
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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Art in Scotland TV: interview with Calum Colvin introducing his exhibition ‘The Magic Box’ at Edinburgh Printmakers, 7th August 2014.
ärtinskɒtlənd noun: 1. A news channel reflecting contemporary arts in Scotland 2. A growing archive building the permanent from…
Read MoreThe Magic Box, Edinburgh Printmakers 2014
‘The Magic Box’ was a solo exhibition/installation/ public art project at Edinburgh Printmakers, commissioned by Edinburgh…
Read MoreBurnsiana, the book! Luath Press 2013
This unique reflection on the world of Robert Burns places a range of photographic artworks by…
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