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Ross M

Brown

Disciplines: Painting

Materials: Acrylic, Oil
My new work engages with the language of visionary architecture—those ambitious, often unrealised structures that occupy the space between utopia and ruin. Through painting, I construct imagined forms that echo both abandoned modernist proposals and speculative models for an impossible future. Works such as Fabrication (Pink), Fabrication (Yellow), and Maquette 3 operate like architectural maquettes: compact, autonomous structures presented for consideration. These are not blueprints for inhabitable space, but painted proposals—visual studies in the aesthetics of mass, material, and modularity. They borrow from the logic of Brutalism and paper architecture, yet remain unbuilt and unbuildable. By combining illusionistic textures—rendered wood grain, formica, concrete—with hard-edged geometric compositions, the paintings mimic the materials of construction while denying physical presence. The resulting forms feel monumental yet weightless, rational yet psychologically charged. I’m interested in the afterlife of architecture—how idealised forms persist, fragment, or distort over time. Through the act of painting, I reassemble these fragments into new propositions: part monument, part failure, part dream.

Previous Experience

Visual Arts Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. 6th of December 2025 to the 2nd of January 2026 Summerhall Annual Group Exhibition, Summerhall, Edinburgh. 26th July to the 21st Sep, 2025 Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. 23rd of November to 11th of December 2024 Scottish Landscape Awards, City Art Centre, Edinburgh. 4th of November 2023 to 3rd of March 2024 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

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