Exposed Paper Work: Blue Grey
About this artwork
In this work Innes has erased layers of paint with turpentine to create a series of geometric forms. By stripping away paint from the canvas, Innes explores what he calls ‘un-painting’, highlighting the fragility and uncertainty of the painting process. His ‘Exposed’ series is his best known, for which he has created both large scale oil paintings and smaller works on paper. Fluid, open areas of exposed canvas streaked with residual paint contrast with blocks of solid colour. Innes began showing his ‘Exposed Paintings’ in the early 1990s and has continued to explore variations on the process ever since.
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artist:Callum Innes (born 1962) Scottish
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title:Exposed Paper Work: Blue Grey
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date created:1996
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materials:Oil on oil paper
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measurements:214.00 x 100.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1996
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accession number:GMA 4100
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Callum Innes
Callum Innes
Innes was born in Edinburgh and studied at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, and at Edinburgh College of Art. Following a Scottish Arts Council residency in Amsterdam in 1987, Innes began to reduce the figurative content in his work. The Identified Forms paintings, begun in 1990, are his first major...