![]() ![]() In 1981, she began studying at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, where she made several more short films and graduated in 1984. Ĭampion's dissatisfaction with the limitations of painting led her to filmmaking and the creation of her first short, Tissues, in 1980. Campion's later film work was shaped in part by her art school education she has, even in her mature career, cited painter Frida Kahlo and sculptor Joseph Beuys as influences. She earned a graduate diploma in visual arts (painting) from the Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney in 1981. In 1976, she enrolled in the Chelsea Art School in London, and traveled throughout Europe. Campion initially rejected the idea of a career in the dramatic arts, and graduated instead with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1975. Their parents founded the New Zealand Players. Along with her sister Anna, a year and a half her senior, and brother, Michael, seven years her junior, Campion grew up in the world of New Zealand theatre. Her father came from a family that belonged to the fundamentalist Christian Exclusive Brethren sect. Her maternal great-grandfather was Robert Hannah, a well-known shoe manufacturer for whom Antrim House was built. Campion, a teacher, and theatre and opera director. ![]() Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, the second daughter of Edith Campion (née Beverley Georgette Hannah), an actress, writer, and heiress and Richard M. ![]()
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