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Callum Innes

Callum Innes (Born 1962) is active/lives in Scotland.  Callum Innes is known for Abstract painting.

Callum Innes' 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.  The play between the additive and subtractive process, the making and unmaking, underlies his body of work.

Callum Innes was born in Edinburgh in 1962.  He studied drawing and painting at Gray's School of Art from 1980 to 1984 and then completed a post-graduate degree at Edinburgh College of Art, in 1985.

He 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.

Innes was short-listed for the Turner and Jerwood Prizes in 1995, won the NatWest Prize for Painting in   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1607 characters.]  Artist bio

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