Calum Wallis: Maybe a Place

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Calum Wallis' artistic practice is a meeting place for all that he finds fascinating in the world. Using the medium of drawing in many forms, he examines his relationship with the natural world and the manner in which humans interact with wonders both great and small.

Individually, each of the 30 drawings in Maybe a Place attempts to faithfully represent a small piece of the real world. Yet by force of assembly, division, contortion, perspective and magnification these drawings build fictitious landscapes of impossible scale and balance. Foregrounds have been cropped, unrelated ridges forced into collaboration and intervening oceans vapourised. Within the drawings lie nothing but real places; venerable stone universes of complexity and beauty which - taken in isolation - have filled his eyes and mind with wonder.

Coming from the Scottish Highlands to study at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Wallis graduated in 2017, and since then has been working in Dundee. Throughout this time, he has been constantly working to expand his vocabulary in the growing field of drawing. He began by making representative landscapes, but has increasingly questioned the role of the landscape artist in his work.

Calum was the Open Eye Gallery prizewinner at the Scottish Society of Artists exhibition, 2021.

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