Sally Ross, Recent Paintings

Sally Ross’ delicate, awkward and highly detailed paintings of photographs explore and exploit a diverse range of photographic sources and representations of the natural world. Ross’ obsessive technique transforms her photographic subjects with a dense, intricate concentration of detail - her paintings’ surfaces are covered in a retinal blur of thousands of minute brushstrokes, more graphic than painterly in style. Unashamedly fascinated by pictorial tradition and convention, Ross’ artistic influences range from early Flemish painting to Francis Picabia, but the core of her practise feeds on the images the artist gleans from old, often pseudo educational publications or digital photo archives. Ross’ pictures transcend their almost nostalgic point of departure to produce an unusual inter