Born in Glasgow in 1961, Calum Colvin was a winner of one of the first Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Awards. He was awarded an OBE in 2001 and is Professor of Fine Art Photography at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. Colvin artworks have been widely exhibited in venues as diverse as Orkney, Los Angeles and Ecuador.
A practitioner of both sculpture and photography, Colvin brings these disciplines together in his unique style of constructed photography: assembled tableaux of objects, which are then painted and photographed. His complex compositions are rich in association and spatial ambiguities.
His work is held in numerous collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London as well as the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh and the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow.
“I was keen to take part in 'Inspired' because I feel that an exhibition about Burns, or rather artworks inspired by Burns, created by a wide variety of contemporary artists, is a great idea!
We are so used to celebrating Burns on a yearly basis in so many ways except the visual, and this exhibition will, in the 250th anniversary of his birth, redress this balance.”
Calum Colvin
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