Callum Innes: From Memory

‘Callum Innes: From Memory,' brings together a selection of key paintings and offers a rare opportunity to trace the development of the Scottish artist's work over the past 15 years, including works never seen before.

Callum Innes produces paintings by removing as well as applying layers of paint. A deliberate act of destruction is part of the making. He works in series and each group of paintings examines a particular technique, combination of colours, or format.

In his ongoing Exposed series the canvas is divided into four; some areas are painted thickly, others are left as bare canvas and other areas are dissolved paint. A dark and pungent green reveals gentler, softer qualities though dilution and erasure.

His Monologues series explores the effect of turpentine on a simple painted square, bringing to mind the forces of nature.

Innes was born in 1962 in Edinburgh, Scotland where he lives and works today. His paintings became known in 1995 when he was short-listed for the Turner Prize at the Tate. In 2002 he was awarded the Jerwood Painting Prize.

Attracting wide international interest, they have been bought by the Tate Britain, the Arts Council England and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, as well as museums in America and Switzerland.

After being exhibited at the Kettle's Yard, the exhibition will be transported to Australia, to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

Kettle's Yard is the beautiful former home of Jim Ede, once curator at the Tate Gallery who moved to Cambridge in 1957.

Paintings and sculpture are interlaced with furniture, glass, ceramics and natural objects, including works by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Alfred Wallis, Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood and Henri Gaudier-Breszka.

The gallery at Kettles Yard is open every day except Mondays, from 11:30am - 5:00pm, and the house is open from 1:30pm – 4:30pm.

The exhibition runs from 28 July – 23 September 2007 and entry is free.