
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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Photography School Blethers 16/12/20
A blether between artist Calum Colvin and photographer Alicia Bruce about community, photography and Portobello, Edinburgh's…
Read MoreLenticular Print ‘Pretender’ 2014, Matthew Gallery, Dundee 2020
Pretender, 2014 Colvin has explored every aspect of Scotland’s historic and mythic culture and in 2014 settled…
Read MoreSSHoP Review of monograph ‘The Constructed Worlds of Calum Colvin. Symbol, Allegory, Myth’ by Tom Normand. Summer 2020
Tom Normand, The Constructed Worlds of Calum Colvin. Symbol, Allegory, Myth,Edinburgh,Luath Press, 2019 Calum Colvin RSA…
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