About — Calum Heywood

For commissions and enquiries contact

Email - calumheywoodcreative@gmail.com

Call - 07906332412

Instagram - @calumheywoodphoto

A small orange tree in the garden of a block of flats. Spain, 2024.

Jasmin.

@jasminzsmit for @jadoremodelsagency

And Handycam shoot tests 📹

Retouch for @warehouseuk
Creative team tagged 🙌

Today is the last day to see The Greenhouse Project exhibited at the Bureau centre for the arts.

I'll be here from 11-2 today!

Tomorrow is the last day the Greenhouse project will be up at the The Bureau centre for the arts in blackburn.

Yesterday was supposed to be the last day, however, we had to close today so we’ve decided to do tomorrow as the last day instead.

Exhibition and workshop update

I’ll be at the Exhibition space on Saturday the 3rd of August from 11-2. To answer questions about the work and talk to anyone that missed the opening!

I’ll also be running a workshop at the Witton park g

Olis' leaving for Germany canal boat gathering, last summer.

Ian in his Garden. Shot last summer.

@ian_halawi_studio

Adam, for @jadoremodelsagency

A rare shoot on 645 🎞

11:58pm

Images from Manchester and Spain

Spain, 2024

Paint samples in on the wall of a new building complex set into the mountain.

This is also from my first roll of Ektar.

My work-in-progress project documenting the Witton park greenhoase project is on the walls at the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum alongside some other brilliant photographers, and the final stop for @mrcraigeaston s’ touring exhibition &lsquo

I’m showing some work this weekend at Northern Eye Festival in Colwyn Bay as part of a group exhibition!

These photographs are part of a new documentary project I’ve been working on this summer. Centred around the Witton project - A sma

A few recent Polaroids!

First two are of me shot by @orrin.pierre

The third is mine of a nearby cat.

I’m going to try to post more on here over the next few months. I’ve been a bit quiet for post since the exhibition in May but I&rsq

Here it is!

Yma Ac Acw (here and there) zine launch!

Available at the big cartel link in my bio! Or via DM

Zine details

1st edition printing
A5 size
48 pages
25 photographs

Prices

Unsigned zine - £8

Unsigned zine with two postcards -

Colin. Lockdown 2021.

Shot with @ilfordphoto FP4.

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#ilfordhp5 #analog #filmisnotdead #filmisalive #nowherediary #kodakportra400 #kodak #documentingbritain #classicsmagazine #kodakportra160 #120film #thedaily35mm #fi

Calum is a Welsh artist, photographer, and retoucher based in Manchester and Blackburn. With over 10 years of experience, his work has been internationally published and nationally exhibited.

Notable clients include. Netflix, Debenhans, Primark, Coast, Burtons, Boohoo, Misspap, J'adore Models, Tarrif and Dale, and The National Festival of Making, Blackburn Museum, Ancoats studio and Village books.

As an artist, Calum explores the relationship between people, objects, and space through memory and tangentiality, utilizing painting, analog photography, video, and performance art. His recent solo exhibition, Yma Ac Acw (Here and There), was a meditation on the Welsh countryside and was showcased at Prism Contemporary. The accompanying zine is available at Village Books in Manchester and Leeds.

In addition to his artistic practice, Calum is co - founder of the Obscura Collective, where he contributes to session delivery and manages the vision of the organisation.

He co-managed and delivered the successful "Creative Community" project funded by Arts Council England. As part of the Ace under 30k.

Most recently Calum has worked on the Obscura collective photo wall project with Blackburn Museum. As producer, lead artist and project manager.

Exhibitions and shows

Another perspective, Obscura Collective exhibition. The Bureau centre for the arts, Blackburn July 2024

Is anyone listening? Group exhibition at The Williamson Gallery, Birkenhead. Jan - Apr 2024

Blackburn Museum and art gallery open art exhibition. Jan 2024

Yma Ac Acw. Solo Exhibition at Prism Contemporary, Blackburn. 2023.

Solo show of work. The Alan Hotel Manchester 2022.

Manchester School of Art MA show 2021. Grosvenor Gallery October 1st - October 10th

Obscura Darkroom open evening and exhibition 2021.

University of central Lancashire BA show 2019. Victoria Building - PR1 Gallery June 13th - June 20th

Speaker at a variety of events including Lancaster photographic society, Preston photographic society, and at an online seminar with the Two Forty-Four Network. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH_Avy0SwR8