Heather Ross | 14 inches, 2020
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 35.6 x 30.5 x 5 cm
Image Dimensions:
Unique Work
Installation
Ross has a multi-disciplinary practice, working as a solo artist and as part of the collaborative duo 'Artist A & Artist B' (with Jackie Haynes). She often explore past, historical and archival material which is then edited and re-worked using methods such as re-construction and re-enactment. She create scenarios through which details of her subjects can be scrutinized and unpacked, often seeking to generate a more embodied experience with a distanced subject, to reveal the source of her initial curiosity and its material, conceptual and social resonance. Ross is drawn in by the potential of fragmented, incomplete and overlooked material and seeks new narratives and forms through which her subjects can be re-imagined. Past projects have involved citing the collaborations of Raoul Hausmann and Kurt Schwitters; exploring the Hatton Gallery's archive relating to the movement of Kurt Schwitters' Merz Barn Wall; reworking materials from the Manx Museum and Imperial War Museum archives and making visible the forgotten archive of Cumbrian based printmaker, Gwyneth Alban Davis. Recent commissions include the creation of a public picnic, performance, installation and film for British Textile Biennial 2023; 'Women in Print' residency at Artlab Contemporary Print (Preston) (2022) and three solo exhibitions in the Hatton Gallery (Newcastle) between 2017-2020, that were in dialogue with Kurt Schwitters' Merz Barn Wall. In 2023, she completed a practice based PhD from Newcastle University entitled 'Investigating Kurt Schwitters' Merz Barn Wall as a Living Fragment' and received a research grant from the Paul Mellon Centre (London) to visit the archive of the late avant garde artist/publisher Stefan Themerson.
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 35.6 x 30.5 x 5 cm
Image Dimensions:
Unique Work
Installation
Ross has a multi-disciplinary practice, working as a solo artist and as part of the collaborative duo 'Artist A & Artist B' (with Jackie Haynes). She often explore past, historical and archival material which is then edited and re-worked using methods such as re-construction and re-enactment. She create scenarios through which details of her subjects can be scrutinized and unpacked, often seeking to generate a more embodied experience with a distanced subject, to reveal the source of her initial curiosity and its material, conceptual and social resonance. Ross is drawn in by the potential of fragmented, incomplete and overlooked material and seeks new narratives and forms through which her subjects can be re-imagined. Past projects have involved citing the collaborations of Raoul Hausmann and Kurt Schwitters; exploring the Hatton Gallery's archive relating to the movement of Kurt Schwitters' Merz Barn Wall; reworking materials from the Manx Museum and Imperial War Museum archives and making visible the forgotten archive of Cumbrian based printmaker, Gwyneth Alban Davis. Recent commissions include the creation of a public picnic, performance, installation and film for British Textile Biennial 2023; 'Women in Print' residency at Artlab Contemporary Print (Preston) (2022) and three solo exhibitions in the Hatton Gallery (Newcastle) between 2017-2020, that were in dialogue with Kurt Schwitters' Merz Barn Wall. In 2023, she completed a practice based PhD from Newcastle University entitled 'Investigating Kurt Schwitters' Merz Barn Wall as a Living Fragment' and received a research grant from the Paul Mellon Centre (London) to visit the archive of the late avant garde artist/publisher Stefan Themerson.
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 35.6 x 30.5 x 5 cm
Image Dimensions:
Unique Work
Installation
Ross has a multi-disciplinary practice, working as a solo artist and as part of the collaborative duo 'Artist A & Artist B' (with Jackie Haynes). She often explore past, historical and archival material which is then edited and re-worked using methods such as re-construction and re-enactment. She create scenarios through which details of her subjects can be scrutinized and unpacked, often seeking to generate a more embodied experience with a distanced subject, to reveal the source of her initial curiosity and its material, conceptual and social resonance. Ross is drawn in by the potential of fragmented, incomplete and overlooked material and seeks new narratives and forms through which her subjects can be re-imagined. Past projects have involved citing the collaborations of Raoul Hausmann and Kurt Schwitters; exploring the Hatton Gallery's archive relating to the movement of Kurt Schwitters' Merz Barn Wall; reworking materials from the Manx Museum and Imperial War Museum archives and making visible the forgotten archive of Cumbrian based printmaker, Gwyneth Alban Davis. Recent commissions include the creation of a public picnic, performance, installation and film for British Textile Biennial 2023; 'Women in Print' residency at Artlab Contemporary Print (Preston) (2022) and three solo exhibitions in the Hatton Gallery (Newcastle) between 2017-2020, that were in dialogue with Kurt Schwitters' Merz Barn Wall. In 2023, she completed a practice based PhD from Newcastle University entitled 'Investigating Kurt Schwitters' Merz Barn Wall as a Living Fragment' and received a research grant from the Paul Mellon Centre (London) to visit the archive of the late avant garde artist/publisher Stefan Themerson.
