Fine Art Photography
Glasgow
School of Fine Art
CALLUM DIFFEY (He/They)
Winner
The Society of Scottish Artists New Graduate Award
Callum Diffey (b.1997) is a multi-disciplinary 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.
Works
THE EIGHTH HOUSE
The eighth house within astrology is a sector that rules birth, death, sex, transformation and bonding at the deepest level. Traditionally, it’s been called the house of sex and death