Callum Innes

Save the date and join us this 1st ofJuly in Ibiza, for a special solo exhibition from acclaimed artist Callum Innes. Callum a visionary artist known for his innovative approach to abstraction. Through his unique techniques and profound understanding of color, light, and space, Innes invites viewers to embark on a journey of introspection and contemplation.

At the heart of Innes’ artistic practice lies his remarkable process of “unpainting” With deliberate intention, he applies meticulously gessoed canvas and ultimately covered in black, only to subsequently erase and remove certain sections. This act of subtraction becomes an integral part of his artistic expression, revealing hidden layers and textures beneath the surface. Innes believes that through this process, the artwork is stripped down to its essence, inviting viewers to engage with the interplay between presence and absence. Innes’ exploration of abstraction extends beyond the act of erasure. He also employs washes, thin and translucent layers of paint that flow and blend organically on the canvas. This technique infuses his works with a sense of fluidity and luminosity, creating an ethereal and atmospheric quality that engages the viewer on a visceral level.

Throughout his distinguished career, Callum Innes has received international acclaim for his groundbreaking contributions to the art world, such as the Jerwood Prize for painting in 2002 and the Nat West Prize in 1998. 

In 1995 Innes was short-listed for the Turner Prize. His critically-acclaimed museum exhibition, From Memory, traveled throughout Europe and Australia and the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, England recently presented an exhibition of his oil paintings and watercolours. 

Innes’s work is included in many major public collections worldwide including: the Tate Gallery, London, England; the Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland; the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Centre George Pompidou, France; The Irish Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo;  the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; and Deutsche Bank. An installation of callum innes|colm tóibín water|colour, first exhibited at Sean Kelly gallery in 2010, was also featured at Art Basel Unlimited in 2011. In 2012 he was commissioned by the Edinburgh Arts Festival to transform the capital’s Regent Bridge, which he illuminated with a changing sequence of colored light. 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.