Frame Rocker, 2020

<p>Angus Ross transforms trees into elegant furniture. He is best known as a designer and maker of exquisite, sculptural furniture with a sense of movement and flow. He has been innovating with wood for almost thirty years and remains curious about the possibilities of our local timber. As a maker, Angus draws on wood-work traditions from across the globe and combines ancient steam-bending of green wood with traditional cabinet-making and contemporary digital cutting to develop the craft of woodwork.</p> <p>Angus was born in Edinburgh in 1963, but grew up near Inverness. He returned to Edinburgh to study and graduated from Napier University in 1985. He then moved to London where many of his designs were mass produced for brands such as Mothercare and Glaxo Smith Kline. After becoming disillusioned designing mass manufactured plastic products, and wanting to use his hands to make low volume, highly valued furniture and objects in wood, he retrained in practical furniture making at Rycotewood College, Oxfordshire graduating in 1992.</p> <p>Public collections include: V&A Dundee, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery</p> <p>Awards include: Walpole Crafted, Scottish Arts Council, Arts and Business Award and nominated four times for TRADA Wood Awards best bespoke furniture design.</p> <p><strong>Angus exhibited in our Wood exhibition, April 2019 and <em><a href="{entry:421546@1:url}">In the Grain</a></em>, April 2021. <strong><strong><strong><strong>Angus is part of our current group exhibition,<a href="{entry:421546@1:url}"> <em>In the Grain</em></a><em>, </em>which runs until 24th April at The Scottish Gallery.</strong></strong></strong></strong></strong></p>