Based in Argyll, Ross Sinclair has a long association with Cove Park, supporting the visual arts programme in its early days as an advisor and introducing his students from Glasgow School of Art to our programme through residencies and study days.

Sinclair combines wit and wisdom to relate his work to public space, not simply in terms of its architecture or geography, but also to its history, social function, and contemporary reality.  He combines text, colour, and graphics to test notions of personal and national identity and questions the notion of truth in life and art itself. His print for Cove Park is both celebratory and critical. In it, he reworks part of a neon light installation commissioned for Glasgow’s Radiance Festival of Light in 2005. This work was located on the façade of the City Chambers local government building and sought to question the presumptions of national, local, international, and personal identity. Sinclair’s print also uses his recurrent ‘Real Life’ slogan, a key element in several recent solo exhibitions.

Produced at Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio

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