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Heather Ross

Lecturer in Fine Art

School of Arts and Media

Heather is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD which focusses on the German artist, Kurt Schwitters with specific focus on his final ‘Merzbau’, The Merz Barn and on his years in exile in England (1941-48). She is working closely with the Hatton Gallery, concentrating on their archive, relating to the movement of Schwitters’ Merz Barn Wall from Elterwater to the Hatton Gallery in 1965. Heather’s most recent project entitled ‘The Losses’ employs Schwitters’ ‘Merz’ philosophy to consider how archival fragments may be re-constructed or reformed to offer new readings of his Merz Barn Wall, situated in the Hatton Gallery. In addition, how the language of conservation, restoration and archival study – as constantly evolving activities – form part of the viewer’s experience of engaging wmore...

Qualifications: PhD Time Past Contained in Time Present: Investigating Schwitters’ Merz Barn Wall as a Living Fragment, University of Newcastle. 2017-Present MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London. Award: Distinction, 2013. PGHELT (Postgraduate Higher Education Teaching and Learning), The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, 2010. BA(hons) Degree in Fine Art, Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, The Robert Gordon University. Award: First Class, 2005.

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  1. Ross, Heather orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-1306-8683 (2017) A Bird In The Head. [Show/Exhibition]
  2. Ross, Heather orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-1306-8683 and Hornby, Lukas (2017) All The Better To See You With: Making Visible The Archive of Gwyneth Alban Davis. [Artefact]
  3. Ross, Heather orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-1306-8683 (2017) All The Better To Hear You With. [Artefact]
  4. Ross, Heather orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-1306-8683 (2016) Film/Sound/Performance. [Image]
  5. Alker, David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6504-2381, Atkinson, Craig orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-2582-9048, Broadey, Andrew orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2916-0115, Bull, Lindsay, Lucas, Victoria orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-3745-9475, Mackintosh, David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-6737-3413, Mcdonald, Andrew orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-9689-2565, Parkinson, Mark Edmund orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-8868-8564, Rendle, Maeve orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-6038-884X et al (2017) Hire - Hanover Project Research Group Inaugural Exhibition. [Show/Exhibition]
  6. Ross, Heather orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-1306-8683 (2017) Post Truth film screening. In: Visibility Conference 2017, 31/03/17, Sheffield Hallam University.
  7. Ross, Heather orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-1306-8683 (2016) 'One Minute' Volumes 9. [Show/Exhibition]
  8. Ross, Heather orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-1306-8683 (2017) All The Better to Hear You With...My Dear Gwyneth. In: Merz North 4, 22/03/17, The University of York. (Unpublished)
  9. Knowles, Tim, Ross, Heather orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-1306-8683 and Mullender, Rob (2016) Works For Air. [Show/Exhibition]
  10. Ross, Heather orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-1306-8683 (2016) All the better to hear you with... my dear, Gwyneth [KS16 MerzHerbst Guest Lecture]. In: Merz Herbst Guest Lecture, 08/10/16, Merz Barn, Cumbria.