Nick Ross explores the relationship between ‘fictional history’ and how it shapes our understanding of culture, identity and nationhood. Since living in Sweden, Ross has increasingly become interested in looking at how cultural icons and particular materials, shape our reading of a particular place or landscape. Ross is interested in investigating facts and happenings that have determined specific cultural balances. Every project comes from the desire to bridge the past to the contemporary.
Nick Ross is a Scottish-Swedish designer based in Stockholm. He studied Product Design at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, graduating in 2008. After working in the Netherlands, he moved to Stockholm in 2011 where he continued his studies at Konstfack (University College of Arts, Crafts and Design), graduating with an MA in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design in 2013. In 2017 Ross was commissioned to create a work for Marischal College, Aberdeen as part of its Look Again festival. The Doric Boule consisted of an arrangement of benches made in granite sourced from numerous locations around the world.
