Starting out from Pollard’s Point, a small community in rural Newfoundland. Ropson received his BFA in Visual Arts from Memorial University’s, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in 2001, and after some years of mucking about, has come to settle in Montreal, where he is currently working within the MFA: Studio Arts Program at Concordia University. He uses drawing and narrative to construct and document an attachment to the commonplace. Woodgrain-memory constructions are pulled together like discarded planks salvaged by youth, to build near secret places of refuge. His work has been shown throughout Canada and abroad. He obsessively draws pictures, tells stories.