A short film about Callum Abbott's work and studio life by film-maker and friend, Bradley Martin, as part of his 2019 Meet Your Maker series.
About
Callum Abbott works across drawing, collage, performance, sound and sculpture. From the immediacy of mark-making to the juxtaposition of printed imagery, Abbott’s 2D work is tactile and visceral and has inspired his journey into live art and sculpture. Gestural actions find their roots in drawing and these drawings can become sculptures. Graphic yet bodily, spontaneous yet composed, Abbott puts the life into abstraction and allows us into a world of his own.
Photo: Matt Glanville
Education
2009 - 2012 BA Drawing, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London
2008 - 2009 BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, North Hertfordshire College, Hitchin
Exhibitions
Solo
Red Sex, 2021, Eastcheap Project Space, Letchworth Garden City
Trip Hazard, 2017, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City
Single Ladies, 2017, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City
Callum Abbott presents: You Cannot Be Serious?, 2011, Workspace Kennington Park, Oval, London
You Cannot Be Serious? (Playing The Queue), 2011, AELTC, Wimbledon, London
Light Show (with Anette Friedrich Johannessen), 2011, New Gallery, Peckham, London
Group
Summer Exhibition, 2022, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Letchworth Open, 2021, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City
Private View, 2020, Eastcheap Project Space, Letchworth Garden City
Garden Gasp!, 2019, ASC Gallery, London
Unity Muse, 2018, Community Museum, Letchworth Garden City
Art, Music & Performances at the Cloisters, 2018, Letchworth Garden City
Threshold, 2012, New Gallery, Peckham, London
LUPA, 2012, London
Clash and Converge II, 2011, Camberwell Space, London
Folly For a Flyover, 2011, Hackney Wick, London
Peek Show, 2011, Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey, London
Half Full, 2011, Utrophia, Deptford, London