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