- Callum Innes
Callum Innes (born 1962) is a Scottish abstract painter and former
Turner Prize nominee.Life and work
Callum Innes was born in
Edinburgh . He attended the Gray's School of Art (1980–84) and graduated fromEdinburgh College of Art in 1985.Innes began exhibiting in the mid-to-late 1980's and in 1992 had two major exhibitions in public galleries, at the ICA, London, and the
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art , Edinburgh. Since then he has had numerous solo shows throughout Britain, Europe and North America, and more recently in New Zealand. A substantial selection of his best-known series, the "Exposed" paintings, was exhibited in 1998 at theIkon Gallery , Birmingham, England, and at theKunsthalle Bern the following year. He has participated in many group shows including "The British Art Show 3" (1990), "Wonderful Life",Lisson Gallery , London (1993), "From Here", Karsten Schubert Gallery andWaddington Galleries (1994), "Abstractions Provisoires", Musee d'Art Moderne deSt Etienne (1997), the touring exhibition "About Vision - New British Paintings in the 1990's" (1996-7) and "Abstract Painting Once Removed" at theContemporary Arts Museum Houston .In 1995 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize which was won by
Damien Hirst . In 1998 Innes won the NatWest Art Prize and in 1992 he won The Jerwood Painting Prize and theArtisti Invitati Al Premio Internazionale .His work is represented in numerous collections, both private and public including The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Tate London, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Deutsche Bank.
He regularly exhibits internationally and lives in Edinburgh.
Working process
Innes is a painter who has tended to work alternately on a number of disparate series, each of which he repeatedly revisits. His characteristic form of coolly atmospheric abstraction has aptly been described as "unpainting", given that key compositional elements are generally produced, not by the application of paint, but through its removal by washes of turpentine. Each finished painting thus suggests a freezing in time of the otherwise momentary arrest of an ongoing process.
External links
* [http://www.kerlin.ie/innes.html Kerlin Gallery] "Representative gallery. Link to images and biography"
* [http://www.frithstreetgallery.com/innes.html Frith Street Gallery]
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/8789/callum-innes.html Callum Innes on artnet.com, including examples of work]
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