CALUM COLVIN was born in Glasgow in 1961 and is Professor of
Fine Art Photography at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and
Design, University of Dundee. Colvin’s 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. As well as being visually exciting,
humorous and intriguing, Colvin’s work demonstrates that the art of
the past is relevant in a modern society.
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.
RAB WILSON was born in New Cumnock, Ayrshire in 1960. After an
engineering apprenticeship with the National Coal Board he left the
pits following the miners’ strike of 1984–5 to become a psychiatric
nurse. His work has appeared frequently in The Herald as well as
Chapman, Lallans and Markings magazines.
Rab has performed his work at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the
StAnza poetry festival at St Andrews, the ‘Burns an a’ That
Festival’ at Ayr and has been ‘Bard of the Festival’ at Wigtown,
Scotland’s National Booktown. Additionally Rab is a previous winner
of the McCash Poetry Prize. In 2013 he was the first ‘James Hogg
Writer in Residence’ and was formerly ‘Robert Burns Writing Fellow
– in Reading Scots’ for Dumfries and Galloway Region. Currently a
member of the National Committee for the Scots Language Resource
Centre, Rab regularly attends the parliamentary Cross Party Group
for Scots language held at Holyrood. He is a passionate advocate
for Scots writing. He has recently moved back to New Cumnock, where
he now lives with his wife Margaret and daughter Rachel.
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