| Profile: | Ross Birrell
Ross is an artist and writer who teaches part-time at Glasgow School of Art. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin, London, Amsterdam, Paris and New York. In 1999 he won the prize commission "Absolut Open: New Art in Scotland 1999-2000", (Inverleith House, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh). In 2000 he was awarded a Scotland's Year of the Artist Award. In 2001 he was invited to undertake a NIFCA Network North Residency in Soumenlinna, Helsinki and was nominated for the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award. In 2002 he was selected and commissioned to make new work for the fourth Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea.
He has published essays on Marcel Duchamp and Antonin Artaud, Gustav Mtezger (MoMA, Oxford), Kenny Hunter and Santiago Sierra and with Alec Finlay is co-editor of "Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counterculture, 1960-2000" (Pocketbooks, Edinburgh, 2002).
He is represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam. |
