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| Calum working at Glasgow Print Studio, 2007 behind Jim Pattison |
As the Glasgow Print Studio announcement put it, 'Many will know of Calum as the charismatic first Director of Glasgow Print Studio (1975 - 1983) whose ambition took the print studio from a basement in St Vincent Street to substantial premises in Ingram Street, the first visual arts organization to move into the Merchant City.
It was the first such artist led organization and it is fair to say that he put the visual arts on the map of Glasgow with a number of innovative exhibitions and social events including the legendary Loveliest Night of the Year'.
Exhibitions that he played a large part in curating included The Scottish Cartoonists, Paintings by L.S. Lowry and Mark Gertler - The Early and Late Years. He also enabled the Print Studio Press, giving a number of writers the opportunity to be published for the first time. These included Liz Lochhead, Alasdair Gray, Alan Spence and James Kelman.
Calum re-joined the print studio to develop his own work as an artist, creating 'truly amazing' digital work with great success, exhibiting at Glasgow Print Studio on a regular basis and to great acclaim at the Royal Scottish Academy in 2010.
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