Callum Diffey (b.1997) is a multi-disipinary artist currently based in Glasgow. Their practice utilises photography, sculpture and video. Toeing the line between sensitivity and brutality, visually referencing motifs present within queer culture and found imagery their work is an investigation of concepts such as the dichotomy of pain and pleasure, the sacred and the profane, collective memory and trauma, identity and the beauty in the debased. When two opposing ideas or feelings are whole or experienced simultaneously.
For enquiries of any kind please email: callumdiffey97@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
BA (Hons) Fine Art (photography), The Glasgow School of Art (2021)
AWARDS:
The Society of Scottish Artists New Graduate Award (2021)
EXHIBITIONS:
ABOUT://44 @ The Glasgow School of Art, 2017
Make Equality Happen for Stonewall @ Out of The Blue, Edinburgh 2017
IMG_021 @ 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow 2018
Rooted @ Where People Sleep, Glasgow 2018
Grab the Beehive, Cut it in Half, Lick the Honey @ Wasps Artists Studios, Glasgow 2019
Film Screening @ CCA, Glasgow 2020
Goose Chase @ House for an Art Lover, Glasgow 2020
The Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2021 (online) 2021
The Alternative Degree Show Festival @ French Street, Glasgow 2021
Vice x Photobook Cafe Student Open Call @ Photobook Cafe, London 2021
The Society of Scottish Artists 123rd Annual Exhibition @ RSA Upper Galleries, Edinburgh 2021
PUBLICATIONS:
Hart Magazine
Babestation - Page 3