Ross M Brown
(26 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: Dundee)
Duncan Of Jordanstone
Current MFA student at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. (2009 -10)
My work investigates the experience of urban space in parallel to an exploration of the technical aspects of pictorial construction. Relating to the flux of construction and destruction that governs architecture, subject matter is drawn from ambiguous spaces where boundaries between civilisation and nature, order and disorder, past and present ...[more]
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Work of art I would like to make
I intend to make a new large scale work (183 x 160 cm) which furthers my interest in parallel territories between urban and pictorial space. Expanding on my interest in the Sittuationist's desire to "re-read" the city, I'll again use the wasteland as a subject for this new work.
The initial stage in the construction of this painting will involve the careful rendering of a puddle which will fill most of the composition (working from photographs). Elements of scrub land and cracked concrete will be visible in poured painted patches at the edges of this pool. Onto this carefully composed backdrop I will quickly apply a network of intuitively placed abstract marks, aggresively disturbing the initial surface.
This network will then be broken up by a number of hard edged shapes woven through the painted tangle, giving the area of floating abstraction an absurd sense of realistic depth. These hard edged shapes will resemble a series of geometric boxes, a city grid or perhaps a set of discarded Modernist models.
Finally, reflection of both the abstract marks and the geometric shapes will then be painted into the surface of the water.
Continuing previously examined themes, I intend to elaborate on these peripheral urban sites as spaces whose abandonment and subsequent loss of utility provides a backdrop onto which new connections, uses and meanings may be projected. Appropriating and juxtaposing disparate painted languages from the history of art, the constructed image should reflect the nature of our built environment as something of a "ruin in reverse". |
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My Artworks (6)
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