The Ground Shakes
Calum Wallis

Opening night Saturday 14 March from 6pm to 8pm.
All welcome for drinks and nibbles.

The Ground Shakes presents new works by Dundee-based artist Calum Wallis, created over the past two years with funding from Creative Scotland and The Geological Society.

Tracing a geological journey across Scotland, Wallis follows the Highland Boundary and Great Glen fault lines as markers through a landscape in perpetual flux. Through large-scale drawings, etchings, stone lithographs and film, the exhibition reflects on the dynamic forces that shape the land and our fleeting relationship to deep geological time.

Developed through extensive fieldwork and location-based research from Conic Hill to Loch Eriboll, Imachar to Wilkhaven, these works invite us to consider how the shifting ground beneath our feet connects human experience to the slow, transformative movements of the Earth itself.

Calum Wallis bio

Calum grew up in the North Highlands, where a childhood spent among the hills and trees of Ross Shire and the rocky wonderland north of Ullapool informed a deeply held love of wild places. On moving to Dundee in 2013 to study fine art, he discovered a passion for drawing as an immediate means of mindfully recording and participating in the landscape around him.

Over the past 12 years this has since grown into an artistic practice of slow observation, with repeated visits and close drawing of geological features forming a picture of erosion over the course of a human lifetime.

Calum has exhibited widely across Scotland and has completed multiple residencies; the most recent being a North Sea voyage delivering the touring exhibition Ebbe and Flow to Norway on the 100 year old herring boat The Swan.