Ross Adams

This wraparound collage was produced for the Hands In The Dark 2024 vinyl release of the debut Tomaga EP (2013). The artwork built on elements of the original cassette, but with a fresh and primordial reimagining.

Photocopied collage work risographed onto the cover of the sixth Test Centre fiction and poetry magazine featuring writers such as Iain Sinclair, Holly Pester and Alan Moore. This particular issue was dedicated to Lee Harwood.

Photocopied collage work for TOMAGA's limited edition (100) cassette, vinyl and digital release, "familiar obstacles" (blank editions, 2015). The cassette artwork was printed by inkjet in dark blue onto very fetching yellow paper; delicious. 

Using repetitively photocopied and collaged parts, the artwork for TOMAGA's second release "futura grotesk" (vinyl and digital, Hands In The Dark Records, 2014) blended diverse and disparate elements reflecting the genre-defying sound of the album.

The wrap-around cover for TOMAGA's debut "sleepy jazz for tired cats" limited edition (50) cassette and digital release (bunkland & negative days, 2013) was described by one reviewer as an "x-ray of Jeffrey Dahmer's pants drawer".

analogue photographic work using glass, gels, ink and mirrors.

analogue photographic work using plastic, wax and paint.

A numbered limited edition of fifty A5 size booklets containing sixteen textured faces in profile. These strangers were composed from different features of passers-by and blended using a ball-point pen into mixed-up anonymous universal friends.

For every booklet bought, another non-numbered edition was handed out to a passing stranger at one of the locations where the illustrations were made.

The edition is now sold out.

Books of partially complete illustrations featuring adult themes and situations ready to be completed, amended or defaced by you.... 

The first adult doodle book under the pen name of Rose Adders was Dirty Doodles (Carlton, 2007).  This led onto The Bored @ Work Doodle Book (2008) which featured on the Carlton Publishing Groups’ best seller list that year. The Travel Doodle Book and The Really Bored @ Work Doodle Book (both Prion, 2009) followed.

The books have also been translated into German and Russian (featuring on Russia's "Comedy Battle" TV show) and been released in numerous print formats.

3 illustrations for “Let 100 Voice Speak: How the Internet is Transforming China and Changing Everything” by Liz Carter.

The river crab is a Chinese internet slang term for internet censorship. In Chinese Mandarin, the word ‘river crab’ sounds similar to ‘harmonious’ in the word ‘harmonious society’. The concept of the ‘harmonious society’ was adopted by the Chinese government in 2004, and is usually cited by them as the reason for censorship. 

The grass-mud horse is a mythical creature (described as a lively, intelligent and tenacious alpaca) created in a hoax article published on China’s equivalent of Wikipedia. It is a play on the Mandarin words ‘cao ni ma’, which literally mean ‘f**k your mother’.  River crabs (symbolising Chinese internet censorship) invade their habitat - and so the grass mud horse (symbolising defiance against censorship) is at war.

The Chinese military suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests by force in 1989, with the iconic photograph of a protestor moving to block tanks taken the following morning. A photoshopped version of the original image circulated on China's version of Twitter in 2013, with huge rubber ducks in place of the tanks. This sparked censorship of the words ‘big yellow duck’.

(ink on paper) 

Thaumatrope Project, 2013

A double sided card with two varying images is spun to give the illusion of a moving image. This limited edition box set contains cards from 10 artists as a fundraiser for The British Red Cross Typhoon Haiyan Appeal and the Japan Tsunami Appeal.