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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- 14 July 2020
Pretender, 2014 Colvin has explored every aspect of Scotland’s historic and mythic culture and in 2014 settled…
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- 14 July 2020
Tom Normand, The Constructed Worlds of Calum Colvin. Symbol, Allegory, Myth,Edinburgh,Luath Press, 2019 Calum Colvin RSA…
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- 29 February 2020
https://talking-pictures.net.au/2020/02/29/calum-colvin-picturing-scottish-identity/ Introduction Identity, be it individual or collective, is a subtle and shifting concept. It does…
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