
Constructed Photographic Artworks
Calum Colvin OBE RSA FRSE is a Scottish artist whose work combines photography, painting, and installation, and often deals with issues of Scottish identity and culture and with the history of art.
Featured Artwork: Burns After Flaxman 2023
This work responds to the Flaxman statue in terms of the formality and solidity of the original work. It moves between greyness and colour – the tension between bookishness and bodily life, between marble columns and making a living, between stony deadness and live being. There are touches of the organic – green grass, flowers, straw, to add to the tensions between solidity, ghostliness, and vivacity.
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Constructed Narratives, Calum Colvin and Ron O’Donnell, The Photographers Gallery, London, 1986
There is a substantial growth in the number of independent photographers who are using colour as…
Read MoreEarly Works (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design 1979-1983)
My early days as a student in Dundee and my introduction to photography. I was taught…
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