This Living Hand
Calum Colvin – The Mask of Keats by Sean Yu DJCAD on Sketchfab
Calum Colvin – The Mask of Keats by Sean Yu DJCAD on Sketchfab
A lenticular print of the suite of images entitled ‘Pretender’.
Tom Normand, The Constructed Worlds of Calum Colvin. Symbol, Allegory, Myth,Edinburgh,Luath Press, 2019 Calum Colvin RSA is an internationally-renowned Scottish artist who has challenged the boundaries of the photographic medium. In recognition of this achievement Tom Normand HRSA has completed … Continued
Introduction Identity, be it individual or collective, is a subtle and shifting concept. It does not come wholly from inside the individual or among the group, but neither is it simply imported from outside. Rather, it is formed at the … Continued
Over the course of my career representations of birds have frequently appeared within my work. These are sometimes present as detail and often as central motif. Generally, in the photographs, they function as symbols that signify various forms of human conceit, carelessness … Continued
Fig.i Calum ColvinThe Death of Venus, 1986 ‘Sacred and Profane’ 1998, was an exhibition of eight large-scale photographic artworks commissioned by the National Galleries of Scotland. The works are investigations of well known paintings in the collection such as Titian, Rubens … Continued
‘Ossian Fragments of Ancient Poetry’ was an exhibition in 2002 at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery of a series of twenty-five 40”x50” digital prints on canvas based on James Macphersons’ fact and/or fictional account of ancient Celtic mythology, ‘The Poems of … Continued
‘Natural Magic’ was a 2009 AHRC sponsored project ( AHRC Research Leave Award 2007) relating to stereoscopic photography in collaboration with Professor Nicholas Wade, a visual psychologist at the University of Dundee. The project is an interdisciplinary investigation into two-dimensional and … Continued
A miscellany of contextual information on the images and related ruminations. Dirt and Deity This work entitled ‘Dirt & Deity’ is based on a Silhouette, or shade by John Miers, cut in 1787 when the poet was 35 years old. … Continued
A guide to the works as displayed in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery 14/11/15 – 28/3/16 exhibition/intervention Jacobites by Name, which was installed within the permanent display Imagining Power: The Visual Culture of the Jacobite Cause in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. … Continued