Ross McCormick

Ross McCormick (b. Coventry, UK) bridges the heavy, static heritage of the First Industrial Revolution with the fluid, weightless nature of the digital age.

Hailing from Coventry, a city deeply rooted in industrial automotive engineering and profoundly shaped by wartime destruction Ross’s practice is fueled by a deep family ancestry working within the city's legendary automotive factories.  

He sources analog artifacts like factory tooling, engine blocks and tractor levers as raw material in reference to his generational family legacy within automotive engineering. His most recent work uses modern metrology and reverse engineering techniques to translate these physical constraints into weightless digital code, subjecting static machine history to the laws of digital physics. 

Harnessing algorithmic deformation and fluid dynamics, Ross warps these historical forms before casting them back into steel and bronze. The final sculpture acts as a permanent physical render of a volatile digital moment, a freeze-frame locking the computational lifecycle into physical reality. 

Ultimately, his work is a profound collaboration between machine learning, human history, and heavy metallurgy, challenging how software alters the memory and meaning of the industrial object.