Adams Summer Loan Exhibition - George Campbell And The Belfat Boys 7th July - 3rd September 2015

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Campbell held two further solo exhibitions at the Piccadilly Gallery115 in October 1958
and January 1960. Pilkington, who was friendly with Waddington arranged for Campbell
to be included in the group exhibition ‘Painting of the 20th Century’116 in Johannesburg,
South Africa, April, 1960. Dillon held his first solo show in London in 1967 at the Mercury
Gallery. His Connemara images, ‘Fair Day, Clifden’, and ‘Next Stop, America’, had more
appeal in America, where, in 1954, he had held a solo show at the Maxwell Galleries, San
Francisco.
115Campbell also held a joint show with George Arthur Tuckwell (1919-2000) at the Piccadilly Gallery.
(Catalogue untraced)
116Artists included, R.Colquohoun, M.Gertler, C.Ginner, Grant, P.Heron, J. Herman, I. Hitchens, A.John,
Lamb, L.S.Lowry, J.Bratby, Kit Barker and Jankl Adler. The exhibition resulted in no sales. Conversation with
Christabel Pool, 28 May, 2015.
fig.118: George Campbell and Gerard Dillon fig.119: Front cover catalogue for Gerard Dillon’s
exhibition, Mercury Gallery, London, 1967
fig.120: Gerard Dillon catalogue, Maxwell
Galleries, 1954
fig.121: George Campbell carrying his camera
near Monastry Pier, Roundstone.