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Callum Innes Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh September 30 to November 19
In 1989 Callum Innes sank an image of a branch into a piece of corrugated card with black oil paint, compressing it into the uneven surface. The work, titled From Memory, marked a significant turning point for him, awakening an interest in abstraction and objectivity, helping him break away from earlier figuration. The name of this unassuming work, hanging upstairs in this exhibition, titles this whole retrospective, running from 1989 to 2006, spanning the breadth of Innes's career so far as an abstract painter.
Downstairs, five equally large, square paintings bombard us, each containing a vibrant passage of painterly purple big enough to climb into, …
Source: HighBeam Research, Callum Innes.