MacCallum is the home of artist John MacCallum’s work of both fine art and fine woodworking. John MacCallum is a St. John’s-based artist whose work explores the raw, tactile language of material and form. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (MFA) and the North Bennet Street School in Boston, MacCallum’s practice merges traditional craftsmanship with a sculptor’s instinct for texture and space.

“My practice moves across painting, sculpture, video, drawing, installation, and woodworking. Each medium offers a different way to approach the ideas that drive my work—ideas grounded in history, memory, materiality, and place. What began in painting and evolved through sculpture has developed into an interdisciplinary approach that reflects the layered nature of the subjects I explore.

I am fascinated by how different mediums can work together to form a multilayered work of art. Just as architecture, craft, and visual art once combined to communicate complex ideas in shared spaces, I aim to create contemporary works in which material, form, and concept operate together—where no single element stands alone.

Woodworking plays a central role in this approach. With formal training in traditional furniture and cabinetmaking, I use wood not only as structure, but as a material rich with cultural, emotional, and narrative resonance. Domestic forms often appear in my work to evoke care, continuity, and lived experience.

Underlying all of this is an interest in how viewers respond to form—sometimes viscerally, even before language or interpretation. I am drawn to the possibility that certain materials and visual structures may elicit shared or instinctive responses, shaped by collective memory or embodied experience. My goal is not to dictate meaning, but to build layered, responsive works that invite recognition and reflection—works that speak across mediums, and across time.”