Calum was born in 1987 and graduated in Drawing and Painting from Edinburgh College of Art in 2010. He was the winner of the 2011 Jolomo Painting Award and won a prize at the inaugural W Gordon Smith Award for painting. He continues to exhibit with The Scottish Gallery and was an invited artist at the annual Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London in 2012. More recently he has been included in an exhibition of prints at the Royal Academy, London; had work in the major Scottish art societies' annual exhibitions; along with having other work selected for the RA Summer Exhibition; most recently he has exhibited with Candida Stevens Gallery, Chichester and shown two pieces with Flowers Gallery, London in their annual winter exhibition of small scale work.