- Exposed Painting Dioxazine Violet, 2006
- Oil on canvas
- 242.5 x 232.5 cm
- Exposed Painting Ivory Black, 2007
- Oil on canvas
- 222.5 x 222.5 cm
b. 1962, Edinburgh, Scotland
Callum Innes belongs to a generation of British artists who continue to explore the possibilities of paint on canvas.Uninhibited by, yet very aware of, the achievements of the past and the rise of other media, Innes uses the language of the monochrome, an established format of abstract painting since the 1960s. His paintings are created through a process of addition and subtraction, sometimes removing sections of paint from the canvases surface with turpentine to leave only the faintest traces of what was there before. Using this method of subtraction he has established his own vocabulary in the form of distinctive groups of paintings, which evolve concurrently. Through their interdependency he hones his visual fluency, exploring variations of the process of removal.
Callum Innes has had recent solo exhibitions at Frith Street Gallery, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, Modern Art Oxford and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Other notable solo exhibitions include Tate St Ives; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland. He was awarded the Jerwood Painting Prize for 2002. His paintings are included in public collections worldwide, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Arts Council of England, British Council, London, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
