973; a solo show with the ACNI, 1972; and a solo in Malaga
at Galeria CAA, 1973.
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Ángel Ancunción Goñi met Campbell in Humphreys Bar, Ranelagh, 1972.
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Antonio Sierra met George 1968/69, when he was a lecturer of Spanish in Trinity College Dublin.
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Sierra opened a gallery in the Spanish Cultural Institute, 1990, and established the George Campbell
Memorial Travel Grant.
fig.218: Ángel Ancunción Goñi with Madge and
George Campbell, 1970’s.
fig.219: George Campbell with his painting, ‘Still
Life With Crayfish’, 1972
fig.220: Exhibition catalogue, ‘George Campbell
RHA’ at CAA, Malaga, 1973
fig.221: Ángel Ancunción Goni and Madge
Campbell, Roundstone, 1976