Calum Colvin

Calum Colvin’s interdisciplinary practice combines the use of sculpture, painting and photography to create large-format photographic prints embedded with multiple layers of meaning.

To create these complex works Colvin carefully assembles a tableaux of objects, paints on them in a trompe l'oeil style and photographs the set-up from a particular viewpoint - transforming the three dimensional surroundings into what appears to be a flat image. The viewer is left to unravel contemporary themes including politics, sexuality and belief from the final exhibited piece.

Born in Scotland, Colvin studied sculpture at Duncan Jordanstone College of Art and Design from 1979-83, and moved to England to study Photography at the Royal College of Art from 1983-5. Colvin is the holder of a Royal Photographic Society Gold Medal and was awarded the SAC Creative Scotland Award in 2000 and an OBE in 2001. His work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London and National Galleries of Scotland among others.