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Please note that on Wednesday 26 February Kettle’s Yard will be closing at 3.30pm for a private event. Last entry to the house will be at 2.15pm. Thank you.

Please note that Kettle’s Yard is closed on Easter Sunday (20 April).

Callum Innes, Exposed Painting, Dioxazine Violet, 2005 photo: Hyjdla Kosaniuk Innes
Exhibition

Callum Innes

29 July - 23 September 2007

Callum Innes is known for paintings created through a process that involves the repeated removal as well as the application of paint, where a deliberate act of destruction is part of the making. In an ongoing series of ‘Exposed paintings’, a dark and pungent green, for instance, might reveal its gentler, softer qualities through dilution and erasure.

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Innes hopes to make paintings which continue to reveal themselves far beyond their first impact. They exist in their seemingly simple, final state, but resonate with the complex passage of time; the history of their making is often evident, but in paintings such as the ‘Monologues’ there are evocations of nature’s forces at work, of waterfalls, mudslips, rock faces. In paintings which he calls ‘Agitated Verticals’, he brushes turpentine up through a field of colour and allows it to trickle down, forging channels to reveal again the canvas ground. Hovering between the abstract, and figuration and landscape – elemental in both senses – the same painting can combine speed with immense slowness.

Fast and slow, adding and subtracting, solid and robust, yet fragile and disintegrating, Callum Innes’s paintings are built on such paradoxes.

This exhibition was organised by The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, and included work drawn from over fifteen years of Callum Innes’s practice. It was accompanied by a substantial book.

Violet is such an unnatural colour. It has connotations of poison and death, but it can be quite warm and forgiving, yet retaining a sense of menace.

– Callum Innes

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