Press
The Sunday Times, 23/05/2010The Herald - Arts Supplement 08/05/2010
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"...While Livingstone's paintings were deeply intuitive, those of Duncan of Jordanstone graduate Ross Brown were of a far more conceptual nature. His romantic landscapes of derelict urban wastelands were cut through with scratchy graffiti-like markings, leaving clear only their cool reflections in puddles of water. Loch House, an unpeopled building site, was a mass of interconnecting timbers, all pointing towards a blank end wall that refused to become a point of focus. There was plenty food for thought in these paintings, but also a poised and unexpected beauty."
RSA New Contemporaries review, 'an' magazine, April 2009
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"...Ross Brown graduated with a first class honours from Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art last year. He received the Linda Clark Nolan/Rendezvous Gallery Landscape Award at the last ever RSA student exhibition in 2008. As part of that prize, he took up a residency on the Isle of Lewis last summer. Brown's work for his degree show focused on landscape which is littered with wasteland and abandoned structures: “The wasteland is used within my work as a vehicle reflecting the difficulty associated with establishing a sense of place within a landscape that is in a constant state of flux”. Brown's paintings are almost filmic in their perspective, conjuring up a dystopian fragile beauty.”
- 'Homes and Interiors Scotland' magazine Jan/Feb 2009
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Degree Show Review - The Scotsman
Degree Show Review - The Herald