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Heather Ross
Heather Ross was born in Glasgow in 1983. She has recently graduated from Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen 2001-2005, achieving a first class Honours degree. After this, she was further awarded the John Kinross Scholarship, by the Royal Scottish Academy, which allowed her to spend the summer of 2005 in Florence, studying and painting. Since then, Heather has spent time as Artist in Residence at Her Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen. Heather also teaches painting at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen.
The starting point of Heather's paintings is usually an emotion, which is then given to a cast of characters, objects and settings. She builds these up into richly layered and complex scenes. Her work, in our view, is some of the most exciting coming out of art schools today.
In 2005, she won the Painting Prize and Maclean Waters Medal, and the Meyer Oppenheim Award, both at the Royal Scottish Academy. In 2006 and 2007, Heather also won the Guthrie Award and Guthrie Medal, and most recently, the RGI Armour Award. Her work has been exhibited in London and Scotland and is in public, private and corporate collections, including Linklaters, London.
Heather Ross has been exhibiting with Thackeray Gallery since 2005.
