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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- 18 February 2021
Street Level Photoworks For the eighth in our series of In Focus talks we were joined…
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- 25 January 2021
https://boswellartcollection.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2021/01/25/an-interview-with-calum-colvin/ 00602_SwanDrawing
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- 16 December 2020
A blether between artist Calum Colvin and photographer Alicia Bruce about community, photography and Portobello, Edinburgh's…
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