
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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Camera Lucida 2012
The series of images here collectively entitled ‘Camera Lucida’ were made especially for the publication In Memoriam…
Read MoreTwa Plack 2009
‘Twa Plack’ Stamp The work of the same title is based on the ‘Twa Plack’ label/stamp…
Read MorePerception 2009
Guest editorial essay (volume 38, pages 633 - 637) by Professor Nick Wade on 'Natural Magic'…
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