
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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‘Portrait of Colin McLuckie’ 2013, from ‘Burnsiana, Artworks and Poetry Inspired by the Life of Robert Burns’ by Calum Colvin and Rab Wilson.
A poem by Rab Wilson from the publication 'Burnsiana' by Luath Press. Poem read by Rab…
Read MoreBurnsiana, the exhibition! 2013
Contemporary mixed media exhibition Solo show of recent work by Calum Colvin – Venue: Robert Burns Birthplace…
Read MorePanel Talk, Street Level Photoworks Glasgow, 17/11/2012
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