Ross M Brown
- Work
- Biography
Ross’ work channels the experience of urban space through the medium and history of painting. Visiting overlooked spaces, Brown foregrounds locations where the orderliness of the built environment is subverted; places where architecture and nature overlap and the regularity of the urban environment is challenged.
The artist engages with these transitory locations through the use of a painting process which pits rigidly constructed perspective against a variety of chance-based painting processes. Layering poured, smeared and dripped paint alongside more measured responses to the photographic subject matter, Brown constructs images which are a palimpsest of controlled and chaotic marks; mirroring the timeworn and fragmentary nature of his subject matter.
Brown’s work intends to depict the built landscape in a state of constant transition, as processes of construction and destruction interact over time, changing the urban fabric.
The artist engages with these transitory locations through the use of a painting process which pits rigidly constructed perspective against a variety of chance-based painting processes. Layering poured, smeared and dripped paint alongside more measured responses to the photographic subject matter, Brown constructs images which are a palimpsest of controlled and chaotic marks; mirroring the timeworn and fragmentary nature of his subject matter.
Brown’s work intends to depict the built landscape in a state of constant transition, as processes of construction and destruction interact over time, changing the urban fabric.
Born 1986
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee First Class BA Hons Fine Art 2004 - 2008
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
Master of Fine Art with distinction 2009 - 2010
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Selected Exhibitions
Terra Incognita (Solo Show), Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh. 6th to the 17th of July 2017
Concrete Myths (Solo Show), Lacey Contemporary Gallery, London. 17th of June to the 4th of July 2015
Demimonde curated by Slate Projects, Amberwood House, London. 10th to the 18th of January 2015
Processed Space, Lacey Contemporary Gallery, London. 9th October to 2nd November 2014
Art13 with EB&Flow Gallery, Olympia, London. 1-3rd of March 2013
Griffin Art Prize, Griffin Gallery, London. 8th to 30th of November 2012
The Margins (Solo Show), EB & Flow Gallery, London. December 2nd 2011 to 3rd February 2012
Since Tomorrow, EB&Flow Gallery, Leonard Street, London. April - May 2011
Saatchi New Sensations/House of the Nobleman (curated by Wolfe von Lenkiewicz), Boswall House, London. October 2010
Masters Show, Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee. September 2010
RSA Annual Exhibition 2010 (invited artist), Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. May 2010
RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. February 2009
A Moskvitch in Havana, Tallinn Art Academy, Estonia. October 2008
Trans-Local Motion, Shanghai Biennial Student's Exhibition, China. September 2008
Deconstructure, Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee. February 2008
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Awards, prizes, residencies:
Creative Scotland Professional Development Award 2013
Dewar Arts Award 2013
Nominated for Griffin Art Prize 2012
Shortlisted for Jonathan Vickers award 2012
Shortlisted for the Abbey Scholarship at the British School in Rome 2012
Arts Trust for Scotland Award 2011
Dundee Visual Arts Award 2011
Nominated for Saatchi/Channel 4 New Sensations 2010
N.S Macfarlane Charitable Trust Award at RSA Annual Exhibition 2010
Pittenweem Arts Festival Bursary Award 2010
Rendezvous Gallery/Linda
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee First Class BA Hons Fine Art 2004 - 2008
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
Master of Fine Art with distinction 2009 - 2010
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Selected Exhibitions
Terra Incognita (Solo Show), Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh. 6th to the 17th of July 2017
Concrete Myths (Solo Show), Lacey Contemporary Gallery, London. 17th of June to the 4th of July 2015
Demimonde curated by Slate Projects, Amberwood House, London. 10th to the 18th of January 2015
Processed Space, Lacey Contemporary Gallery, London. 9th October to 2nd November 2014
Art13 with EB&Flow Gallery, Olympia, London. 1-3rd of March 2013
Griffin Art Prize, Griffin Gallery, London. 8th to 30th of November 2012
The Margins (Solo Show), EB & Flow Gallery, London. December 2nd 2011 to 3rd February 2012
Since Tomorrow, EB&Flow Gallery, Leonard Street, London. April - May 2011
Saatchi New Sensations/House of the Nobleman (curated by Wolfe von Lenkiewicz), Boswall House, London. October 2010
Masters Show, Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee. September 2010
RSA Annual Exhibition 2010 (invited artist), Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. May 2010
RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. February 2009
A Moskvitch in Havana, Tallinn Art Academy, Estonia. October 2008
Trans-Local Motion, Shanghai Biennial Student's Exhibition, China. September 2008
Deconstructure, Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee. February 2008
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Awards, prizes, residencies:
Creative Scotland Professional Development Award 2013
Dewar Arts Award 2013
Nominated for Griffin Art Prize 2012
Shortlisted for Jonathan Vickers award 2012
Shortlisted for the Abbey Scholarship at the British School in Rome 2012
Arts Trust for Scotland Award 2011
Dundee Visual Arts Award 2011
Nominated for Saatchi/Channel 4 New Sensations 2010
N.S Macfarlane Charitable Trust Award at RSA Annual Exhibition 2010
Pittenweem Arts Festival Bursary Award 2010
Rendezvous Gallery/Linda
- Ross M Brown
- Drift - 130 x 170 cm - Oil on canvas
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- Merge - 145 x 115 cm - Oil on canvas
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- Ross M Brown
- Stray - 160 x 130 cm - Oil on canvas over panel
- Painting
- Ross M Brown
- Wilderness - 145 x 120 cm - Oil on canvas
- Painting
- Ross M Brown
- Monologue - 130 x 170 cm - Oil on canvas
- Painting
- Ross M Brown
- Billboard Painting - 95 x 120 cm - Oil on canvas
- Painting
- Ross M Brown
- Billboard Painting (United Wire) - 120 x 150 cm - Oil, Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
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- Ross M Brown
- Sign with Hand Print - 51 x 71 cm - Oil, acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
- Painting
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