Laird Campbell was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1944. He arrived in Montreal in 1965 amid the excitement of preparation for Expo’67, and worked as a freelance exhibition and display artist.

He has travelled extensively producing works in glass, bronze, paper and wood and has exhibited works in Europe, North Africa and North America.

In 1991 he moved to a small mill town and purchased a 20,000 square foot building, built in 1928, of first-growth Douglas Fir. He dismantled parts of the building to provide his new medium, with which he continues to create ‘wood assemblages'.