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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

Edinburgh Lyceum, a play by Peter Arnott, set design by Calum Colvin This commission was a set design for Glasgow playwright Peter Arnott’s Victorian drama at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh (25/4/03 – 17/5/03).  Directed by Kenny Ireland, this … Continued

A touring exhibition of sixteen large-scale computer manipulated photographic artworks completed during Colvin’s tenure as Senior Research Fellow in Digital Imaging at the University of Northumbria in conjunction with Impressions Gallery, York. The artworks explore the relationship between fantasy and … Continued