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Callum Wilkinson is a self-taught fused glass artist based in the North East of England. 

His practice involves layering up multiple pieces of glass to create imagery or patterns. He then puts the glass in a kiln which is then heated to temperatures around 800 degrees Celsius before allowing it to cool at a controlled and steady rate. Callum’s pieces can take up to 26 hours to make but other pieces such as bowls and vases can take up to 50 hours as they need to be fired for a second time. His early work takes inspiration from the work of Antoni Gaudi as well as his trips to South Devon which are seen in his nature inspired pieces. Callum also tends to use a range of different coloured transparent glass as when the sun hits the glass it brings the colours out and creates an effect on the surface the piece is sitting on. 

Callum completed a Foundation Year course for Art, Media and Design in 2023 at Durham Sixth Form Centre. During his Foundation Year, Callum focused his studies on experimental glass and ceramics. This was when he learnt most of his skills and techniques with glass. He also developed much of his ceramics practice and throwing skills with the help of the Centre’s Durham University placement student.

After a gap year to do further experimentation with glass, Callum became Emerging Artist in Residence at Durham Sixth Form Centre where he spent the school year between 2024 and 2025, developing a new body of work. Callum also provided glass and ceramics workshops as well as delivering community classes to the public at the Dead Dog Gallery. 

Callum collaborated with another artist during his residency, who focused on the human form and after visiting the Victoria and Albert Museum and doing his own research into the Classical Art movement (Ancient Greece) as well as Greek mythology; he became inspired by the human body and started to do drawings of sculptures and busts created by sculptors like Polykleitos and Praxiteles. Callum soon started to produce plaster of paris casts of busts, faces and other human forms and features; he then started to use the moulds to create glass pieces. Callum’s glass work now involves merging his early nature inspired work and his bright colours with the human form.