A poem by Rab Wilson from the publication ‘Burnsiana’ by Luath Press. Poem read by Rab Wilson. Artwork by Calum Colvin. Animation by Mark Wallace.
Contemporary mixed media exhibition Solo show of recent work by Calum Colvin – Venue: Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, Ayr, KA7 4PQ – Dates: 7 June – 15 September 2013 Calum Colvin’s blends – the photographic and the painterly, the traditional and … Continued
The series of images here collectively entitled ‘Camera Lucida’ were made especially for the publication In Memoriam (Dundee University Press ISBN 9781845861391). The original drawing they are based on is one of a series of eighteen from 1508 by the Renaissance master … Continued
The work of the same title is based on the ‘Twa Plack’ label/stamp (above) produced in 1959 by the Scottish Secretariat (a radical organisation founded in 1926) as part of an unsuccessful campaign to persuade the Postmaster General to issue … Continued
Guest editorial essay (volume 38, pages 633 – 637) by Professor Nick Wade on ‘Natural Magic’ at The Royal Scottish Academy 2009. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1068/p3805ed
Peter Robertson is an author and journalist born Glasgow 1960 and raised in rural Perthshire. His fiction has been published in English, Spanish and Portuguese and he has also written critical articles and literary translations. He lives in Madrid and Buenos Aires. He … Continued
Abstract Calum Colvin discusses the development of his work over the past twenty years through a selection of key images from his oeuvre, outlining the hybrid elements in the development of his style. He discusses his use of old and … Continued
Many of us are now familiar with Calum Colvin’s remarkable series of works derived from James Macpherson’s prose poem ‘Ossian’, which was first published in the 1760s. Colvin’s work was shown at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2002 and … Continued
Calum Colvin and Tom Leonard, Edinburgh Printmakers 2003 The series of images in the portfolio entitled ‘Fragments’ are the result of a collaboration between visual artist Calum Colvin and poet Tom Leonard. This portfolio of five large-scale etchings and complimentary … Continued
