About

ROSS COMPTON

Award-winning Designer & Artist

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I am the most famous artist you’ve never heard of…probably, don’t ask me to verify that.

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My work is a definitive break from a lifetime of social performance. I trade the "appeasement" of societal norms for the raw, visceral language of Neo-Expressionism, which, in my opinion, is the only oeuvre capable of holding the weight of the queer experience. I see my art as a vibrant documentation of personal trauma, pop culture, and the corruption within our society. Heavily influenced by street art and the history of semiotics, my work is multi-perspective and intentionally open-ended.

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I love the fast-drying nature of acrylics and the burst of colour you can attain from them. I want to capture fleeting emotions or graphics before they can be polished or performative. The resulting works are bright, colourful, multi-perspective and intentionally open-ended.

While all my work has central themes, I don’t wish to pigeon hole the viewer into that narrative, rather, find their own meaning.

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