
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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Interlitq – the International Literary Quarterly: interview with Calum Colvin, 2008.
Peter Robertson is an author and journalist born Glasgow 1960 and raised in rural Perthshire. His fiction…
Read MoreHISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Volume 31, Number 3, Autumn 2007
Abstract Calum Colvin discusses the development of his work over the past twenty years through a…
Read MoreOssian Then and Now, Université Paris 7-19 November, 2006
Many of us are now familiar with Calum Colvin’s remarkable series of works derived from James…
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