www.rosssinclair.co.uk
Ross Sinclair: The work is full of accusation and (i loath to say) 'attitude' ...i would be better off saying Hostility, Venom, Vitriol....etc. That sort of area. It's all about politics, culture and how you can shout about these things. There is a feeling of protest. but there is also a feeling that he is on his own in realising the things he feels so strongly about? that was a weak sentence. I mean that The work almost feels like an unorthodox teaching method, rather than a display of work. It feels like demonstration. But the element of preaching is not really there...because he doesn't show us his face.
"Taking his cue from traditional Seventies’ performance and its links to political activism Ross Sinclair began to reference the side of youthculture which we nowadays encounter in the GATT riots, colourful and energetic but underlined with pertinent anger against the powerlessness of the individual.
In celebration and critique Sinclair comments on his indebtedness to performance art by exposing the tattoo REAL LIFE emblazoned on his bare back. By not revealing his face as identifier but instead turning his vulnerable back to the audience Ross Sinclair has introduced a current variation of self-portraiture. He denies himself to the audience whilst offering his trust in a gesture. Continuous photographic and video documentation of this gesture from 1994 to this day in changing contexts attest to the validation of this work as the longest symbolic performance appropriated to contemporary art production."
-http://www.theagencygallery.co.uk/SinclairGeography.html
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