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Callum Innes is known for paintings created through a process that involves repeated removal as well as application of paint. Calm and authoritative when exhibited, they nevertheless bear the traces of the controlled chaos of their production, of the creative and destructive interaction of paint and turpentine.
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Callum Innes was born in Edinburgh in 1962 and studied at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen and Edinburgh College of Art. Innes was short-listed for the Turner and Jerwood Prizes in 1995, won the prestigious NatWest Prize for Painting in 1998, and in 2002 was awarded the Jerwood Prize for Painting. He has exhibited internationally and his work is held in public collections worldwide including amongst others the Guggenheim, New York; National Gallery of Australia; TATE, London; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; the Centre George Pompidou, France; The Irish Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada. In 1996 Innes had his first solo exhibition at Slewe Gallery in the Netherlands. In 2016, Innes was the subject of a major retrospective survey exhibition and accompanying monograph, I’ll Close My Eyes, at the De Pont Museum in Tilburg Netherlands.
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