Callum Arnold

Born 1973 in Wellington, and grew up in Hastings. Lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand.  Holds a MFA with Distinction (2001) from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch.

Callum's work is primarily concerned with geographic experience and the transpositions of media upon that knowledge. Using multiple images within the borders of a single work the visual experience is reconstructed through the process of drawing and digital media, which create new surreal environments. Through the act of painting the visual image is no longer an accurate rendering of the actual world but a collaboration of processes.

Callum explains that his "interest lies in the disjointed construction that memory creates through the influence of fleeting visions of land. The attempt is to depict a more universal view rather than a regional specific location. Some aspects or similarities between locations are due to geographical feature of the rural environment and the way roads are constructed to dissect the land into portions."

Exhibitions

2012               Time - Group Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2011                Sojourn - Milford Galleries, Queenstown

2010                New Work - Suite, Wellington

                        Winter Show - Group Show, Milford GalleriesQueenstown

                        Small Work - Group Show, Milford Galleries, Dunedin

                        Group show - Suite, Gallery O, Christchurch

2009                Southern Landscape - Group Show, Milford Galleries Queenstown

                        Simulations - Milford Galleries Dunedin

                        Divergence - Suite, Wellington

2008               Direction - Milford Galleries, Auckland

                        Detour - Suite, Wellington       

                        Small Work - CoCA, Christchurch.

2007               Merge Shift - Milford Galleries, Auckland

                        Horizon - Milford Galleries, Queenstown

                        Looking South - Group show, Milford Galleries, Dunedin

2006               Essence - Group Show, Milford Galleries, Auckland

                        Contents May Shift - Milford Galleries Dunedin

                        Summer Exhibition - Group Show, Milford Galleries, Dunedin

                        Summer Exhibition - Group Show, Milford Galleries, Queenstown

2005               Transitional Space - CoCA, Christchurch

2004               New Work - Chambers Gallery, Rangiora

2003               25, Group Show 

                        CoCA, Christchurch

2002               Christchurch College of Education 125 Anniversary Art Show,

                        Group show, CoCA, Christchurch

2001               Leading Impressions -CoCA-

                        Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch

                        Landscapes - University of Canterbury Fine Arts Gallery