Scottish visual artist Calder MacKay, graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, with a first-class degree in Fine Art. Since then, he has been selected for many prestigious exhibitions and awards. One of which being the Royal Scottish Academy's New Contemporaries Exhibition 2025. Also winning the Boom Graduates Publication award 2024, in which his dissertation titled," 'No man’s land’ - 21st Century Masculinity in Scotland” will be published as an independent piece of research. Winning the RSA David Michie Travel Award 2024, funded Calder to travel to Budapest for a series of months to research how the older generation of the city find a sense of community in healthier environments in comparison to his home nation of Scotland.

Calder's work is primarily based in the mediums of painting and printmaking. Working at scale, he creates larger than life figurative oil paintings. The topic of masculinity and men in a general sense is one of the main overarching themes of his painting practice in recent years. His last body of work lied in examining relationships between men and woman and how societal constructs of masculinity can influence how we view such relationships. By interweaving family histories, he attempted to deconstruct his own experiences of generational masculinity.