Frith Street Gallery

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.

Selected Exhibitions

• 2013 Solo exhibition at The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
• 2012 Callum Innes: Works on Paper 1989 – 2012, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
• 2012 Solo exhibition at Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
• 2011 Solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery
• 2011 Watercolour, a group exhibition at Tate Britain
• 2010 – 2011 La Pesanteur et la Grâce, a group exhibition at Villa Medici, Rome
• 2008 From Memory, a solo exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• 2007 Discourse, a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery
• 2007 Solo exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
• 2006 Solo exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
• 2005 Solo exhibition at Tate St Ives, Cornwall

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