Ross Mc Nicol - Life and Work

Life and Work

Ross McNicol assisted photographers from the age of 16.

He graduated from King's College London in 2002 after studying Philosophy and became a photographer and school teacher in Paris.

McNicol's first group exhibition was in 2005 in Lyon, France, invited by Richard Wentworth as part of a project with the Ruskin School, Oxford University.

In 2005 he made a series of work photographed in Lithuania where he developed his current formal style.

The economy of his palette allies serenity with foreboding and as each of his scenes carries the weight of the unknown or the about-to-happen, they are lent a cinematic quality to their composure that seems all but interrupted.

In 2007 he founded The Wallis Gallery, an artist-led project space, in Hackney Wick, London with Edward Fornieles and Vanessa Carlos. With The Wallis Gallery, he curates exhibitions of other young artists and runs a nomadic performance evening, Making Mistakes

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