Clare Ross, Photographer

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1 Clare Ross, Photographer Dandelion in Disorder 1/20 Dandelion Drop 1/20 Photographs on Hahnemuhle fine art paper 44.5 x 38.5 $2400. each Elegy of an Anemone 2/20 40 x 30 $2800. Bloom Pop 1/20 32 x 24 $1800.

2 Wild Winter Grapes 2/20 28 x 20 $1400. Remains 1/20 32 x 24 $1400. Hollyhocks hanging On 1/20 20 x 16 $1400.

3 Graffitti Train x 36 $950. Graffitti Train Peace 3/20 20 x 30 $450. Train Wreck HST 2/20 20 x 30 $450.

4 Train Wreck Blues 1/20 30 x 20 $450.

5 Artist Statement Clare Ross Conversations With Nature I am currently working on a series titled Conversations with Nature, focussing on our environment and the way it is responding to the impact of human activity. For this series, I have allowed plants to fall apart and I have tried to put them back together, with no adhesives, by hand in my studio. As I work with the fruit, stem, seeds or seed pods, the plants seem to decide what they will and won t do, sculptural forms are created and they act like visual messages about the struggle for balance and health in a world increasingly stressed by human activity. As I move between the plant and the camera, and gravity and air flow add to the pressure on the plant, the sculptural forms and the messages continue to change and evolve like a conversation. Nothing is static except the photographs, which are all that remain of our precious and beautiful conversation. This series has been well received, with pieces accepted into juried shows and Elegy of an Anemone winning a coveted Juror s Award at the Latcham Gallery Open Juried Exhibition This work on this series is ongoing. Graffiti Train The second series displayed here is Graffiti Train, a short-term project that shows the aftermath of a train that has crashed into the woods. What is particularly interesting here is that the collision seems to continue as time goes on. The train crash occurred more than 30 years ago and since that first collision between man and nature, both continue to act on each other. People continue to come into the woods and add paint and scrape away natural growth for their own activities and nature continues to grow around and over most of what people do. People paint over nature and even over each other s work, and nature does the same in endless layers. This series has received popular acclaim, being a favourite for family rooms and teenage bedrooms!

6 Clare Ross O.S.A. Fine Art Photographer Curriculum Vitae and Artist s Statement Education 1993 M.A. Hons. summa cum laude McMaster University 1998 B.Ed. OISE, University of Toronto 2005 Diploma of Graphic Design New England Institute of Art Select Shows 2008 Solo Show "Rush" Chivers, London, UK 2010 Group Show Jeremy Workshop, Kleinburg, Ontario 2013 OSA Group Show at Todmorden Mills, Toronto 2015 Solo Show "Surfaces" at the Orchard Gallery, King City 2015 OSA New Members Show at the Aird Gallery, Toronto 2016 Juniper Island Art Show, Ontario 2016 SCA Annual Online Juried Open Exhibition 2017 OSA 144 th Open Juried Exhibition, Aird Gallery, Toronto 2017 Art Square Gallery, Toronto 2017 Juniper Island Art Show, Ontario 2018 RED IMPULSE at Propeller Gallery, Toronto 2018 Latcham Gallery Open Juried Exhibition 2018 Towers to Trees, Toronto 2018 OSA Open Juried Exhibition, Aird Gallery, Toronto 2018 Solo Show at Musique à Marsac music festival, France OSA Member s Exhibition of Selected Works, Toronto Permanent Collections Sun Life Canada (a series of 8 pieces in a study of Georgian Bay Landscape) Private Collections in Scotland, England, Spain, France and Canada (varied) Publications & Awards 2018 Jurors Award, Latcham Gallery Open Juried Exhibition 2016 Honourable Mention, Society of Canadian Artists Annual Online Juried Open Exhibition 2012 Featured Artist in MOSAiC, arts community magazine in King (focus on winter) Membership 2013 Juried acceptance into membership with the Ontario Society of Artists Currently Serving as President, Ontario Society of Artists