Marie-Thérèse Ross explores the hidden workings of the mind, focusing on states of physical, emotional & psychological transformation. Her work appears humorous as well as darkly subversive, as she seems to hide herself in plain sight. She seeks to both reveal and hide awkward personal experiences, episodes that reflect on her own sense of vulnerability and mortality. She creates installations that focus on domestic interiors with anthropomorphic furniture and trapped giant black birds. By focusing on the personal interior versus the outside world, Ross grapples with themes and ideas that include feminism, mortality, the body, and the human condition.
Her sculptures are made of a combination of laminated wood parts. Using found objects which are integrated and sublimated into the works with carved and painted up-cycled wood and off cuts, colour adds another layer of expression and meaning to the whole. Her work might hang on the wall, lean, hang from the ceiling or sit between wall and floor, and move completely into the physical space of the viewer.
Marie-Thérèse Ross MRSS is a member of The Royal Society of Sculptors. She is an Art Gemini Prize winner (2021). Ross was awarded a First-Class BA hons in painting from Loughborough College of Art and Design. She went onto to study sculpture in Germany for a year at Karlsruhe Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste with the British sculptor Michael Sandle RA. She studied sculpture for her MA at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA.
