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 April 1990
Calum Colvin's rich, anarchic and often highly amusing photopieces are amongst the most significant artworks to…
Read More- 15 December 1989
Salama Caro Gallery, London; Galeria 57, Madrid;Glenn/Dash Gallery, Los Angeles; California State University, Long Beach, California;…
Read More- 17 November 1988
CALUM COLVIN OR, GAZES IN THE OLYMPIAN JUNK SHOP 'Of bodies changed to various forms, I sing' [Ovid,…
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