COVER IMAGE: Pool House (entrance)

Oil on Canvas, 90x120cm, 2014

8 Clarendon Cross | W11 4APlaceycontemporarygallery.co.uk

ROSS M  BROWN lives and works in Edinburgh. He studied on the BA Fine Art and MFA courses

at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, and has continued his artistic practice since graduating in 2010.

Ross' work channels the experience of architectural space through the history and process of painting.

Derelict structures form the basis of his work - abandoned spaces that merge with nature. Buildings that melt back into

the land, blurring the boundaries between man-made and nature. Buildings that echo a now dissolved past. The empty

corridors and walls that once held so much are now a mere husk, slowly crumbling back into the earth. In making these

works Ross is pursuing his fascination with the utopian desires of modernism, and how this ideal contrasts to the current

status of modern buildings that have fallen out of official usage.

His working process begins with a rigid perspective drawing as the initial framework. During the painting process, Ross

describes - ”I use a number of chance based processes, such as poured, smeared or dripped paint alongside more carefully

considered passages of painting. The finished pieces often become heavily layered, a mixture of chance-led marks that

overlap and intersect with more carefully rendered sections.”

Ross would like to thank Creative Scotland and the Dewar Arts Award for recent funding towards his practice.

St  Peters  Seminary- Form  in  Flux

“...chaotic processes are layered alongside more considered painterly responses, mirroring the

fragile equilibrium of architecture and nature within the site.”

- Ross M Brown

This earlier series of work includes paintings created between 2010 and 2012. It examines the history of St

Peter's Seminary in Cardross. Built in the 1960's by the renowned architectural firm Gillespie, Kidd and Coia,

the building received many accolades including a major award from the Royal Institue of British Architects.

Constructed under a Modernist template (making particular reference to Le Corbusier's cathedral at

Ronchamp), the building embodied a sense of idealism that was both architectural and religious.

Wilderness, Night

Oil on Canvas, 60x80cm, 2010, £2500

Merge

Oil on Canvas, 145x115cm,

2011, SOLD

Ether

Oil on Canvas, 122x178cm, 2012, £6000

This body of work relates to the history of the former US Listening Station at Teufelsberg in Berlin where

the artist travelled in Spring 2011.

The Listening Station was built during the Cold War by the NSA as a means of intercepting radio transmis-

sions from the East, however the site has lain vacant since the fall of the Berlin wall. Teufelsberg has become

an impromptu venue nurturing the growth of certain subcultures who seek such unregulated sites as a way

of escaping the regularity of more commonly frequented urban spaces.

“...my interest is in the aesthetic experience of these spaces; the weathered patinas, intermingling

of architectural structure and organic matter, damp stains formed on walls and ceilings, all

manner of blemishes and gatherings of material that are readily reproducible in oil paint.”

Teufelsberg - The  Margins

Hollows

Oil on canvas over panel, 122 x 152 cm - 2013, £6000

The Hacienda

Oil on Canvas, 150 x 120 cm, 2011

£6000

Sway

Oil on Canvas, 120x150cm, 2011

£6000

Downtime

Oil on Canvas, 150 x 200 cm, 2014, £8000

The series is made in response to the artists most recent trip to Croatia where he visited an abandoned

1970s luxury hotel. The Haludovo Hotel resort on Krk Island, Croatia, was designed by Modern-era

architect Boris Magas.

“When exploring this space I was visually drawn to contrasts between the stark geometric forms

of the structure and how these intermingled with graffiti adorning the walls, smashed up debris

and overgrowing plant-life.”

The Haludovo Hotel series represents Ross M Brown’s most recent work, and draws attention to how the

viewer perceives, interacts with, and appraises the built environment around them.

Haludovo   Hotel

Pavilion (Interior)

Oil, oil stick and spray

paint on board

122x122cm, 2014

£5000

Pool House (entrance)

Oil on Canvas, 90x120cm, 2014

£3000

Pool House (Slow Tide)

Oil on Canvas, 150 x 200cm, 2014

£8000

Pavilion

Oil on Canvas,51x66cm, 2014

£1500

ROSS M  BROWN    |    CVBorn 1986

Currently Living and Working from Edinburgh

EDUCATION:

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee:

2009 -2010 Master of Fine Art with Distinction

2004 – 2008 First Class BA (Hons) Fine Art

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2013 Art 13 with EB&Flow Gallery, Olympia Grand Hall, London.

2012 Griffin Art Prize, Griffin Gallery, London.

2012 Works on Paper, EB & Flow Gallery, London

2011 The Margins (Solo Exhibition), EB & Flow Gallery, London

2011 Since Tomorrow, EB & Flow Gallery, London

2010 Saatchi Gallery/Channel 4 New Sensations at the “House of the

Nobleman” (Curated by Wolfe Von Lenkiewicz), Regents Park, London

2010 RSA Annual Exhibition 2010 (invited artist), Royal Scottish Acad-

emy, Edinburgh

2009 RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2008 A Moskvitch in Havana, Tallinn Art Academy, Estonia

2008 Trans-Local Motion, Shanghai Biennial, China

2008 RSA Students Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

AWARDS, PRIZES & RESIDENCIES:

Finalist for the Griffin Art Prize 2012

Shortlisted for the Abbey Scholarship at the British School in Rome 2012

Arts Trust for Scotland Award 2011

Dundee Visual Arts Award 2011

Featured in the Catlin Art Guide 2011

Nominated for Saatchi Gallery/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 Clark Nolan Landscape award at the RSA Stu-

dent Exhibition 2008

Residency on the Isle of Lewis in conjunction with the above award, Sum-

mer 2008

PUBLICATIONS:

Griffin Art Prize 2012, Booklet, Griffin Gallery, 2012

The Margins, Catalogue, EB&Flow Gallery, 2012

The Catlin Guide 2011 – New Artists in the UK, Book edited by Justin Ham-

mond/published by Catlin Holdings Ltd, 2011

Saatchi New Sensations 2010, Booklet, Saatchi Gallery, 2010

RSA Annual Exhibition 2010, Catalogue, Royal Scottish Academy, 2010

RSA New Contemporaries 2009, Catalogue, Royal Scottish Academy, 2009