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Repetition - Violet/Grey

Artist Callum Innes (Edinburgh, Scotland, born 1962)

Date1995

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsOverall: Height: 175 cm, Width: 165 cm, Depth: 4.5 cm

AcquisitionPresented in 1996 by the Contemporary Art Society.

LocationOn Display - Gallery 17

Object numberABDAG011802

Keywords

Abstract

About MeTurner Prize nominee in 1995, Callum Innes studied at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen and then at Edinburgh College of Art in the 1980s.

Characteristically, his works are cool, geometric abstracts, which are created through a process of what has been described as 'unpainting'. Starting with a minimalist canvas painted in one colour, paint is removed with washes of turpentine. Innes describes this working method as deliberately accidental - he determines what is going to happen but the picture changes in the making.
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Doesn't it look as if the surface of the sea has been finely combed? Or maybe you see something completely different?

Exhibitions

Gallery 17 - Abstract Art