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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