Callum Docherty (b.1981, Gosford, Australia) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, freelance curator and arts administrator currently based in Tarntanya/Adelaide, South Australia.
Working primarily on Kaurna Country, his creative practice spans installation, photography, moving image and site-specific interventions.
During 2022/2023 Callum undertook the Artist in Residence program at Sauerbier House culture exchange in Port Noarlunga and the Guildhouse ART WORKS Artist in Residence at the City of Adelaide ArtPOD, with both projects culminating in solo exhibitions on-site at both locations.
Callum was awarded Major Prize Winner of the 2019 Gallery M Open Contemporary Art Prize for his work ‘Intermission‘. His work has also been shortlisted in various national prizes including the 2025 13th Prospect Portrait Prize and the 2017 Tatiara Art Prize. Since moving to Tarntanya/Adelaide in 2017, Callum has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions, along with participating in major arts festivals including the Adelaide Fringe, SALA and South Australia’s History Festival. In 2026 Callum’s solo exhibition: SITE SEEING SITE was the winner of an Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award for Best of Visual Arts and Design, presented by Visualcom.
Callum’s work is held in public collections including the Hahndorf Academy’s Museum Collection and various private collections across Australia.
“Guiding Docherty’s practice is a keen sense of observation. Alert to place and attuned to animate and inanimate forces, he is interested in the intersection of culture and nature. The artist’s porousness, a heightened sensitivity, is offset by clearly established parameters of engagement that frame his methodology.” — Anna Zagala, Creative Director, Sweetpolka
